HOMES Model Railway Club - HO Model Engineers Society

HOMES Model Railway Club - HO Model Engineers Society The HO Model Engineers Society (HOMES club) is a model railway club in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We are an NMRA member club.

Our layout focuses on the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway, including New York Central and Canadian Pacific trains (on trackage rights) and interchanges with the Canadian National Railway in Welland and Hamilton. HOMES has approximately 20 to 30 members, meeting one or two times per week year round. If you are interested in building, operating or learning about Model Railroading, then please come out for a visit to learn more about our club. We are always looking for new members.

Saturday was BYOT Day at the HOMES club, and 1:87 railfans are seeing ghosts.The Ghost of Christmas Future appears to d...
12/29/2025

Saturday was BYOT Day at the HOMES club, and 1:87 railfans are seeing ghosts.

The Ghost of Christmas Future appears to drivers along Lawrence Road in 1956 Hamilton.

More BYOT action at HOMES: A meet at Smithvlle between the Canadian and the... Leaside, Muskoka & Saskatchewan?
12/28/2025

More BYOT action at HOMES: A meet at Smithvlle between the Canadian and the... Leaside, Muskoka & Saskatchewan?

More form BYOT Day* at HOMES, another new Hudson! Royalty didn't get all the attention...Here's H1b #2810 running throu...
12/28/2025

More form BYOT Day* at HOMES, another new Hudson! Royalty didn't get all the attention...

Here's H1b #2810 running through Welland, past WX tower (and the CNR Welland Sub), the NYC freight station, and stopping at the CASO station on King Street.

*Bring Your Own Train Day

Today was BYOT Day* at HOMES, and a number of members seem to have had a good Christmas!We started the morning with an u...
12/28/2025

Today was BYOT Day* at HOMES, and a number of members seem to have had a good Christmas!

We started the morning with an un-boxing of a brand new Royal Hudson #1239. After a couple of warm-up laps of the full club layout, the Hudson was hooked up to a long CPR passenger train in staging. The happy new owner spent a couple of hours traversing the layout, complete with station stops and meets with other trans.

*Bring Your Own Train Day

Here are some images of Bob Mitchell's layout, taken by a visitor on last year's tour. See it Saturday!23rd Annual Hamil...
09/23/2025

Here are some images of Bob Mitchell's layout, taken by a visitor on last year's tour. See it Saturday!

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

On tour day, you can also get your booklet at the club (460 Wentworth St N) from 9am (when it might even be this empty).

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

It's this week!23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout TourSaturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.23 home and club layo...
09/21/2025

It's this week!

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

On tour day, you can also get your booklet at the club (460 Wentworth St N) from 9am (when it might even be this empty).

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

Early morning of an event day at HOMES: Doors not open yet; early arriving members doing some last-minute prep. This is ...
09/15/2025

Early morning of an event day at HOMES: Doors not open yet; early arriving members doing some last-minute prep. This is the view from the dispatcher's cabin, looking down Hunter St toward the tunnel. The room door is 45' straight ahead of you; DS cabin, lounge and staging are in another room behind you.

Come see it when it's full of people!

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

On tour day, you can also get your booklet at the club (460 Wentworth St N) from 9am (when it might even be this empty).

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

There are lots of ways to do model railroading, and it can encompass other hobbies and interests. Tom Shepherd's layout ...
09/14/2025

There are lots of ways to do model railroading, and it can encompass other hobbies and interests. Tom Shepherd's layout in Jordan Station has lots of trains, but even more model cars, trucks and buses. And structures, many of which you might recognise from movies and television. There's a Canadian town at one end, and an American town the other. See it on the tour!

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

On tour day, you can also get your booklet at the club (460 Wentworth St N) from 9am

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

The HOMES club presents:23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout TourSaturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.23 home and ...
09/13/2025

The HOMES club presents:

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara.

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

On tour day, you can also get your booklet at the club (460 Wentworth St N) from 9am

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

The HOMES club presents:23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout TourSaturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.23 home and ...
09/12/2025

The HOMES club presents:

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara.

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

Mike Scott's 5th layout was part of building a new house. He had the architect design the train room first, then design ...
09/11/2025

Mike Scott's 5th layout was part of building a new house. He had the architect design the train room first, then design the rest of the house around it. He arranged for Lance Mindheim to design the track plan, and it's featured in Lance's book, “How to Design a Model Railroad”

The layout is designed for both continuous running and operations, with long mainline runs and lots of scenery. It also includes a large yard and industrial switching in the City of Fort William. Two full sets of Rapido’s “The Canadian” operate on the layout with a total of 20 locomotives and 200 pieces of rolling stock normally available for operations. It takes about 10 minutes for a train to complete a circuit of the 245’ mainline.

It's worth the drive to Welland to see, and it's on the tour!

23rd Annual HOMES Hamilton & District Layout Tour.
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara.

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

Little trains, big scenery. John Johnston's Grand Trunk Southern demonstrates how effective N-scale can be by putting th...
09/10/2025

Little trains, big scenery. John Johnston's Grand Trunk Southern demonstrates how effective N-scale can be by putting the trains in a more realistic perspective. Even better live. Come see it yourself on the tour:

23rd Annual Hamilton & District Layout Tour
Saturday, 27 September, 2025, 9am to 5pm.
23 home and club layouts in the Hamilton area and Niagara.

Cost is $5 per person, and the guidebook is your ticket. Booklets are NOW available at local model railway shops: Dundas Valley Hobby, Paris Junction Hobbies, Credit Valley Railway Co., and Tiny Railroads (in their new Niagara Falls location).

We can also arrange a PDF version with payment by Interac Transfer - contact [email protected]

Address

460 Wentworth Street N
Hamilton, ON
L8L5W8

Telephone

+19055733560

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