Newsletter - January 26th, 2008

Southern Pacific Passenger Cars – Volume 3: Head End Equipment – Published by the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society – Price: $124.95

Atlas – Silver – GE B23-7 – Union Pacific and Southern Pacific - Price: $149.95

**Next Weekend** Saturday and Sunday – February 2^nd and 3^rd, 2008 – 17^th Annual Train Show & Swap Meet – United NorthWest Model Railroad Club’s 17^th Annual Train Show & Swap Meet. Same Great Show! New Weekend & New Venue. Featuring over 14 operating layouts, and over 100 Swap tables. Plus Raffle prizes, and more!

Located in Building 100(Arena) at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, Washington

Proceeds Benefit EquiFriends. A therapeutic Equestrian program for people with disabilities.

For more information and table reservations email Showinfo@unwclub.org & Swaptables@unwclub.org or visit www.unwclub.org

Saturday and Sunday – February 16^th and 17^th – The Great Trains Expo –

Saturday – February 23^rd, 2008 – 23^rd Annual Railroad Swap Meet – The Willamette Model Railroad Club presents 23^rd Annual Railroad Swamp Meet

Saturday, March 1^st, 2008 – Prototype Modeling Mini-Meet – Are you a Prototype Modeler, looking for other Prototype Modelers to share your interests, models, and skills with?

Come join us for a private function Prototype Modeler Mini-Meet. You must bring at least one model that you have built (any scale, any era), and an interest in discussing your rivet counting ways with others. If response is great enough, it may grow into a quarterly club, or a larger meet.
Registration fee is $10 and lunch (pizza & soft drinks) will be provided! Meet will be in Beaverton area. Address provided with payment of registration fee.

Limited to the first 12 individuals who RSVP to

Jim Hayes 503-644-2356 jimandlisa97225@verzion.net
or
Bob Cromwell 360-931-3265 cromwellr@earthlink.net

Thursday - March 6^th - Spaghetti Dinner at Rickreall Grange Hall! 5pm-7pm A third chance to come visit us at Polk Station Rail! Nothing like good food & trains!

Saturday – March 8^th, 2008 – Mount Hood Model Engineers Train Operating Day – Having trouble keeping your trains on track? Do you have some older trains that have not been run for a while? Did you get a new train set for Christmas? If you can say “yes!” to any of these questions, then the Mount Hood Model Engineers have a deal for you. Bring you HO train set in to our layout and our team of expert model railroader engineers will give it a thorough going-over and let you run it around the tracks. We’ll check the wheel gauge, coupler height, car weight, and engine performance and then let you loose on our 1000 square foot HO scale layout.

Location:
5500 SE Belmont Street
Portland, Oregon 97215

Time:
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Noon to 4:30 PM

Saturday – March 15^th, 2008 – Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress – LOGGING and WOOD PRODUCTS MODELERS and HISTORIANS! We proudly present the FOURTH annual Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress. A full day of special Speakers and clinics. Models and dioramas – on display and in competition – Make sure to bring yours! It is promised to be a round table bull session on all subjects involving the NorthWest wood products industry – its History, Preservation, and Modeling. Vendors will be present selling logging related merchandise.

Friends – As before, pre-registration is not necessary, but if you intent to vend, please understand that the space is LIMITED! You can reserve a table of a half table by calling Lon Wall at the number listed below.
All vending is strictly limited to logging related items! And will be available on a first reserved-first served basis!
Food is available on the premises – and it’s darn good – Come early for breakfast!

Admission/Cost of Tables:
Tables to sell at $25.00, ½ table $15.00 – limit one table per person.
General Admission: $10.00 per person

Clinics:
FIRST CLASS CLINICS!(As of press time) tba

Location:
Camp 18 Restaurant
Elsie, Oregon – 18 Miles east of Seaside, Oregon on Hwy 26

Time:
Official program begins at 9AM sharp. Plan to spend the whole day.

Contact/More information:
www.pacificmodelloggerscongress.com

Lon Wall – 503-434-1648
Jeff Johnston – 541-485-8203

Saturday and Sunday – April 12^th and 13^th, 2008 – 20^th Annual Model Railroad Show and Swap Meet – Operating Train Layouts in a variety of scales – 22,000 square feet of trains, parts, novelties, and memorabilia for sale – over 250 vendor tables representing 9 states – Operation Lifesaver display and educational info – Hourly door prizes for public.

Saturday at 7:30 AM
Sunday at 8:30 AM
Optional Setup Day – Friday April 11^th at 10 AM to 10 PM

Adults: $5.00 each
Kids 10 years and under free with adult
(Good for both days with ticket)
$10 Early Bird Special (9 AM)

Lee & Diane Temple
Telephone: 541-954-4917 or 541-225-7394
PO Box 41267
Eugene, Oregon 97404-0327
ttandt@ram-mail.com

Saturday and Sunday – April 26^th and 27^th – Trains, Trains, and more Trains Train Show and Spring Meet - Multi-faceted train how that will be of interest to beginning modelers, intermediate/advanced modelers and families.

Come, see and participate in Layouts of all sizes, Vendors and Swap Tables, Hands on Activities for Kids, Railroad oriented entertainment, Railroad oriented educational activities, Clinics for beginning and advanced modelers, and Modeling contests.

Hours:
Saturday, April 26 - 10AM until 5PM (early admission to vendors and exhibitors at 8:30 for added fee)
Sunday, April 27 - 10AM until 4PM

Location:
Puyallup Fair and Events Center
Pavilion and Expo Halls,
9th and Meridian
Puyallup, WA

For more information please visit http://www.ttmtshow.com

Saturday - October 11^th, 2008 - Train Show and Swamp Meet - Lewis County Historical Museum in Conjunction with the Lewis Country Model Railroad Club “Train Show and Swap Meet” - Same weekend as the community garage sales at the fairgrounds.

Saturday – December 6^th, 2008 – Railroad Show and Swap Meet – Sponsored by the Willamette Valley Model Railroad Club - Over 100 Tables – Kids Layout to operate – All scales of trains – Information on local historical societies and clubs – Inexpensive Food!

Place:
Polk County Fairgrounds, Rickreall
Hwy 22 and HWY 99E
10 miles west of Salem

Scale:        HO
Control:     DCC
Layout:      Modular
Meeting:    Saturdays at 10:00AM until 12:00 pm
                Alternating Fridays: See Website for schedule

Contact:    Mitch Zeller (503) 642-3979
                12755 S.W. Beaverdam Rd, Beaverton, OR
                http://www.aloharail.org/

Scale:        HO, HOn3, HOn30 and Traction.
Control:     Both Analog and NCE DCC
Layout:    Permanent and Modular
Location: Alpenrose Dairy’s Dairyville
                6149 SW Shattuck Road
                Portland, OR 97221
Meeting:    Wed. & Fridays 6PM to 9PM
Holiday Open House: Dec 2, 9, 16 from 1pm to 5pm

Contact:    Ned Loos (503) 644-0926
                PO Box 1502
                Beaverton, OR 97075-1502

Scale:        HO (N scale is being planned)
Control:     DCC
Layout:      Permanent
Meeting:    Tuesdays and Thursday 5PM-7PM

Contact:    Ed Sallia    (503) 203-5112
                Catlin Gabel School
                8805 SW Barnes Rd
                Portland, OR 97225

Scale:        HO
Control:     DC and Partially DCC
Layout:      Permanent
Meeting:    Tuesdays 7PM-9PM

Contact:    (503)-28-TRAIN (503-288-7246)
                2505 N. Vancouver Avenue
                Portland, OR 97227-1949

Contact:    1St VP Alan Belanger (503) 556-3415 or
                2nd VP Kerry King      (360) 274-8157
                PO Box 904
                Rainier, Oregon 97048

Scale:        HO
Control:     Part Analog and part DCC
Layout:      Permanent
Meeting:    Tuesdays 7PM-9:30PM

Contact:    Don Mills    (877) 378-6563 (Voice Mail)
                5500 SE Belmont St
                Portland, OR 97215
                MHMENG@aol.com

Contact:    c/o Brian Rice, President
                2898 Livingston Street NE
                Salem, Or 97303
                bruploco@comcast.net ; 503-365-9516

Scale:        7 ½" Gauge
Control:     Steam
Layout:      Permanent (More than ½ mile of track)
Meeting:    Third Saturday of the Month

Contact:    (503) 829-6866
                31803 S. Shady Dell Dr
                Molalla, OR 97038

Scale:        N and N Traction
Control:     Analog (converting a portion to Digitrax DCC)
Layout:    Permanent and Modular (NTrak Standard)
Location: Alpenrose Dairy
Meeting:    Thursdays – 7PM until 9PM
Holiday Open House: Dec 2, 9, 16 from 1pm to 5pm

Contact:    Brian Hester / Secretary       (503) 246-3987
                PO Box 6327
                Portland, OR 97228-6327

Scale:        O/O-27 Gauge and O- Scale
Control:     Lionel TMCC and MTH DCS
Layout:      Permanent – Nine separate sets of tracks
Meeting:    Third Sunday of the Month (unless Easter falls on that date)
Location:   Basement of Aloha Mall
                185th Ave. and Tualatin Valley Highway

Contact: President – Steve D’Ambrosia – 503-658-4383
Vice President – Rick Rose – 503-357-0592

Scale:        1 ½" Scale Engines
                7.25" or 7.5" Gauge Track
Control:     Gas Engine
Layout       Permanent
Meeting:    2^nd and 4^th Sunday of each month (see Website for scheduled days for riding the train)

Scale:        HO
Control:     Both Analog and DCC
Layout:      Permanent and a portable one for display
Meeting:    Mondays 7PM

Contact:    Richard Renihan        (360) 892-3410
                8100 E Mill Plain Blvd
                Vancouver Washington
                rlrenihan@msn.com

Scale:        N-Trak modules
Control:     DCC
Meeting:    Wednesdays from 7PM to 9PM.

Scale:        HO
Control:     Analog
Layout:      Permanent
Meeting:    2^nd Saturday of each month 7PM
Location:   500 East 4th Avenue
                Eugene, OR (Meetings)

Contact:    Lee Temple              541-954-4917
                1783 Linwood Street
                Eugene, OR 97404-4712

Scale:        HO
Control:     Will be DCC
Layout:      Permanent Layout will be constructed in a 30x60 ft basement currently being excavated. The layout will be operationally oriented, depicting the proposed rail line over Santiam Pass, and will feature mainline operations and mountain railroading with helper service. The Era is 1975.
Meeting:    Mondays and Thursdays at 7:00 PM
Location:   15711 SE 90^thClackamas, OR 97015

If you have club or prototype news you would like to share or would like to leave us a comment or an idea, you can contact us at: wsnewsletter@comcast.net.

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Portland, OR 97266	Closed Sunday
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