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New York Society of Model Engineers www.modelengineers.org
Announcing Our Last Train Show At Our Current Location
And An Important Announcement About Our Future Click Here to Donate To All Our Customers, Supporters, Patrons and Followers
As you can read below the building we are located in has been sold and we're going to have to move. We are announcing that out last show at our current location will be held on March 16th, 2025 from 10am-4pm. More information can be found on our website at: WWW.NJHIRAILERS.COM After 22 years at our present location the building we are located in has been sold. We are going to have to move in 2025. If you’ve seen the layout you know what a monumental task this will be. The layout is the largest O Gauge, 3-Rail layout in the world. It is 220 ft. x 40 ft., has over 7000 ft. of track, and many, one of a kind, impressive buildings and accessories on it. Not only will the effort to dismantle and reconstruct it be immense, but so will the expense. We are actively looking for a new location and have some things in the works. We will rebuild the layout! In order for us to keep this magnificent layout running we are soliciting donations through a gofundme campaign. Any amount will be greatly appreciated, and you can be assured any donation will only be used for the layout rebuild. Thank you very much for any amount you can donate. The Members of the NJ Hi-Railers Click Here to Donate Click Here to Enter our Club Store They're looking for volunteers to help dismantle the layout, which looks to be quite a job. They also have a Go Fund Me page. If you're anywhere near them I'd recommend seeing their open house show, as I can't imagine how long it will take to dismantle, store, and rebuild. It's in Paterson NJ. https://www.njhirailers.com/
185 6th Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. 
My Lionel Trains
My father who bought the trains for me when I was very young and added to the set every year. We only set the trains up for Christmas to keep them in pristine condition. I became interested in model trains thanks to my father. He was an HO gauge model train enthusiast and build his set from kits. He said when I was very young, that I would reach up on the train board and grab his very delicate trains that he had built from kits from scratch, and that is when he ( or Santa as I thought) decided to buy my first Lionel Set as they were larger and more durable for a young engineer. My father Raymond (as Santa Claus ) bought me a Lionel train set when I was very young, which he added to it each year, trains and accessories and expanded the layout. After I learned about Santa, we then set up the trains together in the basement every year, in the River Edge house. He would take me every year and then later my two brothers and I, to see the annual Christmas. The NY Model Engineers display in Carlstadt each year when their display would be open to the public. In 1969 just before my dad passed, We ended up on the local Herald-Newspaper. We were the first ones to visit that year. They paper took pictures and we ended up in the paper. My father had passed when I was 15 years old on March 12, 1971. two years after that photo. 
Rebuilding my Lionel train set
Christmas 2024
I added new Yankee Caboose to Yankee Train and a work friend gave me a station. Bought a trolley, a third A&P Refrigerated Box Car, Green Passenger cars, Chatham, Maplewood and Hillside. 
Christmas 2022
I added a Yankee train didn't set up due to having Christmas's dinner here as the apartment is too tight and must protect the trains. kept trains in boxes but displayed my Yankees trainsNew sectional couch new big screen TV all made this year a little difficult to have a layout all over the living room in our apartment. Also hosting Christmas dinner did not make last years layout make sense to put up. Lionel Yankees Subway cars with Dept 56 accessories
Dept 56 Christmas in the City collection Village Accessories Christmas Morning Express 6013023 – Department 56 Official Site
Christmas 2020 I have added a second A&P Refer box car, and I now have 17 cars and engines. Christmas 2019
I added a flatbed helicopter, flatbed two corvettes and a Toys R Us box car. Christmas 2018
I added a NJ Transit diesel engine and box cars from states I have lived in. Milwaukee Box car, I love NY box car, I love NJ box car, Yankees Tampa Florida box car. Christmas 2017
I added a Shop Rite box car, which turned out to be small and cheaper plastic construction. Christmas 2016
I added two NJ passenger cars from towns I lived in Maplewood and Hillside. To get started in 2015 the rebuild process, I purchased tracks a power pack and a couple of the trains that I had on eBay. Christmas 2015
Milwaukee Diesel Engine, NH box Car, A&P box Car, Tropicana box Car, Milk Car, and a Caboose. My trains had an ironic symbolic parallel with my career path, going great, gone and then being rebuilt. I decided to rebuild and which cars to purchase, I took a few different paths, I replaced a handful of trains that I had when I was a young man, Milwaukee Diesel Engine, NH Box car , Milk Car and a New York Central Caboose. When I brought out my trains for Christmas with my three sons I had an A&P refrigerated box car, a Tropicana refrigerated car as I was a dairy director and grocery director at Shop Rite/Wakefern and A&P HQ, where I worked two tours of duty 20 years apart. I focused the new trains I purchased since 2015 with two goals, places I lived and other cars that had meaning. |
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on Amazon Books on Model Trains wikipedia.org/wiki/LionelCorporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel,_LLC 
 Maplewood Station
New Providence
Ho-Ho-Kus Station
River Edge Station
Nanuet Platform
My Dad Raymond RIP March 12, 1971 My Mom Clare now 99 1/2 years old |
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Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA is a social franchise founded by John R. Fugazzie on January 27, 2011 in the River Edge NJ Public Library. The organization operated from May 24, 2012-December 24, 2017 as a 501 (c)(3) New Jersey nonprofit. The organization now continues its amazing growth helping people and the continued expansion under the leadership of its founder John R. Fugazzie.
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Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA is a social franchise founded by John R. Fugazzie on January 27, 2011 in the River Edge NJ Public Library. The organization operated from May 24, 2012-December 24, 2017 as a 501 (c)(3) New Jersey nonprofit. The organization now continues its amazing growth helping people and the continued expansion under the leadership of its founder John R. Fugazzie.
Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA (helping-Brands) is the intellectual property of John R. Fugazzie who is the sole owner of the brand, name, images, logos, social media groups, web sites, and all current and future related materials. John R. Fugazzie maintains all rights to the use and distribution of these materials and any duplication and use without the written permission or license is prohibited Copyright 2011-2025.
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