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Welcome to the Amherst Railway Society. We hope you find many things here
to stir your interest in railroading on our site - whether it be prototype, steam, diesel,
electric, modeling or any other interest. Please take a look around our site
and feel free to send us some suggestions on improvements and additions.
Thanks for visiting!
The Amherst Railway Society has about 500 members who share some
aspect of railroading as a common interest. Monthly
meetings cover current topics in railroad news and offer slide
shows, movies or a prominent speaker on a railroading topic. The
Society also sponsors and participates in several train trips each year.
Every February the Society presents its annual
"Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show" at the Eastern
States Exposition Fairgrounds (Big E) in West Springfield, MA. This show has become
the biggest railroad show in the Northeast. In 1993 and 1994 the
Amherst Railway Society received the Walthers Showmanship Award for
sponsoring the event. As a member of the Society you are entitled to receive a free
admission ticket for one day of the show. (Members who work at the show can come both days, as well as Thursday and Friday to set up.)
Proceeds from the show are used to promote interest in railroads.
Donations have been made to various railroad museums, historical
societies, restoration projects and scholarship funds. Organizations
that have received donations include: the Fall River and Old Colony
Museum, the 470 Club's Boston and Maine diesel locomotive restoration
project, the Boston and Maine Historical Society, the Chester
Foundation Station Project, the Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington
Building and Car Fund as well as trolley museums in Shelburne Falls,
MA, Warehouse Point, CT, Branford, CT and Kennebunk, ME.
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