We had a great Fall 2025 Division Meet on Saturday, October 25 at Northgate Baptist Church in Greenville.
2 excellent clinics, lots of great contest entries 2 fantastic layout tours.
In the Business meeting, we voted to reelect Rich and Steve as Superintendent and Secretary, plus Dave and Ken as At-Large Board members.
Several of our members invested time at the Greer RailFest on September 27, 2025. In addition to sharing the hobby with the public, they set up and operated our T-Trak-HO layout. Check out the pictures!
On July 12, 2025, one of our members, Kinzer Hurt, opened his beautiful home layouts for viewing and operating. He models the Hartwell Railroad and the First Coast Railroad.
His layout will be the feature story for August 2025 Railroad Model Craftsman.
Kinzer also won first place photo and second place model contests at our last Division meeting.
We had a great Division Meet on June 21 at Northgate Baptist Church.
Two excellent clinics, plus two very interesting layout tours.
We voted to approve David Winans and Ken Majchrzak as Board Members at Large.
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We had an excellent Spring 2025 Division Meet at Lander University in Greenwood, SC on March 8.
We had two excellent clinics, a great lunch, then a very informative guided tour of the Greenwood Railroad Historical Center.
On November 16, 2024, Tony Ratola and John Kelchner gave an excelletn hands-on clinic showing tools and techniques for scratchbuilding and kitbashing. We had 7 participants and all gained from Tony and John's expertise.
The NMRA Palmetto Division 2024 Fall Joint Division Meeting was held November 16, 2024 at Northgate Baptist Church.
We had 43 members and guests in attendance, with a record number participating in the three contests.
We also held an election. Rich Lehman was elected as our new Assistant Superintendent, Roger and Steve re-enlisted for another year, and Myron re-upped for another 2 years.
Dr. Walter Laseter led an excellent hands-on clinic on 7/13/2024 at Northgate. We had 13 participants, and everyone went home with new skills and new toys.
The Palmetto Summer Division meeting 2024 was held June 15 at the Railroad Auxiliary Building. We were treated to a great clinic on the history of the Rockton and Rion by Chris Kovacs, who later served as our guide on the train ride where we saw many of the things Chris told us about. Everyone seemed to have a great time.
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Our Spring Meet was held on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Historic Central Depot in Central, SC (413 Gaines Street).
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