You are browsing archives for
The meeting will begin at 7:00 PM at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
The Program: We will show Vol. One of West Coast Logging by Warren Haack. This is the best video I have ever seen on the subject and features original film work of Jim Sabol. We will use the video to discuss the elements of logging which can be used in a layout or diorama.
Location: Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
425 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166
Bring a model or photo to discuss.
Link to Mark Allen module pictures.
Mark Allen is moving and had has several HOn3 modules available. Mark is an award winning model builder, so these are a great start to building a new layout. Contact him at 206 227 1833.
Russ Segner, 4D Superintendent
The 4th Division is a big part of all that goes on at the Pacific Science Center this weekend. Thousands of kids will bring their parents to see our trains and how we build and run them.
David Yadock is our chairman for this event and if you want to help, contact him at 206 399 0247 or hi61izq@hotmail.com.
This is our major fund raiser each year, so it’s a chance to help the 4D and you get to meet and share some time with many of our best most active model railroaders.
This has been a very busy year in your Fourth Division. Many of you are at local train shows sharing our hobby with lots of families who just love trains. Thanks to all who take advantage of our times together to share your skills and enthusiasm for model railroading.
There will be no clinic in Burien in December. We will work on getting ready for next year with a series of clinic topics to help develop specific skills such as weathering, DCC and scenery. If you have questions or suggestions, contact me at 206 200 2211.
Russ
Help is needed to transport the small 4 x 6 foot HO layout from Issaquah to Tacoma. Kurt Laidlaw and some others will use it in a retirement home. A pickup with canopy or a van will be needed.
Contact me at 206 200 2211 and I will coordinate the move.
Russ Segner
This 48 x 60 inch layout is available to finish and enjoy. Track is HO, but this could be converted to On30 easily. Located In Issaquah.
Contact me at 206 200 2211
Russ Segner
Doors Open at 7:00 PM and Meeting starts promptly at 7:15 PM at:
The Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center
16600 NE 80th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
The November 2017 Eastside Get Together Clinic will be on November 16, 2017. 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. The Photo category this month will again be Prototype – B & W. So, bring your best models and photos for the contests!
Our clinic this month will be “Building the Virginia and Truckee Engine House with Plaster Castings” by Bob Oakes. Bob has just returned from the Virginia and Truckee Historical Society annual convention in Carson City where this clinic was very well received. He is also modeling the Virginia and Truckee on his home layout.
We’ll also have refreshments and snacks along with great door prizes.
An URGENT request: PLEASE bring your models to show in the Model of the Month Contest. They don’t have to be finished, we love to see in-progress work as well. Also, please bring any Black and White Prototype Railroad photos you might have to enter in the Rail Photo Contest. Both contests are in dire need of improved participation!
Meetings are the third Thursday of each month, September to June. Doors open at 7:00 PM and the program will start at 7:15 PM.
By Alex Brikoff, 11/10/17
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
425 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166
Last month, I tried to show pictures and videos of the recent National Narrow Gauge Convention in Denver. Unfortunately, my equipment konked out due to operator error.
So, will try again. There must have been at least forty of us from the Northwest in attendance at the Denver Tech Convention Center. There were lots of visits to rail sites all over Colorado as well as some stops on the way there and back.
Twenty of us chartered the Parlor Car on the Cumbres & Toltec for a beautiful ride over Cumbres Pass at 10,000 feet. I will have good video of that trip as well as our tour of the shops at Antonito where Stathi Pappas is in charge of the rebuild of locomotive 168.
There were many fine modular groups on display and excellent model building in the contest room. And, we visited several very nice home layouts.
I will also present some shots of Sam Furakawa’s beautiful Sn3 layout which I helped prepare for shipping to Japan this November.
Russ
