Carolina Piedmont Division 13
of the
NMRA Mid-Eastern Region

General Information

Division Meetings

Carolina Piedmont Division 13 meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month in the Cary Senior Center in Cary, NC beginning at 7:00pm, except for November and December when the meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month to avoid the Thanksgivining and Christmas holidays. See the "Next Division Meeting" notice on the Division's Home page.

The full address of the Cary Senior Center is:

Cary Senior Center
120 Maury O'Dell Place
Cary, North Carolina

Division Newsletter — The Herald

Carolina Piedmont Division 13 publishes a monthly newsletter that is sent by e-mail to members subscribed to the Yahoo Groups CPD13 mailing list. Members who do not have an e-mail are mailed a paper copy. This is sent out about a week before our club meeting for the month. Past issues are available here in PDF form. Please note that you must have Adobe Reader on your computer to read the file. You can download Adobe Reader free at http://www.adobe.com.

2010 issues of the CPD13 MER NMRA Herald
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2009 issues of the CPD13 MER NMRA Herald
January February March April May June July August September October November

2010 Program Topics

Each meeting of the Division features a Program Topic of interest to Members and guests. Deatils of each monthly topic follow:

Popular Vote Contest

To encourage Members of the Division, Region, or NMRA to display models or scenery they have constructed and/or modified/superdetailed from a kit, a Popular Vote Contest is held at each Division meeting, or elsewhere as directed by the Superintendent.

2010 Popular Vote Contest Topics
 

Popular Vote Contest Rules

• Contests will occur at each scheduled monthly meeting of the Carolina Piedmont Division or as directed by the Superintendent. Only Carolina Piedmont Division Members, visiting NMRA, Regional or Division Members may participate.

• The Contest Coordinator will decide contest ideas, but suggestions will be accepted from the membership. A list of upcoming contest ideas will be periodically published in the newsletter. This is to give ample time to prepare for the upcoming contests and show any changes to the original schedule.

• There are no restrictions on contest entry items. The only exception is in the "Scenery Items" category. This category requires members to assemble, detail, scratch-build and/or weather any item entered for judging. All other category items may be new, out-of-the-box, kit-bashed, weathered, scratch-built etc. Items may be any scale, HO, N, O, G, Z, narrow gauge, etc. A brief description will be allowed on a 3x5 card. This description card may contain product information (detail parts, building materials etc.), the name of your item (i.e. Thompson Mill) and/or what the item represents (i.e. a northeastern Pennsylvania coal mine). No owner names are to be placed anywhere on the contest ta bel. Models will remain anonymous to the voters. Members may enter up to two (2) items per scale, per contest. In the event there are several models in different scales, the Contest Coordinator may split the votes into scale categories.

• Contest items will be placed on the designated table. Items are requested to be on display 15 minutes prior to the meeting being called to order. Each contestant will be assigned a number. Each item will have the appropriate contestant's number posted near the item. Every member will be given a ballot slip. Members are to cast their vote and place the ballot slip in the designated container. Only one vote per Member is allowed! Voting will end 15 minutes into the break. This is to give latecomers a chance to participate and vote. Awards will be given out immediately after the program topic or as directed by the Superintendent.

• A certificate will be awarded to each winner and the results posted in the newsletter. The certificate will have the Division's name, contest category, the individual's name and which winning place earned. Below is an example of a newsletter entry:
  
  Gondola and Flatcar Loads
  First Place: Rick Allen, HO scale, N&W gondola with pipe load.
  Second Place: Joel McCurry, N scale, BN flatcar with bulldozer load.

The specific Popular Vote subject for each meeting will be listed in the "Next Division Meeting" section onf the Division's Home page.

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Last updated: Tuesday February 23, 2010

Carolina Piedmont Division

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