The Tantramar Express 2024 Annual Convention – Accommodations

The Coastal Inn will be our accommodations host for The Tantramar Express.  It is within walking distance to the Convention venue (13min) and several restaurants (6min or less). Their preferred method is to have you book online by clicking this text and following these steps: Choose Arrival Date Choose Departure Date Choose Room Type Enter […]

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Shearwater Annual Spring Hobby Show

The 22nd Annual Spring Hobby Show will be held at the Sea King Club, 242 Warrior Avenue, Shearwater, from 10 AM – 4 PM on Saturday & Sunday the 20th and 21st of April 2023. The location is very close to the museum, just past the main gate at Shearwater, on the left. The show […]

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The Tantramar Express 2024 Annual Convention

Date:  May 24-26, 2024 Location: Sackville NB @ Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre Banquet: Branch 26 Royal Canadian Legion – Roast Beef Dinner Email us at tantramarexpress2024@mfmr.ca or call Colin Burke (1-506-232-6540) or Andrew Reid (1-902-292-3725) for more information/questions.

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2023 Convention Review – Steve McMullin

After two years of planning during the uncertainties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Saint John Society of Model Railroaders was able to host a very successful convention for members of the Maritime Federation of Model Railroaders and for additional participants from beyond the Maritimes who are members of the NMRA. The registrants were from […]

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2023 Convention Model Contest – Brady Rhodenizer

The Maritime Federation of Model Railroaders held it’s annual model and photo contest. In conjunction with the annual convention held this year in Saint John, New Brunswick. The model contest being two classes with eight categories. In three of the regular class categories we had three or more entries. So the first place winners will […]

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2022 Convention Model Contest – Brady Rhodenizer/Marc Hemphill

This year’s Convention showed that we a bit out of practice in administering the contests! Fortunately for us, we had about half the entries normally expected. Thanks as well to Victoria [Tori] Eisenhauer for helping us out! The quality of the entries was superb and a great inspiration for anyone who saw them. A PowerPoint […]

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Convention 2022 – David Chiasson

2022 Convention … from one Bender’s Perspective. Planning for the 2022 MFMR Convention was undoubtedly the most challenging thing we have ever done. It was the first convention post-Covid. We knew it would be an uphill battle and yet, we knew we had to make it happen. Many of the potential sponsors and merchants who […]

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