After much searching (and begging) we have a speaker for the Saturday evening Banquet! Title: What You May Not Know About the World’s First Transcontinental Railroad Brad Westwood Senior Public Historian Utah Dept. of Heritage & Arts Brad served as Consulting Historian for Spike150, Utah’s official organizers for the Transcontinental Railroad’s […]
UTA is our rail system in Utah. You can take it from the airport to the convention hotel and around town. You can also take it from the convention hotel to the expo center where the National Train Show is going to be! If you haven’t requested your pass, you […]
The N and Z scale cars look awesome and look as great as the HO scale cars! If you’ve pre-paid for your car you will have a ticket in your registration packet to redeem the car from the Company Store. If you haven’t bought yours yet, you can buy one […]
It’s getting real now! Thanks to the committee members and others for preparing 1,200 registration packets! We can’t wait for everyone to join us in Salt Lake City!
Important Information! Online Registration closes at 23:59 this Friday, June 21st! This gives us time to prepare the packets and tickets purchased for the attendees. If you know you are coming, please make your purchase so we can have your info ready for you! After the 21st, we will be […]
This is your last chance to get the Convention Car before it goes on sale to the general public. Up until now, the only way to get one is by adding it to your registration. In a few days, all will be able to purchase just the convention car, on […]
With less than a month to go things are really getting busy! The committee is working hard finalizing all the details. For the newest updates follow our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NMRA2019SLC/ You can also message us there for the quickest responses. We look forward to seeing you really soon!!!
May 10th marked the 150th Anniversary of the Diving of the Golden Spike uniting the East and West coast of the United States! What took months now took days! What did you do to celebrate? I saw lots of posts on Facebook of people recreating the original celebration on their […]
Just so we all are aware: The NMRA2019SLC Convention is not using any 3rd party entity to assist in the convention registrations. The official convention hotel is the Little America Hotel (not a Hilton, Sheraton, or Red Lion) and reservations are done directly through their reservation system. Little America will […]
We are excited to announce that you can now view most of the schedule with a full searchable schedule will be online soon. Go to the Schedule page to view the most current PDF.
We are using an online system for registrations. You can register and you are fine, but if you want to alter or add to your registration at a later time, you need to “claim your account” and there have been a number of questions regarding that. Hopefully, this PDF will […]
NEW 150th Anniversary/Convention Car for 2019 As you may have heard, a model railroad manufacturing plant in China that produced rolling stock for many of the US based model railroad companies unexpectedly shut down several months ago. The company that the 2019 SLC Convention Committee had contracted with to supply […]
While the National Train Show is held in conjunction with the yearly NMRA National Convention, it is put on by a National Team, not us local folks. We have uploaded the Exhibitor Registration Packet for your convenience. We will be providing TRAX passes to convention attendees to ride the train from […]
Information about the OpSig Operating Sessions has been added here: OpSig Operating Sessions Regular Operating Sessions will be posted soon. Stay Tuned!
Utah has a rich history with railroads. This year, 2019, marks 150 years since the “Driving of the Golden Spike” that united our country and revolutionized traveling across our great country! The NMRA members hosting this year’s NMRA National Convention belong to the Northern Utah Division, which is in the […]