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NEWSLETTER Public Website NEWSLETTER Public Website: www.rcgrs.com Rose City Garden Railway Society October 2018 By Bill Derville Registration for the 2019 National Convention in Portland covering 223 attendees. We are at 27.8% of our stated opened at noon on August 30th. Because of the limited goal of 800 people. We have collected $50,895 in number of cab rides, we expected many people to register registration and event fees. We have sold 20 of the 23 early. Usually registration for a convention is sluggish until cab rides for sale. Both the Monday and Tuesday spring, but there was a lot of activity in the first 30 days. Willamette Shore trolley rides and dinner at the Old This was due to a full page advertisement that appeared in Spaghetti Factory sold out in the first 48 hours. The four the Atlanta convention program, the promotion at our Tuesday ops sessions open to 32 people are also full. We convention vendor booth, the full page ad in the June have sold at least 29 bus seats on each of the five layout issue of Garden Railway Magazine, and the subsequent tours with 47 seats sold on the Wednesday buses that 1/6 page ads that have been in all Garden Railway include a tour of the Columbia River Gorge, Gary Lee’s Magazines since. Don Erikstrup put together a great layout and Vancouver layouts. website using Wild Apricot for the convention. Michael Guest speaker, Doyle McCormick has proved a great draw Barnes has published a newsletter about the convention. for our banquet. We have already sold over 100 meals to Over 300 people have now subscribed to this newsletter. the banquet. There is a capacity of 450 people, and I now The video Ev Helms and Don Erikstrup put together about expect that will sell out. That alone will cover the hotel our ops sessions with Tom Gaps and the convention video food purchase requirement of $18,000. We had budgeted have been shown many times and are currently on our $4,860 in unused food purchases that I now believe will website. A lot of work has gone into promoting this easily cover with banquet sales, the ice cream social (138 convention and it has paid off. scoops of ice cream already sold) and sales at the As of September 23rd, we have had 111 registrations concession stand in the vendor hall. Continued on next page Inside this issue: October President’s Message 1 Upcoming Events 2 New Club Members 5 September Open Houses 6 It’s Just Railroad Talk 8 I’ve Been Working on the Railroad... 11 Non-Club Events 14 Club Calendar 15 Club Business 16 Hosts: Jim and Linda Loudon debut the Featured Garden Railroad: Alaska and NW 17 Serrano Creek Line at their 1st Open House Railroad on September 8, 2018 - Photo by Alison Coots 1 Rose City Garden Railway Society Portland, Oregon The BBQ and train ride has sold 179 tickets of the 660 via e-mail monthly. available to sell which is limited by the 220 people each of So far only 8 people have signed up for the convention the three trains can carry. It should sell out, too. from our club. You won’t want to miss participating in the We have sold 38 of the 100 convention cars we planned to biggest club sponsored event, so don’t wait too long to buy and build loads for. We decided on T-Shirts and hats submit your registration. to be sold in the convention store which Alan Olson is I could not be more pleased with our start to this convention heading up. that our club is sponsoring. The Steering Committee will be Jerry Chapman has sold 45% of our available booth space concentrating on Clinics at our October meeting. We have in our vendor hall. At our Steering Committee meeting this not started putting together the convention program, week, we prioritized the vendors we want to solicit, so all planning the model contest, or putting our list of needed the main vendors will have a spot if they want it. Booths volunteers together for our many events. So there is a lot are being sold for $350 per booth with $325 for additional ahead of us to do. Building 1,200 loads for the 100 booths. convention cars we expect to sell will be a huge club job by itself. We will start working on the loads soon, and We expect to have over 30 layouts on tour for the 5 days of probably also some at the Fall Social on November 10th. layout tours. So please continue to work on getting your Thanks to Ev Helms and Alan Olson for designing a great layouts ready for what I think will be one of the best layout car with reversible loads so the car can be converted from tours at any national convention. a convention car into a regular Union Pacific center beam Train Mountain is now on board for Sept 2nd, Labor Day as car. part of our post-convention tour. More on that in future My congratulations to the club on our great start to this columns. Sign up for the newsletter on the convention convention, and my thanks to everyone in advance for your website https://ngrc2019.org to receive detailed information work to make this one of the best national conventions and pictures of our events. We are hoping to send this out ever! When: October 7, 2018 1pm to 5pm Where: Baker & Grand Ronde RR (Gary Lee) Corbett, OR EVENT DETAILS: utilizing Baker and Grande Ronde equipment. This will be Weather permitting I plan to host an OP session Sunday, a no host event". That is, we will provide water and sodas Oct 7, 1:00-till 5pm. All are welcome to attend. Up to six 2 and light snacks but please plan to provide your own man crews will be dispatched throughout the B&GR . We meals. will conduct operations using track warrants and way bills Please register to participate 2 Rose City Garden Railway Society Portland, Oregon When: October 13 & 14, 2018 10am to 6pm Frank & Alexis are new members to the club. The open house is open to friends, family and Where: Pine Valley & Western RR club members. Refer to the New Member Frank & Alexis Barberis announcement on page 5 for more information. Email: When: October 2, 2018 12pm to 5pm Where: Staver Locomotive 2537 NW 29th Ave Portland, OR 97210 EVENT DETAILS: with Westbound trains superior to Eastbound trains. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own locomotives Further Rules and Regulations to be determined in the and rolling stock for this event. fullness of time. Notes: There is No Track Power - You may park in the Slow trains like Shays, Climaxs and the like are rear. - Carts are available, please unload promptly and encouraged to use the Secondary Mains marked in return cart to west door for others to use. - Restrooms on Yellow to avoid faster traffic. East end of building - Bring your own food and drink - The A small supply of Time Tables and schematic maps are in building is not climate controlled, wear appropriate clothing the wood room for those who did not print one out for for being outdoors. themselves. Dispatching on Single Track sections between High Rocks J.M. Zweerts Chief DispatcherBest regards, and West Albina, all other tracks subject to "Smoke Orders" Rose City Garden Railway Society 3 Rose City Garden Railway Society Portland, Oregon November 10 10am to 5pm Canby Adult Center 1250 S. Ivy St. Canby, OR 97013 There are six clinics held throughout the day. Three in the Meals 1 and 2 include: side salad with choice of ranch or morning and three in afternoon. TBA. If interested, contact Italian dressing, the sides are: twice baked potatoes, green Rusty Baumberger. beans, and corn bread with honey butter. There will be a buy sell table and raffle. For dessert we will have Strawberry shortcake with whipped cream. The biscuits are made from scratch. Each person will receive one free ticket with each meal purchase. Additional tickets may be purchased at one 5) If, because of Health Issues, you cannot eat any of the dollar each. above meals, The Canby Adult Center will allow you to bring your special food as a sack lunch. Because this is a Meals are $30.00 per person. Heck of a deal for main fund raiser for them, there will be a $10.00 cover charge course, side salad, two sides, and dessert besides when you provide your own food. This will allow us all to beverages and cookies all day. eat together. Please do not abuse this privilege and fee. MENU: CHOSE ONE! 1) St. Louis Bar-B-Q pork ribs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2) 1/2 of Bar-B-Q chicken CUT OFF DATE: Chef Hurley must have the totals 3) Chef Salad with corn bread and desert - no sides. by Wednesday October 31st. No exceptions please, you have plenty of time. Check the “Member” Event 4) Vegetarian Risotto with corn bread and desert - no Calendar for updates. sides. The following is the proposed schedule for this event, but is subject to change. 09:00 Door unlocked for people doing setup 10:00 Doors open for attendees 10:30 Morning clinics start, topics TBA 12:00 Morning clinics end 12:15 Lunch served 01:15 Afternoon clinics start, topics TBA 02:45 Afternoon clinics end 03:00 Raffle drawing begins 03:45 Raffle drawing 04:00 Cleanup starts 05:00 Doors locked - building closed 4 Rose City Garden Railway Society Portland, Oregon NEW CLUB MEMBERS Welcome! Frank and Alexis Barberis Kenneth and Joyce La Flam Frank & Alexis Barberis are the proprietors of the Pine It is currently track powered and can utilize a traditional Valley and Western Railroad.
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