A family watching the UP pull a freight train on our HO Layout.
Model railroading is a major part of the museum displays. When the New Braunfels Historical Railroad and Modelers Society, was founded in 1985, we were just a group of modelers. Modeling has remained a major focus within our organization and our membership is proud to share all of our railroad displays. Children of all ages love to participate in the development, operating, and watching the model trains, as they depict the operations of railroads. The Museum houses a permanent HO scale layout, the Joske Department Store Christmas display, and an N Scale layout, available for viewing to all visitors of the museum. As is the case with most model railroads, they are always a work in progress. The Museum also owns a number of N scale NTrak modules, which are used primarily as traveling exhibits at area train shows. During the ‘Kids Fun Days’, Kids of all ages are able to run either our Lionel (O Scale) or American Flyer (S Scale) Trains, and become a “Junior Engineer”. Also during our Kids Fun Days, we operate our G Scale traveling layout.
Our N Scale Layout inside our box car.
N Scale Modeling is the second most popular Model Scale. The New Braunfels Model Railroad Museum provides a 28-foot long N-scale model railroad, for guests to view, inside of our box car. Young kids like this model the best, at 33″ tall, the base layout is low enough for most of them to see, without help by their parents. NBRRM currently runs both DC and DCC locomotives. The layout depicts a typical train operation, with sidings, depots, cities, industry, towns, and other scenes.