Motorcar Milestones - NARCOA Affiliates Located in Canada, the President’S Message
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The SETOFF The Official Publication of NARCOA North American Railcar Operators Association May /June 2009 Volume 23 - No. 3 SSeettttiinngg uupp aann EEvveenntt WWaanntt ttoo bbee aann EECC ?? NNeeww sseerriieess:: MMoottoorrccaarr MMiilleessttoonneess The President’s Message SETOFF Mark Springer Volume 23 - No. 3 I want to start off my message for Thank you for your service Pat. The SETOFF is the official publication of this issue of the Setoff by highlighting Bill Taylor stepped forward to take the North American Railcar Operators Associ - ation (NARCOA) and is published bimonthly an event that some of you may have over that position as of April 1st. Bill to promote safe legal operation of railroad mo - heard about: the 100th anniversary of has been in the hobby for a number of torcars, and to encourage fellowship and ex - Fairmont Railway Motors, now known years both as a member and an experi - change of information among motorcar as Harsco. Many of us in the hobby enced EC. He has put on several “Big enthusiasts. Membership in NARCOA, which have had reason to contact Fairmont in Sky Tours,” in addition to shorter ex - includes a subscription to The SETOFF, is $30 per year, and is available from Secretary Joel Minnesota for technical information, cursion trips. He is an educator, hav - Williams. Please send your check made out to history cards, or to order parts. Over ing worked as a teacher and principal NARCOA to: this past winter, NARCOA was con - at the High School level. He and his Joel Williams, Membership tacted to gauge our interest in being wife are also authors of four railroad Box 802 part of their celebration. Thanks to the related books. I look forward to Bill’s Lock Haven, PA 17745 hard work of Wayne Parsons, Hal contribution to NARCOA. Wayne Parsons, SETOFF Editor Johnson, and Mike Ford, we are going As the excursion season restarts Brian Davis, Incoming SETOFF Editor to have a display of Fairmont Motor - for 2009, I encourage everyone to be [email protected] cars at the Fairmont plant and an ex - extra cautious as they get back into Deby Springer, Proofreader Leon Sapp, Assistant Editor cursion the following day. It is their motorcars for the season. We all Jan Taylor, Assistant Editor certainly exciting and a privilege to get rusty after not operating much dur - Jamie Haislip, Contributor have NARCOA and its members in - ing the winter. Be safe. Remember The SETOFF is printed by vited to participate in this celebration. that “The Best Safety Device is a Care - Greg Kightlinger, GEK Printing While the excursion has a waiting list, ful Man.” I am sure that if you happen to be near Ballots for the Directors of even All subscriptions and address changes must go to the Secretary. All materials for pub - Fairmont during this event it would be numbered areas of NARCOA are in - lication must go to the Editor. well worth your time to stop by and cluded with this edition. Please take a Materials received by the 15th of even check it out. moment to vote now and return your numbered months will appear on the 1st of the On other NARCOA business, Pat ballot today. next odd numbered month subject to editing and available space. Please include your e-mail Coleman has decided to step aside as address and phone number. Electronic submis - Operations Chair. As many of you sions are preferred. Text files must have either know, Pat stepped in to some rather big .doc or .txt extensions. Photo files must be high shoe’s after Hank Brown passed away. resolution with .jpg extensions. All materials He has done a lot of work to pick up are archived and not returned. We cannot reprint copyrighted material without written au - the threads of that job and begin to thorization or proper attribution. move us forward again. His experi - Letters to the Editor must be signed and ence and guidance will be missed. include an e-mail address or phone number for authentication. All such letters will be printed as discussed in the NARCOA policy book. In This Issue For more information about NARCOA, the safe legal operation of motorcars, or to find Masthead ..................................... 2 Motorcar Milestones - NARCOA affiliates located in Canada, the President’s Message .................... 2 The Adams Company ............. 13 United States, and Mexico, please see: www.narcoa.org NARCOA Officials ..................... 3 A-4-E Rail Skids ....................... 14 © Copyright 2009 - NARCOA. All rights From The Editor .......................... 3 Tamper Motorcars ..................... 15 reserved. Reproduction, by any means, in Directors’ Messages .................... 4 Portable Radio & Intercom ....... 16 whole or part, by any party, is strictly prohib - NARCOA Insurance Record ....... 5 EC TECH .................................. 17 ited. Northwest Rwy. Museum ............ 6 Riding With Joe ......................... 17 On The Cover: Walkersville Recreational RR Coalition .......... 8 Announcements ........................ 18 Southern RR work party (Jamie Haislip Radio Channel Spacing ............... 8 Wanted & For Sale .................... 25 operating) crosses the Monocacy River near Frederick, MD - October 23, 2008 . Excursion Coordination .............. 9 Suppliers ................................... 27 This is an example of members enjoying Setting Up An Event - Spotlight On An Affiliate - the hobby at non-NARCOA events. A Case Study ....................... 10 Appalachian Rail Excursions Photo by Wayne Parsons. Want To Be An E C?................... 12 ....................... Back Cover Page 2 The SETOFF May /June 2009 NARCOA Officials From The President: Mark Springer Nominations, Elections Vice-President: Bobby Moreman Carl Anderson Editor 1330 Rosedale Lane Secretary: Joel Williams At one time The SETOFF expanded or Treasurer: Tom Norman Hoffman Estates, IL 60195 [email protected] contracted based on the amount of material Area 1 Director sitting on the Editor's desk at deadline. Edi - (ME, NH, VT, NY, MA, CT, RI) NARCOA Insurance Administrator tions with 36 pages were common and al - Warren Riccitelli (401) 232-0992 Tom Norman (406) 722-3012 lowed inclusion of all materials sent in by the [email protected] 1047 Terrace View Drive membership. If an item didn't make this edi - Alberton, MT 59820 tion, there would be room in the next one. Area 2 Director [email protected] Beginning with my editorship the rising cost (NJ, PA, DE, MD) of printing and postage dictated a 28 page Joel Williams (570) 786-1335 Rule Book CertificationTest limit. In each edition 18 of those pages are [email protected] Al McCracken 2916 Taper Avenue already allocated to directors messages, re- Area 3 Director Santa Clara, CA 95051 occurring features, meet announcements, (IN, Lower MI, OH) [email protected] etc., before run reports and other items come Dave Verzi (216) 941-5273 in from the members. [email protected] Judiciary Chair In those 10 remaining pages I have tried Al Elliott (732) 536-7460 to select and publish current material and Area 4 Director 4 Woodview Drive skip long run reports from way back last (WV, VA, KY, NC, SC, TN) Manalapan, NJ 07726 summer. Sometimes things got bumped be - Tom Falicon (828) 488-8063 [email protected] [email protected] cause better photos came in or another item Safety Chair fit the paste-up layout more smoothly. Area 5 Director Bob Knight (815) 786-3096 Sometimes breaking news – such as the Les (MS, AL, GA, FL) [email protected] King Turntable problem – had to go in first. Bobby Moreman (770) 457-6212 The editor’s job is to choose what to leave in, [email protected] Rules Chair Jim McKeel (316) 721-4378 what to leave out. In this process, items that Area 6 Director [email protected] involved much work by several writers sim - (MN, WI, IL, Upper MI) ply fell by the wayside. To all of those peo - Hal Johnson (612) 295-1419 The SETOFF Editor ple, please accept my thanks for your [email protected] Brian Davis submissions. Don't give up, the stars will 5626 Chadwell Cir. align more favorably next time and you'll get Area 7 Director Ravenna, Ohio 44266 in! (ND, SD, NE, IA) [email protected] Carl Schneider (515) 967-5181 I am proudest of the revamp done to [email protected] NARCOA Webmaster make The SETOFF layout more like a mag - Keith Mackey (352) 347-0770 azine with careful photo selection. (The sim - Area 8 Director [email protected] ple rule for photos is to see the motorcar from (Canada, World outside U.S.) the front, never the rear.) I'm proud of the Warren Froese (204) 668-8311 NARCOA Forum Moderator educational series "Riding With Joe" that Jim [email protected] Rich Stivers (408) 264-1048 McKeel and I developed over the course of [email protected] Area 9 Director about a month's worth of e-mails. I'm proud (AR, CO, KS, LA, MO, OK, TX) Committee Chairs of encouraging Leon Sapps' writing and his Mark Springer (316) 721-4804 Operations ……..…..............… Bill Taylor "Motorcar Milestones" series that starts in 143 North Arcadia Rules ..……………….…...… Jim McKeel this edition on page 13. I'm proud of the up - Wichita, KS 67212 Judiciary .................................... Al Elliott grade to "Spotlight On An Affiliate" with its [email protected] Safety ..……………............… Bob Knight back cover placement and color photos. Affiliates .................................. Dave Verzi The SETOFF now moves on to the care Area 10 Director Custom-Built Motorcars ........ Tom Falicon of new editor Brian Davis from Ravenna, (WA, OR, ID, MT, AK, WY) Communications ..……..…. Bernie Leadon Ohio. Brian showed examples of his desk - Jim Spicer (541) 344-3079 Data and Computer ................ Pat Coleman [email protected] top publishing to the Communications Com - Legal Forms ........................ Mark Springer mittee that convinced everyone that he was Area 11 Director the best selection. As was done for me, I ask (CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, HI) that everyone give him their support and en - Pat Coleman (925) 979-1030 S couragement.