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The Train Collectors Association Western Division |
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Our club conducts toy & model train meets every year in the Southern California area. The next Western Division train meet is scheduled to take place on Saturday October 18th, 2025.
For a detailed listing of all upcoming TCA Western Division train meets, including our remaining 2025 dates, click here.
All meets are conducted at the Arcadia Community Center, 365 Campus Drive (at Huntington Drive & Holly Ave.). All TCA members and their families are invited. Come take pleasure in the camaraderie and enjoyment of model and antique toy train collecting and operation! The meet will include trading tables, a display theme and operating layout. The doors open at 9:00 AM for setup and the meet starts at 10:00 AM. The meet typically ends around 2:00 PM. Parking is free. The meet also features a free repair clinic and an occasional auction. TCA members are admitted free (please wear your current membership badge and show it at the door when you enter the hall). Non-members/train enthusiasts are welcome to attend 1 meet per year for free. There is no charge for use of trading tables for sellers but you must be a member in good standing of TCA in order to have a trading table. Email info@tcawestern.org to reserve a trading table at our upcomig meet.
For information on how to join TCA Western Division, and links to membership application forms, click
here.
Enjoy this "throw back" video of the Halloween Themed Layout set up by Jeff & Denyse Meyer and Steve Eastman at the October 2018 Western Division meet conducted at the Arcadia Senior Center. Long time Western Division member Frank N. Stein showed up for the meet and was thrilled to see this fantastic layout in operation.
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What is TCA?
The mission of the Train
Collector’s Association (TCA) is to develop an appreciation of and to
preserve an important segment of history -
tinplate toy trains - through research, education, community outreach, fellowship,
establishment of collecting standards and to promote the growth and enjoyment of the hobby of
collecting and operating toy, model and scale trains. The By-laws of TCA Western Division are viewable by clicking here.
TCA Western Division carries out this mission by holding toy & model train meets. At these meets, the trading and displaying of tinplate toy trains, model trains and toy train related items in multiple gauges from an assortment of current and past manufacturers takes place. TCA Western is the only Southern California based toy train club that provides free use of trading tables for these purposes. We have plenty of them available, in a well lighted, spacious hall. You just need to be a member in good standing with the Train Collectors Association to obtain a table at our meets.
There are over 16,000 members in the TCA organization nationally. Western Division boasts a membership of over 200 train hobbyists.
TCA and
Western Division have been in existence since 1954. For a little bit
of history about TCA Western Division click here.
Do you have a box of old tinplate trains that you have been storing in the attic all these years since your childhood? Are you anxious to break them out and run them again? Do you need help in getting your old trains to run again - perhaps they require some servicing? Have you been meaning to perhaps convert those old trains into some ca$h in your pocket? Then bring those trains to our next TCA Western Division toy train meet in Arcadia. We will assist you in the process of finding a good new home for your unwanted trains and accessories. Those dusty old electric, mechanical or even steam driven trains could potentially be something rare and unusual. The club layout would be a great place to see those trains running again after all these years. Or, if you have intended to get rid of those trains, selling them at the TCA Western Division meet can yield ca$h for you and make a collector happy as well.
To request more information about TCA contact any Western Division board member or send e-mail to: info@tcawestern.org