Author: Russ Segner

What’s on your work bench, another look.

Please chime in with some helpful ideas. For instance, I will discuss bendable plywood and some simple techniques in scratch building wood structures that I have used. There has been a lot of chatter lately about ACC, so, any comments?

We will meet at 7PM.

Here is the link. I will open the room at 6:30.

Topic: 4D Eastside Clinic January 12
Time: Jan 12, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Here is the link for our meeting on the 22nd.

Russ Segner is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Eastside Clinic Zoom Meeting
Time: Dec 22, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Russ Segner

Our Eastside Clinic will be held at 7PM December 22 with Zoom.

Our program will be a show and tell. What do you have on your workbench? Share with us some pictures and tell us about a project you are working on. Take us on a tour of your layout or, lead a brief discussion on a topic you want some help with.

I will share a new kit I am working on. If you want to present, email me with your topic at russseg@gmail.com or call me at 206 200 2211.

The link to the meeting will be published next week to any who contact me by email or watch for it in the Grab Iron.

Russ

Our clinic will continue our look at Sawmill Interiors. This will discuss the layout of machinery and the variety of machines used. We will also look at some of the other buildings usually found at mill sites.

We will meet online with the meeting starting at 7:00PM. I will open the room at 6:30.

Here is the link.
Topic: Eastside Clinic
Time: Nov 17, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Our clinic scheduled for the 20th has been rescheduled to the 27th. The link to the meeting will be posted next Monday.

Russ Segner

Here is the link for Thursday evening, September 22 at 7PM. We will discuss a New Start of an Eastside Clinic and follow with a presentation on rebuilding a 1906 flatcar at DuPont.

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Topic: New Eastside Clinic
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I am hosting two open houses at my layout in Newcastle September 2 and 3 and need some help. I need two helpers to run trains and control the potential crowds of visitors as part of the upcoming National Narrow Gauge Convention.

Here is a chance to meet modelers from around the country and also run a few trains on my narrow gauge Sn3 Coal Creek Lumber. If interested, please call me at 206 200 2211.

Russ Segner

I went to my first national model railroad convention in 1991. It was here in Bellevue. I had started an HO layout of Tennessee Pass and knew several local modelers I had met through a couple of local hobby shops and an occasional visit to the 4th Division clinic on Beacon Hill. But I did not know a lot of model railroaders.

That convention changed my whole approach to the hobby. It was a National Narrow Gauge Convention, but the emphasis was on great model building and interesting and impressive layouts. The models were beautifully built and detailed, the clinics were extremely helpful in improving my model building. I learned a lot about many railroads I had never heard of, and I met a lot of great modelers from all over the country and many from outside the US.

I now have a closet full of shirts from many conventions all over the US. And I have a closet full of unbuilt kits and shelves full of books and magazines. Best of all, I have a layout that runs and is fun to share with many who come over to operate.

This September, many of you will take advantage of the upcoming National Narrow Gauge Convention in Tacoma. You will meet and learn from some of the best modelers from across the world and you can see firsthand the latest in model kits and supplies from national vendors. Finally, you will have access to many fine area wide layouts seldom open to those of us who do not know the owner of the layout.

The convention is at the Hotel Murano in downtown Tacoma September 1 through 4. The next one will be in Denver and then in Pittsburg. So, here is your last chance for a long while to have all this so handy in your area. There will be over 30 clinics and over 25 local layouts featuring many scales and prototypes. Details of the clinics and layouts are on the website and in the files section of the NNG.groups.io site.
There will also be several large modular layouts in the Atrium and vendor room at the hotel. These include the Hangman Creek Logging in On3, the Arizona Mudhens in Hon3and the Monson Sheepscot River Railroad in Maine In On30.

Take advantage of this fine opportunity.
Visit the Convention website for full details at 2022 National Narrow Gauge Convention (seattlenngc.com)

HO rolling stock and engines FREE
I have been contacted by a family in Port Townsend who would like to donate to someone who would use the equipment. It is a nice collection of cars appropriate for northwest railroads. There are two diesel locomotives and one articulated steamer. All are in excellent condition.

They are available at the home on Becket Point near Port Townsend but can be brought into Kirkland by special arrangement. If you are interested, please contact me at 206 200 2211 or by email at
russseg@gmail.com