The Amherst Railway Society and the Steam Locomotive Operation Group are sponsoring a raffle at the Northeast Large Scale Train Show. Nearly $5000 worth of model railroad equipment has been donated! Donations include: a starter set, locomotives, rolling stock, structures, electronics, and track. And best of all, you do not have to be present to win!!!
Be sure to thank our sponsors for contributing such great products! Sponsors currently include:
4 Track Railroad
Accucraft
Azatrax
Bachmann Trains
Connecticut Trolley Museum
Dan Gilchrist
LGB
Piko America
RCS of New England
Ring Engineering
Scenery Sheets
Seashore Trolley Museum
Soundtraxx
Split Jaw Products, LLC
Sunset Valley Railroad
Train Control Systems
Train Li
Trainz.com
USA Trains
Virtual Railfan
Tickets for the raffle are $5.00 each, or 5 for $20.00.
While drawings for a few items will be held on Saturday, the main drawings will occur on Sunday.
Drawings will be held on Saturday, May 3 at approximately 4:00 pm and on Sunday at around 3PM. If you are not present and your ticket is drawn we will ship the item to your US continental address. Winning numbers and instructions on how to claim your item will be posted at www.steamtrainops.org/NELSTS-RAFFLE after the show.
Raffle items can be viewed in the Better Living Center.
This year, Kids ON TRACK is offering two hands-on model railroad programs at the 2025 Northeast Large Scale Train Show in four different sessions. The programs are designed to give children experience building and decorating model railroad equipment and structures.
Build a Flatcar Load and Decorate a Building are open to children 15 and under. Sessions for both programs will be held on Saturday and Sunday.
There is no charge for the programs, and the program is first come, first served (No pre-registration needed).
For full program details, click here.
So, what’s a train show without a train ride? Yup - we thought the same thing - and added a train ride to the 2025 Northeast Large Scale Train Show weekend.
On Sunday morning, May 4, join us at Springfield Union Station for a CTrail train ride from Springfield to Hartford and return. The train leaves Springfield at 10:00 am and arrives in Hartford at 10:32 am. We have about a 15 minute wait in Hartford for our return train that brings us back to Springfield at 11:38 am.
The cost for the train ride is $5.00 per person except for children two (2) and under who ride free.
Tickets can be purchased online here.
Parking in the Union Station parking garage on Main Street is $2.00.
IMPORTANT: if you are riding this train, you must be in the main concourse of Springfield Union Station no later than 9:30 on Sunday morning for check-in. We are riding regularly scheduled CTrail trains, and it is important that they run on time.
The Large Scale Limited is a joint effort of the Amherst Railway Society, CTrail, and Springfield Union Station.
Do you have some S-scale or larger trains you want to sell or trade? We can help with that need at the NELSTS.
The Steam Locomotive Operation Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring a White Elephant Table at the NELSTS on May 3-4, 2025.
The Amherst Railway Society, the sponsor of the show, defines “Large Scale” as any of
the following: S-scale, O-scale, G-scale, F-scale, 7.25 gauge, 7.5 gauge (1.5" to the
foot) and larger. The purpose of the White Elephant Table at the show is to allow
attendees to sell any “Large Scale” items they wish to sell.
The Steam Locomotive Operations Group, Inc. is a 501(c)(3), established to issue
grants to organizations, which provide "Hands-on-the-Throttle" training to
volunteer/apprentice engineers and firemen.
White Elephant Fees
Sellers will be asked to donate $1 for each 5 items they wish to sell to help cover our
costs. On completion of sale(s) the seller will donate 10% of the sale as a commission
to the Steam Locomotive Operations Group, Inc.
If the seller desires in advance to accept credit cards for their sales and a credit card is
used, an additional 2% of the sale will be charged to cover credit card processing fees.
Since this is classified as a "casual sale" by a non-profit organization, no sales tax will
charged or collected for sales at the show’s White Elephant tables.
The Drag & Brag table is one of the most popular events at large scale train shows. It’s an opportunity for large scale modelers to bring in projects and show them to an admiring audience. Show visitors, in turn, get to admire some really creative modeling and ask questions about how the work was done.
Show visitors are eligible to bring large scale modeling projects for display.
The Drag & Brag section is sponsored by Large Scale Central, and will be located in the Better Living Center
On Saturday evening, May 3, 2025 the Large Scale Train Show banquet will be held at the Storrowton Tavern on the grounds of Eastern States Exposition.
The event starts at 6:00 pm.
Seating is limited to 80 guests. For reservations, contact the Show Office at: showoffice@amherstrail.org.
In addition, the society is inviting anyone with an operating Gauge-1 steam locomotive to bring it to the show and run it on their tracks. Please note, however, that only propane and butane fueled locomotives will be allowed to run. Open flame or coal fired locomotives can be displayed, but cannot be fired indoors.
Wow - two days of live steam!