By Syd Schofield

The October gathering of the East Side Get Together at the Redmond Community Center commenced by Alex Brikoff promptly at 7:10 Thursday evening. VIPs in attendance were introduced and upcoming events of interest were announced. Alex also solicited the audience for possible nominees for the Golden Grab Iron Award. This is an annual award to be given to an exemplary 4th Division member at every year’s Spring Meet. Nominees and their bios are to be submitted to Ted Becker at rail.bird@att.net. See the Grab Iron for further details.

Alex also announced plans for an evening of Mini-Clinics, or “How I do Stuff on my Layout” for the March 2019 clinic. Here is a great opportunity, for everyone that wants, to share with us how you do something on your layout or in your model building. Although participation is optional, but if you do participate, these Mini-Clinics are to be no longer than 10 minutes each. We will only have time for five or six mini-clinics. They can be either a short demonstration or short PowerPoint presentation. They can be on any aspect of model railroading that you would like to share with us and tell how you accomplish a certain task or process during your model building, or, just a status report on how your layout is progressing. I will have a sign-up sheet for the Mini-Clinics at the next few clinics.

Clinic introduction by Alex Brikoff

The evening’s presentation was by Kevin Klettke on “Fleet Weathering” of model railroad rolling stock. The emphasis was to make a production line process to more efficiently and artistically treat the many pieces of equipment we have on our model railroads. In addition to the talk, Kevin showed slides and actual models with the weathering (with rust, dirt and graffiti treatment). He handed out a sheet of helpful hints for those of us not able to take good notes.

Kevin Klettke discussing his equipment

Model of the Month was won by Russ Segner for his Sn3 geared locomotive and boxcar. He graciously declined the customer first pick of the door prizes reasoning that he had very little to do with the preparation of the two show items. He went on to present the CAD drawings of the proposed reproduction of one of the Newcastle coal mining buildings. This and others will be used as construction guidance to the mine and transfer display for the Newcastle Historical Society.

Model of the Month by Russ Segner