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This is the website of the Western Ontario Division (WOD) of the Niagara Frontier Region (NFR) of the NMRA in Canada.
The WOD territory covers all areas that have a postal code starting with N – from Windsor in the Southwest, to Tobermory in the North, to Fergus/Guelph/Brantford in the East, and Port Colborne in the Southeast
This would include the following counties: Brant, Hamilton-Wentworth, Bruce, Dufferin, Elgin, Essex, Grey, Haldimand-Norfolk (the area west of the line from Rockwood to Peacock Point), Huron, Kent, Lambton, Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxford, Perth, Waterloo, and Wellington.
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WOD Gathering, Saturday April 19th @ 10am
Thames Valley Central Club, Thorndale ON.
Our next WOD gathering will be Saturday April 19th at 10am at the Thames Valley Central club in Thorndale. It is located at the fair grounds . We will then go to St. Marys for lunch at the golf club which I was told has good food and reasonable prices…will check it out. At 1 or 130pm we will head over to Davin Heinbuck’s Texas based ATSF layout in St. Mary’s for a visit to his layout. It is a very nice layout. Once we get a bit of a tour of his layout he offered for those interested, they can stay and operate on the layout for maybe an hour or two. We need to know in advance who wants to operate so Ken we need to ask members to respond to this request shortly.
Devin’s home is very close to the St. Mary’s junction CN station which has been refurbished and is now a brewery. There is a GTW caboose on the grounds to visit also for those interested. Devin told me you can see the caboose from his house…so very close. If anyone wishes they can also go downtown to the VIA brick ex-CN station by the stone water tank which is interesting to see.
Hopefully we will have a good response from members and make this a good day. We can have a short meeting at lunch and we will have a few door prizes. Not sure if there is a spot for model display’s…will check this out.
2024-12-04 The upcoming events page has been updated with 2025 planed and proposed events.
2024-12-04 The past events page has been updated with the Chatham Meet on November 2, 2024.
2024-11-03 The 2024 Breslau Show page has been updated to include many pictures of the show, just click here
2024-06-08 The Past Events 2024 has updated with the the WOD AGM, the Waterloo Central RR Excursion on May 11, 2024 and the St. Thomas Model Railroad Train Show on May 26, 2024. Click here or use the Past Events Tab
2023-07-03: Have you checked the Hobby Shops page? There are new and others have moved. Check out the ‘brick & mortar’ shop near you.