The AMRS
1057 Peace Street Rear (Hanover Court)
Hazleton, Pa 18202-1736
 

See 'What's New' Below

The Web Site of the Anthracite Model Railroad Club

The Anthracite Model Railroad Club is an organization located in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, whose primary interest is model railroading in all its various forms. These include everything from the construction of our model railroad pike, to all the different aspects of the hobby - carpentry, electronics, modeling photography, etc. All of these go into the make up of our club's pike and are part of the enjoyment of our hobby. Our main concern however, is the ongoing work to portray in miniature, HO model railroading at its best, with an emphasis on the Hazleton, Pennsylvania area's rail history.

Please take some time and visit our site, and if you have the inclination, come to one of our Open Houses for a tour and visit. We would enjoy having you and welcome your comments. If you can't visit our club, then climb aboard and take a ride with us thru the net.

Hop on board one of our steam trains and take a short trip through a part of our pike in downtown Hazleton, circa 1940.

(This is a short movie taken with a camera mounted on the front of one of our locomotives. Its a Windows Media file and is about one meg.)

What's New At The Club

Some new pictures have been added on our projects pages for the Jim Thorpe Station and the Gorge.

Be sure and check out our Open House and Train Show schedules for 2008.
They are listed on our 'Events' page.

The Gorge
 

After several false starts we are finally ready to complete our 'Gorge'. Some of the scenery has been roughed in and a few of the bridges placed. However a lot of work needs doing and we'll be starting soon. This is going to be another fantasy scene but typical of many areas located here in North Eastern Pennsylvania.

 Follow our progress by clicking on the link. The Gorge

The Jim Thorpe Station

Walt Eckard has recently completed the scratch building of the Jim Thorpe Station. Walt has dug up several original drawings, taken a lot of photos, and built the station as a very close replica of the existing one as it now stands in Jim Thorpe. Take a minute and follow his progress on our new projects page as he worked his way through this labor of love. The last photo of the group is the completed project.

Adding Some New Sidings

The management at  Bethlehem Steel has requested that we add a siding for their crane at the south end of their mill complex. Since our crew was doing work in this area we are also going to add a siding to service the coke oven and one for our MOW crew.

Why don't you pull up a chair and use your browser to follow along on our progress as we do this work. The two sidings shown with gray track are temporary and will be the one to be replaced. Also the siding under the crane to the left of the main line.

As we've done on other projects, we are going to build this one off the existing bench work and put it in place after we are done. One of the main reasons for this is that it will save the scenery from being damaged by leaning over the existing bench work.  Also, since it will be hand laid track, it will save the back of the guy doing the track work.

Several pages have been added to our web so you can see our various construction projects from start to finish. Lots of photos are available showing the work done as we worked on the various projects. Follow the link to see our work from start to finish.