Model
Railroad Open Houses
Welcome
to the original Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
model railroad open house site. You will find listings of open
houses as you always have on our easy to navigate pages.
The
Model Railroad Open Houses are an annual November (only) event which showcases
local model railroads in our region. Thanks to all who have
participated this year and in the past.
The 2025 Event is done for the year! Thanks to all who
participated and visited.
We
had 123
scheduled open houses by a total of 69 different layouts. This wouldn't be
possible without each and every one of you.
Thanks
to all who donated so generously towards the maintenance of this site.
Your support is much appreciated! This site could not continue
without your generous donations.
Check back in September 2026 for information on the next round of open
houses!
If
you have any questions, please contact the open house team via
modelrailroadopenhouse@gmail.com.
We
have an active Facebook page. Please visit and share your photos, ask
any questions you may have or search for others in your area. Layout
owners are welcome to post pictures of their layouts to entice
visitors. The Facebook page is "Model
Railroad Open House Schedule."
We
made the decision in the beginning to keep this site free of any and
all ads! Donations make this possible. Thanks to all who
donated so generously towards the maintenance of this site. Your
support is much appreciated! If you have never contributed in the
past, please consider donating and keep this great site working for
you.
We are still looking to update the listings with a description and
photos of the layout owners and a layout shot to be shown in the
rotating images at the top of the page. If you have not sent a
description (3-4 sentence overview) or photo, please do so this
year. Further information can be found at the very bottom of this
page.
Your
open house team, Karen Darling and Fran Giacoma.
NOTE:
If you are hosting an open house and have NOT sent a
picture of your layout that you would like featured in the rotating
pictures at the top of each page, please email it to
modelrailroadopenhouse@gmail.com. Each picture should be in a
"landscape" format. Please send the full size image, let us do
the cropping. Keep in mind that we need to use a portion of the
picture that will show your trains and/or layout in the 500 x 200 pixel
area. We will let you know if it is acceptable. Due to the
large number of folks participating, only one picture from each person
will be used. If your layout has a name and website, please let us
know and I will include it in the listing. We are also working to include a photo of the layout
owners. Please send a picture of yourself along with the layout
picture. Your description should
be a short 3-4 sentence overview of your layout.
