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The June 2025 “Second Saturday” will feature an update by Kurt Laidlaw on how he started his N scale layout and its progress to date. As usual, we will open the Zoom meeting at 9:30am, and Kurt’s presentation will start at 10:00am, on Saturday, June 14. Here is the Zoom info needed to join the meeting:
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The June 2025 “Second Saturday” will feature an update by Kurt Laidlaw on how he started his N scale layout and its progress to date. Join us at 10:00am on Saturday, June 14. Here is the Zoom info needed to join the meeting on Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=ZHhIWnZGMUU0YnAwNVUvMENheEZSUT09
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577
Join us on Saturday morning, May 10, 2025, at 10:00am PST, for a layout tour of Jame Boyd’s HO scale Burlington Northern, set in the post-merger era of the 1970s. The layout is currently under construction and will depict Auburn and the west side of Stampede Pass. Jame will walk us through some of the design challenges he encountered and how he addressed them. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting online:
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Join us on Saturday morning, May 10, 2025, at 10:00am PST, for a layout tour of Jame Boyd’s HO scale Burlington Northern, set in the post-merger era of the 1970s. The layout is currently under construction and will depict Auburn and the west side of Stampede Pass. Jame will walk us through some of the design challenges he encountered and how he addressed them. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting online:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86448227895?pwd=e8cJoa3cMuqH1RQq1GrjEJ01GpSY5E.1
Meeting ID: 864 4822 7895
Passcode: 958304
Join us on Saturday morning, April 12, 2025, for a layout tour of Mike Stepner’s HO scale mining layout. Mike is an experienced layout builder in Puyallup, and his present layout hauls ore to a copper smelter, as well as interchanging traffic with the SP, somewhere in the desert. The meeting opens at 9:30am and the presentation will start at 10:00am. To join the meeting, here is the Zoom info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87210657142?pwd=ZHhIWnZGMUU0YnAwNVUvMENheEZSUT09
Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577
The March 2025 4dPNR Zoom Layout Tour on Saturday, March 8, will feature Jerry Boudreaux giving a presentation on layout planning and paperwork for operations. His agenda will be: 1) Recap of his (HO Santa Fe) layout with map, 2) track planning for ops, 3) track planning for auto-staging, 4) supporting paperwork, and 5) time for discussion.
As usual, we will open the meeting at 9:30am and his presentation will begin at 10:00. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting:
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577
Jerry Boudreaux will be our presenter at the March 2025 4dPNR Layout Tour. His presentation will focus on layout planning and operations design and paperwork, with time for discussion afterwards. As usual, we open the meeting at 9:30am and his presentation will begin at 10:00. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting:
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577
There is no Zoom layout tour this month, but we are planning to hold one on February 8. If you are interested in presenting your layout at future meetings, please get in touch with Lee Marsh, at marshhousewest@msn.com
Join us for Bill Messecar’s last presentation on his fine Santa Fe HO layout, before he demolishes it next year! Bill will show us how he built both the building and the layout, and how he plans to take it apart. The Zoom meeting will start at 9:30am for chit-chat, and his presentation will start at 10:00am, on Saturday, December 14. Here is the Zoom info to join the meeting:
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
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September’s “Second Saturday” Zoom layout tour has been postponed a month, due to the joint NP/GN convention layout tours taking place across the region on Sept 14. The next Zoom layout tour will be held at 10am on Saturday, October 12, featuring local modeler Kevin Wills. Kevin’s layout is a freelanced mainline extension of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific lines through the western Sierra Nevada mountain area roughly set in the 1980s. His 33’x13′ basement layout transits three levels, with staging, main yard with turntable and engine maintenance facilities, switching in various towns and long mainline stretches of track. A train can take up to an hour to transit the entire layout at scale speed. The mainline is fully signaled with a full-hardware CTC panel. A branch line is included in dark territory just to make it more interesting. Scenery is about 75-80% complete. Please plan to attend if you can.
As usual, we will open the Zoom meeting at 9:30am for fellowship and tech rehearsal, and Kevin’s presentation will start at 10:00am and last about an hour. We plan to post a recording of the event afterwards on the 4dPNRMovies YouTube channel.
Here is the Zoom info to join the live meeting on Saturday morning:
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 872 1065 7142
Passcode: 805577