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NEWSLETTER See Our Web Page at July 2009 NEWSLETTER See our Web page at http://www.rcgrs.com/ July 2009 The Garden Railroad ment issues. This spring, the project was revived as In “The Oregon Garden” the Garden has experienced resurgence under the management of Moonstone Hotel Properties. By Rex Ploederer The project got a real boost when the Salem Club In the summer of 2007 The Oregon Garden con- and the RCGRS authorized money for the tacted the Salem club about building a “Garden construction effort. Pacific Crossings Model Rail- Train”, as they call it, in the children’s area. The road Club of Salem authorized $500 for the project manager and her assistant were taken on a mini-- on April 17th. The RCGRS authorized $1000 fol- tour of seven railroads in Salem in January of 2008. lowing an outstanding presentation by Dennis While on tour, the two individuals were exposed to Peoples at a special meeting held at the Kooken’s all types of garden railroads, big and small, battery open house on May 17th. and track power, steam and diesel, serious and whimsical; you get the picture. Construction began on May 29th with members from both Clubs. Seven Club members, split equal- Armed with this information, the Garden drew up ly between the two Clubs helped: Richard and a track plan and list of desired attributes for the rail- Penny Walker RCGRS, Larry Blair RCGRS, Gary road. The area can support a modest size railroad Everitt PCMRC, Jim Greer PCMRC, Gary Garnas with 130 feet of track. But one year passed while PCMRC, and myself, a member of both RCGRS the Garden sorted out their financial and manage- and PCMRC. The Area (All photos submitted by Rex Ploederer except as noted) 1 Everyone promptly got to work. The sub--roadbed was bent and secured in place by both Garys. Penny Walker worked on the 10.5 foot train storage shed by leveling the bottom Installing the sub--roadbed An arborvitae had to be removed to allow the train to pass from one side of the hedge to the other. Blasting through the roots was hard work but in Richard Walker cuts wood for the tunnel the end, it was Larry and Gary 1, Arborvitae 0 2 1 It was a long 6 /2 hour day; the warmest of the year to date, 92 degrees. The removal of the arborvitae allowed Richard and Rex to install the tunnel through the hedge. It took three sets of hands to put the second side Work in progress (photo by Penny Walker) on the sub--roadbed. Work in progress (photo by Penny Walker) Jim Greer builds the train storage shed. 3 At the end of the day much has been accomplished and there is much to do yet. The Oregon Garden staff is quite pleased with the progress and are anticipating seeing the first train run.. 2009 Summer Tour Another got us on TV Thursday night on the 11:00 p.m. Success weather news and in several local newspapers. However, the ad we tried to place in the Oregonian By Bill Derville never made it, so we do not have the expense of the While it may seem attendance was down a little, we ad as we did last year. I also sent out over 100 actually sold more books this year than last. This Emails to people who had been on tour in previous year we sold 321 books, barely beating last year’s years or signed up at a train show. Sue Kelsey con- total of 318 books yielding $2,943 in total revenue. tinued to build our Email list for next year with We estimate our expenses to be about $1,006, so people who visited our layout. At the wrap up meet- our profit after expenses for the club was $1,937. ing, I received another list of people wanting notifi- Steve has most of the money now, and a few checks cation for next year. are being mailed to him. We estimated retail needs Another special thanks to our eleven hosts that pretty well this year, as no one ran out of books, but opened their railroads and gardens and put out several outlets were very low at the end. It is a pain cookies and lemonade for our guests. Our host this to deliver more books on the day before or the day year included Shannon Pratt, Judith Hinamon, Joe of the tour. Chesney, Marilyn and Doug Watson, Marlene and Wesaw quite a few people who had not been on tour Ron Bacon, Kathryn and Allan Warrior, Jean and before thanks to the hard work of Jonette Lee who Bill Dippert, Tim Poole, Margaret and David 4 Kooken, and Jonette and Gary Lee and Brenda and included Karen and Ken Shipman, Jan Zweerts, Bill Derville. With more people using GPS rather Carla and Rex Ploederer, Darrel Dunham, Dennis than our directions, people seemed to be jumping Peoples, Bob Scherzinger, Mike Greenwood, around more to layouts they either liked or layouts Penny and Richard Walker, Jo and Hilaire Hinds, they hadn’t seen on previous tours. My thanks to Dave Stratton, Greg Martin, Nathan Ohm, Sue and Margaret and David Kooken again this year who Nick Kelsey, Joe and Jen Eckardt, Steve Cogswell, drove the entire route and created the directions in Barb and Jerry Clark, Marilyn and Richard Parker, the booklet. Vaughn Lee, and Hazel and Odell Lee, Robert Westhafer, and Jeannine and Don Golgert. We had about 420 guests at our house. Others had Also thanks to my tireless volunteers Penny Walk- around 200. Judith Hinamon who joined our tour er, John Stiger, Ron Bacon, Jonette Lee and Steve for the first time reported 320 visitors, some of Cogswell who helped me distribute our booklets to whom came from Idaho, California, Seattle and Sa- 17 retail outlets and then collect the money and un- lem. Another new layout Tim Poole had about 200 used booklets, and Steve and Jonette for mailing visitors. Doug Watson had between 350 and 400 booklets to mail order customers. Thanks to Nick guests. Gary and Jonette had 322 who made their for the map in the booklet and Vaughn Lee who way up the Sandy River to their place. Shannon published our booklet and got it printed. Vaughn is Pratt’s indoor layout was very popular with the kids moving to San Diego, but offered to help from who loved the animation on his layout. there. Thanks Vaughn, we may need it. Thanks to Gary Lee, our president, for making a few more Another special thanks to Jen and Joe Eckardt for poster stands and cross bucks. rounding up and organizing volunteers to help hosts run trains, register people, direct traffic, and If I left anyone out, please accept my apology. As just talk to people. It is the warmth of our members you can see, this has truly been a club activity that who make our club attractive to prospective mem- has involved nearly all of our members. It helps the bers. We have a great group in our club and the gra- club’s finances, but more than that it furthers our ciousness of our members shows through to our mission of providing fellowship for our members guests and helps make their visits a very positive and promoting the hobby to the public. And be- experience. We have added quite a few members sides, train day is a lot of fun for us too! from people who came on tour and liked the people, not just the trains. Joe and Jen are stepping down af- We had a wrap up meeting on Monday, June 28th ter organizing volunteers after 3 years in this posi- where we discussed this year’s tour as well as next tion. It was a difficult year for them as we were year. We decided we would have the tour next year stretched very thin and some last minute cancel- on Saturday June 19, 2010 even though most of us ations of volunteers caused some volunteers to be will also be open for the Tacoma National Conven- shifted to different locations at the last minute. I am tion (Portland on Saturday, July 31, 2010 and Van- sorry for those moved, but we needed coverage at couver Sunday, August 1, 2010). When we skipped all locations. the Summer Tour one year, we lost a lot of momen- tum, and attendance was difficult to rebuild the Most club members helped by volunteering at one next year. For additional volunteers we will contact of the eleven layouts, and we had several volunteers the Salem club as well as the Columbia River that were not club members. It is this help that al- Gorge. Clint Bishop from the Gorge was a train op- lows our hosts and volunteers to have time to talk erator at my house this year. with people and answer questions. We met many Thank you all for another grand Summer Tour. I people who heard about this through a family mem- hope you had as much fun as I did during the tour! ber or a friend and decided to come themselves this year. Our list of club member volunteers this year —Bill Derville, Summer Tour Chairman 5 Abandoned Railroads of Oregon streetcar service beginning in the Albina area by the The Portland Traction Company Willamette Bridge Railway Company. The first cable cars were operating on Fifth Avenue. Fares Did you know? were five cents. * That Portland was using San Francisco style cable 1891 Large consolidations of financially cars at the turn of the century? troubled rail companies occurred, including the City & Suburban Railway absorbing four smaller * That our region had the first interurban electric companies and their lines.
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