recently some of my freinds and I made A HO MRR club and i am intrested in getting the club regestered with the NMRA, how would i go about doing it?
Go on the NMRA website and look for the 100% NMRA Club link on the right hand side. It will tell you all you need to know.
I haven’t really paid much attention of late so I am not really sure but I think that the NMRA still recognizes 100% membership clubs. If all your members are NMRA members send them a membership list with NMRA number.
I have been a life member since 1974; I took out a life membership - one hundred bucks - when they announced a dues increase from five to eight bucks a month. I think that current dues exceed forty dollars a month but I don’t know for sure. I am a strong supporter of membership but forty bucks would be about twenty-five percent of my train budget.
Straight from the NMRA membership page.
Member - All Rights and Benefits; Includes NMRA Scale Rails magazine: Cost - $51.00 (US) per year, 2 years for $102.00 (US)
http://www.nmra.org/nmrastore/index.html
For clubs:
Brakie, that’s worse; that’s a third of my budget!
$51.00 a year? For me that’s not even a eighth if I want to include magazine subscriptions, railroad DVDs and other odds and ends.Model wise that’s one Athearn GP38-2 or GP40-2 or two high end cars at discount…Of course that could be 4 Athearn RTR cars at discount as well not including shipping.
Still $51.00 a year isn’t to much if one is active in his/her division and takes in the meetings and local layout tours…For me its worth the money just for the tours.
I agree, the meetings and the people I’ve met over the years through the NMRA make it all worth it to me. Scale Rails has become a great magazine as well.
One and all and dear friends:
I need to clarify a statement made in my two prior responses to this topic: when I made reference to one fourth and one third of my budget I was referring to one fourth and one third of my monthly train budget; I think we should all understand that you can’t do much railroading on $160.00 a year - forty dollars/one fourth - or $153.00 a year - fifty-one dollars/one third.
RETAININGLY/RESTRAININGLY yours
R. T. POTEET