Author: Anton Faulk

By Alex Brikoff

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.

Alex Brikoff

By Syd Schofield

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.

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. 

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 153^rd street, a couple blocks from the Electric Train Shop.

Syd Schofield

By Alex Brikoff

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. 

Alex

By Syd Schofield

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. 

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.

By Alex Brikoff

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”.

Alex Brikoff