Three positions will be on the ballot: ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT and two DIRECTORS.
The
duties of these positions are as follows:
The ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT shall perform all duties assigned by the Superintendent
and serve in the Superintendent’s absence.
DIRECTOR. Serve as the direct representative of the members. Act in the best
interest of the members in the management of the Division.
The
Board of Directors currently meets 6 times a year, generally in the area of
Tukwila or Kent. The meetings usually last for about two hours.
This
is a great opportunity to serve the 4th Division and at the same
time, earn points for you Volunteer Certificate in the NMRA Achievement
Program.
If
you or someone you know is interested and willing to serve, please contact one
of the Nominating Committee members:
East Side Get
Together Clinic Report, February 21, 2019
The
February gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond
Community Center was started promptly at 7:10 PM Thursday evening by Alex
Brikoff. VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders
and new attendees) were introduced.
Clinic Introduction
Some
of the significant gatherings and conventions coming up this spring and summer
are:
28th Annual United Northwest Washington State Train Show
(Monroe Show) – February 23 & 24, 2019
Sn3 Symposium, April 4 – 6, 2019 at Bellevue Sheraton, Bellevue, WA
Kootenay Express, PNR Regional Convention, May 29 – June 2, 2019 in
Cranbrook, BC
4th
Division Annual Spring Meet, June 22 at TCC
Science Building (Tacoma Community College) from 9 AM to 4 PM
NMRA National
Convention, July 7 – 13,
2019 in Salt Lake City, UT
National Narrow
Gauge Convention, September 4-7, 2019 in Sacramento, CA
Russ
Segner brought several copies of a local early railroad publication assembled
by the Northwest Railroad Archives staff. Copies of the very
professionally done book was for sale at $20 and contained very detailed
descriptions and illustrations of the Seattle and southeast King County area’s
formative years of railroad activity. Bob Rorabaugh brought several
estate sale model railroad items for adoption. He also noted the
application of desktop computer keyboard boxes as storage containers for
HO-size rolling stock. He passed out some free samples of these as well.
The
evening’s clinic was a given by local model railroad craftsman, Paul Vaughn, on
scratch building a Gauntlet Track. Paul bestowed his acquired knowledge
of scratch building these very unique turnouts without using Fast Track
jigs. He presented slides as well as
several colorful large teaching aids to demonstrate the more critical aspects
of the necessary turnout construction accuracy based on NMRA Standards.
Paul Vaughn’s Informative Displays And Presentation
Model
of the Month was awarded to William Alexander for his two “A” F-unit Spokane,
Portland and Seattle HO scale diesel locomotives.
The next meeting will be on March 21, 2019. Don’t forget that our next clinic will be the much publicized Mini Clinic Event! Stay tuned for more details!
February 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic – Redmond The February 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on February 21, 2019.
The Clinic will meet 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 and Rail Photo of the Month contest. The sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event” in March is full. We have six people signed up, so all the slots are gone. Don’t pass up this opportunity to learn modeling techniques from your fellow modelers.
Bob Rorabaugh will also have the “Buy ‘n Sell” table available during the evening. So if you’ve got anything model railroad related you’d like to find a new home for, contact Bob and he’ll help you do that.
This month’s Clinic Topic will be: “Building Stub Turnouts and Other Unique Trackwork”. Paul Vaughn will be here to show us some of his techniques for scratch building turnouts and other unique trackwork such as crossovers, gauntlets and other unique and out of the ordinary track arrangements.
We will have door prizes, refreshments and snacks available as always.
Saturday, March 23rd Mount Vernon Senior Center – 1401 Cleveland St., Mount Vernon, WA Doors open at 9:00 – First Clinic at 9:30
Everyone is welcome! This year’s event will provide modelers with several mini-clinics with presentations & demonstrations on:
Weathering with Pan Pastels – Al Carter
Introduction to Arduino – Ted Becker
Improving Appearance of Flex Track – Al Carter
Layout Design / Planning – Russ Segner
Installing DCC Decoders – Roger Johnson
Railroad Simulation with Trainz by Di Voss
More to be announced…
The Golden Grab Iron committee will be making the GGI award presentation at this clinic. Roger Johnson is requesting people bring locos and decoders for him to install.
NMRA Build Competition and Photo-Match Contest A variety of scratch built and kit built projects will be on display (all scales) for the final judging and awards presentation. Come see what some of the best modelers in the region have put together as they complete for a table-full of neat prizes!
Sponsored by Xtrains Model Train Supplies
Swap Tables will be available – no dealers please. Just modelers looking to thin out their stock. (For more info on the swap tables, contact: Al Carter at tabooma@msn.com)
Bring your friends. Learn from the best. Have fun!
The 4th Division would like to extend their appreciation to all those volunteers that came out last weekend to help with the Pacific Science Center model train show. Your efforts helped make the show a big success. This year there were over 12,000 visitors that passed through the gates of the Pacific Science Center.
Hi-Rail
Ed Ives Wayne Grinnell Greg Goodell Cole Garcia Jack Klapwyc Sam Hayden Woody Matthews Gordon Sandell Ed Pennington
NTRAK
Al Lowe Doug Bulger Marco D’Agostino Thomas Dye Dennis Terpstra David Cook Mike Donnelly
Whidbey Island Model Railroad Club
William Harper
HO Modular
Mike Slease Brian Pickering Lisa Murray Ian Murray Aiden Murray Rob Staples Lou Davis Bruce Davis Eliot Griffiths
Jamie Morrison Brianna Philip Ivor Griffiths Evan Griffiths Drew Stamatiou Carrie Stamatiou Lewis Ramsey Ryan Ramsey Thaddeus Ramsey Holly Ramsey Carissa Gillis Mike Gillis James Gillis Paul Styron Jennifer Lopeman Tyler Lopeman Ben Lopeman
Those Helping with the Show
Russ Segner Jeff Moorman Don Melnick Joel Scott Eldon Jacobson John Thompson Ed Liesse Burr Stewart Anton Faulk George Hinchliffe Mark Elster Robert Stewart Robin Peel David Yadock
The
January gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community
Center was started promptly at 7:15 Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff.
VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders) were
introduced.
The
March 2019 East Side Get Together Clinic will be our Mini-clinic Event titled “How I do Stuff on my Layout”. It will be a series of ten-minute presentations
of favorite modeling methods presented by six members and attendees of the
Eastside Clinic. All six of the Mini-Clinic slots are already filled.
Model
of the Month was awarded to George Chambers for his Kemtron kit-built On3 Shay
painted in the Shasta Logging Company of California colors. Syd took
photo honors for several recent pictures of historically significant central
Colorado locomotives.
George Chambers Kemtron kit-built On3 ShayCentral Colorado Locomotive Photos by Syd Schofield
Russ
Segner brought several copies of a local early railroad publication assembled
by the Northwest Railroad Archives staff. Copies of the very
professionally-done book was for sale at $20.00. It contains very detailed descriptions and
illustrations of the Seattle area early years of railroad activity.
The evening’s program was a given by local craftsmanship authority, Ted Becker. Ted came down from the Mt. Vernon area to share his knowledge of crafting tools and materials. Ted’s storage container called “Ted’s Tub” contained many interesting items. As he picked each item to describe in some detail the use and source, we all learned something of value for the hobby. Our thanks to Ted for coming to share his knowledge with us.
Ted’s Tub of Tricks and Tools
The
next meeting of the Eastside Get
Together Clinic will be on February 21, 2019 at the same location. Our
clinician will be Paul Vaughn. Paul will be presenting “Building Stub Turnouts and Other Unique Trackwork”.
Later
in February, the South End Group will return to their fourth Thursday of the
Month meetings. Their meeting in February
will be Thursday, 2/28/19 in Burien. It will be at the Northwest Railroad
Archives storefront adjacent to the Boeing Model Railroaders’ layout on 153rd
street, a couple blocks from the Electric Train Shop.
The January 2019 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on January 17, 2019.
The Clinic will meet 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 and Rail Photo of the Month contest. The sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event”in March will be available once again. We only have enough time for six clinicians,
so the sign up is going to be first come, first serve. We already have four people signed up, so
slots are going fast. Don’t pass up this
opportunity to share your favorite modeling techniques with your fellow
modelers. Meanwhile, be thinking about
any favorite modeling techniques that you’d like to share with the group.
This
month’s Clinic Topic will be: “Ted’s Tub
of Tips, Tricks & Tools”. Ted Becker will
be here from Mt. Vernon to show us some very interesting stuff with his handy
tub, bag and tool box full of useful tricks and techniques to make your
modeling go a lot easier. He guarantees
that everyone will find at least one thing that will be useful to them in their
model work!
We will have refreshments and snacks available as always.
The December gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community Center was started promptly at 7:15 Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff. VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders) were introduced.
The Pacific Science Center Train Show is at the Seattle Center during Martin Luther King Day weekend on January 18 through 21. Volunteers are NEEDED and are asked to contact David Yadock for more information and scheduling. More details will appear in the Grab Iron as they become available.
The
March 2019 East Side Get Together Clinic will be our Mini-clinic Event called “How I do Stuff on my Layout”. It will be a series of ten-minute
presentations of favorite modeling methods presented by members and attendees
of the Eastside Clinic. Three of six slots are already taken, so we need
three more volunteers to round out the evening.
The signup sheet will be at the clinic through February.
The
winning Model of the Month was a tie
between an early Japanese brass On3 narrow gauge K-28, the prototype of which
is currently on the Durango and Silverton and a HO Union Pacific steam turbine,
a retired prototype on display at the Ogden, Utah museum.
Dirty Santa Gift Pile
The
evening’s program was our annual Christmas
Dirty Santa “Gift Exchange”. Model
of the Month winner gets first pick. Subsequent “pickers” names are drawn
one at a time from the door prize name jar. The interesting twist is that
people can “steal” previously picked gifts up to two times whereby the
“stealee” gets to pick another gift from the remaining gifts. A fun time was had by all and some very
interesting gifts were exchanged.
Submit your nomination with the name of the member and a list of their contributions to the hobby, the NMRA and the 4th Division plus a short bio. If you have submitted a nomination in the past, please resubmit. Email your nominations to Ted Becker at: rail.bird@att.net.
The Golden Grab Iron Service Award is given each year to a member of the 4th Division, Pacific Northwest Region, National Model Railroad Association, who exemplifies extraordinary service to the organization. The selection committee is comprised of the immediate past three honorees. Please submit your nominations for the 2019 recipient by January 15th. A list of past recipients is on the 4D website here.
The December 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on December 20, 2018.
The Clinic will meet 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 the 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 and Rail Photo of the Month contest. The sign-up sheet for our “Mini Clinic Event”next March will be available once again. We only have enough time for six clinicians, so the sign up is going to be first come, first serve. We already have three people signed up, so slots are going fast. Don’t pass up this opportunity to share your favorite modeling techniques with your fellow modelers. Meanwhile, be thinking about any favorite modeling techniques that you’d like to share with the group.
We will be having our annual Christmas “Dirty Santa Gift Exchange” this month. Everyone is asked to bring a small gift to participate. It is requested that the gift be inexpensive (less than $10 – $15 value) and gift wrapped with ONLY the scale marked on it if necessary (no names).
We will have refreshments and snacks available as always. The winners of the contests will have first choice of gifts from the “Dirty Santa Gift Table”.
