Olympia October Clinic
2024-10-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Topic will be East Bay Area Trains, Museums Models and More.
In May, Scott Buckley and Greg Wright attended the PCR convention in San Jose. One month later, Greg Wright attended O Scale West in San Jose. The two of them will present stories and pictures from 2 conventions, 2 train rides, and multiple layout tours.
Hope to see you at Panorama or on-line
PANORAMA CITY
Address: 1751 Circle Ln SE
Lacey, WA 98503
Our clinic will be in the basement auditorium of the Panorama Quinault Apartment building known as the Seattle Room (across the hall from our old meeting room).

Zoom link.
Topic: Olympia Clinic
Time: October 18, 2024 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Maple Valley 26th Annual Model Train Show
2024-10-19 10:00 - 2024-10-20 17:00 | Gracie Hansen Community Center, 27132 Ravensdale Way, Ravensdale, WA, 98051, United States
26th ANNUAL MODEL TRAIN SHOW
FAMILY FUN WITH MODEL TRAINS AND REGIONAL HISTORY
OCTOBER 19-20, 2024
The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council (GMVUAC) will hold its annual Model Train Show on October 19th and 20th at the Gracie Hansen Community Center in Ravensdale (27132 Ravensdale Way, Ravensdale, WA) from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 10 am to 4 pm on Sunday.
There will be operating model train layouts in many popular gauges. There will be an exhibit from the Black Diamond Museum depicting local history, including transportation, timber, and mining.
The show is fun for the entire family. If you have questions about model railroading the exhibitors are happy to try to answer them.
There will be plenty of free parking. The suggested donation for the train show is $5.00 for adults and $2.00 for children ages 3-11.
The train show is sponsored by your GMVUAC. Visit our table at the train show. We have monthly Council meetings that are open to the public. The dates are listed on our website. GMVUAC is a Washington non-profit corporation and is not any type of 501c charitable organization under the IRS code.
Gracie Hansen Community Center is made available courtesy of Rock Creek Sports.

Vancouver Train Expo 2024
2024-11-02 10:00 - 2024-11-03 17:00 | Pacific National Exhibition, 2901 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V5K 5J1, Canada
Operating model train displays in all sizes, modeling demonstrations,
activities for children of all ages, vendors and much more!

Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club Annual Swap Meet
2024-11-09 09:30 - 16:00 | Kent Commons Community Center, 525 4th Avenue North, Kent, WA, 98030, United States
Enjoy our train show and swap meet with more than 250 tables and many vendors selling new and used model trains, railroad collectibles, and more.

Whidbey Clinic - Virtual Railroading Steam Simulation
2024-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States

Olympia November Clinic
2024-11-15 19:00 - 20:30
Jim Younkins will present:

“Small Easy Scratch Building Projects for Your Railroad”.
Jim will show pictures of some of the small details that he has built over the years and talk about how and why he built them.

Hope to see you at Panorama or on-line
PANORAMA CITY
Address: 1751 Circle Ln SE
Lacey, WA 98503
Our clinic will be in the basement auditorium of the Panorama Quinault Apartment building known as the Seattle Room (across the hall from our old meeting room).

Zoom link.
Topic: Olympia Clinic
Time: November 15 2024 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
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Eastside Clinic
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:00

Longview, Kelso & Rainier MRR Club Model Train and Toy Swap Meet
2024-11-23 10:00 - 16:00 | Cowlitz County Event Center, 1900 7th Ave, Longview, WA, 98626, United States

Whidbey Clinic - Wassail and Vintage RR Slide Show with Mark Malmkar
2024-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States

Olympia December Clinic
2024-12-13 19:00 - 20:30
The December Olympia Clinic is one week earlier than normal due to the holidays. The clinic will be at 7:00 pm on Friday, December 13, in person at Panorama and via Zoom. Directions to the usual venue and the Zoom link are below.
Our topic is something special from the modelers at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma.
“PSMRE – From Dream to Reality” presented by Steve Carter
Come and see what it takes to build a model empire that is open to the public and also fills the club’s desire to build and operating railroad.

Hope to see you at Panorama or on-line
PANORAMA CITY
Address: 1751 Circle Ln SE
Lacey, WA 98503
Our clinic will be in the basement auditorium of the Panorama Quinault Apartment building known as the Seattle Room (across the hall from our old meeting room).
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81815554623?pwd=Yj24UobguBJR3cRvWVV43bk5UhCV23.1
Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
Passcode: 425180

Virtual Layout Tour
2024-12-14 09:30 - 11:00
Join us for a “Second Saturday” Layout Tour online Zoom meeting. This is our monthly layout tour where we will be presented a local or remote layout.
Zoom meeting opens at 9:30am with some chit chat, and the layout tour starts 10:00am promptly.
Invitation with Zoom link will be sent out separately to members of 4DPNR.
You can see previous Layout Tours on our YouTube Layout Tour playlist here.

Bill Messecar's "Second Saturday" Zoom layout tour
2024-12-14 09:30 - 11:30
Bill Messecar will present an overview of how he built his fine HO scale Santa Fe layout, and how he plans to tear it down next year. The meeting opens at 9:30am and Bill’s presentation starts at 10:00. Here is the Zoom info to join:
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577

Eastside Clinic
2024-12-18 19:00 - 20:00
Our program this month will be on WEDNESDAY 18th of December. We will feature a presentation by John Morrison about his 1/24” outdoor layout in Kirkland.

John builds almost all of his locomotives and rolling stock. Locomotives are battery powered. John will tell us how he built it all.
The Clinic begins at 7PM, so join us for information about upcoming train events. Share what you are modeling and what you are hoping, or expecting for this Christmas.
The link will be published to all on our list. If you want to be on our email list, contact Russ Segner at russseg@gmail.com

Tacoma 28th Annual Model Train Festival
2024-12-20 - 2025-01-01 | Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA, 98402, United States
The annual Model Train Festival will take place Dec 20 – Jan 1 at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. Several NMRA 4D layouts will be on display together with several other layouts including European layouts.
This is a great event for the whole family and especially for kids, parents and grandparents.

Whidbey Clinic - Roofs and How they are Made
2025-01-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
Learn about vintage roofing materials and how they were made. Explore modeling techniques for roofs on structures with Cliff Aaker.

Great American Train Show, Ridgefield, WA
2025-01-11 - 2025-01-12 | Clark County Event Center, 17402 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, WA, 98642, United States
The Nation’s largest traveling train show, with events each year in dozens of major cities across the country. Each show features hundreds of tables of trains for sale, huge operating displays, activities for kids and more.

Eastside Clinic
2025-01-16 19:00 - 20:30
Our clinic this Thursday will feature several of our group sharing something of their current model railroading.
Alex Brikoff will show photos of his Milwaukee Road layout of the Othello area. He will also demonstrate his new control system. John Thompson will share progress on his new HO layout featuring the Santa Fe in Victorville, California. He will also show photos of the layouts at the Tacoma History Museum over the holidays. Di Voss will show his latest project of creating an HO scale Streetcar, circa. 1900, that he printed on a 3D printer. Di now lives in an “Over 55 Retirement Community” in Arizona, where one club has a 5 color 3D printer.
Finally, I share photos of my collection of HO steam D&RGW locomotives. Come join us and share what you have been modeling.
If you are not on our list, contact me at russseg@gmail.com or Doug Oldenburg at douglas.oldenburg@yahoo.com for the link to the meeting.

Olympia January Clinic
2025-01-17 17:30 - 20:30
Olympia, January 2025, Clinic will include dinner on Friday, January 17 at Panorama in Lacey.
RSVP by January 15 if you are joining us for dinner! RSVP to gregorywright2002@yahoo.com
Dinner and meeting will be at:
Seventeen51 Restaurant and Bistro (at Panorama)
1751 Circle Lane SE, Lacey WA, 98503
Meal includes salad, bread, potatoes, chicken marsala, roast sirloin, dessert and coffee or soda, all for $27.00 A cash bar is also available for other drinks. Please feel free to share this announcement with any model railroaders you know that don’t typically attend the Olympia Clinic.
Guest Speaker: Bob Stafford, retired prototype yardmaster will share his perspective on:
“Applying prototype operations to model railroad yard operations”
Schedule:
4:45 Room and bar opens
5:30 Food Service begins
6:30 Zoom begins (Zoom link below if you can’t come in person)
6:45 Clinic begins
8:30 or 9:00 Clinic ends
Please join us in person for a fun and informative evening. If you can’t come in person, join us via Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
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Great American Train Show, Puyallup, WA
2025-01-18 - 2025-01-19 | Washington State Fair, 110 9th Avenue SW, Puyallup, WA, 98371, United States

Grays Harbor 4th Annual Railroad Swap Meet and Train Show
2025-02-08 10:00 - 2025-02-09 15:00 | Grays Harbor County Fairgrounds, 32 Elma McCleary Rd, Elma, WA, 98541, United States

Whidbey Clinic TBA
2025-02-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States

Eastside Clinic, Dupont Flat Cars
2025-02-20 19:00 - 20:00
Russ Segner will present parts of a clinic he did on the rebuild of two flat cars for a Dynamite Train at Dupont, WA.
Contact Doug Oldenburg at douglas.oldenburg@yahoo.com for Zoom details.

Olympia Clinic
2025-02-21 19:00 - 20:30
OLYMPIA CLINIC is Friday, February 21, 7:00 pm (doors open by 6:45 or earlier)
The Dupont Boxcar has been restored!
A real narrow gauge boxcar that ran just 25 miles from Olympia.
Join Fred Forman for pictures and description of the process.
OLYMPIA MODEL RAILROAD CLINIC; NEW LOCATION AT PANORAMA CITY!!
(Address: 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA 98503)
Our clinic will be in the basement auditorium of the Panorama Quinault Apartment building known as the Seattle Room (across the hall from our old meeting room).
OR
Join Zoom Meeting (Online about 6:45)
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81815554623?pwd=Yj24UobguBJR3cRvWVV43bk5UhCV23.1
Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623

32nd Washington State Model Railroad Show & Marketplace, Monroe, WA
2025-02-22 - 2025-02-23 | Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Avenue SE, Monroe, WA, 98272, United States
United NorthWest Model Railroad Club Presents:
The 32nd Washington State Model Railroad Show & Marketplace
Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe WA
United NorthWest Model Railroad Club is proud to present the
32nd Washington State Model Railroad Show & Marketplace benefiting the Snohomish County 4-H Foundation on February 22nd & 23rd, 2025.
Join us on February 22 and 23, 2025, at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA, in the same location as last year.
The Washington State Model Railroad Show is an all-scale model railroad event, featuring layouts and items for sale across a wide range of scales, including G scale, O scale, S scale, HO scale, N scale, and Z scale. The event also showcases 7-1/2 inch gauge live-steam operating trains. As the largest all-scale model train show on the West Coast, it remains one of the few events in the country dedicated to raising funds in support of youth programs.
Over the past three decades, the United NorthWest Model Railroad Club has raised nearly $350,000 for charitable organizations, with a focus on supporting youth development.

4dPNR "Second Saturday" Layout Tour Zoom is Jerry Boudreaux on layout design for operations
2025-03-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Jerry Boudreaux will be our presenter at the March 2025 4dPNR Layout Tour. His presentation will focus on layout planning and operations design and paperwork, with time for discussion afterwards. As usual, we open the meeting at 9:30am and his presentation will begin at 10:00. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting:
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
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Whidbey Clinic - Fun with Foam
2025-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
Methods of constructing scenery with pink foam material.

Olympia March Clinic
2025-03-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
Olympia March Clinic will be by a new presenter, Russell Kerr. Russell will be demonstrating how to build a slip switch using FastTrack tools. Russell will concentrate on the tools and the NMRA gauge to make derailment free turnouts. Russell is working towards his MMR so look forward to a very informative presentation.
This will be a hybrid clinic, Zoom and in person. Please join us and our new presenter!
Topic: Olympia Clinic, Building Turnouts
Time: March 14, 2025 7:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
PANORAMA CITY
Address: 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA 98503
Our clinic will be in the basement auditorium of the Panorama Quinault Apartment building known as the Seattle Room (across the hall from our old meeting room).

Or Join Zoom Meeting (Online about 6:45)
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81815554623?pwd=Yj24UobguBJR3cRvWVV43bk5UhCV23.1
Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
Passcode: 425180

"Second Saturday" Zoom Layout Tour featuring Mike Stepner's HO mining layout
2025-04-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Join us on Saturday, April 12, 2025, for a layout tour of Mike Stepner’s HO scale mining layout. The meeting opens at 9:30am and the presentation will start at 10:00am. To join the meeting, here is the Zoom info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=ZHhIWnZGMUU0YnAwNVUvMENheEZSUT09
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577

Olympia April Clinic
2025-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Panorama City Seattle Room, 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
Heritage Railways in England
Brian Ferris
Great Britain has done an exceptional job of preserving their railway history. Pristinely restored steam engines and rolling stock regularly run over charming rail lines located in the English countryside. This clinic will cover a trip to 4 English heritage railways Brian visited in June of 2024. Brief rail history along with operational practices will be included in the presentation. Join us at 7:00pm on April 18 for a trip across the pond to see some British trains!
This will be a hybrid clinic, Zoom and in person.
Topic: Olympia Clinic, English Heritage Railways
Time: Apr 18, 2025 7:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
PANORAMA CITY
Address: 1751 Circle Ln SE, Lacey, WA 98503
Our clinic will be in the basement auditorium of the Panorama Quinault Apartment building known as the Seattle Room (across the hall from our old meeting room).

Or Join Zoom Meeting (Online about 6:45)

Topic: Olympia Clinic
Time: Apr 18, 2025 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
Passcode: 425180
