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Model Railroading in the Greater Grand Forks Area
You have arrived at the virtual home of the Greater Grand Forks Train Club. Our physical home is in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, in the Casey Holt Building on the grounds of Heritage Village. Contact us using our contact form.
We are open the first and third Saturday of each month, 10 AM to 2 PM. However, we have torn down the old layout to make way for a new, bigger layout. The photos on this page are of the old layout, which is now gone. Visit our New Layout Construction page to see what is going on!
Our Club at Heritage Village
The Greater Grand Forks Train Club is building a large HO scale layout in our club on the north side of East Grand Forks, MN. We have decommissioned the old layout to make way for something even bigger and better.
Our layout will be DCC equipped using Digitrax command stations and boosters, duplex wireless, and is also equipped with stationary decoders for turnout control. We are currently working to get detection circuits completed with a goal of working signalling. You can see an engineer's view of our HO scale layout here.
Most members bring equipment from home to run on the layout. JMRI allows us to easily speed match and consist locomotives along with any other programming needs.
We also have a shop area for working on rolling stock and locomotives and enough room for us to drink coffee and have our monthly meetings. We are thankful for all that current and past members have contributed to get the club to where it is today and look forward to sharing with other modelers who live in or are passing through the area.
Elevator on the HO layout
We welcome visitors of any age or experience level. You don't need to be a model railroader to come and see what we are doing. We are open to the public the first and third Saturday of each month from 10 AM-2 PM. If those times don't work for you, we will be happy to arrange a time for you to visit if you contact us. Thanks for visiting us on the web, and we hope to see you face to face soon.