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Large Scale Train Shows & Events
Make plans to attend a train show, layout tours and/or
the 2025 National Garden Railway Convention.
The Sacramento Valley Garden Railway Society invites
everyone to the 2025 National Garden Rail-
way Convention in Sacramento, California.
Layout tours, clinics, vendor hall and more
will be happening from June 18 to 22, 2025.
Early registration is open now. More informa-
tion at: ngrc2025.org
The Tulsa Garden Railroad Club is planning a
2025 Midwest Garden Railroad Gather-
ing from June 4 to 7, 2025, around Tulsa,
Oklahoma. More information soon.
Georgia Garden Railway Society welcomes the
2025 National Big Train Operators Club
Convention based in Helen, Georgia. Con-
vention activities are being planned for July
13 to 18, 2025. Info at: bigtrainoperator.com
Regner Adds an American-style
0-4-0 to their Easy Line Models
For delivery starting in the second quarter of 2025,
Regner looks to an American design to expand their
live steam Easy Line models. Easy Line locomotives are
designed to be easily controlled and customizable.
Niklas is a generic 0-4-0
locomotive with a small
tender. While not a specif-
ic locomotive, Niklas cap-
tures the look and feel of
many early American pro-
totypes. With its optional
diamond smoke stack and
headlamp, you can fully
customize the model. It
comes with an undecorated, early wood-look cab and
a small 2-axle tender which is hollow for carrying any
radio control gear. The model features Regner's new
direct drive dual oscillating 10mm cylinders reversible
from the cab. Both the locomotive and the tender can
be re-gauged from 45mm to 32mm. A whistle kit and
R/C ttings kit are available if desired.
The Niklas is available for pre-order from The Train
Department at:
thetraindepartment.com/collections/regner-locomotives
The Train Department will be showing the Niklas at
Steam Over Spencer, a multi-track steamup held at the
North Carolina Transportation Museum from March 6
to 8, 2025. Info at:
www.nctransportationmuseum.org/steam-over-spencer
The Great Lakes Large Scale Train Expo
(formerly the North East Ohio Large Scale Train Show) spon-
sored by the Riverside Railroad Crew will be
in Girard, Ohio on May 9 and 10, 2025;
info at: www.greatlakestrainexpo.com
The 2025 Northeast Large Scale Train
Show sponsored by Amherst Railway Society
will be in West Springeld, Massachusetts,
on May 3 and 4, 2025. Info at: nelsts.org
Garden Railroading News will
be 5 Years Old in 2025
Happy New Year to our Readers & Followers,
Advertisers, Contributors, Club Community, and Regional Advisers
In Fall of 2020, the last issue of Garden Railways magazine was
published. Garden railroad clubs came together and conceived of
GR News, a free digital magazine for and by garden railroaders. Two
pilot issues were distributed to clubs across the United States and Can-
ada to share with their members. Since then, clubs around the world
have signed up to notify their members when issues are released.
From 2021 to 2024, twenty-four issues have been digitally published.
As we start 2025, 150 clubs in eight countries share the link to new
issues of GR News, 5 social media channels publicize new issues for
those who do not belong to clubs and showcase the railroads of our
readers, and Garden Railroading News has over 10,000 readers and
followers.
From the Engineers in the Cab, Carla Brand Breitner in
Southern California, Steve Cogswell in Oregon,
Bill Derville in Oregon, and Mick Spilsbury in Northern
California, we are thrilled that you all are on board.