Essex County Model Train Club holding open house on May 18

Fully engaged in a labour of love, members of the Essex County Model Train Club are busy preparing for what they hope will be a large turnout of model train enthusiasts at an open house they are holding at their home at the back of the Southpoint Church on Bevel Line Road in Leamington.

The club, which meets every Wednesday evening, was founded in July of 2013 and has members ranging in age from their late teens right up to those in their late 70s. 

Jim Walton, President of the Essex County Model Train Club, said, “The club is looking to grow and get back to as many members as they had in their previous Kingsville location.”

Having located in four classrooms that were originally used by the South Shore Christian School, the club’s members are assembling tracks, setting up scaled buildings and creating landscape scenery to serve as settings that their model trains can move on and amongst.

The club has made a real effort to incorporate the latest in tech as they have locomotives that house digital decoders and many members make use of their cell phones to send commands to their models.

Those who attend the May 18 open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Southpoint Church can expect to see models that move along the spectrum from the early days of steam, all the way up to modern high-efficiency diesels.

For further information about the open house, you can contact club member Bill Jackson by email at [email protected] or check out Essex County Model Train Club on Facebook.