Welcome to the 4th Division

Olympia Clinic
2024-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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!

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

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

Eastside Virtual Clinic
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)

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.

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.

"Second Saturday" 4dPNR Layout Tour Zoom with Jerry Boudreaux
2024-05-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Zoom Meeting (link in GrabIron)
Join us on Saturday, May 11, for a continuation of Jerry Boudreau’s informative and humorous briefing on his HO Santa Fe layout in central Oregon. He will start with a brief overview of the layout, followed by details on how he organizes and runs regular operating sessions. He shows some interesting forms and methods that could you help take your own operations to a new level.

The meeting will open at 9:30am PST and Jerry’s presentation begins at 10am and runs for about an hour. We will also record it and post it to the 4dPNRMovies YouTube channel. If you missed his first presentation in March, here is a link to that presentation, well worth watching if you haven’t seen it (it is so good, it has already been watched over 3400 times!): https://youtu.be/sGjaFgxJeUA

The link to join his second presentation on May 11 is here
Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142Passcode: [REDACTED]
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142

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

Spring Meet 2024
2024-06-08 07:30 - 17:00 | Northwest Railway Museum, 38625 SE King Street, Snoqualmie, WA, 98065, United States
The schedule will be:
7:30 to 8:30 am – Registration at the North Bend Depot
8:30 to 9:00 am – Train Ride from North Bend to Museum
9:00 to 9:10 am – Gathering Time
9:10 to 10:00 am – Clinics 1 and 2
10:10 to 11:00 am – Clinics 3 and 4
11:10 to 12:00 noon – Clinics 5 and 6
12:00 to 1:00 pm – Lunch and Annual Meeting
1:00 to 1:30 pm – Free Time at the Museum
1:30 to 2:00 pm – Return Train Ride to North Bend
2:00 to 3:00 pm – Travel Time
3:00 to 5:00 pm – Layout Open Houses

National Convention 2024 - SurfLiner
2024-08-04 - 2024-08-11 | WA
Hosted at the The Westin Long Beach in Long Beach California.

National Convention 2025 - STATION No. VI
2025-07-14 - 2025-07-19 | WA
The annual National Model Train Convention is July 14 – 19, 2025 at the Sheraton Hotel in Novi, MI. There will be clinics, workshops, operating sessions, 60 model train layouts to visit, prototype tours and much more.

Whidbey Clinic
2024-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277, United States
