 The San Diego S-Gaugers is a tax exempt 501(C)(3) association of model railroaders founded January 19, 2008, in San Diego, California, dedicated to a three-part mission: 1. Promotion of S-Gauge model railroading 2. Education about S-Gauge model railroading, about model railroading in general, and about railroading in general. 3. Having fun in the process To contact the club, email sdsgaugers@yahoo.com. Contributions and bequests of S-Gauge model railroad equipment would be greatly appreciated. Email the club for details.  Got trains?
Got a box of old American Flyer trains in the garage? Bring them in and see if they still run.
Do you have childhood memories of American Flyer trains? Did you convert
to HO or N due to space limitations? Are your eyes and hands finding
smaller scales difficult to work with? Take another look at S Scale trains.
We just got bigger!  We moved the back wall back fifteen feet, which enabled us to add three modules on each side and widen the aisles in front and in back. Look how long the yard is now! And here's a video of the expanded layout from the engineer's viewpoint:
Come visit us in La Mesa's Grossmont Center.
We're open from noon to 6:00 PM on Saturdays and Tuesdays except for holidays.
  See below for directions to come visit us. We recently created a new sign with flashing crossing lights to greet our visitors.  As you enter, you are greeted by girder bridge and military aircraft museum modules on the front of our big modular layout.
Click the picture below for a view of each of the modules in the layout.
 To your right is the first of our three window layouts, Liberty Loop, named after our previous home in San Diego's Liberty Station shopping center. We have named our railroad the Grossmont Central Railroad in honor of our current clubhouse hosts, Grossmont Center in La Mesa, and Raulf
lettered the club's American Models Baldwin diesel locomotive for it. Click the picture to see more pictures and the story of why and how the layout was built.
 Click below for a video tour of Liberty Loop: To your left is our second window layout. Depending on the time of year, you will see one of four seasonal layouts. At Halloween, Christmas, and Easter we have a loop or track around a seasonal ceramic village.
Click the picture to see more pictures and the story of why and how the layout was built.
 Because we have a buildings for only three seasons on the seasonal layout, Mark suggested that we build a classical 1950s American Flyer layout to display the roots of our S gauge history. Since it was built around Easter, it initially included Easter eggs and bunnies. Click the picture to see more pictures and a video of it.  Since then, it has been properly landscaped, but we never
got pictures of it in operation; we'll have to take some proper pictures when we set it up after the
Christmas season. We named it
Streeterville in honor of Burdette Streeter who donated his collection
to the club.
 In the alcove window to your far right is the Lego Window Layout provided by the L-Scale Museum.
 If you happen to come by when we're not open, push the button outside the window and the trains on all three window layouts will run for about a minute.
 Our most recently completed project: The Timesaver Module
 It comprises two identical mini-switching yards connected by a short track that holds only one car.
Each
yard has five spurs each long enough for two or three freight cars and a
run-around with space for one car on one side and two on the other.
Each yard has a switch engine and five freight cars scattered around in the yard.
The objective is to move the cars around into some specified final position.
The person who does it in the shortest time wins.
Alternatively, it can be played as a cooperative two-player game where the final position for some cars is in the other yard.
It's now set up and ready to run; come in and try your hand at it!
For more information, click the picture or the "Timesaver" link in the sidebar menu at the left.
Member Projects
Dale has embarked on a project to create freight cars that are more
interesting and realistic than those manufactured by Gilbert and other
manufacturers,
and many of the buildings on the layouts were built by club members. Click the picture for a web page dedicated to member projects like this. 
Meetings and Other Events
The club has monthly meetings, at 10:00AM to noon, either on a Tuesday or a Saturday (see calendar of events below).
At the January meeting each year, we hold the election of officers and collection of annual dues.  At the club's June 2016 meeting, Wes Noel demonstrated the proper application of Bullfrog Snot to increase the traction of an engine's drive wheels, and hence to increase the number of cars it will pull. Click the picture to see the video of this clinic; more clinics will be added as we shoot videos of them.
 2018 Calendar of Events
April 17 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont CenterApril 21 noon - 4:00PM Lego Build Event at Grossmont Center May 12 all day National Train Day (nationwide)
May 22 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center
June 16 9:00AM - 2:00PM All-Gauge Club swap meet, St. Dunstan's Church,
6556 Park Ridge Blvd, San Diego
June 19 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center
July 17 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center
July 24 - 29 all day NASG Convention, Boxborough, MA
August 5 - 12 all day NMRA Convention,Kansas City, MO
August 21 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center
September 12-16 all day NMRA Pacific Southwest Region Convention,
Marriott Courtyard, Mission Valley, San Diego
September 25 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center October 13 noon - 4:00PM Lego Build Event at Grossmont Center October 16 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center
November 3 noon - 6:00PM Fall Open House November 20 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center December 1 noon - 4:00PM Lego Build Event at Grossmont Center
December 1 9:00AM - 2:00PM All-Gauge Club swap meet, St. Dunstan's Church,
6556 Park Ridge Blvd, San Diego
December 18 10:00AM - noon Meeting at Grossmont Center
2019 Calendar of Events
January 22 10:00AM - noon Annual Meeting at Grossmont Center How to Find Us
You can see it from the freeway. Take the Grossmont Center exit and turn left (north). Enter through the portico next to the Reading Cinemas, between Jamba Juice and Panda Express.   Visit Count for this page
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