Welcome to the 4th Division

Tacoma Clinic
2024-01-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-03-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)

Olympia Clinic
2024-01-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States

Mount Vernon Clinic - CANCELLED
2024-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland Ave, Mt Vernon, WA, 98273, United States

Eastside Virtual Clinic
2024-01-18 19:00 - 21:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Let’s start the new year with a look at how to create realistic scenes on our layouts. We will use several examples from Dale Kreutzer’s fully scenicked layout in Port Orchard. Dale has taken photos at locations in Colorado he is modelling and created large backdrops, some over 20 feet in length. He has carefully blended the foreground materials with the backdrops in a manner that completely hides the transition from the horizontal to the vertical.

Westside Clinic
2024-02-12 17:30 - 19:30 | Kitsap Mall, 10315 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA, 98383, United States

Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island Clinic
2024-02-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
“Wind Blown Trees” – Make & take clinic by Susan Gonzales

Eastside Virtual Clinic
2024-02-15 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-03-21 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-04-18 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-05-16 19:00 - 21:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)

Mount Vernon Clinic
2024-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland Ave, Mt Vernon, WA, 98273, United States
Tom Buckingham will present a clinic on Detailing track.

Olympia Clinic
2024-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
“Operations on Small Layouts” presented by Lee Bishop and Ry Bates.
Both Lee and Ry have small bedroom or smaller pikes that are fully operational keeping a two person crew entertained for two hours or more. Come and learn how they do it and how you could do it too!
This will be a hybrid, in person at Panorama City (our regular venue not the restaurant) and Zoom offering.

Westside Clinic
2024-03-11 17:30 - 19:30 | Kitsap Mall, 10315 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA, 98383, United States
Basic Soldering presented by Jack Hamilton, MRR

Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island Clinic
2024-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
DCC decoder tuning using Decoder Pro with Jim Betz. Bring your locos!

Olympia Clinic
2024-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
Topic will be Large Layout Operations with Jim Younkins and Brian Ferris. This is our third straight clinic on operations. Join us to learn how to set up and conduct operations on your layout, no matter what size. In January we did prototype operation ideas from 3 professional railroad engineers that are also model builders. In February, Lee Bishop and Ry Bates presented Small Layout Operations. In April we will finish up the series with Using JMRI For Operations. We are compiling some great operations ides and will share an overview at the end of all the presentations.
The clinic will be presented in person at Panorama City:
1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA 98503
Basement of the Panorama Quinault building in the Seattle Room and on Zoom at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85050094529?pwd=[REDACTED]

Mount Vernon Clinic
2024-03-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland Ave, Mt Vernon, WA, 98273, United States

Westside Clinic
2024-04-08 17:30 - 19:30 | Kitsap Mall, 10315 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA, 98383, United States
Using the NMRA Standards Gauge, presented by Bert Cripe

Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island Clinic
2024-04-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
John Bentz photo presentation of prototype railroading in 1970s Cincinnati.

Olympia Clinic
2024-04-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
In the final instalment of our operations series Scott Nelson of the OMRS will discuss his switching layout and how he uses JMRI (a computer based operations generator) to operate his railroad operations.
Scott will describe and show his layout and talk about how he envisioned it to operate, then put that vision into JMRI to create the scenarios.
This clinic will give you both practical small railroad ideas and technical computer generated operational ideas. You won’t want to miss it.

Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island Clinic
2024-05-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
Mark Malmkar on Proto-Freelancing.

Westside Clinic
2024-05-13 17:30 - 19:30 | Kitsap Mall, 10315 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA, 98383, United States
Mystery Subject (TBD), presented by Steve Hauff, RR Author and World Traveler

Olympia Clinic
2024-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
4 ½ depots for the Port Townsend Southern
Brian Ferris will discuss a recent project of renovating depots on his Port Townsend Southern layout.
The goal in his project was to create detailed stations of prototypes that existed in the area he models. Brian will describe the design process as well as outline construction methods he used for each structure.
Brian’s presentation will inspire modelers to take the next step in building or revising structures on their layouts.

Topic: Olympia May Clinic
Time: May 17, 2024 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85050094529?pwd=[REDACTED]

Surrey Excursion, PNR Convention 2024
2024-05-22 - 2024-05-26 | Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, 15269 104th Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3R 1N5, Canada

G.O.P.H.E.R.S
2024-06-01 10:30 - 12:00 | DuPont Historical Museum, 207 Barksdale Avenue, DuPont, WA, 98327, United States
GOPHERS is the traditional end of the Olympia clinics season every June. This year we will be at the Dupont Museum in Dupont, WA. Space is limited, RSVP is mandatory. RSVP to jimsabol@msn.com
GOPHERS stands for Greater Olympia Prototype History & Engineering Research Society.
* See the historic narrow gauge cars rescued and restored by 4d members Robert Grove, Gary Lucas, Bob Miller, Roger Nulton, Mary Sabol, Jim Sabol, Russ Segner, and Fred Foreman project leader.
* Take a cab photo in the 12 ton three foot gauge Plymouth locomotive.
* Check out the 22′ box car used to carry explosives to the wharf.
* Gobble hot dogs and BYO soft drinks.
* Hike to the wharf
