Welcome to the DuPage Division of the
National Model Railroad Association
Schedule of Events for the 2024/2025 season.
Click on an item of interest below for additional details.
Regular meetings are held at:
St. Paul's United Church of Christ
5729 Dunham Road
Downers Grove, IL 60516
(All Meetings start at 1:30)
Division Business:
Voting on updates to Division Constitution and Bylaws.
Program/Activity:
Modeling Steel Mills by Kevin Tully
Contest:
“What project did you start and complete over the Summer from March 1, 2024 to Sept 1, 2024?”
This could be a simple project like building a tree, weathering a piece of rolling stock, or updating a piece of rolling stock with metal wheels/couplers or other details, or installing a decoder in a loco or rolling stock.
Program/Activity:
TBA
Contest:
Passenger Cars
Program/Activity:
TBA
Contest:
“Loads”
Anything from piggyback to flatcars to hoppers to open door boxcars
Program/Activity:
Annual Holiday Luncheon
Contest:
None
Program/Activity:
Using Layout Design Elements to Model Michigan City in 1960 by Seth Larkin
Contest:
“What’s on your workbench?”
Program/Activity:
TBA
Contest:
“Railroad maintenance equipment”
Division Business
Election of Officers
Superintendent and Chief Clerk to be elected
Program/Activity:
TBA
Contest:
TBA
Further information will be posted as it becomes available.
Program/Activity:
Layout Tours
Contest:
None
Program/Activity:
TBA
Contest:
TBA
For information on this convention and all future National conventions check out
https://www.nmra.org/conventions for convention information as it becomes available.