Golden State Model Railroad Museum  
  Updated: March 06, 2010 

The museum is open and model trains are running every Sunday from Noon-5pm during the months of April through December. We are also open Saturdays from Noon-5pm, and Wednesdays from 11am-3pm for viewing the layouts, but there may not be any model trains running.
During the month of December we are also open for additional Holiday Shows - please check for seasonal announcements.
The museum will be closed for the annual winter break from January through March. Directions and details...

We welcome visitors of all ages! Frequent visitors and supporters may wish to join the Museum. Those interested in constructing and operating the model railroads should consider joining the East Bay Model Engineers Society. Learn more...

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Our Layouts

N Scale

A variety of different passenger trains were on display at our "Passenger Day":
  • Santa Fe "Super Chief"
  • Great Northern "Empire Builder"
  • Union Pacific "City of San Francisco"
  • Amtrak
  • The Troop Train
  • and more...

HO Scale

Updated: 4/17/2010
Coming Attraction! Work has started on a new scene in the Oakland Mole, close to the public walkway. This will feature an intermodal yard with working container crane. The picture, taken from inside the layout, shows the area cleared for the project. The public walkway is on the other side of the glass. We may even give our younger visitors a chance to operate the crane by themselves !

There is also a publicity video posted on YouTube that shows the basics of the crane kit and operation. Our scene will include multiples of the basic single base module shown.

 

O Scale

Placer miners blast the rocks with high-pressure water looking for gold.

Tom Snyder's Layout

In late 2008 we received a new layout for display: The home layout of popular television broadcaster and avid train collector Tom Snyder!

2010 Theme Days

Our Theme Days were so popular last year that we'll continue the tradition this year!

Every 4th Sunday of the month we will celebrate special themes to highlight certain types of trains. Click on the links below to see photos of past theme days! Some of those can't be seen every day, so be sure not to miss our 2010 Theme Days!

Coming up...
April 25 Unit Train Day   
May 23 Amtrak Day   
June 27 ATSF/BNSF Day
July 25 Steam Day   
August 22 UP/WP Day
September 26 Passenger Day   
October 24 "Foreign to California" Day   
November 28 F-Unit Day   
December 26 Southern Pacific Day
 

The GSMRM Zephyr

The Zephyr is the official Newsletter of the Golden State Model Railroad Museum and the East Bay Model Engineers Society.

The Fall 2009 issue of the Zephyr has been released!

Please download an electronic copy here!

More about the Zephyr...

Our DVD movie Train Play shows all our model train layouts in action!
[more...]

Are you looking for a special souvenir? Get one (or more!) of the East Bay Model Engineers Society's 70th Anniversary cars! [more...]

Contact us:

Golden State Model Railroad Museum
  General Manager John Morrison general_manager@gsmrm.org
  Chief Financial Officer Martin Jahner cfo@gsmrm.org
  Secretary Jim Ambrose secretary@gsmrm.org
  Public Relations Sean Dexter public_relations@gsmrm.org
  "GSMRM Zephyr" Newsletter Editor Jeff Rowe zephyr@gsmrm.org
 
East Bay Model Engineers Society
  President Randy Smith ebmes_president@gsmrm.org
  N-scale information Martin Jahner n_scale_info@gsmrm.org
  HO-scale information Morgan ho_scale_info@gsmrm.org
  O-scale information Jeff Rowe o_scale_info@gsmrm.org
 
General information info@gsmrm.org

Location:

900-A Dornan Drive
Point Richmond, CA 94801
[Directions...]

Mailing Address:

Golden State Model Railroad Museum
- or -
East Bay Model Engineers Society
P.O. Box 71244
Point Richmond, CA 94807-1244

Telephone:

510-234-4884 (recorded message only)

If you have any questions that are not answered on this website, please feel free to contact us at the email addresses listed above.

The Golden State Model Railroad Museum and the East Bay Model Engineers Society are California non-profit corporations.
The Museum is a 501(c)3 Tax Exempt organization, donations to which are tax deductible and gladly accepted.

GSMRM website coordinators: Martin Jahner / Walt Freedman

 
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