Category Archives: NMRA Thousand Lakes Region

Calling Potential TLR Convention 2027 Clinicians…

As many of you know, the NMRA Thousand Lakes Region Convention will be held in Sioux Falls in May of 2027. Richard D, our convention clinics chairperson is working on assembling a list of clinicians and topics that may be presented during the convention.

Most of the clinics will take place on Friday May 21st in the morning and some evening, and will be 45 minutes each. There will, perhaps with some exceptions, be two clinics going on at the same time in different rooms in a very typical hotel conference room type setting. Our location will be at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls, that some of you may have been to if you attended past Sioux Falls conventions. We still need a broad variety of clinics. 

First and foremost, we hope you will consider attending the TLR convention in Sioux Falls. And if you are planning on it and have some special talent and/or passion that you would like to share in a clinic format where others can learn from your experiences, we’d love to hear about your idea.

Please reach out to us by emailing the division email dakotasoutheastern@gmail.com and please add “Attn: TLR 2027 Clinic Coordinator/ Richard” in the subject line.

With thanks to those that have already have provided great offerings and suggestions, and for any assistance you can provide.

Rich D / eric c

Introducing the NMRA Interchange

As discussed at our July 2026 division meeting.

CALLING NMRA MEMBERS of DSED & DIVISIONS NATIONWIDE!

The NMRA Interchange is a new place to ask questions, provide answers, post events, share ideas and make friends.

It is implemented as a Discord server and contains categories for welcoming members, a help area, the NMRA worldwide community, the NMRA Board of Directors, each of the Departments, the Achievement Program, Special Interest Groups, the basics (of modeling), the prototype (railroads), general interest groups and then each of the 17 regions. Discord also provides, free of charge, the ability to have online meetings with up to 100 people in a “room”, sharing screens and up to 25 people showing their camera feeds. 

When you join the Interchange Server, the “Automated Bot” will greet you with a message and some instructions on how to get your roles assigned.  Without roles, you will only see #the-lobby, #rules and #how-to-guides.  Please spend some time in the #rules and #how-to-guides during the /onboard process while your are waiting for the email with your personal command and code to paste in.

Familiarize yourself with the process of gaining access to the NMRA Interchange here:

Summer 2026 Thousand Lakes Region Fusee

Summer 2026 Thousand Lakes Region Fusee

The Fusee is a quarterly publication of the Thousand Lakes Region of the NMRA. DSED is a proud member of the TLR and a regular contributor to its pages. See inside this issue for a report from the Thousand Lakes Region convention in Thunder Bay Ontario, a good discussion on adhesives, an update from the Twin Cities Division and an introduction to DSED member Eric Carlson’s HO scale Black Hills & Eastern Railroad.

Click here for the Summer 2026 Fusee.