Diamond Club

Diamond Club

The advent of the Internet and the growth of digital technology allows the NMRA to dramatically change the way the Kalmbach Memorial Library can be accessed and leveraged for members, researchers, and the public. The Diamond Club is working to provide funding needed to get the Kalmbach Memorial Library photograph collection fully digitized and on-line to become an easily used resource for the model railroad and railroad historical community.

The Diamond Club is a fundraiser specifically designed to help bring www.nmra.org fully into the 21st century by providing our members with expanded content – the kind of useful content people today and tomorrow will expect to find on the Internet. The NMRA needs to raise $150,000 to cover the expected expenses. Bit by bit ad_400.jpg

The project will begin with the digitizing of the KML photo collection. To make the process efficient and practical, current plans call for the NMRA to hire an experienced firm that will build what will amount to a massive photo Website at www.nmra.org. All visitors to the site will be able to view the watermarked photograph thumbnails, but only NMRA members and researchers who pay a fee will be able to order prints of the photos. It’s estimated that the digitization project will take several years to complete.  As of the beginning of 2017, there are over 28,000 images posted on the website..

Make a contribution to the NMRA that will make a contribution to scale model railroading for decades to come…a contribution that will let our members and all paying railfans gain instant access to our photo library. Make your contribution to the Diamond Club, and make your mark on the NMRA’s future.

To make a donation to the Diamond Club, click on this link or call HQ at (423) 892-2846.