Welcome

Welcome to CARM, the Canadian Association of Railway Modellers, located in Canada but with members from many areas around the world. CARM is both for Canadians as well as those with interests in Canadian Railways or model railroading or both. Our membership in the organization is open to anyone that wishes to join.

Over the past three months, the CARM Board has met regularly to address several pressing issues impacting our organization. The primary concerns included challenges surrounding membership renewals, the impact of recent 25% postal rate increases on our dues structure, and rising costs for software licence fees and server and server space associated with providing “free” internet memberships. As discussions unfolded, it became evident that we needed to address broader issues related to improving and growing program delivery, particularly in our digital offerings.

As a result of these meetings we have just updated the membership information and joining form. You can find these by using the quick link buttons below or access them from the menus on the left side.

Clicking on the Join Now button will take you to a page that contains all of the information regarding membership and joining.

Clicking on the On-Line Membership button will take you directly to the membership form for both new and renewing memeberships.

Click this button to go to the on-line membership form.

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It has bee awhile but we are again are having monthly Zoom Sessions for members. Malcolm Black and William Waithe have put this together a number of gurst to present on various topics. These sessions will take place on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:30pm eastern. Inventations for these sessions will be sent out to all current methods by email approximetly one week prior to the session, so make sure your membership is current. If you would like to make a presentation yourself, or if you have suggestions for future topics, please contact Malcolm or William.

William will present the history and evolution of his model of rail-served industries in downtown Toronto. He will describe the prototype industries of the late 1980s, their modeled counterparts, and the changes made over the years to better reflect the prototype. The session will also explore the operating system used to support prototypical operations.

Aaron will share his experience designing, building, and operating a single-industry layout. He will discuss the track plan, operational scheme, current scenery, and future plans for his protofreelanced food processing industry.

Cal’s Parkland Division features both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific operations set in the grain belt of northwestern Saskatchewan. He will describe how operations come to life on his layout.

2026 CARM Calendar

There are a few extra calendars that have been printed and these are available for ordering on a first come basis. As a member to get one or more of the 2026 calendars you will need to contact the Membership Manager, John Johnston, at editor@caorm.org and request the number of calanders you would like alond with your Name, Email address, and Mailing address. Calanders are $15 each. You will get a reply from John once he confirms he has enough calander(s) to send to you along with the amount to send and how to pay for them. Remember that once they are gone there will be no more available for 2026.

2027 CARM Calendar

Please submit photos for the 2027 CARM calendar

If you have an image that you would like to submit to us for use in the 2027 CARM calendar please read the following. We are seeking 6 high quality images of prototype scenes and 6 high quality images of model railroad scenes to include in the calendar. These images need to be in sharp focus for most of the image, well lit, well composed and of interest. Images should be in landscape format. You do not need to edit the image as we would prefer to edit the image ourselves as to maximize the image for the printer. If you have an image you wish to submit an image for consideration follow these steps.

Submit a small JPG image if possible for consideration. Obtain all of the information about the image including: Location, Date, Photographer, Camera Stats, Owner of the items in the scene.

CARM is proud to produce a newsletter, The Canadian, that has been published since the starting days with the first issue dated for January 2004. Currently the newsletter is published four times a year and is available as both a printed version and an electronic download in PDF format. An example of a newsletter can be found by clicking on the menu bar to the left. To obtain electronic downloads for all of the issues you can log into the members area, you must be a member to access this feature.