The Belleville Model Railroad Club
A Little History
The Belleville Model Railroad Club was established in 1972, and started with approximately 50 members, however this peak membership petered out rapidly and ended with about 25 members.  This early organization met at Queen Victoria Public School for about 2 years until they were evicted because of the renovation to the school.

The club layout during this period was about 16' x 20'.

In 1975 the club moved to John's Hobby Shop in the Belleville Plaza (now the Bayview Mall) where they built a layout that was open  to the public.  This location too closed and the club was forced to move again.

Next the club was located in Karl Berthower's house on River Road, where a layout was built that was displayed at shows in the Armories.  Club information meetings were held at Bill Coleman's house.

After a few years the club moved to Stan Suley's basement where the first traveling layout was constructed.

Some of the first shows the club participated in were Toronto March 1987

On May 19th 1992 the Club formalized it's organization by electing the following slate of officers

President                                       Paul Martel

Vice President                               Steve Fleck

Sec./Treasurer                              Art Buckland

Superintendent                             John Sutton

Past Chairman in charge of shows Stan Suley

In October 1992 the club moved to the basement of the old baggage terminal at the Belleville VIA station, where we have built a large operating layout, which still requires some fine tuning, as well as two portable layouts. Our club attends approximately 6 out of town train shows per year.  We have an open house yearly and a December Christmas train show. The club also takes part in some community events, and the members can be available to give advise. Group visits to our clubhouse can be arranged, and club visits to schools can also be arranged.

We meet every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 10:00 and alternate between a "Running Night", or a "Work Night"

Every two weeks on a Monday night we have an “Operating Night

Our Current Executive

President                          -    Holger Bopp       

Vice President                 -    Paul Martel        

Superintendent                -     

Secretary/Treasurer        -    Don Sage    

Past President                  -    Rick Potter