The Mohegan Pequot Model Railroad Club is a modular model railroad club that is based out of southeastern Connecticut. Business Meetings are typically held the second Sunday of each month (adjusted for holidays or conflicts) at our clubhouse at 73 Route 2, Preston, CT. The club’s modular layouts can be viewed at various times throughout the year at train shows throughout southern New England including the Amherst Model Railway Society’s Railroad Hobby Show every January at the Big E in West Springfield, MA. We are a modular model railroad club and most modules are built and maintained by individual club members. MPRR does own and maintain the corner and several staging modules, as well as the main power supplies, booster units and related connectivity accessories.
Our Mission
The Mohegan Pequot Model Railroad Club is established for the membership to share and promote a common interest in model railroading as a hobby, to further its development and to improve on modeling techniques and materials in all scales. Further, to preserve railroad history in miniature, and to preserve and restore items no longer in commercial manufacture, as well as educating the public on railroad topics.
Club Activities
Other than displaying the modular layouts, the club holds monthly business meetings and weekly work sessions. We also hold monthly clinic nights where varied topics of modeling and areas of mutual interest are discussed or explained. We will also take day trips to visit other model railroad and railroad sites around southern New England. In addition, the club also takes an annual railfanning trip, typically in the summer, and holds a club picnic for club members and family several times during the year.
Book the Layout
The club is always looking for new places to display the modular layout. Most of our displays are at organized model railroad shows in southern New England, however we have also brought our display to various community events in Connecticut and Rhode Island as well as shows as far away as Pennsylvania. In addition, we have worked with commercial shopping centers to set up layouts around Christmas time in vacant store fronts to help draw people to the shopping center.
We currently have two operating modular layouts – our biggest is the HO scale layout and followed by our ever growing O Gauge layout. Since the layouts are modular, they can be arranged in a variety of shapes (oval, L, and U) as well as sizes and can fill areas as small as 12′x12′ to as large as 42′x72′. It generally takes 3-8 hours to set up the small to medium layout and 2-3 hours to break down after the show. Our largest layout at the Amherst Railway show take about 2 full days to full set up and operation. We can however break it down pretty quickly.