Editing Tech Model Railroad Club (section)

{{Short description|Student organization for hackers}}
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[[File:Tech Model Railroad Green Building.jpg|alt=Passenger station and city scene on the Tech Nickel Plate Railroad. It includes a view of the HO scale model of the Green Building.|thumb|A view of the HO scale model of the Green Building at the Tech Model Railroad Club in Cambridge, MA.]]
The '''Tech Model Railroad Club''' ('''TMRC''') is a student organization at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Levy |first=Steven |date=November 21, 2014 |title=The Tech Model Railroad Club |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-tech-model-railroad-club/ |url-status=live |magazine=WIRED}}</ref> Historically, it has been a wellspring of [[hacker culture]] and the oldest such hacking group in North America.<ref name="TMRC - Hackers">{{citation | url = http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html | title = TMRC - Hackers | publisher = MIT | place = Cambridge, Massachusetts | access-date = 2013-02-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060503072049/http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html | archive-date = 2006-05-03 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Formed in 1946, its [[HO scale]] layout specializes in the automated operation of model trains.