Category: Layout Tour

For May’s virtual layout tour Zoom, Keith Jordan will take us on a tour of his HO scale shelf layout, the “Patch,” which incorporates the industrial switching of downtown Los Angeles by the Santa Fe. The layout has been featured in Model Railroad Planning and Great Model Railroads.

As usual, we’ll open the meeting at 9:30am and start the program at 10am. Here is the Zoom info for joining the meeting:

Topic: May’s 4dPNR Layout Tour Zoom Meeting
Time: May 14, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Here is more information and the Zoom info for the 4DPNR Layout Tours scheduled for 10:00am and 10:45am on Saturday, January 8, 2022. Please invite your friends, this will be worth watching!

Michael Dziubinski ‘s Layout (on at 10:00am) is the Northwestern Pacific (Southern Pacific). This N scale shelf and island style with 65 feet of mainline in a 12×15 room and 30 feet of staging/reversing in an adjacent room based on the Northwestern Pacific in August of 1953. It is fully operational, and the scenery is at the 60% mark. The NWP was a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific and ran from Tiburon California in the south, to Eureka California in the north. The layout models the southern division and begins at the town of Tiburon on San Francisco Bay. The NWP interchanged with the ATSF via rail car barge in Tiburon and it is where their main shops were located. The layout continues railroad east, compass north, through various towns and changes in topography such as tidal areas, farmland, vineyards, and redwood forests. The main layout ends in the redwood forests near the town of Hopland. From there it exits to staging and a reversing loop in another room.

Don Borden (on at 10:45am) is a Santa Fe HO modeler of Cajon Pass who will introduce his model railroad and the goals he set for operations and performance. He will give a slide presentation of each geographic/ train order area he is modeling, a summary of the operational scheme his club is using and the electronics to make it work, and finally 2 short videos of trains operating on the layout.

Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting. As usual, we’ll open the meeting at 9:30am and start the formal presentations at 10. Please make sure your first and last name are shown on your Zoom screen name, so we can let you in from the “waiting room”.

Topic: 4DPNR January Layout Tour Zoom Meeting
Time: Jan 8, 2022 09:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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You are in for a treat next Saturday, January 8, at 10am, on Zoom! Our regular “Second Saturday Layout Tour Zoom meetings” will resume, with Michael Dziubinski’s spectacularly sceniked N scale layout, followed by Don Borden’s HO model of Cajon Pass on the Santa Fe, both of these layouts modeling the transition era of the early 1950’s. As usual, the meeting will open at 9:30am with the layout tours themselves beginning at 10:00 and 10:45, respectively. Mark your calendars (both for next Saturday and every second Saturday all year!) and join in if you can. If you miss it, we plan to post a recording of the presentations a few days later on the 4dPNR YouTube channel, which is www.youtube.com/c/4dPNRMovies.

The Zoom info for the meeting is:
Topic: 4DPNR January Layout Tour Zoom Meeting
Time: Jan 8, 2022 09:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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By Burr Steward

We added an extra Zoom session on December 5 for you to see the two layout tours that were interrupted during the November 14 session. As usual, the meeting will start at 10:00am. The first will be Dave Woodrell with his Sn3 version of the Rio Grande Southern, and then Greg Wright will show us how he built an earthen “table” in his back yard over the summer to develop an outdoor layout. Don’t miss it!

We have improved the Zoom security procedures for all upcoming 4DPNR meetings, so as part of that, the Zoom info for the meeting will be shared with you in an announcement like this about 48 hours before the meeting is scheduled to begin.

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By Burr Stewart

Join us Saturday Nov. 14 from 10am to 11:30 PDT for two 4DPNR layout tours. The first will be Dave Woodrell MMR, showing us his photogenic Sn3 RGS layout. He models the First District of the RGS, which was the northern end of the line from Ridgway, CO south to Rico, CO (His latest Gazette article appeared in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue). The second will be Greg Wright MMR, with a presentation on how he re-graded part of his back yard to make a “table” for a G scale outdoor layout. To join the meeting use this Zoom info:

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As usual, if you miss the live presentations, you can watch them a few days later on the 4DPNR YouTube channel, along with most of our past 4DPNR layout tours during the Covid era.

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Join us this Saturday, October 10, at 10:00am for another 4DPNR layout Zoom tour. This week features two of the region’s finest narrow gage layouts – Dale Kruetzer of Port Orchard and Ron Hopkins of Edmonds. Dale’s layout is an Sn3 version of a portion of the RGS, and includes detailed photo backdrops, hand laid track and scenery and structures that just don’t quit. Ron has a smaller but very fine On30 layout depicting the Olympic peninsula, and he will be showing us a number of structures he built next to photos of the prototypes that inspired them. Here is the zoom info to join the meeting:

Topic: 4DPNR Layout Tours
Time: Oct 10, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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