Middle Georgia Model Railroad Club (Official)

05/06/2026

04/09/2026

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🚨 UPDATED 4/7 🚂 IT’S OFFICIALLY UP! Big news for the NMRA 2026! 🎉 ** please see updates at the bottom.

The list of Local Layout Tours for the Scenic City Express Convention is now live! We have an outstanding lineup of local layouts—all located within 35 miles of the convention center—that will be open to attendees during the convention itself.

🚌 Quick Note: Layouts included on the bus tour will have “BUS” listed after the railroad name.
Check out our amazing local lineup:
• Allen Pittman – Norfolk Tennessee Southern RR – HO – 14 Miles
• Barry Miller – Lookout Mountain Southern – HO – 7 Miles
• Bill Orman – Norfolk Southern New Holland Division – OS – HO – 22 Miles
• Brian Ford – BN Monett Sub – HO – 8 Miles
• Chris Wehman – Norfolk Southern Heartland Division – OS – N – 17 Miles
• Chuck Higdon – Key West & Northern – OS – HO – 33 Miles
• Chuck Overby – Harrison, Ooltewah & Wolftever – HO – 24 Miles
• Dale Bryant – Live Wire Railway – HO & N – 16 Miles
• Dave Golden – B&M North Shore – HO – 23 Miles
• David R. Holsinger – Nonaville – HO – 35 Miles
• Doug Smith – Hastings Way RR – HO
• Ed Painter – Virginia Piedmont - Appalachian & Western – HO – BUS
• Ed Tougaw – Intermont & Western Railroad – OS – N – 14 Miles
• Jerry Holmes – C&O Allegheny Subdivision – BUS – S – 10 Miles
• Jim Bailiff – Sharonville Division – BUS – HO – 6 Miles
• Randall Payne – Cowan-Tracy Branch – HO – 17 Miles
• Roy Masterson – Southern Railway Cherokee Division – OS – HO – 7 Miles
• Scott Denson – Conasuaga, Coosawattee & Southern – HO – 34 Miles
• Steve Lamb – Sequatchie Valley Lines – HO – 26 Miles
• Stirling Callahan – CPKC Limited – HO
• TVMRi club – CNO&TP Rathole Division – HO – BUS
• W***y Clonts – Soddy-Daisy Southern – HO

You can find the exact locations for each layout in your convention timetable, or view the official list on our website here: https://www.nmra2026.org/layout-tours-local/
(Planning to explore before or after the event? Be sure to check out our Non-Local convention layout tour page as well!) 🛤️

Updates: To clarify, the four large layouts that are on the BUS tour are also on a self-driving tour on another day. All other layouts are on self-driving tours only.

03/16/2026

Say DOLLAH Stow....

03/16/2026

Latest information on the RPM meet in Macon..
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The 2026 Central Georgia RPM will be here in just 12 days.

Pre- registration remains open. Your only option to pre-register from now until March 22 is to pay by PayPal. The deadline to pay by mailed in check has passed. There are approximately 75 of you who have pre-registered. We would like to express a big "Thank You!" to those that have registered. That should make the check-in procedures Friday morning go much smoother and faster than last year.

For those of you that will be in town Thursday evening March 26 please join us for an informal dinner at Steve's Seafood and Steaks, 3955 Arkwright Rd, Macon, GA 31210. We have reserved the bar area for our group starting at 5:00 PM.

In case you missed it here is our lineup of presentations.
Doors open at 8:00 AM both days.
Model display room will be open Friday from 8:00AM to 5:00PM and Saturday 800:AM until after the door prize drawing.
Friday March 27
8:30 AM – 9:30 Fenton Wells
Kitbashing Transition Era Fruit Growers Express Reefers
9:45 – 10:45 Rusty Evans
Tangent Models’ Southern Railway Gantt Bay Window
Caboose Kit Project
11:00 – 12:00 Evan Whatley
Modeling Southern Railway System’s Office Cars

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:30 Tom Klimoski
Incorporating Prototype Rules and Procedures into
Your Ops Sessions
2:45 – 3:45 Mike Turner
Where Heat Flows, Solder Goes
4:00 – 5:00 Steve Holding
Loading Flatcars

5:00 – 7:00 Supper Break

7:00 – 8:30 Nick Fraser - Georgia Central Railroad

Saturday March 28
8:30 AM – 9:30 Radisson McGuire
Modeling the Freelance Alabama Central Short Line
9:45 – 10:45 Ovidiu Trifanescu
Will It Stick? Glues Used in Modeling and
Their Specific Uses
11:00 – 12:00 Tony Sissons
Creating a GP33ECO Locomotive

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:30 Tim Garland
Seaboard Central Locomotive Paint Schemes
2:45 – 3:45 Craig Laing
Modeling a C&O New River Gorge Town
4:00 – 5:00 Kinzer Hurt
My 20-Square-Foot Slice of Florida:
The First Coast Railroad in HO Scale

5:15 Door Prize Drawing
YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN

As always, if you have any questions or comments please email us at [email protected]

Remember to bring your models to display!

We are looking forward to seeing everyone!

Ken Preston Stephen Floyd
Paul Spilman Rusty Evans
Andre Van Vooran

03/01/2026

Club member Stephen Floyd was asked by nationally known model railroader Tony Koestner.... well, let Stephen tell you.
"It was an honor when Tony Koester ask to use The Sylvania Branch as an example of a branch line model in his new book Guide To Modeling Branch Lines. To read the full article pick up a copy, it is available through Firecrown Media and Amazon."
That's Stephen on the left 2nd from front at lunch with club members and friends and photos of the article. The Sylvania Branch is Stephen's personal layout.
Congratulations Stephen, it's well deserved. You can possibly meet him and other great modelers at the upcoming Central Georgia Railroad Prototype Modelers (RPM) meet in Macon this month.

12/11/2025

At Orleans in Perry Tuesday night.