If you are under 21 I highly recomend you join the Teen Association of Model Railroaders (www.tamr.org). It’s been the best $15 I ever spent!!! You get the Hotbox (the TAMR newsletter) and many more great things.
cool I am 15 but live in Sarnia Ontario, Canada can I still join??? 
shaunCN
There was a mistake on the web adress above. its www.tamr.org not .com
As long as you live on Earth, you can join.
what are some of the other benefits. i’m 17 so i don’t know if its really worth it or not.
n/m i thought it was just for teenagers.
You also get to go to conventions, run in elections, and get a list of the annual list of members. You can be over 21 but can’t run in elections.
ya i think i’m going to send in for a membership.
or is anybody a member of the NMRA here? what is that like in comparison to the TAMR?
More expensive!
i’ll stick with the TAMR for now. wait till i’m in college and older than 21 to join the NMRA if i’m still into MRR. i’ll probably still be interested.
I’m 13, what are some of the tmra benefits?
You get the TAMR newsletter, the Hotbox. You can also go to conventions, run in elections, and get an annual list of members. You can be a member if your over 21 but can’t join in elections.
Elections?
Here is a thought on something really practical for TMRA. With your membership card and student ID, manufacturers should provide rebates and discounts on products for TMRA members. This would “give a kid a break” on the cost of MRR equiptment and help to promote the hobby. That would help more students enter the hobby which would produce more adults who would buy more MRR stuff in the future.
Just a thought.
My son used to belong to TAMR. While he was in, he went to all the local hobby shops that were primarily MRR only to leave brochures he had done up. One of them wouldn’t let him leave them there. Truly a stupid move on their part since their future business is dependent on teens today.
TAMR’s should be offer the club benefits that other MRR clubs receive, but that’s assuming intelligence on behalf of the LHS owner.
i like that idea of giving discounts to members of the TAMR. i could surely use that. i’ve started to buy a lot of stuff at the LHS since there haven’t been many shows lately.
Yeah, a discount for teens would be a great idea. Someone should contact tmra…
4884bigboy, first off all the people that run the TAMR are teens so anyone under 21can run. Secondly I’ll e-mail the president and ask him what he can do about that.
Dougal are you a member. i’m guessing you are but not sure. i’m thinking about joining but i look at the address and it seems like just a normal person’s house that its sent to. seems kind of fishy to me. but let me know what its like.
if you have AIM contact me on there.
Yes I am and yes I did send the money to some kid in New York and everything worked out just fine. Wait two months and if you don’t get a Hotbox (newsletter) e-mail the pres.
cool. i think i’ll have my mom give me the $15 to send in. already have the application filled out. just wanted to see if it was legit or not. seems like it is so why not join.