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.

Our members area has more content that is only available to members which includes an archive of images that have a Canadian Railway theme in a higher resolution than those available in other areas of this website. Also members have access to all of the newsletters ever printed by CARM as electronic downloads in PDF format.

If you have, it's time to update your membership information. It's easy to overlook updating this information but it will only take a couple of minutes to correct this. Simply fill out a membership form from our join page and note in the comment area that you are updating contact information. We will make the changes and reply to you when this has been done. Doing this with help ensure that you are receiving the latest news and information from CARM.

As a member of CARM you now have the ability to pick which chapters you would like to receive infromation from. Starting now a form has been added, that can be found in the menus to the left in the members area, to select these choices. Be sure to fill out this form so that you will get the latest news from that chapters that matter to you.

2026 CARM Calendar

Please submit photos for the 2026 CARM calendar

If you have an image that you would like to submit to us for use in the 2026 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.

If you would like to order 1 or more calendars follow these instructions as the number of pre-orders helps us determine how many to print. Once they are printed the number of extra calendars available will be limit to the stock on hand. Prices will be posted here once finalized.

• Contact the Membership Director with the number of calendars you would like to order along with your mailing address.
• The Membeship Director will send you an invoice, once the price is set, for the calendars along with instructions on how to pay for your order and confirm that the number of calendars ordered are available.
• Once payment is received the calendars will be mailed to you when printed.
• Payments can only be made using PayPal or by cheque.

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.