Whistle Stop Trains Newsletter - February 7th, 2009

If you have a March Issue of Model Railroader Magazine, you have probably seen the ad for ExactRail. This new company has announced 3 new HO scale cars that have never been done in plastic before. These include a Gunderson 7466 Cubic Foot Southern Pacific Wood Chip Gondola, a PC&F 6033 Cubic Foot Hy-Cube Box Car in several roads, and a Vert-A-Pac Automobile Car again in several roads. We look for our first delivery on Tuesday February 10^th. Please stop by and take a look at these fantastic new cars.

Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading – January/February 2009 – Price: $7.50

Micro Trains Line – Box Car with Single Door – Durango and Silverton – Price: $18.40

Athearn – 50’ Berwick Boxcar – Aberdeen & Rockfish, BNSF, Middletown & New Jersey, Railbox, and Virginia Central - Price: $15.98

Athearn – Gunderson 48’ Husky Stack Well Car – BN, BNSF, SP, Trailer Train, and TTX – Price: $19.98

Athearn – Mack B Tractor with 40’ Exterior-Post Trailer – Roadway – Price: $24.98

Athearn – Mack R Tractor with 40’ Exterior-Post Trailer – Eazor, Fredrickson, Holmes, Mushroom, and Overnite – Price: $24.98

Micro Trains Line – 2 Bay ACF Center Flow Covered Hopper – Norfolk Southern – Price: $22.35

Micro Trains Line – 40’ Double-Sheathed Wood Reefer, with Vertical Brake Wheel – Fox River Butter Co. – Price: $18.65

Micro Trains Line – 40’ Drop Bottom Gondola with Side Extensions and Woodchip Load – Milwaukee Road – Price: $20.55

Micro Trains Line – 40’ Standard Box Car, Double Doors - Great Northern – Price: $25.45

Micro Trains Line – 60’ Box Car, Excess Height, Single Door, Rivet Side – Grand Trunk Western – Price: $23.70

Micro Trains Line – 89’ 4” TOFC Flat Car with Trailer – Trailer Train Company – Price: $39.65

Micro Trains Line – Heavyweight Depressed-Center Flat Car with Water Tank Load – Delaware & Hudson – Price: $21.55

Athearn – 20’ Container (3-Pack) – Florens Shipping, Hong Kong Islands, Hyundai, Itel, Japan Lines, and Korea Shipping – Price: $22.98

Athearn – 40’ Box Car Superior Door – B&LE, CStPM&O, Erie Lackawanna, Pickens, and Reading – Price: $16.98

Athearn – 40’ Gondola – C&IM, Great Northern, and Southern Pacific – Price: $15.98

Athearn – AC4400 – Kansas City Southern – Retail Price: $99.98 Our Price: $89.98

Athearn – Dash 8-44CW – Canadian National, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific – Retail Price: $99.98 Our Price: $89.98

Athearn – Maxi I Well Car – Late – 5 Pack – BNSF Railway, Northwest Container, and TTX – Price: $134.98

Athearn – SD40-2 – Milwaukee Road and Montana Rail Link – Retail Price: $99.98 Our Price: $89.98

Athearn – Trinity 5161 Cubic Foot Covered Hopper – 10 Course – CORX,C.P./SOO, GATX/CMO, Kansas City Southern, and Minnesota Soybean Processors – Price: $29.98

Norscot – Peterbilt Model 389 with Trail King Lowboy – Cat 950G Series II Wheel Loader, CAT D5M Track Type Tractor, CAT 315CL Hydraulic Excavator, CAT 163H Motor Grader – Retail Price: $18.57 Our Price: $14.95

Atlas O – USRA Single-Sheathed Box Car – Southern Pacific – Price: $54.95

MTH – Flat Car with 2 PUP Trailers – Southern Pacific – Price: $59.95

MTH – Bulkhead Flat Car with Covered Wood Load – Montana Rail Link – Price: $49.95

MTH – Gondola – Car with Coiled Wire Load – Southern Pacific – Price: $44.95

Saturday March 7th, 2009 - 24th Annual Railroad Swap Meet

The Willamette Model Railroad Club Presents 24th Annual Railroad Swap Meet

Location:
The New Hope Church
11731 SE Stevens Road

Direction:
Take exit 14 (Sunnyside Road) off of I-205
Turn east on Sunnyside Road
Go approx. 0.3 mi and turn left on SE Stevens Road
Go approx. 0.2 mi Turn right to stay on Stevens Road
The New Hope Church will be on the left

Date and Time:
March 7th, 2009
10 am until 3 pm

Admission:
Adults - $3.00
Under 12 - Free

Tables - $18 per table

Information:
Rick Andrews - 503-642-3298
Email Address: drdrews1@verizon.net

If you can say “yes!” to any of these questions, then the Mount Hood Model Engineers have a deal for you. Bring your 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.

For more information:
Contact Chuck Maggio at 503-236-7042, or send an email to mhmeng@aol.com

April 18^th and 19^th, 2009 - 21st Annual Willamette Cascade Model Railroad Club Train Show & Swap Meet

Vendors can set up on Friday April 17th from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 22,000 square feet of vendor tables, historical societies, speeder display, Operation Lifesaver Trailer, Friends of 4449 and SP&S #700 memorabilia for sale. Vendor tables are $25.00 each and they are 8 ft. long and 30 inches wide with red linen table cloth.

Admission:
$6.00 for 11 years old and older.
Children 10 years and younger are free if accompanied by an adult
Early bird entry each day is at 9 a.m. and is $10 per person. Admission on Saturday is also good for Sunday at no additional charge.

More information:
Please contact Co-chairs: Lee & Diane Temple @ 541-954-4917 or 541-225-7394 or email ttandt@ram-mail.com.

Location:
Rickreall Grange Hall
280 Main Street “Hwy 99W”
Rickreall, OR 97371

Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday, May 2^nd and 3^rd,2009
10am until 4pm both days

Tables:
6’ = $15.00
8’ = $20.00
Make Checks Payable to Tom Pryor
Mail To:
Tom Pryor
2085 S. Pacific West
Dallas, OR. 97338
Vendor Move in Friday 12-8pm Saturday 7am
Please Reserve Early!

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 7PM to 9PM
Summer Open House: Sundays, June-Sept, 1pm to 4pm

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

Summer Open House: Every Sunday from June through September, 1 to 4 PM
Holiday Open House: First Three Sundays of December, 1 to 5 PM

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

A Permanent Layout is being constructed in the basement of the Clackamas Community Center. The layout is 30ft X 60ft and will be operationally oriented. It will depict 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

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Portland, OR 97266	Closed Sunday
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