Santa Train & Open House 2008
On December 6, 2008, at 8 AM,the NCDOT Rail division chartered an Amtrak train and made its way from Raleigh, NC to Greensboro, NC to visit Santa Claus at the Greensboro Train Depot in downtown Greensboro. Many CMR members were on hand to help with this wonderful event. Please click here to view more pictures. CMR Open house is also on December 6, 2008 from 10 AM - 5 PM.
Greensboro Bicentennial Celebration
Looking toward the future, we have voted to help the Greensboro Bicentennial Committee with their big celebration, which will be April 12 & 13, 2008. We will have the club open extra hours that weekend to accommodate the festivities. In addition, if they get permission from the City, we will try to have railroad exhibits around the Depot. They will ask the City Monday. We will need all of our membership to work that weekend, so please mark your calendars now.
CMR lost a long time Carolina Model Railroaders club member, and recent addition to our very short list of Honorary Life Members—Jim Patton, passed away on July 22, 2008. Jim was a life long railroad enthusiast which manifested itself in many areas. He loved all sorts of railroad history, but focused mainly on the history of the railroads in and around Greensboro.
HO Scale Layout
The HO-scale project started in 2005 and is an on-going project. The layout will encompass the majority of our space and will be a spectacle to see. We will attempt to surpass our old layout in terms of impressiveness.
Wheel Cleaning
By Ric Hodges: Buck Lineberry built this wheel cleaning test track for N-scale Locomotives and Cars. Cut paper towels in strips and feed them through the copper wire "staple" to have fresh towels for each loco. The design keeps everyting neat and the dedicated track helps keep the mainline free from workbench activities.
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Location:234 B E. Washington St, Greensboro, NC
Thursday: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 - 5:00 PM
Sunday: 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Club Meeting every 3rd Thursday
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- Z Scale Projects
Z scale (1:220) is the smallest commercially available model railway scale with its track gauge of only 6.5 mm. Z scale was introduced by the German model train manufacturer Märklin in 1972 Nuremberg Toy Fair. It was a brainchild of Helmut Killian, Märklin's head design engineer at the time. Letter Z was chosen to designate the new scale as it was thought at the time that there would not be a commercial model railway scale even smaller than Z, in the future. Hence the last character of the alphabet in German and English languages. - HO Scale Projects
HO scale (H0 scale in continental Europe) is the most popular scale of model railway in most of the world (outside the United Kingdom, where the slightly larger 00 gauge is most common). The name is derived from the fact that its 1:87 scale is approximately half that of O scale, hence H0 or 'half zero'. - N Scale Projects
N scale is a popular model railway size. Depending upon the manufacturer, the scale ranges from 1:148 to 1:160. In all cases, the gauge (the distance between the rails) is 9 mm. The term N gauge refers to the track dimensions, and is not a scale. Nevertheless, the terms N scale and N gauge are often used interchangeably. An advantage of N scale is that it allows hobbyists to build layouts that take up less space than HO scale, or put longer track runs into the same amount of space, because the models are smaller (by nearly a half) than they are in HO scale (1:87). The name comes from an abbreviation for Nine millimetres, which is the distance between the inside edges of the rails.
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