About The Piedmont Division
Reasons to Belong to the Piedmont Division
The Piedmont Division is one of, if not THE most active, accomplished and productive NMRA Division in the country!
The Division's features and benefits include:
- Great Events
- A hugely successful annual Model Train Show, the best all-trains show in the Southeast.
- A quality starter layout raffled off every year at the Train Show, complete with DCC control.
- The equally successful Piedmont Pilgrimage featuring 40+ open-house layouts tours during the Model Railroad month of November, which attracts more than 1,000 visitors annually. This is a free event!
- Two "live" model railroad auctions, open-to-the-public, conducted twice a year, where members can buy and sell hobby items.
- A monthly open house layout on the Sunday following the Division meeting (except for November when the Pilgrimage is conducted)
- World Class Publications
- The Division publication, the Timetable, distributed for free to over 600 model railroaders quarterly and now on-line in full color!
- A comprehensive and user-friendly web page at www.piedmont-div.org
- Fun and Informative Meetings
- A rolling average attendance of over 80 model railroaders at the Division's monthly meetings.
- A member conducted model railroad clinic featured at each month's meeting.
- Modeling Railroad Resources
- A 233 volume model railroad library where members can check out books & documents for free.
- A 236 item DVD & video tape model railroad and train related library; also free to the membership.
- A division level Member Aid program where assistance can be provided to help new and experienced model railroaders with their questions about the hobby.
- Advanced one-day hands-on clinics beginning in October.
- Community Involvement
- The Piedmont Division supported Georgia & Tennessee Railroad layout at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth.
- A portable 10' x 10' Kid's Layout the Division uses for events and shows where children can run the trains.
- The Piedmont Division supported model train display at the Atlanta Zoo.
- An extensive Boy Scout Model Railroad Merit Badge program having certified 154 Scouts for the merit badge so far.
- NMRA Achievement Program and Contests
- Current membership includes three Master Model Railroaders.
- Two NMRA Achievement Program sanctioned model contests annually, in November and March.
- Exclusive Division Store Items
Piedmont Division Bylaws