By Bill Hupe

Bremerton Northern Model Railroad invites you to visit us at the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede in The Sun Pavilion Building.  August 21st through the 25th. 

Kitsap County Fairgrounds & Event Center, 1200 Fairgrounds Road NW, Bremerton, Washington.  https://www.kitsapgov.com/parks/Pages/FairMain.aspx

This year fair admission is free.

We will be “Baby sitting” the layouts Monday the 19th and Tuesday the 20th from 8:00 a.m. until about 10:00 p.m.  During this time, we will be making small tweaks and repairs to the layout and running some long trains which, we don’t normally operate during a show. Feel free to visit us then.

The Fair’s daily hours of operation are:

  • Wednesday Aug 21st – 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.
  • Thursday Aug 22nd – Saturday Aug 24th – 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
  • Sunday Aug 25th – 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Bremerton Northern Model Railroad has entered into an agreement with the Kitsap Mall for a one-year lease for a store.  The store front is next door to Kohl’s.  We are hoping to have the lease in place so we can move in right after the Kitsap County Fair.

We are excited to have a permanent home where we can setup, work on and display our layouts to the public.  We will be displaying at least 3 layouts. HO Kitsap Western, N-TRAK, and HO junior engineers’ layout.  Plans include:  Expansion our HO Kitsap Western layout and creating attachments to run operation/switching exercises.  Finishing existing and building new N-TRAK modules.  And refurbishing several other donated layouts. 

Currently we plan be open to the public for operations most Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  We will be maintaining our current show schedule so we will miss a few Saturdays.  One advantage to this arrangement is work parties may occur every day. Our agreement with the Mall allows us to work on the layouts without being open to the public.

Bill