01/03/2021
Ok it may be a little late, but here are some pictures of one of our members Christmas Train Garden.
Baltimore Society of Model Engineers
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The BSME, a model railroad club, is rebuilding at its new location. We will promote the hobby by planing model railroads in HO and O scale to demonstrate railroad operations.
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3500 Parkdale Ave
Baltimore, MD
21211
We are a short walk from the Woodberry Light Rail stop.
General information
We have an interim location, but will not be running trains for a while yet, but the public may visit and talk with the members present during the hours we are there.
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Our mission is to further to hobby of model railroading.
The society will be building two new layouts in our interim space as we look for a permanent place to house our collections and demonstrate rail transportation systems.
The following is for historical records and is what we had at our previous location on Saratoga St.
The society operates both HO & O Scale layouts. The O scale layout is set in early 1950s, the late steam and early diesel era. This means the majority of the trains will be Steam and first generation Diesel Trains, but you will see an occasional modern passenger or freight. O scale is not the same a Lionel or O gauge, the most notable difference is no center (third) rail. If you compare O scale and O gauge car next to each other you will see more detail and more accurate dimensions of the scale cars. The O scale layout also has a trolley system running the 65' length of the layout running off the overhead wire! You might see city trolley models of Baltimore Streetcars as well as interurban cars running on the line. The HO scale layout operates modern SD-90 diesels next to a ten wheeler (4-6-0) steam train with 40 foot boxcars. This is primarily to give the visitor a look at how trains have changed through the years. The HO Layout models the fictitious railroad the Chesapeake and Western, which operates a double track mainline from Baltimore, MD to Wheeling, WV, so the scenery reflects that. The City trolleys are undergoing restoration and expansion as the citizens look for green transportation alternatives.
