The Largest Train Show West of the Mississippi!

Train Meets
   The various Divisions and Chapters of the TCA sponsor train meets where members may buy, sell, or trade trains, or just enjoy the fellowship of collecting. Over 150 of these are held each year. A schedule of these meets appears under News & Events on the TCA website and in the National Headquarters News. Each June one of the Divisions hosts the Train Collectors Association's National Convention, which is one of the highlights of the year and provides an opportunity for fun-filled family vacations in various parts of the United States.

The Train Collectors Quarterly
   Members receive The Train Collectors Quarterly, a magazine dedicated to tinplate trains. Articles on the history of toy trains, and the firms who manufactured them make this one of the finest magazines in the collecting field. Members are urged to contribute articles for the magazine. Members may also consult over fifty years of archived copies online. (Membership login required.)

National Headquarters News
   This periodical is also mailed to the members five times a year, and contains listings of the various Chapter and Division meets, names of new members, and other important information. The "Interchange Point" is part of the National Headquarters News and is the place where members list items they have for sale, trade, or want to buy.

Toy Train Reference Library
   The Association is continuously updating the Library that is housed in the Museum and Headquarters Building. This Library is the most extensive resource center for researching tinplate toy train history. On file are catalogs, magazines and books devoted to toy trains from 1900 to the present. The Library also maintains copies of commercial price guides for a number of popular manufacturers, but does not provide appraisals or evaluations.

Gift Shop
   The National Toy Train Museum Gift Shop is stocked with toy train and railroad related items and has most of the current books on toy trains.

National Toy Train Museum
   The National Toy Train Museum, located in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, houses one of the finest collections of toy trains in the world. There are five operating layouts and a continuously running video. Displays are changed periodically. Members are admitted free and are encouraged to visit the museum.

Collection Insurance
   The Association, through an independent insurance agent, has available for members' consideration a plan through which they may insure their collection.

Free ads
   Free ads in the National Headquarters News.

York Meets
   Purchase sales tables at TCA meets like the Eastern Divisions York meets.

Rocky Mountain Division Benefits

• Receive the RMD Newsletter and Member Directory.

• Attend RMD-TCA Train Auctions not open to the public.

• Attend monthly RMD swap meets and business meetings.

• Attend other RMD-TCA social events not open to public like banquets & member open houses.

• Receive RMD Meet information.

• First chance to register for RMD Meets.

• Receive RMD Email Tidbits.

• Access the member section of the RMD Web Site.

• Estate settlement service.

• Vote on Division matters.

• Participate in the Modular Layout.

• Make new friends and have fun with trains!

   We are certain that your collection of friends and trains will increase bountifully through your membership in this great organization!

For more information go to the main RMD-TCA Website