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Eastside Get Together North Branch (Redmond) Clinic Report, September 2016

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Syd Schofield

4th Division, Eastside Get Together North Branch (Redmond) Clinic, September 15, 2016

David Cook brought the Eastside Get-Together Clinic for September 15, 2016 to order in the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center.

Russ Segner welcoming Richard Anderson, director of the Northwest Railway Museum, to the September 2016 Redmond Clinic.

Russ Segner welcoming Richard Anderson, director of the Northwest Railway Museum, to the September 2016 Redmond Clinic.

There were two “bring-and-brag, models of the month” displayed – a very small but nicely done and appointed house and a heavily enhanced vista dome passenger car.

A number of railroad books were made available as the result of an estate sale and several technical railroad historical documents were presented as door prizes.

Russ Segner presented Richard Anderson, director of the Northwest (Snoqualmie) Railroad Museum, who gave a slide show of the museum history and happenings as well as an overview of the museum plans and efforts.

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Eastside Get Together North (Redmond) Clinic is Thursday, Sep 15

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We kick off the Eastside Get Together North (Redmond) fall clinic season this Thursday the 15th at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center. The gathering begins at 6:45 PM. Click here for additional details including an address and a map.

Mike Donnelly "working on the Chiggen" (by cleaning the smokebox) at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie (Photo by Russ Segner).

Mike Donnelly “working on the Chiggen” (by cleaning the smokebox) at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie (Photo by Russ Segner).

Our very special guest speaker is Richard Anderson, Executive Director of the Northwest Railway Museum at Snoqualmie. Richard has led the effort there for 22 years.

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Eastside Get-Together North Branch Clinic September 15th

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By Alex Brikoff

We have a reserved room through June 2017 for the Eastside Get-Together North Branch Clinic at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center located at 16600 NE 80th Street in Redmond, WA. The clinics will be held on the third Thursday of every month with the first clinic being held on September 15 starting at 6:45 PM. Click here for clinic times and location, including a map.

Our first Clinic will be presented by Richard Anderson, executive director of the Northwest Railway Museum. He will be giving a presentation about all the current activities going on at the museum. Those activities include the construction of the new Railway Education Center, the restoration progress of the Chapel Car “Messenger of Peace” and its anticipated completion and dedication later this year. There will also be an update on the steam locomotive restoration program and the many other programs currently underway at the Museum.

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August Eastside Layout Tour Changed to Sunday, Aug 28th

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The Eastside Layout Tour has been changed to Sunday, August 28th (from Saturday Aug 27th)

Two of the layouts originally scheduled for the Eastside layout tour in August have had to cancel. (Mike O’Connell’s mother passed away suddenly and the service is scheduled for the 27th; my wife, Susan, will be recovering from major back surgery the week of the 27th.)

The great news is that we will have two very special layouts open to 4D members and guests on Sunday, August 28th. Steve Depolo invites you to tour his Sn3 Alaska Pacific Rwy in Woodinville. The theme is “Mining in Alaska”.

This is a very large layout with all trackwork finished and scenery almost complete. Steve has scratch built many large mining structures and two complete waterfront scenes. All locomotives have sound decoders and are controlled by NCE. This layout will inspire you.

Al Lowe is one of our NTrak leaders and will show us how he uses his modules in a home layout. When not setting up at local shows, Al has several of his modules organized as a layout in his Bellevue home. These modules are highly detailed. Al has a very creative way of setting them up in his garage.

Both layouts will be open from 1 PM to 5 PM. For addresses and directions, email me at russseg@gmail.com and I will send maps and contact information.

Note – there will be another Eastside layout tour in October in the Renton and Maple Valley areas.

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Clinicians Wanted for 4D Clinics

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Russ Segner

The 4th Division fall clinic season will soon begin. While most of our area clinics already have their lineups set, there is always a need for additional clinics ready to present.

If you have a topic you think would be of interest to model railroaders and would like to share it, please let me know. We definitely have openings for the Eastside Get Together (both the North Branch in Redmond, and the South Branch, currently in Renton).

Topics of interest: Prototypes, building structures, scenery, trackwork, interesting and special tools, electronics, track planning, and operations. These are just a few. Let me know if you are willing to share. Presentations are about 45 minutes and we supply the projectors at all locations. I can be contacted at russseg@gmail.com or 425-228-7327.

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Eastside Get Together North Clinic (Redmond) – Great News, Meeting Space Finalized

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Russ Segner

We have located and contracted for a meeting space for the Eastside Get Together North Branch Clinic (Redmond). Commencing on September 15th, which is the third Thursday of the month, we will meet at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center in downtown Redmond. The meetings will begin at 6:45 and end at 9:00 PM.

Click here to see the updated 4D web site Clinics page (including a map).

This space easily will accommodate 40 of us, has good parking and good access to the freeways. Dave Cook and a leadership group is meeting now to plan sessions. Set your calendars now for every third Thursday. If you have suggestions for clinic topics or would like to present a clinic, contact me at russseg@gmail.com or 206-200-2211 and I will pass the information on to Dave.

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Eastside Get Together North Branch (Redmond) Clinic Report, June 2016

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4th Division, PNR, NMRA, Eastside Get Together North Branch (Redmond), 16 June, 2016 clinic

Dave Cook called the group gathering to order at 6:40 Thursday evening at the Redmond city library. About twenty people were in attendance for this last meeting of the 2015-2016 season.

The “Bring and Brag” items were a pre-fab production laser cut modular structure made in the UK, and a flat car with a specialized load. As usual, the items were of outstanding quality.

Brain Pickering gave a presentation of Digital Command and Control programming and operation with Decoder Pro from JMRI. Of the many features available with the several brands of decoders, Brian discussed and demonstrated some of the features and methods to simplify programming. The system has several hardware interface units available from different manufacturers with a common open-source (and available for free) software.

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Eastside Get Together on Thursday, June 16

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Dave Cook

This Thursday our Eastside Get Together will once again be at the Redmond Library – 15990 NE 85th Street – Redmond WA 98052, 6:30 pm. Maps and directions are available on the Clinics page.

Our program will feature Brian Pickering who is very knowledgeable of all the aspects of DCC (digital command control) and Decoder Pro (a subset of the JMRI application). He will describe features as well as installation and programming tips for DCC.  Come and get your questions answered.

Bring a model to share and brag about! Coffee and doughnuts will be provided.

This will be our last program of the season and it is very likely we will be meeting at another location this fall. We will discuss location options and will solicit your opinions. It is up to you to show your support for this effort.

See you there.

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Reminder – No Eastside Get Together in May

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Russ Segner

There is no Eastside Get Together clinic tonight (May 19th) in Redmond. There will be an Eastside Get Together Clinic meeting in Redmond in June on the 16th. The program in June will feature Brian Pickering with an outstanding presentation on DCC and Decoder Pro.

The Renton Clinic is on for Thursday, May 26th at the Renton Highlands Library at 6:30. That program will feature a presentation on the Dynamite Train at DuPont. Click here to see additional details.

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