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By Ted Becker

The Mount Vernon Clinic for Sept. 2021 will be held VIA Zoom at 7:00pm, Monday September 20, 2021. Topic this month will be Nick Muff showing us how he put a F7 Diesel cab in his basement. Meeting will start sometime between 6:30 and 6:45.

Topic for October is TBD. Anyone who wants to share what they have been doing in the hobby is welcome to do so. Contact Ted Becker at rail.bird@att.net to let him know you have something to share.

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

Topic: September Mount Vernon Clinic
Time: Sep 20, 2021 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Eastside Virtual Clinic will be held on THURSDAY, September 16, 2021 at 7:00 PM (lobby opens at 6:45 PM ) PDT

With the cooler days of fall beckoning, it’s time to return to our train rooms as well as the fall and winter line up of 4D sponsored Clinics.  So, I’d like to invite everyone to the first Eastside Clinic of the 2021 – 22 season to be held virtually on ZOOM this Thursday, September 16, starting at 7:00 PM with our virtual lobby opening at 6:45 PM.  Be sure and save the date for the September Eastside Clinic this Thursday!  The log in info for the clinic is below.    

Topic: Eastside Clinic for September 2021
Time: September 16, 2021, 06:45 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Our Clinic this month will be “Comparing HO and OO Scales” presented by Robin Peel.   Robin will be discussing and comparing the similarities and differences between HO and OO scales.  I’m sure that if you’ve ever wondered what the differences are between the two scales (because they are similar), then Robin will be able to clear up any confusion you might have. 

After the Clinic, there will be an opportunity for everyone to show off their latest model work that they’ve been working on over the summer in our “Show and Brag” event. 

Alex Brikoff, 09/14/2021    

By Ted Becker

The next session will be held Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 4:00pm via Zoom. Topic for this week is controlling servos with toggle switches for throwing turnouts.

Subscribe to the group at: https://groups.io/g/MR-Duino. Most communication concerning the sessions will be conducted via that group. Links to the sessions will still be posted here in the GrabIron.

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

Topic: Arduino Session
Time: Sep 14, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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September’s 4DPNR Zoom layout tours will be presented by Dave Yaddock MMR and Gary Jordan MMR. Dave has been building a large scenery-oriented HO layout modeling a mountain section of the west, based loosely on John Allen’s famous layout, and Gary’s layout is a relatively small O scale layout in which he managed to fit three different track gauges while modeling the Gilpin Tram in the Colorado Rockies. Gary’s presentation will focus on how he has set up his layout for virtual operators running his trains remotely from their home computers.

The link for joining the Zoom meeting on Saturday morning is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82255870159?pwd=c3RsRU1LbFh3R3FaOHF6UDVydzhSUT09

As usual, we will open the meeting around 9:30am and start the formal presentations at 10:00.

To watch recordings of our previous 4DPNR Zoom layout tours, visit www.youtube.com/c/4dpnrmovies

By Ted Becker

The Arduino sessions are starting up again. A dozen people have shown interest by subscribing to the IO Group set up for these sessions so I am going forward with them. Subscribe to the group at: https://groups.io/g/MR-Duino. Most communication concerning the sessions will be conducted via that group. Links to the sessions will still be posted here in the GrabIron.

The first session of the new season will be held Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 4:00pm via Zoom. Topic this session will primarily a discussion of what topics to cover in the future.

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

Topic: Arduino Session, Sept. 7, 2021
Time: Sep 7, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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The website for the Seattle 2022 National Narrow Gauge Convention, to be held in Tacoma, WA next September 1-4, is now live at seattlenngc.com. If you haven’t done so already, take a look. We plan to have a very full program of layouts, vendors and clinics. The 4th Division is participating in a big way.

I am the Clinics Coordinator. So here is a chance for you to present a clinic on a national stage. Not a narrow gauge modeler? Well, structures, trees, people and water work for any gauge and some of our members here are outstanding modelers.

Are you interested in presenting a clinic? Please let me know. I am available to chat online most anytime to answer any questions.

Russ Segner
russseg@gmail.com

We will have an online session this Saturday at 1000 to discuss how to make our meetings better. We will talk about how to prepare a presentation and how to present it.

Even if you are already comfortable with presenting, join us to share your experience. We also want suggestions on future topics for clinics and general meetings.

This meeting is for all members, not just leadership, so get involved and share your ideas and experience.

Zoom will be with us for some time, so let’s do our best to communicate with each other and the public.

Russ

Here is the link to the meeting:

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Topic: 4D Zoom Planning
Time: Sep 4, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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One of the cool things about chairing this clinic is that it’s the first Thursday of the month, which means we sometimes get to do the “new” things FIRST, like having the first ever virtual clinic during COVID for the 4th Division.

But one of worst thing about chairing this clinic is that it is the FIRST Thursday of the month, especially when that Thursday falls on the 1st or 2nd. I swear it ALWAYS creeps up on me.

Please join me this Thursday, September 2, for the next Virtual North End Clinic at 7pm. As Russ Segner’s recent Grab Iron post said, it looks like we will continue to have virtual clinics for some time, so we will be meeting over Zoom.

This month’s topic is one we typically have every September: What I Did (Train Related) This Summer.

Some of us were fortunate enough to get a bit of traveling in before the Delta surge hit, while others continued to sequester themselves at home and work on their layouts. Regardless of where you spent July and August, if you did something train-related, bring your photos and/or projects to share with the group virtually.

We will also chat about the upcoming train show season and share the latest news we know about them.

Here’s the link to the Zoom meeting:

Topic: North Seattle Virtual Clinic – September ’21
Time: Sep 2, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Meeting ID: 863 7491 2966
Passcode: 468089

Even though we won’t be able to see each other in person, I am looking forward to seeing everyone after a few months off. See you Thursday!

Lisa Murray
Chair, North End Clinic