Welcome to the Bristol S Gauge Railroaders!
The Bristol S Gauge Railroaders are dedicated to S scale (1/64 scale) model railroading. Formed in 1948, we believe we are the longest running S scale club in America! We are located in Eastern Massachusetts, and also have members in Southern Maine and New Hampshire.
Members are interested in most branches of S scale, including, but not limited to, Scale, Narrow Gauge (Sn3 and Sn2), Hi-Rail, and American Flyer operating and collecting. Our major goals are to learn from each other and have fun doing it.
New Members are Welcome! We are anxious to share the fun of building and operating S scale trains and layouts, as well as collecting trains and models. There is a Membership Application to join us, or if you have any questions about the club, or want to get a message to any member, please email me at President@bsgr.us
Club Activities
We setup our Bristol Club layout at the March 2025 Greenberg Train show in Wilmington, MA. The layout supports DCC, DC, AC and TMCC so we can run just about any S-gauge train. We also have battery operated locomotives which use the Rail Pro system.
Quite a few club members got to run their own trains throughout the weekend. We also ran our camera equipped train engine. Everyone seems to enjoy seeing themselves on TV, including the adults.
We tested out a new location to display the Boucher Circus train using about 15' of temporary track, viewers side, in front of Brasor station. Lots of circus detail items, such as horses, elephants and bleachers, were placed out for Saturday's display. Our Boucher Circus train was on display both days.
We offered a free raffle of an American Flyer train set to kids 16 yrs old and under. On Sunday at 3pm we pulled the winner. Here's the best part; a young girl filled in a raffle slip on Saturday, then she and her family came back on Sunday to watch us pull the winner. As luck would have it, she was the winning name drawn! It was a perfect way to end the show; so exciting. See photo below of Zara with the winning train set.
Thanks to all the club members who came out to support this show!

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The Bristol Club set-up our layout at the Amherst Railway Show January 25-26th, 2025. We had fun Saturday with George Reneris who brought his animated T-Rex dinosaur car, a cartoon character flatcar, his Snoopy Great Pumpkin digital display car and an exciting smoking steam engine. Gene Maag assisted George.
Dale was our anchorman at this show. On Saturday he ran his CSX diesel engine with several auto carrier cars on a long freight. Then Sunday kids of all ages were impressed with Dale's New Haven double A engines and New Haven chrome passenger set. On Saturday, Tommy ran his smoking Milwaukee GP9 diesel. As always, visitors enjoyed our camera train and watched themselves on TV as the train ran past them.

George added a fan that really enhanced the smoke!
Dale stands next to CSX engine he ran on Saturday.
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Greenberg Train and Toy show, Wilmington, MA, was held November 16-17, 2024. At this show, the
Bristol-S-Gauge Railroaders raffled off an American Flyer train set. This is the 3rd time our club has done this raffle. Each time the raffle has been open to kids 16 and under. Below are a couple photos of the drawing itself. Don Hasenzahl made sure all the entries were thoroughly shaken up and John Fucile pulled the winning entry.

All the Entries were shaken up by Don Hasenzahl and John Fucile pulled a ticket.

And the Winner was Connor! Congratulations! We hope he will enjoy running it under the Christmas tree.
We hope to see you at our next show - the Amherst Railway show in January.
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It's the start of our train calendar year! We began it with 30 members and guests attending the September 14th, 2024 Club meeting. It was a wonderful sunny day and the hosts, Tommy and Helen Robichaud, surprised us with a sale table and a variety of pizza for lunch along with Tommy's traditional chili. Trains were running on the colorful, autumn themed layout as well. Everyone was so busy catching up after the summer that we forgot to get some photos of it all. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the October meeting. Check the Club info tab and Calendar for future events.
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NEW B&M Quad Hoppers for Sale!

We're celebrating our 75th Year Anniversary milestone by offering B&M Quad Hopper cars featuring the "Minuteman" herald which are being produced by American Models. These car models will be available with three different car numbers (8000, 8248 and 8323). These numbers are from the March 1929 and February 1930 range from 8000-8999. The Original 1929 quad hoppers were later "re-shopped" with the "Minuteman" herald from the 1940's.
Each car number will be available in both scale and high-rail. Due to limited quantities, we reserve the right to fill orders for either one or two cars with car numbers of our choosing. Orders for three cars will receive all three car numbers.
Photo above is similar to production car.
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Click B&M Quad Hopper Order Form to place your order NOW!
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