by Alex Brikoff

The January 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic will meet on January 18, 2018.
Please note our NEW LOCATION is:

Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Redmond Campus
6505 176TH AVE NE
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 contest and Rail Photo of the Month contest. So, please bring your best models and photos for the contests!
Our clinic this month will be “Wiring Your Model Railroad For DCC” by Di Voss. This will be an updated and encore presentation of the clinic that Di presented last spring at the 4th Division Spring Meet. This clinic will cover the different aspects of wiring your layout for DCC from planning and research to surveying the market for the various components and, finally, to implementing and installing on your layout. Di’s home layout, the Everett and Monte Cristo, is an outstanding layout where Di honed and perfected many of the techniques that you’ll be hearing about during this clinic.
We will have refreshments and snacks available. We’ll also have a great selection of Door Prizes to give away at the end of the clinic. See you there!!

**Check the “Clinics” page for the map to the new location.

by Alex Brikoff

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 October 2017 Eastside Get Together Clinic will be on October 19, 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 and Rail Photo of the Month contests. The Photo category this month will again be Prototype – Color, by special request because we didn’t have any entries last month. So, bring your best models and photos for the contests!

Our clinic this month will be “Adding Prototype Operations on your Layout” by Bill Messecar. Bill is a 4th Division MMR and has a great layout that models the citrus fruit and produce industries of southern California, so I’m sure that his clinic will be very informative. The clinic will describe operations on the ATSF in the 40’s and 50’s and how he modeled those operations on his layout.

We’ll also have refreshments and snacks along with, possibly, some great door prizes.

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.

  Stafford Jones will have his HO layout in Issaquah open this Saturday from 9:00 am to 4:pm. He is going to dismantle it in July, so everything goes including any portions of the layout anyone can salvage.

He features SP&S, NP and GN equipment. Many fine structures can be easily be removed.  He has up to date Tam Valley electronics and Tortoise switch machines. His address is:  2151 NW Pacific Elm Drive, Issaquah ( a condominium complex, watch for signs).  His phone is 425 223 0139.

Here is a link to photos of his layout.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhBTSQSpn0dng5B1jiQS6M2Z6kr_iA

Russ Segner

This Thursday is our last meeting of this season in Redmond. The meeting is very important as we will evaluate what we want to do next season. There will be some changes, so be there to share your thoughts.

Spokane:  Several of us attended the Pacific Northwest Region meeting in Spokane last week and will report on our experiences there. It was a very interesting four days.

Our program will focus on modules and possible establishment of one more group, possibly in HOn3.

We meet at 7:00 at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center.

Place: 16600 NE 80th Street
Redmond, WA 98052

Our monthly Eastside Get Together will be this coming Thursday at the Redmond Old Schoolhouse Community Center.
Time: 7:00
Place: 16600 NE 80th Street
Redmond, WA 98052

We will trace the research currently underway to locate and document one of the earliest railways in our area.

Remember to bring a color prototype picture to share.

Doors open at 6:45 with the program beginning at 7:00. Bring a model or project to share.

Our monthly Eastside Get Together will be this coming Thursday at the Redmond Old Schoolhouse Community Center.

16600 NE 80^th Street
Redmond, WA 98052

JJ Johnston will present ” Freelancing a Small Layout”. He will share photos of his famous layout “Puget Sound Iron Goat Railway” to describe the many small scenes with their unique details. He will also show photos of the beautifully painted Fantasy Wing area next to his train room.

We meet at 6:45 with the program beginning at 7:00. Bring a model or project to share.

Post by Russ Segner

Our next program will feature John Morrison. John has a very large garden railway at his home in Kirkland.  He has scratch built many locomotives for his layout.

He will feature a PowerPoint slide presentation of the locomotives of the Puffing Billy Preservation Society in Melbourne Australia. This is an operating 30″ gauge railway which uses a 2-6-0 + 0-6-2 Garratt and a number of small 19th century Baldwin 2-6-2s.

G Class Engine found on The Puffing Billy web site

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