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.

CARM offers members a quarterly Newsletter, monthly Zoom clinics, Chapter activities, access to our YouTube Channel and this Website as well as the opportunity to interact with your fellow members across the country.

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.

Check back here regularly for updates for the monthly Zoom Sessions for members. Malcolm Back and William Waithe have put together a number of guests to present on various topics. These sessions will take place on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:00pm eastern. Invitations for these sessions will be sent out to all current members by email approximately 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.

I will be documenting the journey from an abandoned coach to an operating diorama demonstrating the appearance of the CN facilities in Smith Falls circa 1955.

Improving running enjoyment for single owner operators. As modern railway operators are increasing automation with fewer people to operate, so should our model operating sessions evolve.

Event Listings

June to December 2026 events listed.

An updated Events Listing Page has been created showing events happening soon and for months ahead all over Canada. Mike Walton has taken on the task of creating and sorting through the great number of events to create a listing that is emailed out to each member every month. The Webmaster is using this list to make it available on our website as well. You can find this list of events using the menus or by clicking on this link, Current Events.

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.