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February 2016 - Volume 4 - Issue 2 In This Issue (Click title to read the article) Thoughts from the Superintendent Division News Items What Happened Last Month 2016 NMRA Elections Presentation/Workshop Schedule 2019 NMRA Convention News Division Operations Group News Events of Interest Layout Tours Classifieds Intermountain Train Expo The Club Car Achievement Program Division Officers and Volunteers Division Rolling Stock Meeting Information Thoughts from the Superintendent It is with great pleasure that I announce the new location for our divisions monthly event starting on 21 May 2016. We will be meeting at the Discovery Gateway, 444 West 100 South, Salt Lake City. This is the new Children’s Museum at the Gateway Shopping Center. We have been given the opportunity to refurbish, rebuild, revitalize, and maintain a small model railroad layout currently owned by the museum. As compensation for our efforts we will get the opportunity to have a meeting location that allows us room to grow our membership and attendance, a place that we can do smelly, messy, dirty projects and clinics that we can’t do at our current location, Jordan Valley Medical Center – West Valley Campus. The following are some of the reasoning behind this decision to move: We are outgrowing the present location. 25 is the average attendance and about maxes out the seating capacity. We will have access to a larger client base to attract new members. Gateway has a large Facebook following and calendar following. They will advertise our presence and programs to their members. At the hospital, we only have the hospital staff and sick people to draw from. We will have access to their workroom to do our messy, smelly, and dirty projects at the same location; negating the need to find another location. We appreciate Blaine Holbrook opening his home and workshop for this kind of stuff in the past. Parking is a potential problem. However, we have solutions: Gateway has 3 Hour parking for $1.00, not that burdensome. There is limited free parking along Rio Grande St and just a few blocks away. You can park free at Central Station and ride Trax within the Free Zone to the Planetarium station. You can ride any combination of UTA public transportation,: Bus, Trax, or FrontRunner to get from many places along the Wasatch Front. You can Car Pool to share the expenses with a buddy. We will be able to grow interest in the hobby by having the public watch us as we work on the layout. We could also invite the public to participate with us. We have a wonderful opportunity to advertise our Intermountain Train Expo to all the patrons of the Gateway Discovery. There are many of our members who dream about improving or starting a new layout. Here is a chance for you to work alongside the masters and learn the techniques first hand. We will have a chance to do fund raising for our group at this new venue. We will be able to build interest in the children and their parents in this family friendly hobby. NMRA members will be considered partners with the Children’s Museum and thus will not be required to pay the entrance fee. If you bring children with you, as long as they don’t use the other displays, they will also have free admittance. NMRA members who find an interest in helping out with other museum projects will have no entrance fees. The NMRA will not be charged with use of the Theater, Gallery, or the workroom. We can institute Al Hovey’s Kids N’ Trains program We will have the space We will have a ready supply of participants. Children can start their own pizza pie layout. These layouts can be featured at our Intermountain Train Expo, thus giving a reason for the child’s family and friends to visit our show. Layouts open the opportunity to cross-advertise our presence at Gateway Discovery, thus increasing the level of participation there. Those are my thoughts. What are yours? I'd love to hear from you Jack Chase Superintendent Northern Utah Division of the NMRA 801-323-1148 [email protected] Click Here to Return to the Table of Contents What Happened Last Month The January 16th, 2016 event for the Northern Utah Division was held at the OT&W's 25th Anniversary Train Show at Thanksgiving Point. Jim Wanlass received additional certificates from the region for his work towards Master Model Railroader. The meeting was changed to the kitchen area at the last minute, but we are grateful for the OT&W for allowing us to invade their show. The division setup the "Box Car Races", Geoff Carter and Fred Baney brought their Time Saver modules that educated as well as entertained many of the kids and adults at the show. Our featured presentation was by Rick Luther on Cheap Tools, Tips and Tricks. The presentation featured many ways to create your own tools to make your modeling easier. There are many things that can be purchased at "Dollar" stores to help save money on modeling tools. Things like a ballast spreader made from an old tooth brush. Gluing clamps from inexpensive wood cloths pins. A power sander from a vibrating tooth brush with different sanding disks or a cheap magnetic gluing jig from a few supplies from the home improvement store. You can download a pdf document of the presentation from our website from this link: http://northernutahnmra.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/02/CheapToolsTipsTricks0.pdf Click Here to Return to the Table of Contents Learn Something New Presentation & Workshop February Quick and Easy Trees 20th Workshop by Karin Gerald 3:00 PM - 5:00PM PLEASE NOTE: We will be back at the normal meeting location at Jordan Valley Medical Center, West Valley Campus. March Presentation Building the Canadian Northern Pacific 19th Presentation by Greg Butters 3:00 PM - 5:00PM His wife's grandfather worked on the railroad from 1915-1919. He photographed and documented some of the construction. Presentation April Scratch Building Rolling Stock 16th Presented by Al Badham 3:00 PM - 5:00PM Learn from one of Utah's master model builders the techniques for building beautiful, fine detailed and award winning rolling stock! Click Here to Return to the Table of Contents Division Operations Group News Saturday, February 27 is our monthly ops session for the DOGs at Gary's Salt Lake Southern layout. Gary is located at 4386 S. Charles Drive in West Valley, UT. Honestly, my GPS always gets me close, but never quite there. If you need directions in your struggle, call me (801-323-1148 probably not much help!) or Gary at 801-966- 5247 for the reality of getting there. Our plan is to start at 10:00 AM sharp and to be finished early afternoon. As most of you know, Gary's layout is really beautiful and a joy on which to operate. Mark up if you you are ready for a fun filled day! As most of you will recall, we need a large crew to operate on Gary's layout. Thanks. As I always state, please be very respectful to Gary's layout. He is being terrific is sharing such a real prize with us. Of course, it is always polite to bring snacks/drinks to share with your fellow crew. I'm really looking forward to seeing all of you Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 10:00 AM sharp.. It will be a fun filled day! Regards, Jack Chase Crew Chief -- DOGs Northern Utah Division of the NMRA Proud Host of the 2019 National NMRA Convention & Train Show Click Here to Return to the Table of Contents Layout Tours There is no layout tour currently scheduled for February. In March there will be a double event! We have the Hostlers show on the first weekend of March and Rick Luther is hosting a tour of his Northern Montana Line on March 12th from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Saturday March 12th, 2016 1 PM to 4 PM Rick Luther's Northern Montana Line Location:7664 West Bridgton Drive, Magna, Utah Contact: Rick Luther at [email protected] When Rick is not editing the division newsletter or creating graphics for our annual train show, he has been modeling the Milwaukee Road's Northern Montana Line. The NML is located in Montana's "Golden Triangle" grain belt. This HO scale layout is a 10' x 19' double deck, around the wall, point to point layout. The layout features a helix, large steel trestle and staging tracks. The layout is currently has all the track work finished and is in the early stages of scenery and detailing. Rules: There is no handicap access. There is no smoking inside. The layout is on the lower floor and entry is through the front door and down the steps. There is a bathroom available. Parking on Bridgton Drive is available and adjacent cross streets can be used as well. The layout can handle 5 or 6 visitors at a time. Please feel free to ask questions and take pictures. Etiquette: When visiting, don’t criticize and don’t touch the equipment. Stay as long as you like, being mindful of other visitors so as not to overfill the room. For more information, contact Pete Harmon at [email protected] or at 914-319-0430. Click Here to Return to the Table of Contents Intermountain Train Expo NEW NAME! - NEW LOCATION! Work on the Intermountain Train Expo continues with meeting and assignments. We now have a finalized poster that will be posted at various locations and our new show website is up and running.