Olympia November Clinic
2024-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81815554623?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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=[REDACTED]
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:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 818 1555 4623
Passcode: [REDACTED]

"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=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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: [REDACTED]

Ainsworth Connector, PNR Convention 2025
2025-05-09 - 2025-05-11
This annual Regional Convention will be May 9 – 11, 2025 in Pasco, Washington.
The Convention will offer self-guided layout tours, free-mo layouts, operating sessions, clinics, achievement program evaluations, and more!

Second Saturday Zoom layout tour featuring Jame Boyd's HO BN
2025-05-10 09:30 - 11:00 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Join us on Saturday morning, May 10, 2025, at 10:00am PST, for a layout tour of Jame Boyd’s HO scale Burlington Northern, set in the post-merger era of the 1970s. The layout is currently under construction and will depict Auburn and the west side of Stampede Pass. Jame will walk us through some of the design challenges he encountered and how he addressed them. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting online:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86448227895?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 864 4822 7895
Passcode: [REDACTED]

4D Eastside Get Together clinic
2025-05-15 19:00 - 20:00
Our Eastside Get Together will be this Thursday 5/15 at 7:00 PM. Sort of snuck up on both Russ and myself. 3rd Thusday of the month already!

Russ will present photos of a recent trip to Promontory Utah (Joining of the rails in 1869). He has photos of the shops there as well as some spectacular HO layouts in the Salt Lake City area while he was there for the Sn3 Symposium.
We may have time enough for others if you would like to share any recent experiences or provide status or update on your own model railroads. Any photos would be most welcome. We would love to hear how everyone is doing!
Of course we will also have time to share any timely announcements.
Please contact Doug and/or Russ if you have any suggestions for future meetings.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Doug and Russ

Board of Directors Meeting
2025-05-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Renton Community Center, 1715 Maple Valley Highway, Renton, WA, 98057

Boeing Employees Model Railroad Open House
2025-05-24 10:00 - 18:00 | BEMRRC, 425 SW 153rd Street, Burien, WA, 98166, United States
The Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club (BEMRRC) is having an open house. This is one of only a few days each year for the public to come see the layout. For more details see the link below.
BEMRRC
