Hiawatha running at Model Railroad Club of Milwaukee

Hello all ...here is a video of the Bedell  B Electric running at the Club 

Really cool 

The layout sure is a museum of what O scale was way back in the 30s'.   Needs a good cleaning though from my last visit a few years back.

Great video of the Hiawatha train- amazing. Will definitely have to visit the club, thanks for posting.

I used to live in Wisconsin and was a member for awhile. It was just a 70 mile drive one way so I didn’t get to go as often as I would like. But I did get to run my Equipment on Sundays during open houses. A great bunch of guys.

For all six years that I was the Modulator for SGMA's layout at Trainfest in Milwaukee, the club invited us to visit their club.  The members were great and we all really enjoyed visiting their layout and watching them operate their beautiful trains!

Bob Nelson, SGMA's Modulator for Trainfests 2012-2017

2 years ago the club did a major clean up and brigthen up ...as they were part of a city wide open,house which brought many thousands of new folks to the club ,,...the club's location is also becoming hip and trendy ...with luck they can survive for a very long time and attract new blood .

Here is a link to see my  Gil Stovikic engine running,at the club .

Cheers Carey,

https://youtu.be/poP_dUTTodg

Re the Hiawatha in the original post - since the prototype was contemporary to the model, it was the Acela of its day.

That club is an amazing place - friendly folks and such an appropriate location. I was fortunate enough to visit it during Trainfest a couple of years ago. Sure hope they can survive in that location. It was amazing to literally walk in the footsteps of the original gods of model railroading.

A friend and I were able to visit the club during Trainfest several years ago.  I am really glad to hear that they cleaned and dusted the place up as it really needed it when we were there.  The trolley line in particular needed some TLC.  Having said that, it was a truly outstanding layout in an historic old Milwaukee depot and we were really happy to have been able to see it.  And the Hiawatha was running that evening also.  My friend and I were talking about the visit later and both agreed that if we lived anywhere near Milwaukee we would want to be members.  

Somewhere I saw that you had one of Gil Stovicek's locomotives.  The video was very dark - any chance of some photos?  Gil and I were in contact a while back - I admired his work.  Never saw it up close.

Fantastic

Hello all ...Bob    here is a link to the posting on Gils' engine ..it was his first scratch built  from 1948 ...tis a beast ..runs great ...Gil was near Youngstown ... an old and worn out last breath type of place ...and Gil was able to capture that in his engines ..beast of burden   that kept on working no matter the scars of life .

https://ogrforum.com/...icek-o-scale-builder

Cheers Carey

I got my BAC 111 type rating in Youngstown.  Deserted airport, even back then.