Bob Werre commented "...Our little club used to meet in Jack's garage turned into a layout room with a fairly complete shop. He had a work area where about six guys could work on kits or whatever! The layout was there to run or to test all those brass engines coming out at the time. We met every Thursday evening. We often had guests schedule business trips to make our meetings..."

Bob continues "...Occasional meetings were held at my home or at Rusty's layout room. I was building my layout at the time so running trains and building the layout were the norm. Rusty's layout was mostly finished so running trains was the deal along with some video's which were becoming popular..."

All track is hand-laid, code 100. Initially the modules were built for the NMRA National Convention in Houston in 1989. Many more modules have been built and old ones improved over time.

The photo below is of Danny Click's MKT Overland SD-40-2 and GP 38-2 units pulling its train past the tower (built by Billy Click from a Ministructures kit), on the club's passenger module.

The October 1989 NASG Dispatch featured a photo of the Houston S Gaugers' layout at Astro Rail '89 held on June 30th, 1989. This was the public introduction of the new modular layout.

In 1997, the club hauled the layout's modules to the Denver NASG Convention. Photos can be seen in the October 1997 issue of the "S/Sn3 Modeling Guide" magazine, as well as in the October 1997 issue of the NASG's Dispatch (showing photos of Jerry Brewer's MKT reefer, Billy Click's mission-style passenger station, and the, then, brand-new American Models 4-6-2 making its public debut running on the club layout - for which power had to be temporarily switched from DC to AC).

The June 2006 NASG Dispatch featured a photo of most of the club members (at that time) when the layout was set up for an extended period of time at the George H. Bush Library on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.