By Jeff Moorman

Our next meeting is Thursday, October 6. Time and place are at the end of this blog.

If you like HO, last month’s meeting had one of the best marts seen in some time. A variety of rolling stock, motive power, and structures were all looking for new homes.

Seattle-North’s first operational HO gauge T-Trak modules were shown. Jeff brought his newly-built straight and corner with just the inside track installed. The first “train” run on them was a test drive of a locomotive being offered at the mart. Jeff is thinking that if no one else is going to build in HO, maybe he’ll convert these modules to a On30 diorama.

October’s meeting should see the first complete layout loop of Seattle-North N gauge T-Trak modules. We did this once before, but had to borrow a couple of corners to make it work. This time it should be all Seattle-North and you’ll see a few modules you have never seen before. If there is something you have been wanting to run in N gauge, bring it along and we’ll work out a dirt cheap right-of-way leasing agreement for 5 or 100 minutes.

We’ll start our discussion of DCC in October as well. This will be an introduction and Q & A to determine just what we want to have covered at later meetings. For that we have a clinician lined up – we just need to tell him exactly what we want to learn about DCC.

We meet at the Ronald United Methodist Church, 17839 Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline, WA. That is on the west side of Aurora (State Route 99) between 175th and 185th Streets and more specifically, between the Cadillac dealer on the south and Deseret Industries to the north. Most of the construction along this stretch of Aurora is now completed, but you may no longer make cross-traffic turns. You need to be going southbound (so you can make a right-hand turn into the church driveway immediately after passing the Deseret location).

Meetings are the first Thursday of each month, except July and August. However, in June we usually do a tour. For regular meetings enter the lower level of the church from the parking lot at the rear. Doors open around 7:00 PM, announcements at 7:15, and the program starts about 7:30. Hope to see you there or at least sometime on down the line.

The next meeting is October 6 and the one after that is November 3.