Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island Clinic
2024-01-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States

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 | 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

"Second Saturday" 4dPNR Layout Tour Zoom
2024-01-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Greg Wright, from Olympia, WA, will give us an update on Saturday, January 13, 2024, on his new outdoor F scale garden railway, which has been hosting regular operating sessions. You can expect to be inspired as well as to get an itch to do something similar in your own backyard (if you have one)! This Zoom-only presentation will start at 10:00 am PST, and we will open the meeting at 9:30 for meet and greet. Here is the information on how to join the meeting:

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142 Passcode: [REDACTED]

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.

3rd Annual Railroad Swap Meet & Train Show
2024-02-10 - 2024-02-11 | Grays Harbor County Fairgrounds, 32 Elma McCleary Rd, Elma, WA, 98541, United States

"Second Saturday" 4dPNR Layout Tour Zoom
2024-02-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Join us on February 10 at 10am for a layout tour by Chuck Lee, covering his HO scale Colorado Front Range RR. The pike is based on Denver, CO and features local industries such as the massive Coors operation, features 3D-printed and LED-lit models, such as Denver’s Union Station, and even includes a full-size CTC control panel for the dispatcher.
This Zoom-only presentation will start at 10:00 am PST, and we will open the meeting at 9:30 for meet and greet. Here is the Zoom link to join the event:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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 | 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.

31th Annual Washington State Train Show
2024-02-24 10:00 - 17:00 | Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Avenue SE, Monroe, WA, 98272, United States

31st Annual Washington State Train Show
2024-02-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Avenue SE, Monroe, WA, 98272, United States

"Second Saturday" 4dPNR Layout Tour Zoom on Jerry Boudreaux's Santa Fe HO layout
2024-03-09 10:00 - 11:30 | WA
March’s 4dPNR Zoom layout tour is going to inspire you for sure! Long freights often exceeding 50 cars and 6 units, 14 car passenger trains with sparkling warbonnets in the lead, and southwest mountain scenery punctuate the Pasquinel Division of the Santa Fe Railroad. This 1200 square foot HO scale model railroad running thru the wilds of 1967 Arizona features a 650 foot mainline, large yard, and a number of smaller towns. The Pasquinel is fully operational and 14 person crews keep it humming once per month. Come join us next Saturday (March 9) for a trip thru the red cliffs and distant mountain vistas of northern Arizona. Jerry Boudreaux will show us his framing, track plans, electrical, scenery techniques, trains, and even operations forms. This Zoom-only presentation will start at 10:00 am PST, and we will open the meeting at 9:30 for meet and greet. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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 | 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.

"Second Saturday" 4dPNR Layout Tour Zoom
2024-04-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
For the April “second Saturday Zoom”, Todd VonStup will update us on his progress on his N scale MRL-themed layout. This Zoom-only presentation will start at 10:00 am PST, and we will open the meeting at 9:30 for meet and greet. Here is the Zoom link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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.
