Category: Convention or Meet

Al Lowe

As promised, here are the layouts we have arranged for you. And what a great collection they are! Indoor, outdoor, various scales, large layouts, small layouts, and all of them nearby. Many will be featured on the upcoming National Narrow Gauge Convention in September. Most have appeared in national model railroading magazines.

Remember: to visit these layouts, you must register for the 4D Summer Meet Saturday morning between 8:00 and 10:00 at the Issaquah Hilton Garden Inn. Registration is only $20 and includes drinks and munchies morning and afternoon.

For information about the clinics planned, just scroll down the Digital Grab Iron, or click on the link to previous articles near the top and bottom of this page.

See you in Issaquah next Saturday, August 18, 2012!

Hilton Garden Inn, Issaquah‎
1800 NW Gilman Blvd
Issaquah, WA 98027
(425) 837-3600

Layout Open Houses

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Layout Open Houses are mostly from 11:00 – 4:00, although times are up to the layout owners. Your Summer Meet Registration Packet has the details, along with addresses and maps to the layouts. Packets are available to Summer Meet registrants only at the registration table Saturday morning. Addresses should not be publicized; however the public may be invited at the layout owner’s discretion.

Al Lowe

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Subject to change, of course.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Layout Open Houses are from 11:00 – 4:00. Addresses and maps will be furnished to Summer Meet registrants only at the registration table Saturday morning. Addresses should not be publicized, however the public may be invited at the layout owner’s discretion.

See you in Issaquah Saturday!

Al Lowe

Just one week from today, the 4D’s Summer Meet will be held in Issaquah. You’re going to want to be there. Just look at the wonderful clinics we have planned for you.

Clinic Schedule

“Development of Resin Model Railroad Cars” by Ron Cole

“Weathering” by Walt Huston

“Track Warrant Control Operations” by Ken Liesse

“NMRA Q & A” by Walt Huston PNR & Ken Liesse 4D

“OmniRail” by Rob Jones

“NMRA.net” by Di Voss

“Trains in Cuba” by Bobj Berger

“Automated Layout Control” by Dave Hikel

Plus

The day begins with a Board of Directors Meeting open to all 4D members.

The “Bring and Brag” Model Room (with optional A. P. assessment available if desired) will be open all day.

Refreshments will be served morning and afternoon and are included in your $20 registration.

The day concludes with the 4D Annual Meeting at which we’ll announce the 2012 Grab Iron Service Award winners.

And on Sunday

And remember: you must register Saturday morning to receive an invitation to the wonderful layout open houses we have scheduled for Sunday, August 19th! Complete list of all those layout will be coming soon!

See you in Issaquah this coming Saturday!

Al Lowe

Remember: the 4D Summer Meet will be held next weekend, August 18–19, 2012.

Clinics (and more) will be Saturday, August 18, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Issaquah.  Layout Open Houses will be Sunday, August 19. Maps and directions to each Open House are only available at the Registration Desk on Saturday morning.

Saturday, August 18

We have a great line-up of local Clinicians scheduled for you with two simultaneous clinics so you always have a choice.

In addition, there will be a “Bring and Brag” Model Room where you can display your handiwork. Don’t come empty-handed! A. P. assessment will be available, if you choose. This is an easy way to earn yet another of those A.P. Certificates that you deserve.

Saturday begins with the 4D Board of Directors Meeting (open to all members) and ends with our required annual General Membership Meeting. A complete schedule will be posted here soon.

Snacks will be available in the lobby all day: coffee & pastry in the morning; snacks and sodas in the afternoon. Lunch is on your own, but there is a good restaurant on the premises.

Sunday, August 19

Sunday’s Open Houses will be at your own pace and choosing. You provide your own transportation.

Eight local layouts will open just for Summer Meet attendees on Sunday, mostly from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. (Times vary by host; see your Registration Packet for individual layout hours.)

More News Soon!

More information on layouts and clinicians will follow in the Digital Grab Iron soon. Stay tuned!

See you in Issaquah next Saturday, August 18, 2012!

Hilton Garden Inn, Issaquah‎
1800 NW Gilman Blvd
Issaquah, WA 98027
(425) 837-3600

by Lloyd Lehrer

The 18^th Annual Northwest Logging Modelers Convention will be based in La Conner, WA on Saturday–Sunday, September 8–9. The premier Antique Engine Show is also on that Saturday so we are including it in the schedule. Two expert speakers are scheduled for the afternoon: Peter Hoehn of Germany with another of his well-researched overseas logging operations; and, our local John Taubeneck. Sunday will be in the woods, sucking up the atmosphere of the real thing on a hunt with cameras at the ready for an elusive donkey in the trees. Then on to another nice collection of logging equipment in Concrete, WA.

Saturday AM Schedule: Anacortes, WA

• 9AM-12PM: Antique Engine Show and optional Snag Boat Tour
• 12:00 Noon: Lunch on your own

Saturday PM Schedule: La Conner WA

Skagit County Historical Museum (map here)

• 1:30PM Turkish Logging in the 1930s. Speaker; Peter Hoehn
• 3:30PM Keynote Speaker: John Taubeneck- A Logging Historian’s Odyssey

Sunday

Refer to handout for locations.

• 9:00 AM: Sedro-Woolley-MAC Tugger Hoist Locomotive
• 10:30AM: Donkey Hunt, Prairie, WA. Location subject to change
• 2:00 PM: Concrete Museum Logging Display and Equipment Tour, Concrete, WA (map here)

Admission $20 if received by August 1^st and $25 afterwards. Paypal admission to lloydlehrer@gmail.com and select the “Personal” tab and “owes money.” Vendors at $20. Tables available, $15 for 6’.

More info here or contact Lloyd Lehrer, 310-951-9097, lloydlehrer@gmail.com or Clark, 360-466-3365 x101.

by Glenn Farley

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Regardless, don’t miss this great convention!

Al Lowe

You may have heard about the 4D’s Spring Meet, originally scheduled for June 2-3 which, due to unforeseen circumstances, has been rescheduled for a less-busy time of year, August 18-19, 2012. Once an annual occurrence in the 4^th Division, the Board of Directors hopes it will become so once again.

We will meet August 18^th at the Hilton Garden Inn, in Issaquah for a Saturday filled with the best clinics presented all over the 4^th Division during the past year. This will enable all 4D members to see what only some local clinic attendees have seen. We plan to have three clinics offered simultaneously. Coffee, snacks, and soft drinks will be served. Lunch is on your own. (There is a restaurant at the Hilton and dozens more restaurants in Issaquah.) Saturday will end with a short General Membership meeting, concluding before 5:30 PM.

Sunday, August 19^th will feature 4D layout open houses. Travel will be on your own, but maps, identification badges, and schedules will only be distributed at Saturday morning’s registration. The public is not invited so you will have plenty of time to enjoy the layouts to the fullest.

Registration is limited to the first 120 members to email 4D Treasurer Sherman Stevens. The cost is a mere $20, payable at the door.

Catch up on all the great clinics you missed over the past year, see some great layouts, and enjoy the camaraderie of the World’s Greatest Hobby. See you August 18^th!

By Ed Liesse (PNR) & Jim Providenza (PCR), Convention Co-Chairs

This is the last week for Early Bird registration for SIskiyou Summit 2012, the joint PNR – PCR Regional Convention which will be held in Medford, OR, May 2-5, 2012. The Early Bird registration special rate of $45 is available only through November 30, 2011. Starting December 1st, the full-fare registration increases to $55. You can register online, reserve a hotel room, and check out early information on clinics and tours at http://www.pcrnmra.org/conv2012/

Ed Liesse & Jim Providenza, Co-Chairs

Mark your calendars now for May 2–5, 2012 and plan to spend those days in Medford, Oregon at the Medford Red Lion Hotel attending the first Joint Convention between PNR and PCR! This one has all the indications of being a convention to remember. Don’t be left out!

The Joint Convention Committee is putting together many activities to keep you busy. The PCR and PNR Boards of Directors will have their respective board and business meetings on Wednesday and Friday morning. Convention attendees will enjoy an ice cream social on Wednesday night. A series of high-quality clinics begin Wednesday afternoon and run through Saturday afternoon with a special LDSIG/OPSIG clinic track on Thursday. An editor from Model Railroader and Bill Schaumburg of Railroad Model Craftsman are two of the many clinicians scheduled. There will be two evenings of operations on the Rogue Valley Model Railroad Club.

Siskiyou Summit 1012 will provide both a contest and separate AP assessment. Saturday morning will offer the Hobo Breakfast. Throughout the period, Sidetracks (previously known as “Non-Rails”) will have their usual bevy of activities to keep everyone busy. We will wrap up with the banquet on Saturday night.

A special event on Thursday will be a day excursion to Train Mountain www.trainmountain.org, a 2200-acre model railroad with 7.5” gauge track and more than 20 miles of mainline track. During the week, tours of Micro-Trains will be available and possibly a few tours of Campbell Scale Models.

On Saturday afternoon Siskiyou Summit 1012 attendees will have the run of Medford Railroad Park soc-nrhs.org/medfordrrpark.htm, operated by the Southern Oregon Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, the Morse Telegraph Club, the Rogue Valley Model Railroad Club, the Southern Oregon Live Steamers, and the Southwest Oregon Large Scale Trains group. All the above groups will have personnel on hand to show off their displays and let you take part in some of their activities. In addition to all the rail-related activities, there are a number of places in and around Medford to visit, many of historical interest. And Ashland, home of the well-known Shakespeare Festival, is just down the road.

All this is available to you for the low “early bird” registration price of only $45. We also have a low hotel room rate of $82/night double, with add-on days before and after the convention at the same rate.

The Siskiyou Summit 1012 website is up and running at pcrnmra.org/conv2012. Take a look now and watch for added items as the schedule fills up.

We plan to see you in Medford!