Ed has been a railfan and model railroader since childhood, partly thanks to growing up along the CNR mainline and a fateful ride in an Northern Alberta Railway Comboose. His modelling interest includes collecting examples of EMD F-units, and modelling the Northern Alberta Railway in HO scale. Ed’s volunteer service to the hobby is extensive, having served a number of terms as Divisional Superintendent (6th Div PNR), and as current Chair of the organizing committee of the Greater Edmonton Train Show. A frequent participant in local and regional meets across Canada and in the USA, Ed came to involvement in NMRA Canada after meeting Board members at some of these events around the country. When he is not modelling, Ed enjoys Trout fishing, family, and venturing with his wife Lynn in their vintage 1975 Barth motorhome.

Steve lives in Cambridge, ON and has been a member of the NFR for 10 years.

He got back into Model Railroading after a 30 year hiatus.  He is a proto-freelance modeller depicting ONR and CN lines in Central Ontario in the 1980’s era.  Steve has many YouTube videos under his channel, “Muskoka Steve”.

Outside of trains, Steve works in the Automotive Industry, designing and selling returnable packaging, primarily for GM.  He enjoys Golf and going to Concerts when not in the basement working on his layout.

Frank Gerry lives in Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. He is a retired Certified Financial Planner who worked for Sun Life Financial specializing in all financial products. Previous to that, he spent twenty five plus years in retail with both a large corporate store and small family run businesses. He is now in semi-retirement driving part time for Driving Miss Daisy.

He always been interested in old buildings as well as their history and has been on the Board of the Thunder Bay Museum and Historical Society since 2001. During that time, he has served both as Treasurer and President of the Society.

He has been a life member of the NMRA since 1977 and has also been involved at the Board level with various roles from the TLR regional secretary, to TLR President, to the Canadian NMRA President, and
now serves as Canadian NMRA treasurer.

He models in HO scale and does not follow any particular prototype but his current layout will have lots of switching opportunities. He is also helping his son with the bench work for his new layout.

He currently has three AP certificates and is looking at the requirements needed to complete the paperwork on any other certificates for his MMR.

Rupert has been an active model railway enthusiast for many years. He is a member of the Echo Valley Railroad Guild in Regina and is an active participant in the club’s Free-mo group, taking part in several shows and meets each year across the four western provinces. He has a 3-tiered HO scale basement model railway which incorporates several Free-mo modules in the design.

Rupert has three AP certificates and is working on more.

Rupert is a semi-retired CPA, working for a private company with worldwide operations.

Doug has been active in model railroading for over 25 years. He is an executive member of the Echo Valley Railroad Guild in Regina and is the Secretary of the 6 th Division of the NMRA Pacific Northwest
Region.
Doug is a member of an On30 modular group and is building an HOn3 railroad at home, patterned after the former Alice Arm Railway in north-western B. C. He is 8 years into a 4 year project on it.
Doug is a CPA with a public income tax practice and is co-owner of a five-pin bowling centre in Regina. His other activities include golfing, art collecting and wine appreciation.

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John has been interested in trains since at least the age of 4, after watching the action in the CPR yard in Cranbrook, BC. He’s fairly sure that he had to be forcibly removed under loud protest. He became aware of serious scale model railroading when the NMRA National Convention was held in Winnipeg in 1983, and began with an N scale train set shortly after. His current model railroad is a freelanced short line, in N scale, set in the mountains of southern British Columbia.

Fergus began his adventures in model railroading at the age of 4 when his father exposed him to his layout, but at that age he was only allowed to look and not touch! As a teenager, Fergus got first 4×8 layout which included some tracks, a loco, and some cars after trading in a well used Lionel set.  The layout kept him occupied and out of trouble until he got enough money at 16 to buy a Rivarossi Big Boy. Unfortunately, school, life and the Canadian Coast Guard have interrupted his hobby for a while. 

Currently Fergus is on the board of Directors for the Eastern Canada Division and is also a member of the Dartmouth Model Railway Club. He models in HO and has a layout with a Maritime Canada based theme loosely based on the CN Dartmouth Sub between Dartmouth, NS and Musquodoboit Harbour, NS. His upcoming retirement from the Canadian Coast Guard should allow him more time to devote to gardening and playing with trains.

Mick grew up on a CNR branchline in rural Saskatchewan during the steam to diesel transition. A chance to ride in the cab of a CN steam locomotive at the age of six years old made him a life long railfan and model railroader.

Mick joined the NMRA in 1983 and attended his first national NMRA convention that same year in Winnipeg. As an active member of the 6th Division of the PNR and a member of the Regina based Echo Valley Model Railroad Guild, he helped to organize two 6th Division conventions and a PNR Regional convention. Mick also served as the 6th Division AP Chairman from 1996 until 2003.

In 2003, Mick moved to Ottawa where he is an active member of the Ottawa Valley N-Trak Club, The Ottawa Valley Associated Railroaders and the St. Lawrence Division of the NFR.

Mick has been modelling in N scale since 1975. In addition to running with his N-Trak club he recently started building a modular N scale home layout.