Spud Valley Model Railroad Club

01/02/2026

From the engineer's chair in GN 610, the rails are clear east into Moorhead. Wishing you all a prosperous and fruitful 2026!

12/31/2025

FREE paint from a South Fargo church. Colors in various amounts in 5 gallon pails: tints white, latte, sand, mocha. Too old for your walls, but still good for base coats on wood and other surfaces for your layout project. Some other colors in quart and gallon buckets. Message back if interested, and we can discuss transfer. - Tim

12/26/2025

Merry Christmas a day late, everyone. May you still feel the love of the season for many days. A few more pics from our Christmas On The Prairie earlier this month.

12/03/2025

We postponed our business meeting tonight in order to clean track. (We put GN 616 to work, too.) Getting ready for this Saturday's Christmas On The Prairie event. Come out and see us from 10 to 5, and see Ben's custom- lit Christmas train!

12/02/2025

Another one rides into the twilight...

As many of you know, Perry Becker passed away September 18th, 2024. Over the past year, Jim and Paul have worked on reducing inventory to make closing the business easier and that day is fast approaching.

Please note that effective December 20th, 2025, Perry's Hobbies will officially close, bringing a long history of selling Railroad Books, DVD's and model trains to an end.

Perry started Perry's Hobbies in 1967/68 so over the past 58 years, we have been extremely fortunate and blessed to have some of the very best customers anyone could ask for. We have also been very blessed to get to know many of you quite well and develop many close friendships. Please know that this was not an easy choice for us to make but as they say, all good things must come to an end. Perry’s family as well as Jim, Diane and Paul are all extremely grateful for all of the support over these many years through the mail and at train shows and we will definitely miss each and every one of you.

Starting 2026, although Perry’s Hobbies will be gone, we do look forward to still seeing and visiting with everyone at train shows.

Please note that if you do have anything reserved with us, we will be reaching out soon to update you.
Jim and Paul will still be available to answer any questions that you may have.

THANK YOU from all of the Becker's.
http://www.perryshobbies.com

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

11/26/2025

More details on the MTL Atlas acquisition...

11/26/2025

Just so that you can start planning your Fall 2026 expenses, here's a sneak peek of next year's event flyer. The date, venue, and time are solid. Other details may change or emerge.