Author: Burr Stewart

Did you know you can watch most of our 4D clinics and layout tours on YouTube? Great if you missed one, or just want to re-watch some again later. We record and edit most clinics for our public 4D PNR YouTube channel. The channel has become very popular and now has well over 1,000 subscribers with 100+ videos published. We have separate sections for Clinics and Layout Tours.

You can get notifications when new videos are published by subscribing to the channel (when in the YouTube channel, just click SUBSCRIBE) and turn on notifications (click on the Bell button next to SUBSCRIBE).
Go here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/4DPNRMovies

Our five latest clinics are (make sure to unmute the video in YouTube to hear sound):

November Eastside Clinic: Modeling a Round Roof Building with Larry Sloan

November Mt Vernon Clinic: Railway Express Agency with Thomas Keyes

November Skagit & Whidbey Clinic: Restoring and Running Steam Engines with Stathi Pappas

October Eastside Clinic: Dan Kellog on a new approach to signals and his N scale BNSF layout progress

October Mt Vernon Clinic: Gary Dobias Austin Texas Layout Tour 

And our latest monthly layout tour is: October: Sugar Pine RR in HO scale by Jeff Johnston

If you host a clinic or layout tour and want to publish it, please record it in Zoom or in person and send it to us.
Enjoy!

Burr Stewart, Magnus Christerson, Russ Segner and Byron Osborn – your 4D PNR YouTube editors

October’s Layout Tours will have a theme of layout construction. Scott Stoll from Puyallup will give us a tour of his HO MILW themed layout as it has progressed so far, and Jeff Johnston from will show us inside views of his double-decked SP themed layout, including a very tall helix under construction. You won’t want to miss it! As usual, we’ll open the meeting up about 9:30am PST and the formal program will start at 10:00, ending about 11:30. Below is the Zoom info for the meeting. As usual, please change your Zoom screen name to include your first and last name so we can let you in from the Zoom waiting room.

Topic: 4dPNR Layout Tours

Time: Oct 9, 2021 09:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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October’s Seattle North End Clinic will be a new version of last year’s “Virtual Operating Session” at Burr Stewart’s HO layout. This year we plan to have a few people available in the actual basement to run trains, with the participation of everyone else viewing and commenting on the action in the live Zoom meeting. The session is scheduled to run from 7pm to 9pm on Thursday, October 7. Here is the Zoom link to join the meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82326170958?pwd=L2RXUWkzeFNGVzY0VGN0ZWFvTk16dz09

September’s 4DPNR Zoom layout tours will be presented by Dave Yaddock MMR and Gary Jordan MMR. Dave has been building a large scenery-oriented HO layout modeling a mountain section of the west, based loosely on John Allen’s famous layout, and Gary’s layout is a relatively small O scale layout in which he managed to fit three different track gauges while modeling the Gilpin Tram in the Colorado Rockies. Gary’s presentation will focus on how he has set up his layout for virtual operators running his trains remotely from their home computers.

The link for joining the Zoom meeting on Saturday morning is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82255870159?pwd=c3RsRU1LbFh3R3FaOHF6UDVydzhSUT09

As usual, we will open the meeting around 9:30am and start the formal presentations at 10:00.

To watch recordings of our previous 4DPNR Zoom layout tours, visit www.youtube.com/c/4dpnrmovies

Your 4dPNR Board recently decided that we didn’t want to run our regularly scheduled July Zoom layout tours on Saturday morning July 10 up against the NMRA’s virtual annual convention during that same time, so the layout tours are being rescheduled for future months. We highly recommend you consider participating in Rails by the Bay, which has a nominal registration fee, which will give you a variety of great content and discussion opportunities over a number of days next week and weekend. Here is the link to register online: http://www.pcrnmra.org/NMRA2021/registration.html

June’s 4DPNR Zoom layout tour will be presented by Scott Calvert (from 7DPNR near Vancouver BC). Scott has been building a large operations-oriented HO layout modeling a mountain section of the Canadian Pacific mainline, and his layout tour will be presented in two segments – the first is a tour of the layout and its scenery based on prototype scenes, and the second is how he sets it up for operations. You can get an idea for the scope of his layout beforehand by visiting his his web page, which is https://www.cprboundarysub.ca .

The link for joining the Zoom meeting on Saturday morning is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83676128886?pwd=SEJvZWRIVDdCeEVkMHR1QUVoRGNrZz09

As usual, we will open the meeting around 9:30am and start the formal presentation at 10:00.

To watch recordings of our previous 4DPNR Zoom layout tours, visit www.youtube.com/c/4dpnrmovies

Last Saturday was a really good day for Northern Pacific fans! If you missed the 4DPNR live layout tours on Zoom, you can now watch them on YouTube at the links below. We were able to get the original videos from the PSMRE, including the excellent cab ride from an F-unit, included in the YouTube video, so it’s worth watching again even if you saw it live on Zoom last Saturday, because the resolution is much better. Here are the links:

Bob Richard’s HO NP version of Easton, WA – https://youtu.be/oxaMdNL6Fzk

Steve Carter and Marshall Wilson’s PSMRE Tacoma club layout tour – https://youtu.be/sETPyS7CR6A

You’re in for a treat this Saturday, April 10, at our monthly Layout Tour Zoom meeting. The login details are below. First we will get an update from Bill Sornsin on the progress he’s been making on his huge HO version of the GN in the 1950’s from Seattle to Stevens Pass. Following that, Bob Stafford will give us a video tour of his now-dismantled HO version of the Lehigh Valley in PA. If there is time, maybe he will show us the plans he has for a new layout once his current home remodeling project is done. Here’s the Zoom info – be sure to log in with your full name as your Zoom screen name, so we’ll know to let you in:

Topic: 4DPNR April Layout Tours
Time: Apr 10, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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