RANRail
Our Mission:
To promote, operate and display 1:160 scale model railroads in RVA
Richmond Area NRail - RF&P Model Railroaders, Inc. (501-c)
What We Do
Blue Ridge & Western
Railroad
Clubhouse Layout
Super detailed, digital command controlled, and designed for prototype style operations, we introduce members and guests to exceptional realism.
Eastern N Lines - NTRAK - T-TRAK - NRail
Networking Nationally for N-teresting Layouts
Coast to coast, modelers and fans of miniature railroads are everywhere!
When we get together, we make awesome layouts, meet new friends, pick up great ideas, and much more.
RVA Train Shows
N-tertaining and Keeping Traditional Events Alive
46 Annual shows at the Science Museum of Virginia at Broad Street Station, Holiday Displays, Ashland Train Day, and annual vendor shows at Richmond Raceway.
N-troducing
N Scale 1:160
to RVA
Get to Know Us -
Decade by Decade
1983 organized as
Richmond Area NTRAK (RANTRAK),
a modular layout subsidiary of the
Richmond Freelance & Prototype Model Railroaders, Inc
.
1999, 2002, & 2010 hosted 3 national events known as uNcoNveNtioN.
Motto: No Bull. All Trains. All the Time.
2003 co-founded the
Eastern N Lines
partnership, coordinating the 1st Annual "Wreck of the Ol' 97 Danville Rail Days".
DRD XXII
coming 09/2024
2017 expansion adding T-TRAK modules and launching
RAT-TRAK
.
2017-2023, built clubhouse layout -
Blue Ridge & Western Railroad (BR&WRR).
2023 we boast 30+ diverse active members who love to design, build and run realistic, plausibly prototypical, fictional model railroads!