The Great River Valley System is an N-Trak modular railroad club in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
Site last update Aug 29, 2010; Members section updated Aug 25, 2010
Site last update Aug 29, 2010; Members section updated Aug 25, 2010
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Model railroading is a social activity!
While GRVS is primarily a group that sets up portable layouts, you don’t have to have a module or even trains to join. We’ll try to help you build a module if you wish to do so. Having one or two trains would probably increase your fun with the group.
In addition to train shows, GRVS has monthly meetings where we typically have a presentation of some kind or an operating session on a member’s home layout.
The next section gives overviews of the shows the club has been involved with so far this year. Notice that many of the shows are out of town. Members choose which shows they want to participate in. Typically the greatest participation is in the Twin Cities area shows. Unfortunately there aren’t many of those. We are looking for venues where we can organize small local shows as those provide the greatest opportunity for most of our members to include their handiwork (modules) in operating layouts.
One of the characteristics of the module standard (N-trak)we have chosen is that there are clubs all over the world that build to the same standard. If we don’t have enough members who want to go to a particular show to have our own complete layout, we can often find another club that will welcome a few visiting modules to their layout. As a result, GRVS has friendly relations with clubs from Ontario, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and other states. At some shows multiple clubs will combine their modules to make a single really big layout. This requires a good deal of cooperative planning, but it works!
For further information about GRVS, Contact Ed. trainman285 at yahoo dot com or (651)463-1202
For pre-2010 shows, click here
For shows organized by venue, click here
Also check out this link to the Twin Cities Division of the NMRA
and a link to the Thousand Lakes Region, NMRA
For information about GRVS, Contact Ed. trainman285 at yahoo dot com or (651)463-1202