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CRM&HA, Inc. Links

The following links are to entities associated with CRM&HA or web sites of general interest to the model railroading community. The content of these sites is neither controlled nor endorsed by CRM&HA, Inc.

Partner Organizations

Name	Comments
Central Railroad Festival	An annual festival put on by the Central Area Business Council and Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Town of Central and the CRM&HA.
Town of Central	The Town of Central has been a great partner to the club in starting the CRM&HA.
Central Heritage Society	Central Heritage Society runs the Central History Museum, which contains an N-scale layout built by members of CRM&HA
Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce	The Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce has been helping to organize the Central Railroad Festival to be held next spring in conjunction with the opening of the museum.
City of Easley	The City of Easley has provided generous terms for leasing the Bagwell Gymnasium for our Train Shows.

Members

Name	Comments
Cascade and Western Railway	Web site of Cascade and Western, an HO railway built by member Howard Garner.
Between the Mountains	Personal web site of Brian P. d'Entremont.
Nichols Electronics, LLC	Company owned by club member Richard Nichols, who generously donated and installed the security and fire alarm system for the Central Railway Museum.
RMS Architecture	Professional web site of Robert M. Seel, AIA, club member and architect in Clemson, S.C.
Rail and Spike Trains	A local train store owned by member Michael Lutman.

Local Rail Organizations

Name	Comments
Palmetto Division - NMRA	Palmetto Division of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA).
NRHS - Greenville Chapter	Greenville chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
NMRA - SouthEastern Region	SouthEastern Region (SER) of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), serving South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Apple Valley Railroad Club	Apple Valley has developed a beautiful facility in close cooperation with the city of Hendersonville, N.C. This is similar to what we are starting to do in Central. It is worth the 1hr 30min drive from the Central area.
Athens Bend Track	This club maintains a modular layout which they displayed at our 2008 Train Show.
South Carolina Railroad Museum	The SCRM operates on a 5 mile section of the former Rockton and Rion Railway about 20 mile north of Columbia, S.C. It is about 2h 40min drive from Central by car.
Associated Model Railroads of Columbia	AMROC has permanent installations and modular layouts in a variety of scales. They meet in the old Arsenal building in downtown Columbia and have regular meetings on Thursday nights.
Hub City Railroad Museum	The museum showcases the important railroad history of this Hub City of the upstate - Spartanburg, S.C.

National Rail Organizations

Name	Comments
National Model Railroad Association
North American Railcar Operators Association	NARCOA is the national organization representing the motorcar operating hobby. The website has information about NARCOA, lists of excursions, technical information, classified ads.
railspeeders.com	railspeeders.com is another good website about motorcar operation as a hobby.

Local Railroad Operations

Name	Comments
Norfork Southern Corp.
Amtrak
Pickens Railway	A local railroad from Anderson to Pickens S.C.
Greenville and Western Railway	A local railroad from Belton to Pelzer S.C.
Carolina Piedmont Railroad	A local railroad from Laurens to Greenville S.C.
Republic Locomotive	A locomotive manufacturer and rebuilder in Greenville S.C.
South East High Speed Rail Corridor	A proposal to extend “high speed” rail from Washington to southeastern cities, including upgrades to the extisting NS track through Central, S.C.

Rail Software & DCC

Name	Comments
ProTrak	Software package aimed at supporting prototypical railroad operations.
JMRI/DecoderPro	Open source product for computer control of DCC layouts and decoder programming.
Digitrax	Complete line of DCC products. Our modular and museum layouts as well as many members' layouts are standardized DigiTrax hardware.

Directories of Railroad Websites

Name	Comments
Model Railroads.Net
RailsUSA
Railserver.com
ModelRailroadDirectory.net
Trains.com
The Open Directory Project

Local Hobby Shops

Name	Comments
Rail and Spike Trains	Member Michael Lutman owns this train store in Easley, S.C.
Southern Steam Trains	Jim Pitts sells live steam locomotives via mail order from Travelers Rest, S.C.
Blue Ridge Hobbies	Blue Ridge Hobbies has a store in Greenville and takes Internet orders.
Great Escape	The Great Escape is a bicycle and hobby shop.