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February’s 4dPNR Zoom layout tours will be given by Mike O’Connell and Al Lowe. Mike is the founder of Chooch and will show us his progress on his large O “Proto-48” fine-scale layout. Al Lowe will then update us on his N scale NTRAK modules. It should be a great morning. As usual, we open the meeting at 9:30am PST and start the first presentation at 10:00, ending the meeting between 11:30 and noon. The link to join the Zoom meeting is posted below:

Topic: 4dPNR February Layout Tours
Time: Feb 12, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Following on with our theme of show and tell about your favorite projects, we are focusing on rolling stock for the February clinic.  Do you have a favorite piece of rolling stock that you have scratchbuilt, kit bashed or simply super detailed and weathered.  Let’s see it in an open forum. 

Looking for volunteers to show off their work in about 5-10 minute segments.  This will be a similar format that we have done with our Caboose Clinic (youtube link).  Please contact Rich Blake at email “slugsmasher – At – oakharbor.net” and get on the crew list.  Looking for about five volunteers, first come first served.

Standard Zoom protocol for presenting, Powerpoint or photos preferred. Limit use of video as it doesn’t present very well in zoom. Holding up project in front of webcam or phone/tablet cam works also.

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4dpnrOrganizer SkagitValleyWhidbey is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Whidbey Clinic – Rolling Stock Bash

Time: Feb 9, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Eastside Virtual Clinic will be held on THURSDAY, January 20, 2022 at 7:00 PM (lobby opens at 6:45 PM) PDT

The Eastside Clinic is inviting everyone to the January Clinic to be held virtually on ZOOM this Thursday, January 20, starting at 7:00 PM with our virtual lobby opening at 6:45 PM.  Be sure and save the date for the January Eastside Clinic this Thursday!  The log in info for the clinic is below.    

Topic: Eastside Clinic for January 2022
Time: January 20, 2022, 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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This month’s clinic will be presented by Russ Segner and titled “A Look Back at Rail Served Industrial Buildings in South Seattle”.  This clinic is a follow on to Russ’ clinic recently about north Seattle rail served industrial buildings.  Russ will be using photos from the 70’s as well as Google Earth to look at scenes in south Seattle.  We will look at many building types and interesting trackage layouts for model building ideas.

Alex Brikoff, 01/18/2022    

By Ted Becker

Topic this month is the Mount Vernon Terminal Railroad by Al Carter. The MVTR is an active local shortline within the city of Mount Vernon. Al will cover some history plus current operations with photos and information from interviews with current owners of the railroad.

The future of the Mount Vernon Clinic is in your hands. We need clinicians. If you can prepare a slide show that can be displayed on your computer screen you can present that slide show on Zoom. Show us what you have been working on. Share any new tools or techniques. Doesn’t matter how short or how long. Email Ted Becker rail.bird@att.net with your ideas. Help is available with your presentation and trial sessions are easy to set up.

At this time we are not predicting when in-person clinics will resume.

4dpnrOrganizer MountVernon is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Mount Vernon Clinic, Jan. 2022
Time: Jan 17, 2022 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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The January clinic will have your news letter editor Cliff Aaker presenting a clinic on a Train Ferry that was scratch built to function much like a turntable at one end of a end-to-end layout. The ferry is scratch built to insure it’s function is thoroughly served. Topics will include aligning the track on a turntable like structure. the animation/control which in this case is an Arduino/servo and planning or lack thereof. If you have some “mini-clinic” material to share also that would be perfect.

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Topic: WHIDBEY CLINIC JAN 2022
Time: Jan 12, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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