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.

Click this button to go to membership information.

2026 CARM Calendar

There is some hope that you might be able to get one. Every year when our calendars are being printed we get a few extras in the printing run. These will become available for ordering on a first come basis. Coming in September or October once we have all of the calendars ready for mailing out to those that have them pre-ordered them as part of their membership we will know how many extra calendars will be available. Instructions on how to get one will be posted here, so check back regularly. 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.

Each year there a number of CARM events that are run which are organized by various chapters. Meetings are held in various locations and are open to all CARM Members. Guests are also welcome at most events. Check out the Chapter page as well as the Events page for activities in your area.

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.