University of Minnesota RR Club-other college associated ??

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2606

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rrclubum/index.html

scottychaos · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:53 pm

by "other college associated ??" I think you are asking "are there other college model railroads"?
the answer is yes! quite a few..

here are two off the top of my head:

RIT, Rochester, NY: http://www.ritmrc.org/

RPI, Troy, NY: http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/

Scot

pennsy3750 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:27 pm **Posts:** 68

Penn State Model Railroad Club http://clubs.psu.edu/mrrc Just don't try to visit over the summer - major work going on in the building, anything not nailed down or built into the room (i.e., everything but the layout) is in storage for the summer with the layout under tarps until classes pick up again in the fall.

MIT has one as well, I think theirs is called the Tech Model RR Club.

Offhand, I think Milwaukee School of Engineering and Purdue both have one as well.

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:23 am

ITMR the Iliinois Institute of Technology club, in Chicago, over 50 years old and counting.

Bob Kutella

John E. McNamara · **Joined:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:21 pm **Posts:** 105

pennsy3750 wrote:

MIT has one as well, I think theirs is called the Tech Model RR Club.

Yes, indeed. Now in it's 61st year:

http://tmrc.mit.edu/

-John

Ron Goldfeder · **Posted:** Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:23 pm

There have been two such clubs at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. One started in the 1940s and the other, then the Men's Residence Halls Model RR Club, in 1958 or 1959. I was a member from 1960, along with Jim Boyd and others. It still exists, having changed its name to that of the earlier Illini Railroad Club, which sponsored so many Burlington and other steam trips.

Aarne H. Frobom · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:18 pm

The Steam Railroading Institute started out in 1969 as the Michigan State University Railroad Club. We became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1980 and took ownership of Pere Marquette 1225 shortly thereafter.