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An Abridged History of the TGA

In 1989, a small but fanatical group of train gamers in Denver, CO, created a competition to determine the best train gamer in their group, which became the first Puffing Billy® Tournament. They presented their rules to the Denver Gamers Association who agreed to host a PBT at a local gaming convention. That same year, Dean Washburn took the PBT to Origins in L.A. where it drew the attention of Darwin Bromley from Mayfair Games, Inc., an avid train gamer and designer. Darwin immediately saw the potential for the PBT and agreed to support the formation of a club which became the nonprofit organization known as the Train Gamers Association (TGA). The TGA acquired all rights to the PBT from the original committee, and began offering the tournaments around the country.

The TGA was initially supported heavily by Mayfair, but we have always had a policy of running all train games which our members want to play, regardless of manufacturer. We are proud to have sponsor agreements with Rio Grande Games, Darwin’s Toys, Mayfair Games, Days of Wonder, Catan Studio, Z-Man Games, Plan B Games, R&R Games, LudiCreations, APE Games, and Nexus Game Fair.

Organization Chart

Officers

President

Melissa Mendick

Vice-President

David Belew

Secretary

Ken Bachman

Treasurer

Brian Tipper

Board

Ken Bachman

Dave Beery

David Belew

Phil Cottrell

Megan Harper

Patricia Hermon

Jeff Jackson

Melissa Mendick

Michael Mendick

Brian Tipper

Andy Wynn

Voting Members

Deborah Anderson, Ken Bachman, Amy Beery, Dave Beery, David Belew, Paul Bonday, Alan Borowski, Janet Bromley, Trella Bromley*, Beth Bromson, Jack Burnham, John Butler, Anthony Carver*, Chip Charnley*, Sue Charnley, Phil Cottrell, Robin Cottrell, Jonathan DeSimone, Rick Dutton, Debbie Gutermuth, Ken Gutermuth*, Jef Halberstadt, Megan Harper, Tricia Hermon, Ed Hewlett*, Charles Hooks, Brian Humphreys, Jeff Jackson, Michael Jacobs, Roger Jarrett, Amanda Lacy, Lynne Lewellen, Mark Liberman, Cathy Lizama, Jen McConnell, Devin McCullen, Anthony Medici, Melissa Mendick, Michael Mendick, Chris Meyer*, Dave Mitton, Lori Moo, Justin Moul, Heather Munn, Todd Nixon, Jason Plumley, John Puddifoot*, Robert Rich, Bob Roby, Charlie Rucker, Richard Sheaves-Bein, Grace Simrall, William Spear, Al Stiles*, Paul Stoffels, Dave Thornburg, Rachel Thurston, Brian Tipper, Jessica Tipper, Eric Verheiden, Pat Wolf, Andrea Wynn

*Past Board Member

Want To Get Involved?

The Train Gamers Association is operated primarily from a collective of volunteers.  If you’d like to join our organization, we’d love to talk.

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