Author: Al Turnbull

Mike Donnelly, Treasurer 4D-PNR-NMRA

The June 23 4D Board meeting is our annual budget meeting. Please develop your annual budget requests and get them to me by June 9^th.

Modular groups should break their requests into three categories:

• Operations and Maintenance
• Capital improvements
• Travel

Modular groups should include a list of the shows they plan to, or may, attend in the upcoming fiscal year (Jul 2018 to Jun 2019).

I can be contacted at treasurer@4dpnr.com.

by David Yadock

Attention-

All voting members of the 4D. The ballots for this year’s election are in the mail. You should have received the ballot in the mail or you will receive it very shortly. Please vote and return the completed ballot as soon as possible. Thank you for your participation in this election process.

Also, please note that a flyer for the upcoming Spring Meet was sent with the ballot. Please save the date and attend the Spring Meet.

by Alex Brikoff

The April 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on April 19, 2018.

Don’t forget that the Clinic is at the:
Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village
6505 176TH AVE NE, Rm. 202
REDMOND WA 98052-4930

Doors Open at 7:00 PM and Meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM

We will begin by mentioning any noteworthy, upcoming model railroad and railfan events in the area. We will also have our Model of the Month contest and Rail Photo of the Month contest. So, please bring your best models and photos for the contests! Winners will have first choice of many fine items from our Door Prize table.

This month’s clinic will be about “Preparing and Presenting a Model Railroad Clinic” and be presented by Russ Segner. This clinic will show how to organize your thoughts and ideas for a clinic, move it to an outline and to prepare and present a clinic at an NMRA event. We all have some unique ways of doing things while we work on our layouts or while building that award-winning freight house or trackside industry. Have you ever wanted to share those techniques with your fellow modelers as a well-crafted and well-presented clinic? This month’s clinic will certainly help you get there! Come and learn how to create an outstanding clinic on your favorite topic!

We will have refreshments and snacks available. We’ll also have a great selection of Door Prizes to give away at the end of the clinic.

See you there!!

by Bill Hupe

Hello all!
Hope everyone is well.

Next Tuesday, April 10th is our clinic.

This month’s clinic “Track Laying Basics” by Jack Hamilton, MMR.

Time: 7:00
Place: Kitsap United Way, 645 4th St , Bremerton, WA 98337

As always coffee and cookies will be served.
Bring a friend and something to share

by David Yadock

Nominations for candidates for the positions of Board of Director and Superintendent is now closed. Two candidates have stepped forward for the positions. They are Russ Segner, our current Superintendent will be running for a third term and Ed Ives who is running for the open Board of Director position. Ballots for the election process will be sent out shortly.

Thank you.

For Superintendent:

I am Russ Segner, your current 4th Division Superintendent. I have decided to run for election for one more term of two years. If elected, I will focus on recruitment of additional leadership as well as expansion of the existing modular club layouts and area clinics.
The 4th Division is one of the larger Divisions in the entire NMRA and it faces many challenges to grow and better serve our members. I am asking you to support me in this election and offer your help in sharing your expertise and modeling skills with others as well as the public.
Model railroading is fun. Let’s keep it that way.

Russ

For Board of Directors:

I’ve been a NMRA member on, off and on again since 1968. Apart from trying various gauges, prototypes etc., I have learnt that as hobbyists most of us are loathe to volunteer for anything and that in the past included me. I have come to realize this organization can only succeed on willing volunteers, so in the autumn of my years I throw my hat in the ring. I have the time and I still have the energy to serve.
Do I know what it’s like to be a volunteer? Absolutely. In the past I was a Cub Scout leader for two years; a Boy Scout leader for seven years and dare I say I am a leader or focal point of the Hi-Railers modular group for some twenty years and have in that time participated in most Board of Directors meetings on behalf of the Hi-Railers. I have the dedication.
As an organization we need to retain our existing members and capture new members or we fail. Constant contact and inviting programs for those, we will succeed, but it will only happen with sufficient and engaged volunteers.
Whether you vote for me or not, PLEASE vote!

Ed Ives

There will be a Tacoma area layout tour taking place on April 14th. It will run from 9:00am to 4:00pm. There are currently 6 layouts with a potential for 2 more. If you are interested in attending, contact Greg Price via email at:fishyweather@gmail.com. Information and directions will be sent to you by Friday the 13th.

Greg Price
Matheson & Western RR

by Syd Schofield

The Ides of March 2018 National Model Railroader Association Pacific Northwest Region 4th Division Redmond, East Side Get-Together, Clinic commenced at 7:15 Thursday evening at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, second floor, 6505 176th Ave. N.E, Redmond, next to Marymoor Park. Russ Segner stood in for the temporarily absent Alex Brikoff to manage the gathering and programs.

After introduction of guests and visiting dignitaries, announcements and upcoming events of interest, the group took a short break before the evening program, Bring and Brag and door prize drawings.

C. J. Turner and Didrik Voss gave a presentation on 3-D printing and the supporting software management. The process described is heavily dependent on personal computing, guidance of robotic machinery and the deposition of a heated plastic extrusion to build objects.
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by David Yadock

The PRRT&HS will be having their meeting on March 31st. This will be the first meeting of 2018 and will be very interesting. Bill Meyers will be giving an “in depth” presentation on the PRR L1 class Mikado. If you have seen any of his other locomotive presentations you will know that this is something you shouldn’t miss.
We will also be mourning the loss of the PRR to the Penn Central merger. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that event. A few short videos will be presented on the subject. If there is time we may also view a video of the famous Horseshoe Curve.
The meeting will be starting promptly at 12:30 pm and lasts till about 5 pm. It is held at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in Burien (425 SW 153rd St. Burien, WA). After the meeting, we usually go to dinner at either Vince’s or Angelo’s.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!!

Even if you are a New York Central fan you are welcome to come to the meeting!