Category: Eastside Get-Together (Redmond) Clinic

We start again at our Burien clinic this coming Thursday.

Time: 7:00 PM

Place: Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive
425 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166

Our program will feature the recent National Narrow Gauge Convention in Denver. 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.

We will have time for you to share what you did this summer. So bring some pictures on a flash drive.

Hope to see many of you there.

Russ Segner

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Eastside Get Together Clinic – Redmond

September 14, 2017Written by Al Turnbull

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 2017 – 2018 Eastside Get Together Clinic season starts September 21, 2017. We will briefly recap what we did railroad wise over the summer including reports on the National Narrow-Gauge Convention that just concluded in Denver, as well as the Regional and National Conventions held earlier this summer. We will also have our Model of the Month and Rail Photo of the Month contests. The Photo category this month will Prototype – Color. So, bring your best models and photos for the contests!

Our clinic this month will be “The Art of Deception” given by David Yadock. David is an outstanding modeler and 4^th Division MMR, so I’m sure that his clinic will be top notch. The clinic will have lots of ideas for how to make those problem areas on our layouts appear seamless and look like they really do belong there.

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.

Layout Open House Saturday – June 17

June 12, 2017Written by Russ Segner

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

Eastside Get Together

June 12, 2017Written by 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

Eastside Get Together May 18

May 15, 2017Written by Russ Segner

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.

Eastside Clinic – Redmond This Thursday

April 16, 2017Written by Russ Segner

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.

Eastside Get Together

March 6, 2017Written by Russ Segner

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

Report from East Side Get Together, Redmond, Feb. 2017

February 18, 2017Written by Chip Van Gilder

Article and photos by Syd Schofield

Dave Cook presided, calling the group to order at 7:00pm for the evening’s clinic and general model railroad items if interest. Recollections of recent model train shows were discussed, as well as similar upcoming events.

Russ Segner gave an outstanding video show of his Sn3 scale model railroad, “Building the Coal Creek Lumber Company.” Similar portions of the presentation were shown on a recent local afternoon TV show. The layout occupies a “spare” upstairs room in his house with the associated comforts. Many of the structures on the point-to-point layout were adaptations of real world examples and constructed from raw modeling materials. Much of the track was hand-laid, the scenery was custom fabricated, and the backdrop was hand-painted. With the addition of a DCC system, Russ was able to create a unique miniature world for realistic multiple train operation.

A fine group met together for the February meeting, with Russ Segner presenting the clinic.

Eastside Get Together, Redmond Clinic, on Feb 16

February 9, 2017Written by Russ Segner

http://seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/we-took-a-ride-on-a-tiny-train-and-loved-it-all-aboard/

by Russ Segner

We meet Thursday evening, February 16, at the Redmond Old Schoolhouse Community Center (Map) beginning at 6:45 PM.

Our program will be a description of the planning and construction of my layout, the Coal Creek Lumber Company, which was recently featured on KOMO TV. Here is the link:

More Trees!, Eastside Get Together Clinic Report, January 2017

February 1, 2017Written by Chip Van Gilder

Article and Photos By Syd Schofield

NMRA 4^th Division Pacific Northwest Region East Side Get-Together clinic at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse on January 19

After the folks settled down from the evening commute Dave Cook brought things together at seven PM.

A good crowd showed up for the get together. (Editor’s note: Wow, look at that tree!)