List of model railways

This is a list of model railways.

The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive."

List

 * Carolwood Pacific Railroad - USA
 * Choo Choo Barn (O) - USA
 * Colorado Model Railway Museum, Greeley, CO
 * EnterTRAINment (1992-2000) (O) - USA
 * Gorre & Daphetid (HO) - USA
 * The Great Train Story (HO) - USA
 * Miniatur Wunderland — the world's largest model railway and airport (HO) - Hamburg, Germany
 * Miniature Railroad & Village - USA
 * Modelbane Europa (HO) - Hadsten, Denmark
 * Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers (O) - USA
 * National Railway Museum - a railway museum including a model railway (O) - York, United Kingdom.
 * New Jersey Hi Railers (O) - USA
 * Northlandz (HO) - USA
 * Pendon Museum (EM '4mm') - Long Wittenham near Oxford, United Kingdom
 * Roadside America (O) - USA
 * Toy Train Museum (O) - USA
 * Train Masters Of Babylon (O) - USA
 * Sonoma TrainTown Railroad 1:4 scale - USA
 * Virginian and Ohio
 * Grand Maket Rossiya (HO) - St. Petersburg, Russia
 * MinNature (HO) - Subang Jaya, Malaysia
 * EnterTRAINment Junction (G) - USA
 * Swiss Museum of Transport (HO) – Replica of the Gotthard railway line.
 * Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society West Ryde, NSW
 * The Model Railroad Club of Toronto Toronto, ON
 * Arizona Model Railroading Society, Phoenix, AZ
 * Golden State Model Railroad Museum, Point Richmond, Richmond, California
 * Highland Park Society of Model Railroad Engineers, also known as the Highland Pacific Club of San Gabriel, CA
 * San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego, CA
 * Tech Model Railroad Club, HO scale, student organization at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 * Cherry Valley 2-rail O scale, Merchantville NJ.
 * New York Society of Model Engineers, Carlstadt NJ. Incorporated 1926.

UK and Ireland
A theme through many of these has been a movement away from the 'mass of moving trains' approach to a more pictorial approach, producing scenes and dioramas that represented the appearance of their original prototype.

Many of these standard gauge railways avoided the compromise of 00 gauge in favour of finescale standards such as EM and P4. Others modelled the narrow gauge. In both cases, a lack of ready to run rolling stock was not a drawback to an approach already based largely on scratchbuilding anyway, for quality reasons.