By Syd Schofield

East Side Get Together Clinic Report, February 21, 2019

The February gathering of the East Side Get Together Clinic at the Redmond Community Center was started promptly at 7:10 PM Thursday evening by Alex Brikoff.  VIPs in attendance (4D PNR Officers and Master Model Railroaders and new attendees) were introduced.   

Clinic Introduction

Some of the significant gatherings and conventions coming up this spring and summer are:

28th Annual United Northwest Washington State Train Show (Monroe Show) – February 23 & 24, 2019

Sn3 Symposium, April 4 – 6, 2019 at Bellevue Sheraton, Bellevue, WA

Kootenay Express, PNR Regional Convention, May 29 – June 2, 2019 in Cranbrook, BC

4th Division Annual Spring Meet, June 22 at TCC Science Building (Tacoma Community College) from 9 AM to 4 PM

NMRA National Convention, July 7 – 13, 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT

National Narrow Gauge Convention, September 4-7, 2019 in Sacramento, CA

Russ Segner brought several copies of a local early railroad publication assembled by the Northwest Railroad Archives staff.  Copies of the very professionally done book was for sale at $20 and contained very detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Seattle and southeast King County area’s formative years of railroad activity.  Bob Rorabaugh brought several estate sale model railroad items for adoption.  He also noted the application of desktop computer keyboard boxes as storage containers for HO-size rolling stock.  He passed out some free samples of these as well.

The evening’s clinic was a given by local model railroad craftsman, Paul Vaughn, on scratch building a Gauntlet Track.  Paul bestowed his acquired knowledge of scratch building these very unique turnouts without using Fast Track jigs.  He presented slides as well as several colorful large teaching aids to demonstrate the more critical aspects of the necessary turnout construction accuracy based on NMRA Standards.

Paul Vaughn’s Informative Displays And Presentation

Model of the Month was awarded to William Alexander for his two “A” F-unit Spokane, Portland and Seattle HO scale diesel locomotives.   

The next meeting will be on March 21, 2019.  Don’t forget that our next clinic will be the much publicized Mini Clinic Event!  Stay tuned for more details!  

Syd