2024 Open House at the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club
We’re as excited as ever to welcome you to our HO scale model of the Columbia Gorge and surrounding areas. We’ve been hard at work all spring and summer to welcome you back to our wonderful layout, and we’ve even made a few changes we think you might want to come by and see.
Where and When
As always our open house takes place at our clubhouse, right smack dab in Portland. The address is: 2505 North Vancouver Avenue, Portland Oregon, 97227. You can also search for “Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club” in Apple and Google Maps to find your way to us.
We have limited onsite parking, including accessible spaces and a bike rack, with additional curbside parking opportunities in the neighborhood. We are also easily accessed by bus via routes 4 and 44.
We’re open Saturdays and Sundays, specifically November 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, 30th, December 1st, 7th, and 8th.
VIP tours start at 8:30 AM each of those days, with the tour portion lasting roughly an hour, after which you’re free to view our layout as we open for the day.
General admission is open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Tickets
As in the past two years, tickets are available for purchase online from our vendor Simpletix, you can click right here to go to the ticket sales, or go directly to: https://www.simpletix.com/e/2024-open-house-tickets-187811
Online ticket sales allow us to create a better experience for everyone involved. Because we can control the total visitors in each time slot, we can ensure the room doesn’t get overly crowded. TIMED TICKETS ARE FOR ENTRY ONLY! Once you have entered, you may stay as long as you wish. We have found that most people stay for about 45 minutes but sometimes the magic of our layout is so captivating that you will wish to stay longer. Please do !
Group Admissions
If you’d like to organize tickets for a larger group, please reach out to us directly at contact@cgmrc.com and we’ll do our best to make accommodations.
Prices
Although the annual open house is an opportunity for us to support the club financially, we are also serious about keeping the hobby accessible to all of our wonderful visitors.
VIP Tours (Guided tour behind the scenes of our club, roughly 1 hour) - $25 per person.
Adult (Age 12+) General Admission - $12 per person.
Child (Age 3 through 11) General Admission - $5 per person.
Children under the age of 3 come along free
Dispatching in the 21st Century
A special for our VIP tour guests, this year we’re ready to show you how a computerized train dispatch system looks.
We’ve taken the layout through our very own digital revolution since last year. Will that cause the trains to run smoother? Only time will tell.
