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RPO V21, N2, Summer 2013 Volume 21, Number 2 Summer 2013 www.gatewaynmra.org On The Cover photo by Bill Linson Famous (to PRR folks at least) MG Tower. Taken from car #26 during a Summer 2013: Volume 21, Number 2 steam excursion on Horseshoe Curve. The RPO is the official publication See more photos starting on page 12. of the Gateway Division of the National Model Railroad Association Editor: John Carty In This Issue Articles, photos and any other materials for Superintendent’s Desk .......................... 2 publication are to be sent to the Editor. No Under the Wire ...................................... 3 payment can be made for publication of any Tricks for Tracks ................................... 4 materials. Regular issues are published 2013 Gateway Div. Annual Kitbash quarterly: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Subscriptions to the RPO are available to Contest .................................................. 5 members of the NMRA as a service provided by Central Ohio RPM Meet ........................ 7 members of the Gateway Division. Send Steam Excursion on Horseshoe Curve12 subscription applications and renewals to the UP Operation Lifesaver ....................... 16 Division Treasurer. Southern IL Depot & Station Tour ....... 19 Any item may be reproduced by other NMRA publications, unless specifically restricted, as Building a Mobile Substation ............... 25 long as author and source credit is included. Division Meeting Minutes .................... 27 Advertising of interest to our membership is accepted for publication in the RPO. Contact Timetable of Events ............................ 30 the Editor or Treasurer for current rates and artwork size information. Please send submissions, suggestions, letters, and address Corrections corrections to: An error involving the abbreviation for Editor, The RPO National Railway Historical Society Gateway Division NMRA (NRHS)was shown as NHRS several 715 W. Cleveland Ave times in two articles of the Spring issue: Belleville, IL 62220 first, in the last paragraph of the Articles may be submitted as handwritten, typed, plain unformatted text on disk, or plain "Superintendent's Desk", as well as in text via email to johnpcartyathotmail.com; "Meeting Minutes for January 21, 2013", photo submissions may be made as hi-res under “Announcements." digital files, 35mm slides or negatives or as Sorry for the misidentification. prints. Submission deadlines: Spring: April 1 Superintendent’s Summer: July 1 Fall: October 1 Desk Winter: January 1 by Tim Stout All content is Copyright © 2012 Gateway Well June has arrived which means the Division NMRA unless otherwise noted. year is approaching half over and summer is in full swing. June is also Visit our website at when the fee for the RPO comes due for www.gatewaynmra.org those members who wish to receive the RPO in printed form along with the printed postcard meeting reminders. The RPO ▬ Newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA 2 This year the cost will go up from five As summer winds down there will be dollars to ten dollars to cover the costs another joint picnic this fall with the of printing/ paper/ ink/ mailing etc. This Gateway Division NMRA and the St. will now make the RPO break-even Louis chapter of the National Railway again; we had been losing some money Historical Society (NRHS). Likely date each year as costs rose. is the first weekend in October, stay Last month we handed out tuned for details. Location will be the approximately 30 building kits for the Wabash Frisco and Pacific (WF&P) in annual modeling contest. I’m sure we Glencoe Mo. If you haven’t been to one will see some excellent models returned of these before please come out and at the September meeting for judging. enjoy the food, friendship, and free train Don’t miss it! Come and vote for your rides all day long. If you have been to favorite model. Contest winners will be one of these in the past I hope to see decided by popular vote, your vote could you again. be the difference. Lastly, I must apologize for my mistake Before then there is a summer full of in the last Superintendent’s column. I activities to take part in. The Mid inadvertently referred to the National Continent Regional Convention in Railway Historical Society (NRHS) as Overland Park Kansas just outside the NHRS several times in my column. Kansas City June 13 – 17th. I will be Look forward to seeing everyone at there with my wife in attendance at a these events and our next monthly make and take clinic on Thursday night meeting in O’Fallon IL. and touring lots of interesting layouts Until next time, Tim. Friday night and Saturday night. I’m sure Brenda and I will come back with some more interesting and useful ideas Under the Wire for our (my) next model railroad. By John Carty There is also a Great American Train Summer is here and with it vacations, show coming up at the end of July in yard work, baseball, softball, and Belleville, IL. I plan to work at our table summer camps along with hot, humid for a few hours that weekend along with weather. The call of the great outdoors, other volunteers. This helps the division coupled with the project list furnished by get our message out and we may even my better half, derails modeling time. be paid by the show for displaying our This does not preclude, however, portable layout as well. That is a win- sneaking some hobby time into each win - getting paid to show off our layout day. Lunch hours do come in handy. to the public. Contact Don Ayers for details and to volunteer for your time We are in the midst of our division’s slot. annual kit-bash contest. The unveiling nd rd th in September should only be the first. August 2 and 3 will be the 7 annual Please enter your creations in the St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modelers contest at the Fall Meet in November as (RPM) meet at the Gateway Convention well. Center in Collinsville IL. The Gateway Division will have a table there that we Once again I am asking for each can put information on as well as display member to submit at least one item to the portable layout. the RPO this year. I greatly appreciate those who have stepped forward and shared what they have learned with the Volume 21, No. 2 ▬ Summer 2013 3 rest of the members of the division. In psychiatric illness in some people order to truly represent the diversity of especially in HO scale and smaller we our organization, however, we need to simply cannot allow this to stand in the hear from everybody. way of safety. Properly secured owner- Thank you again for the generous applied hardware is acceptable. But we support I have received as your editor. will be going after the scofflaws that are not making any attempt to apply them John even in Z-scale." He went on to explain that some figures Tricks for Tracks in the scale railway industry had been caught beneath the wheels of passing Washington DC (April 1) FRA trains after losing their grip on a solid OUTLAWS MOLDED-ON HANDGRABS plastic handgrab and had suffered scrapes, scarring, and in some The Federal Railroad Administration instances involving the larger scales today outlawed molded-on plastic even visible indentations that could only handgrabs on all freight and passenger be addressed with topical treatments cars on model railroads, citing safety and that in most such cases an actual concerns. cure was impossible. In at least one "The little people employed in yard. train known case, a mishap resulted in a fall and engine service on these pikes are about four feet to a concrete slab. The being injured when they appear to reach victim was immobile and had to be for a handgrab expecting it to be real scraped up with a file card. wire and find out too late that it's solid Wm. K. Walthers and other firms will be plastic." a spokesperson explained. ordered to provide lists of customers This effectively removes a lot of kit-built who the firm had supplied with rolling and "RTR" rolling stock placed in stock that was furnished with user- service before about 1999, and even a applied hardware items as a kit. large swath of cars supplied more Effective immediately, pikes will have to recently. Smaller scales and the more submit paperwork documenting marginal pikes in all scales will be application of wire handgrabs on every disproportionately affected and it might car placed in service. not even be practical for them to "We run our pike on our own time." retrofit existing rolling stock with wire quipped another owner. "We don't have handgrabs. Owner/operators have only a staff that can deal with these new until 12:01 AM July 1, 2013, to comply. regulations. And during the summer, a "What are we supposed to do?" quipped wheel might not turn for weeks at a the General Manager of a well-known N- time." scale road, "file for abandonment? The Frodo Proto. a Walthers spokesman. minute we do that, the right-of-way will was more sanguine: "Look, everyone revert to other uses such as washers knew this was coming. That's why we and driers; you'd never get it back." recently announced that all our cars Asked how the ban might affect cars would have factory-applied wire that were furnished with owner-applied handgrabs going forward." hardware and/or may have no One reporter, noting that many of these handgrabs at all, the spokesperson workers appear to have a condition not explained: “Des pite some vague unlike rigor mortis and cannot visibly anecdotal evidence that the process of bend their hands or arms without applying wire handgrabs leads to assistance in the first place, was 4 The RPO ▬ Newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA greeted with the retort that the law minute we start making exceptions, requires that little people with disabilities people will stop taking us seriously," the including chronic severe plasticized spokesperson said.
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