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Upcoming Clinic – Burien Clinic – October 25

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We meet at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives this Thursday at 7:00.

We will discuss modules for the new Hon3 Modular Group. A module featuring the early coal bunker at Newcastle is being constructed. Research of photos and maps are being used to design the first one which will be 60 inches by 30 inches.
Plans for the bunker drawn by John Paschal will be shown.

We will review the standards used by The Nearsighted Narrow Gaugers, a very successful group recently seen at the National Narrow Gauge Convention in Minneapolis. This a Free-Mo group.

The archives are located at:

425 SW 153rd St.

Burien, Wa

Russ Segner

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Let’s start this season by sharing some of our rail experiences this summer.

I will have photos and some videos of the National narrow Gauge Convention in Minneapolis. Bring your photos or video on a flash drive.

Jeff Otto’s Messabe Northern

Doors open at 7:00 with program at 7:30.

WHERE:

Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
425 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166

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Burien Clinic – June 28

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HOn3, HOn3, HOn3

Have you looked at Hon3 lately? This scale was a longtime favorite of model railroaders who were challenged by space too small. The growth of HO and advent of N and On30 has pushed Hon3 into the background. Now, with the introduction of Blackstone Models, good flex track and tiny electronics, Hon3 is enjoying a resurgence.

Jim Vail was a great model builder in Hon3 and his Glenwood & Black Creek railroad became one of the very best layouts. Jim filled his large layout in Santa Cruz with hundreds of fine structures and trackage that made operation a real joy.

We will look at some of his work in videos and photographs. I am lucky that I was able to visit his layout twice, once just a few years ago. And now, I have three pieces of rolling stock from his layout now being dismantled following his death early this year.

Come and see what he built and shared with us in visits to the layout  and through the hundreds of articles he wrote over the years, particularly in the Short Line and Narrow Gauge Gazette.

Thursday June 28, Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives in Burien, 425 SW 153rd St

Doors open at 7:00 and program begins at 7:30.

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Burien Clinic – May 24, 2018

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The Burien Clinic will meet this coming Thursday at The Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives in Burien. The meeting will begin at 7:00 PM.

David Yadock will lead a program about helpful hints for structures, easy to make bridge abutments, and layout scenery. Dave’s large HO layout features many interesting scenes inspired by John Allen and he has incorporated many clever solutions to separate scenes and bring focus to his many fine bridge structures.

Location:  425 SW 153rd St, Burien

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We will meet again Thursday April 26 at 7:00 pm at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive located at 425 SW 153rd St, Burien.

We will view Volume Two of West Coast Railroad Logging from Catenary Video Productions. Volume Two covers challenges which faced railroad construction, including inclines, cableways, and powering through snow. Plus parbuckling, wrecks, log dumps, mills and the “end of the show.”

Geography and time have brought enormous changes to the art of transforming raw logs into useful lumber. Producer-archivist Don Olsen, spent over two decades amassing rare footage spanning 50 years, which detail logging by railroad on the West Coast – with a focus on equipment and techniques. His dream has become a reality, with the release of this Two Volume set of DVDs.

Jim Sabol spearheaded a team that provided research on the subject. Filmmaker Warren Haack directed this unique program, which is presented in 16×9 widescreen format with stereo sound.

This is the best information and imagery of western logging I have ever seen.  Join us.  Bring your models and/or photos to share.

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Burien Clinic – All About DCC – March 22

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Our meeting this month features Brian Pickering presenting:
“Installation/tuning/preparing decoders”.

We meet at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives at 7:00.
Location:  425 SW 153rd St, Burien next door to the Boeing Model Railroad Club. The Program will feature lots of really great information on Digital Command Control, focusing on installation of decoders and how to set them up for your operation.   Brian is expert in electronics and ‘DecoderPro’ in particular.  He will have a test track for HO locomotives and I am bringing a new NP switcher to tweak for operation at the Boeing club.  He is very active with the HO Modular group.
Please bring a model or photographs to share.

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Burien Clinic This Thursday September 28

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We start again at our Burien clinic this coming Thursday.

Time: 7:00 PM

Place: Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
425 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166

Our program will feature the recent National Narrow Gauge Convention in Denver. There must have been at least forty of us from the Northwest in attendance at the Denver Tech Convention Center.  There were lots of visits to rail sites all over Colorado as well as some stops on the way there and back.

Twenty of us chartered the Parlor Car on the Cumbres & Toltec for a beautiful ride over Cumbres Pass at 10,000 feet.  I will have good video of that trip as well as our tour of the shops at Antonito where Stathi Pappas is in charge of the rebuild of locomotive 168.

There were many fine modular groups on display and excellent model building in the contest room.  And, we visited several very nice home layouts.

We will have time for you to share what you did this summer.  So bring some pictures on a flash drive.

Hope to see many of you there.

Russ Segner

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Burien Clinic Thursday

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Our new clinic in Burien will meet this Thursday at 6:30 at the Northwest Railroad Archives. Because this will be the third meeting, we are still getting acquainted. So, we share our various interests in model building, layouts and operation.

Bring a model to discuss or a project to describe. If you have questions about techniques or sources of information, there should be someone there with answers.

Location:

Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
425 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166

Time: 6:30 to 8:30

We are meeting this Thursday to share interests in different topics of model railroading.  One interest I know many modelers have is how to model waterfront scenes.

In preparing for a clinic I will give in Spokane at the PNR Convention this June, I found some shots taken in 2002 for inclusion in a Paul Scoles article for the 2004 NMRA Convention in Seattle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These pictures are of Jerry Kinney‘s beautiful layout in Cashmere.  The layout is long gone, but these deserve to be shared.  The scenes include beautiful waterfront structures as well as a very neat urban industrial area. I will share them Thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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