West Bay Model Railroad Association

03/09/2025

TSG Multimedia visited our club several months ago and spent the better part of a day capturing video of the layout and interviewing club members. They then created a wonderful layout tour and made it available on Youtube, which you may view via the link below. Thank you to everyone involved in this project!

West Bay Lines is a model railroad that has been in Menlo Park for decades. It was rebuild around 2015 i...

03/05/2025

The West Bay Model Railroad Association in association with the Menlo Park Historical Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary Saturday, March 15th, 2025 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. We occupy the historic SP freight building at 1090 Merrill Street near the Menlo Park CalTrain station. The club will be running trains during the Open House while the Historical Society will host events outside the building. Come join us to celebrate 75 years of continuous model railroading in Menlo Park.

03/22/2024

Our 2024 open house schedule is the first and third Saturday of the month from 1-4pm, while our monthly business meeting occurs on the second Tuesday at 8pm (held at the club). Please feel free to send us a note here if you have any questions about visiting our layout or about membership in the club and we hope to see you at the WBMRA soon!

11/16/2022

The West Bay Model Railroad Association will hold our annual Holiday Train Show December 3rd and 4th, from 1-4pm, and we'll stay open Sunday until the Caltrain Holiday Train arrives at the Menlo Park Station. Please join us to see holiday-themed and other trains running on our large, two-level HO scale layout!

04/13/2020

Please note that all scheduled club events, including our Saturday open houses and Wednesday business meetings, are canceled until further notice due to COVID-19. For more information, e-mail [email protected].

11/13/2019

The WBMRA Holiday Open House this year occurs December 7th (1-5pm) and 8th (1-8pm), and very nicely complements a stop by the Caltrain Holiday Train at the Menlo Park Station Sunday at 7:05pm. Holiday cheer, families with kids, real trains and model trains -- what more do you need to kick off the season!?

09/25/2019

The WBMRA is selling a rare TrainStyles Easy-Helix ST Standard Set, a complete HO helix kit, on ebay: http://ebay.us/EHyGrD?cmpnId=5338273189. These kits were very well made and were well regarded when still produced -- now they're all but impossible to find. Please feel free to pass the listing along to anyone you think may be interested.

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08/21/2019

Please join us during our September, October and November Open Houses!

02/13/2019

Thought we should post some video of our previous 3-scale layout (O, S, HO) as I don't believe we've done so on Facebook to this point. It was a dogbone in shape and much of it was 50-60 years old when this video was taken about seven years ago. Glimpses of the spectacular hand-painted backdrop which covered 2-3 walls are seen but much of it is missed -- we'll try to share additional photos and video which give an idea of its beauty, size and scope:

See: http://inmenlo.com

11/04/2018

2018 Holiday Train Show Flyer: