Clubs

Railroad Clubs in the Piedmont Division Area

Atlanta Interlocking Model Railroaders

We are an HO modular club. Founded in 2002, our members sought a club with high standards, a high level of member involvement, a minimum of rules, no dues and a dedication to exploring fully the modular model railroad concept.

Membership is kept small, no more than twelve currently. While not an open club, memberships do come open on occasion. Members must make available twelve feet of completed modules, and are expected to participate in all aspects of preparing a club layout for a show. Contact us if interested in membership (when available) or visiting during operating sessions.

Contact: Charlie Crawford, 770-565-1845, acrawford@bellsouth.net 

 

Meetings held at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Piedmont & Canton Rds., Marietta on second Friday of each month. Doors open at 6:30 pm, meeting starts at 7:00 pm. Everyone welcome!

Refreshments served. Subjects range from prototype to model trains. Field trips.

Contact: Leonard Martin, 954-232-5390, leonardmtn@aol.com.

Web site: www.trainweb.org/gsof/

The  Georgia Garden Railway Society was founded in 1991. Our foremost objective is to have fun with our  hobby. We are family oriented with men and women equally involved in club activities. We welcome everyone who shares our interests; members come from all over Georgia. Meetings are usually held on the  second Saturday of warm weather months at the home of a club member. There is usually a garden layout to see, a group discussion, trains running in the garden, and the joy of visiting with others interested in garden railroading. We welcome guests and new members! We set up our mobile layout at most area train shows! Contact: eldecker@windstream.net Web site:  https://ggrs.info/

Georgia Northwestern Model Railroad Club

We are a 100% NMRA Club serving NMRA members in Cobb, Bartow, Paulding and Cherokee Counties of Georgia. Our purpose is to educate, train and develop model railroaders so they can build layouts of their own. We welcome any NMRA member regardless of scale or gauge that wants to improve their skill level. We also provide beginner classes and hands-on construction/skill building events. Visitors may come to check us out once but will be required to join the NMRA to attend further events. A valid NMRA membership card is required for admission, and the meeting is free of charge.

Our meetings are on the third Thursday of every month from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. We meet in Cartersville at the Center Community Center at 682 Center Road, Cartersville, GA 30121. The meeting room is 2 miles from the Hwy 20 exit off I-75, the third Cartersville exit #290.

Contact info; 

Howard Goodwin, MMR (President)

Email:  horn69@bellsouth.net

Telephone:  (770) 363-6451

Northeast Georgia N Scale Model Railroad Club

We are an Athens/Atlanta area association of 20+ men and women who are interested in promoting N-Scale model railroading.  The club was formed in 2020 through the merger of two long-standing north Georgia N-scale modular clubs, Athens Bend Track and Metro Atlanta N-Scalers.  Our membership area includes Athens, Atlanta, and the surrounding regions.  We are an N scale modular railroad (Bend Track & NTrak) club with a Digitrax-controlled Bend Track modular layout that consists of more than 35 modules that assemble into a variety of layout shapes from 16′ x 35′ to 36′ x 54′ for display at regional train shows.  In addition, we have a 3200 sq. ft. fixed layout at our clubhouse that is assembled from NTrak modules and custom built sections, and includes many of our Bend Track modules when these are not on our trailer in preparation for shows.  The fixed layout includes extensive elevated mountain line trackage, a 5-module, 14 track, 16′ “Staging Yard”, and several smaller yards and industrial siding scattered about the layout.  The club hosts running sessions that are open to the public on the first Saturday of every month (unless a show interferes) at our clubhouse in Comer, GA (59 Watson Mill Road).  Visit our Club Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/NortheastGeorgiaNScale) to see pictures and videos from both our modular show layout and the fixed clubhouse layout.

 

If you have an interest in N scale model railroading, this Club is for you.  Our members bring extensive experience in every aspect of model railroading.  The club holds work sessions at our clubhouse every third Saturday.  Members freely offer their experience with various aspects of model railroading to anyone interested during the work sessions. 

 

Meetings are held at 7:30 PM on the fourth Tuesday of every third month by Zoom.  Contact the group through Groups.io (https://groups.io.g.NGNSRR) to receive notices of meetings and other club activities.

 

Contacts:  Peter Wood, President, 706-215-3313; Michael Hahn, Treasurer, 706-206-9074; or Gene Jablonski, Secretary, 678-523-9863.  Club email address:  main@NGNSRR.groups.io

North Georgia Lego Train Club

Do you still enjoy the fun of building with LEGO bricks, but at the same time have a passion for running and building train layouts? Then it sounds like the club is for you. If you can play well with others, you are welcome to join us.

Contact:  james.trobaugh@ngltc.org

Website: www.ngltc.org

North Georgia Live Steamers

Our club, located in Conyers just east of Atlanta, has a 7.5″ live steam and diesel line and a Gauge-1 line. There are work days, party days, and public ride days.

Web site: https://northgeorgialivesteamers.org/

NorthWest Georgia (NWGA) T-Trak

T-Trak is a table top N scale modular railroad standard which has become very popular in the N-scale world.  The NWGA group was founded in 2007. We follow the original standards as published at www.ttrak.org 

We run Digitrax DCC, but have incorporated a DC loop into  layouts when needed.  The group has become mostly inactive due to old age and health issues, but members are still around.

Contact: Jim Nealand casadiego86@gmail.com

North Atlanta O-Gauge Railroad Club

We are a 3-rail O-Scale club. Activities include running trains, building layouts, workshops and field trips. We meet monthly on the 3rd Saturday at the Kennesaw Hobbytown USA, where our 25′ x 12.5′ layout is in the entry lobby.

We take our traveling layout to most area train shows. There is nothing like watching the joy and fascination a child has when watching and running a train!

Website: http://www.ogauge.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ogauge/

Contact: clubinfo@ogauge.org

North Georgia Modurail

We’re Georgia’s oldest HO scale modular railroad club, chartered in 1993 and specializing in portable, modular railroad design and operations. If you like to run trains but don’t have the room for a layout, or want to learn more about model railroading and need a good way to practice new skills, or you’re a seasoned veteran wanting to run longer trains and mentor others, then modular model railroading may be just right for you!

Modelers of all ages and experience are welcome, and you’re sure to see great trains from old steam to modern diesel running through a wide variety of scenes and settings. Learn how to build your own personal module that combines with others to form a large layout – from design to construction to tracklaying to electronics to scenery to structure building and more. We operate about seven shows a year, and it’s never the same layout twice!

Monthly meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm (third Thursday in November) in the Roswell or Duluth areas. Come to a meeting or visit us at an upcoming show!

https://www.facebook.com/northgeorgiamodurail/

Contact: mailcar@northgeorgiamodurail.org

Website: http://www.ngmrr.org/

Southeastern Railway Museum - Atlanta National Railway Historical Society

Georgia’s Official Transportation History Museum and an operation of the Atlanta Chapter, National Railway Historical Society is located just north of the intersection of Buford Highway (US-23) and Pleasant Hill Road with both indoor and outdoor exhibits. Exhibits include freight and passenger cars, steam and diesel locomotives, prototype and scale model, operating and static. Open Chapter meetings with interesting presentations are held on the third Saturday of the month at 5:30PM. 

Volunteer to work at the museum – train crew, track maintenance, guide, equipment restoration!

No matter what your interest or skills, the Southeastern Railway Museum offers fulfilling opportunities to get involved. Our dedicated volunteers bring transportation history to life, helping visitors appreciate and understand the cultural, technical, and economic impact of transportation in our region – and they have fun doing it!

Railroad Model Club of Atlanta

Southern O Scalers has merged with Railroad Model Club of Atlanta (RMCA) and now is known as Railroad Model Club of Atlanta. We are temporarily operating our portable module layout and visiting home layouts on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 10am and have business meetings on the 1st Monday at 7pm of each month. We have relocated some of our permanent layout, large module layout, structures, motive power and rolling stock to storage since we have sold our building in downtown Atlanta. We are in the process of buying another building in the Atlanta area and will build a large permanent layout in the near future. Our club has recently celebrated its 87th birthday and is the oldest model railroad club in Atlanta.
Please contact for more information:
Dan Mason, President
770-337-5139
Or
Joe Congemi,VP
404-374-2370
 

Tate Depot Model Railroaders

Tate Depot Model Railroaders operates out of the historic 1916 L&N Tate Depot.  The Club is a Standing Committee of the Tate Depot Train Society, a 501c(3) tax exempt organization.  The Society is organized to further the understanding of the roll that railroads played in the development of the marble industry in Pickens County Georgia and to provide education and guidance in the historical preservation of the Tate Depot. 

We operate two museum quality model railroads, one HO scale and one N scale, both depicting local railroad operations in the north Georgia area.  Regular public open house events occur on the third Saturday each month and are open from 10:00AM until 2:00PM.  The Society accepts donations of funds, railroad historical items, and model railroad equipment for the purpose of furthering its goals, and as a means of generating support revenue.  Visit our website at:  https://tatedepottrainsociety.org

Tri-State Area Model Railroad, Inc.

A group of all skill levels currently constructing a 22 x 37 HO Digitrax DCC layout in the restored L&N brick depot at Mineral Bluff, GA. The layout, which is loop to loop with two peninsulas, represents the L&N Railroad Old Line from Marietta, GA (Elizabeth Yard) through Ellijay, Blue Ridge, Murphy Jct and McCaysville, GA and Copperhill, TN to its terminus at Etowah, TN, and will include the branch to Murphy, NC.

Membership is open to all who are 18 or over (under 18 participation is welcomed and encouraged but must have an adult sponsor). Meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Mineral Bluff Depot. Workdays are held each Wednesday. Annual Dues are $65.

Contact: Thomas Roskelly,  828-361-2210 tsmri@yahoo.com.

Web site:  www.tsmri.org.

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 Valley River Model Railroad Club

The VRMRC is an N-scale layout in a former Southern Railway caboose next to the L&N Depot in downtown Murphy, NC. The layout is a walk-around island 4′ x 24′ with two mainlines, several industrial sidings, an extensive yard, and an operating turntable with a 6-stall roundhouse. The caboose also has historical photos and displays depicting local railroading history as part of the Valley River Historical Railroad Museum project. Members are also constructing 2’x4′ HO modules for use during special events. 

Meetings are monthly on the third Thursday of 6 p.m. Membership is open to individuals with an interest in railroading from ages 9 to 90! We have April and November two Open Houses each year.

Contact: Thomas Roskelly, 828-644-0434 or 828-361-2210

Vines Volunteer Garden Railway Club

The Vines Garden Railroad is operated and maintained by this volunteer group! Over 1,000 feet of tracks, a 25 foot bridge, tunnels, viaduct, airport, towns and villages. Beautiful garden setting. Open every 1st and 3rd Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM.

 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VinesGardenRR/

3500 Oak Grove Rd SW, Loganville, GA 30052

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