{"id":1,"date":"2015-01-25T02:41:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/wp\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:32:55","slug":"hello-train-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the TCA Rio Grande Chapter website."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Welcome to the TCA Rio Grande Chapter website.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Saturday November 14 at the Wheels Museum from 9am to 11am TCA-RGC will be having a members meeting. (see directions page) New members welcome.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Welcome to our website! It contains information about TCA events, pictures, links to various train web sites, documents(how to), train videos, applications to the local chapter as well as the national organization. If you have a question or concern about this site, please email the webmaster.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>We are very diverse group with members from all walks of life and interest as well. Some members operate G gauge, three-rail \u201cO\u201d gauge trains (like LIONEL), two-rail \u201cS\u201d gauge trains (like American Flyer), HO, N and Z gauge trains. These are from all periods \u2013 prewar, post war, and modern. We have swap meets where you can buy, sell, or trade train items of almost any type imaginable. At the swap meets, hotels, conventions, and other events you will most certainly have the pleasure to see our \u201cO\u201d gauge operating modular trainset layout that has won many award recognition\u2019s at various shows. You will also get to meet the members of the Chapter who are great train enthusiasts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4710-250223-Swap-Meet-Team-scaled.jpg\" width=\"748\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TCA Rio Grande Chapter Swap Meet Team February 23 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u><span style=\"color: #993300;\">We also welcome toy train hobbyists to join the TCA local Rio Grande Chapter and to join in our activities (see our events page). Please see our TCA Applications link above for applications to the TCA national and TCA local Rio Grande Chapter.<\/span> <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newmexEb.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-84 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/newmexEb.gif\" alt=\"newmexEb\" width=\"130\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/usaCa.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-90 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/usaCa.gif\" alt=\"usaCa\" width=\"125\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the TCA Rio Grande Chapter website.\u00a0 Saturday November 14 at the Wheels Museum from 9am to 11am TCA-RGC will be having a members meeting. (see directions page) New members welcome. Welcome to our website! It contains information about TCA events, pictures, links to various train web sites, documents(how to), train videos, applications to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo-album","category-photos-of-train-club-events","category-photos-of-train-modules","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":114,"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tca-rgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}