Tauranga Marine Model and Engineering Club won the Supreme Award at the 2016 Trustpower Tauranga Community Awards.
The awards were announced and presented tonightat a function at the Mount Maunganui Golf Club.
Trustpower community relations representative Emily Beaton said, in a statement, Tauranga Marine Model and Engineering Club had been a part of many children's childhood thanks to their maintenance and running of the miniature train at Memorial Park.
"The miniature train is hugely iconic for Tauranga folk, but the volunteers behind it do tend to fly a bit more under the radar."
In the last few years they concluded a $380,000 track extension to their amazing model railway, which totalled more than 40,000 hours of labour from the members.