The Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc.

If you are interested in railroads, whether it is trips, photography, history, or modeling, The Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc. is for you. Here, you will find amateur and professional railroaders alike who share your enthusiasm for the rails, and are quite willing to share their experiences with you.

We are organized into divisions from New England to the Midwest. For RRE membership information, contact a Division near you:

Forest City Division, RRE

Meetings: 2nd Friday of the month at 8:15 at the Parma Memorial Hall, 6617 Ridge Rd., Parma, OH. (Check web site for changes.)
Membership: Dues are $15.00 per year, payable to: Jerry Jordak, Treasurer, Forest City Division, RRE, P.O. Box 42171, Brook Park, OH 44142
Newsletter: The Main Line
Web Site: www.trainweb.org/fcdrre/
Contact: Jerry Jordak jordak@windstream.net

Hartford Division, RRE

Meetings: 3rd Friday of the month at 7:00 PM in Meeting Room A&B of the Newington Senior and Disabled Center, 120 Cedar Street, Newington, CT., except for July and December as these months are reserved for our annual picnic and Christmas parties, which are held at different locations each year. General information is available at P. O. Box 310143, Newington CT 06131-0143.
Membership: Dues are $20.00 per year, payable to: Hartford Division, RRE, c/o Ulises Toledano, 18 Appletree Drive, East Hartford CT 06118. The most current membership information is available on the web site.
Newsletter: The Greenboard
Web Site: www.hartfordrre.org
Contact: Paul Yurko hrre@hartfordrre.org

Mass Bay Division, RRE

Meetings: See our meetings page.
Membership: See our membership page.
Newsletter: The Callboy
Web Site: www.massbayrre.org

Old Dominion Division, RRE

Meetings: 3rd Thursday of the month at 8:00 PM at Thoreau Intermediate School, Lecture Hall, 2505 Cedar Lane, Vienna, VA. Pre-meeting dinner at the Auphora Restaurant, 377 W. Maple Avenue (Route 123), Vienna, VA at 6:30 P.M.
Membership: Dues are $20.00 per year, payable to: Old Dominion Div. RRE, P.O. Box 307, Vienna, VA 22183
Newsletter: (None)
Contact: Alex Mayes, President (703) 255-0611
Ray Saunders, Secretary (804) 264-4449

St. Louis Division, RRE

Meetings: 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30 PM at the Brookings Retirement Home, 307 Woods Mill Road, St. Louis, MO 63122.
Membership: Dues are $20.00 per year, payable to: St. Louis Division RRE, Wallace F. Dittrich, 4824 South Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63111-1311
Newsletter: Whistle Talk
Web Site:
Contact: thomasjk@midwest.net

Rail Links

Operating Railroad Sites

These sites are loosely defined as anything running 'full scale' equipment to haul freight or people as a means to generate revenue, and not primarily operated as a museum:

New England Lines and Their Owners - This generally is defined as an organization who has at least one holding that provides freight or passenger service to New England.

Railroad Related Sites

These sites are loosely defined as anything that mimics railroads (such as 'live steam' and model railroads), promotes railroads (such as political interest and lobbying groups), educates the public about railroads (such as this site and other RRE division sites), preserves railroads (such as transportation

Railroad Related Sites - This includes historical and preservation groups, model railroads clubs, railroad promoting organizations, forums and internet search sites, and sites with information about Boston.

Railroad Enthusiast Organizations Outside of New England - Other organizations of people banded together to share their love of railroads.

The sites offered are the culmination of suggestions by many people, and are provided as a source of additional information for you.

While sites listed here are displayed because the members of Mass Bay RRE have thought that these sites were useful or entertaining enough to warrant including, sites change enough that, of course, the members cannot be responsible for broken links or navigating to any material beyond this site. Just because a site is listed does not necessarily mean full endorsement of the site by the members of Mass Bay RRE, but the fact that they are listed means that, at the time of listing, the members felt that the message they were telling was worthy of saying.

We welcome any railroad related listing to this site. While we have established no guidelines for listing, in general, the site should be suitable for people of ALL ages, and have at least one major part of the site that is strongly railroad or public transportation related. See the sites listed for examples.

Also, while we would like to list sites quickly, this part of the site gets second priority in changes to the Activities page.