The club was originally formed in 1951 by James Greener of Glenside. The club used his layout until a larger place was found in Oreland. The club occupied the basement under a Garden Store, Camping Outfitter, and multiple Pizza shops. In 1974, we got the itch to expand and decided to find bigger quarters and found the current location in Ft. Washington. We moved in 1975 and started to fix up the room while various track plans were reviewed. After a plan was approved, we started building the current layout in January 1976. Our first show in Ft. Washington was December 1976. It was very spartan plywood central, but we thought it was necessary due to the large moving expenditures. And the rest is, as they say, history!

GATSME is a transition era HO RR. We run steam and first generation diesels and model 1953. Early diesels and late steam is encouraged for the operating theme. During the yearly open house, you may see SD80MAC's running too!

The track and switches are hand made codes 100, 83, 70, and 55! Both standard gauge and HOn3 narrow gauge.

The club is now 100% DCC by Digitrax. We completely removed the DC throttles and are now DC free.

The Railroad runs from Collinwood and Ashtabula in the west, to Northumberland and Harrisburg in the east. The Lehigh & Susquehanna branch comes off the Great Lakes & Eastern main line at Susquehanna Junction.

The scene on the right is at Ralston on our Lehigh & Susquehanna branch line.

In the picture at right, they are on the code 83 main track. Also on the branch, you can find codes 70 and 55.

Other connections are with the Sheffield and Tionesta Narrow gauge RR connecting at Cedar Haven and Marsh Hill.

Another connection is with the Susquehanna & New York at Marsh Hill.