Who are the Waterloo Region Model Railway Club?
The Waterloo Region Model Railway Club was formed in 1989 by a small group of modellers within the tri-cities of Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge and surrounding area (cumbersomely known as the Regional Municipality of Waterloo). This small pocket within south-western Ontario has continually been a hotbed of model railroading activity, and has always contained more than its share of master modellers and fine home layouts. However, at that time it did not possess a permanent layout-based club, nor had it for over two decades. Stranger still was the fact that several communities surrounding K-W had well established clubs with central layouts, and some of these had much smaller population centres to draw members from. The WRMRC set out to change that. The club was initially formed by an assemblage of modellers who regularly operated a large basement layout in the city of Waterloo. It was during one of the usual gripe sessions about not having a large club-sized layout run on that prompted th
