The Saratoga & North Creek Vancouver Island and Mount Hood Australian Bearing Design

The Saratoga & North Creek Vancouver Island and Mount Hood Australian Bearing Design

The SETOFF The Official Publication of NARCOA North American Railcar Operators Association Mar / Apr 2015 Volume 29 - No. 2 Australian Bearing design The Saratoga & North Creek Vancouver Island and Mount Hood The NARCOA Officials President: Bill Schertle SETOFF Vice-President: Bernie Leadon Nominations, Elections Volume 29 Nov 2 Secretary: Bob Hastings Dan Page (714) 847-5906 Treasurer: Tom Norman [email protected] The SETOFF is the official publication of the North American Railcar Operators Area 1 Director NARCOA Insurance Administrator Association (NARCOA) and is published (ME, NH, VT, NY, MA, CT, RI) Tom Norman (406) 722-3012 bimonthly to promote safe legal operation Keith Knowlton (860)779-1361 1047 Terrace View Drive of railroad motorcars, and to encourage [email protected] Alberton, MT 59820 fellowship and exchange of information [email protected] among motorcar enthusiasts. Area 2 Director Brian Davis, SETOFF Editor (NJ, PA, DE, MD) Rule Book Certification Test 5626 Chadwell Cir John Gonder (724)244-7538 Al McCracken Ravenna, Ohio 44266 [email protected] 2916 Taper Avenue [email protected] Santa Clara, CA 95051 Area 3 Director [email protected] (IN, MI, OH) The SETOFF is printed by Jeff Levengood (330) 343-3407 The SETOFF Editor Greg Kightlinger, GEK Printing [email protected] Brian Davis (330) 554-4480 [email protected] Membership in NARCOA, which includes Area 4 Director a subscription to The SETOFF, is $36 per (WV, VA, KY, NC, SC, TN, AR) NARCOA Webmaster year, and is available from the Secretary at Bernie Leadon (615) 478-3660 Keith Mackey (352) 347-0770 the address below. Please send your check [email protected] [email protected] made out to NARCOA to: Bob Hastings, Secretary Area 5 Director NARCOA Forum Moderator P.O. Box 9035 Cincinnati, OH 45209 (MS, AL, LA, GA, FL) Rich Stivers (408) 264-1048 [email protected] Will Thompson (229) 359-5701 [email protected] [email protected] Committee Chairs: All subscriptions and address changes Area 6 Director must be sent to the NARCOA Secretary. (MN, WI, IL) Judiciary Chair All materials for publication must be sent Bob Knight (815) 786-3096 Dan Berg (702) 341-8617 to the SETOFF Editor. [email protected] 2017 Mule Creek St. Materials received by the 10th of even Las Vegas, NV 89134 numbered months will appear on the 1st Area 7 Director [email protected] of the next odd numbered month subject (ND, SD, NE, IA) to editing and available space. Please in- Carl Schneider (515) 967-5181 Safety Chair clude your e-mail address and phone num- [email protected] Bob Knight (815) 786-3096 ber. Electronic submissions are preferred. [email protected] Text files must have either .doc or .txt ex- Area 8 Director tensions. Photo files must be high resolu- (Canada, World outside U.S.) Rules Chair tion with .jpg extensions. All materials are John Brown (705)538-1196 Jim McKeel (316) 721-4378 archived and not returned. We cannot re- [email protected] [email protected] print copyrighted material without written authorization or proper attribution. Area 9 Director Operations Chair Letters to the Editor must be signed and in- ( CO, KS, MO, NM, OK, TX, UT) Bill Taylor (406) 721-2351 clude an e-mail address or phone number Chris Weaver (303) 589-6665 [email protected] for authentication. All such letters may be [email protected] printed as discussed in the NARCOA pol- Affiliates ......Dave Verzi [email protected] icy book. Area 10 Director HyRail & Custom-Built Motorcars (WA, OR, ID, MT, AK, WY) ................Tom Falicon [email protected] For more information about NARCOA, the Bill Taylor (406) 721-2351 Communications .............. Bernie Leadon safe legal operation of motorcars, or to find [email protected] Legal Forms ........................Mark Springer NARCOA affiliates located in Canada, the Membership Manager..........Bob Hastings United States, and Mexico, please see: Area 11 Director [email protected] www.narcoa.org (CA, NV, AZ, HI) Database Manager ......................Dan Page © Copyright 2015 - NARCOA. All rights Bill Schertle (714) 743-0804 [email protected] reserved. Reproduction, by any means, in [email protected] whole or part, by any party, is strictly pro- S hibited. Director-at-Large (non–voting) NARCOA Radio Call Sign WPHT745 Dan Berg (702) 341-8617 Channel 1 – 151.625 MHz [email protected] Channel 2 – 151.505 MHz ON THE COVER Channel 3 – 158.400 MHz Cars on the Saratoga & North Creek ex- Director-at-Large (non–voting) Jaime Samuell (740) 427-4444 cursion turned and ready to head South [email protected] from Tahawus Mine. Photo by Joe Marsh 2 The SETOFF MAr / Apr 2015 President’s Message From The Bill Schertle Editor As the motorcar year has begun it is encouraging to follow the Brian Davis “Excursions” section of the NARCOA website. Each day it seems that more and more excursions are being added to the ever growing list. I hope Hello Fellow NARCOA you are encouraged, too, as Excursion Coordinators all over the NARCOA Members! network are talking to railroad personnel seeking permission to hold an We have had record low excursion on their rails. In many cases the hoped for permission is denied. temperatures here this month, but In others, the permission is granted with open arms. Safe and courteous the first excursion in this area is operation is crucial to our success. Let’s make this a year with no incidents. only 6 weeks away. We are getting The newly approved rule inserts will be available shortly. Attach them excited, even if it is too cold to get to the appropriate page in your Rule Book and carry it with you on every out to the garage to get the motorcar excursion. Perhaps someday we will allow you to access the Rule Book on ready. your mobile device but not yet. Here in California they are ready to propose We have had a wonderful number legislation to allow digital driver licenses! No more losing your license and variety of submissions for this when your wallet is stolen. Speaking of technology you probably noticed issue, and I have had a lot of fun that in the last issue of the Setoff was a copy of our unique NARCOA putting it together. I do hope you like QR code. Feel free to share that with anyone who asks about NARCOA. them. The number of excursions Carry it with you or stick it on your motorcar so anyone with a smart phone listed is growing by the day, too! It’s can instantly access our website and find out who we are. It’s a great tool an exciting time of the year! created by our own Keith Mackey. We’ll see you on the rails! Enjoy your Spring runs and remember, no smacks. Jane & Brian Bill Schertle In This Issue Attention Members! NARCOA Officials 2 President’s Message 3 Our insurance applications must From The Editor 3 be submitted by March 31st for Directors’ Messages 4 Letter to the editor 6 coverage in 2015! Joe Speeder 7 Saratoga & North Creek 8 Send in your payment soon! RPI Awakens a Sleeping Line 10 Great Sandhills 14 NARCOA at A Train Show 15 Great Start to the New Year 16 Vancouver Island 18 CORRECTION: Australin Bearing Setup 22 In our Jan Feb 2015 isssue we incorrectly identified the photographer Upcoming Excursions 24 in the “Go By Train Event” article. Mike Ford took all of those pictures. Suppliers 27 We apologize for this error. -Editor NARCOA Company Store 28 MAr / Apr 2015 The SETOFF 3 Area One Radios: every year it becomes neighbors thought I had lost it!! I’m (Me, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI) more important to have a decent sure you can ID with the problem radio in our vehicle. As an EC I have when we can’t get out on the rails. Keith L. Knowlton two, one for NARCOA 1,2 or3 and Now the next thought is to remind Well here it is the second week one for the railroad frequency and I all of you that the season is just a of February. My wife Elaine has have found that Kenwood NX-700 few months away and this is a great been ill for a couple of weeks, I radios are especially good. I buy time to be changing the oil, greasing have already run more gas through them from time to time on Ebay all the fittings and giving your mo- my snow blower so far this season and I have all the software, cables, torcar(s) a good going over and not than in any other winter in memory and programs to set them up for wait until the day of your first run to and most of the tracks we run on excursions. They are both analog do your prep time. are under feet of snow, not inches, and digital and have room for more Now on another note all of us in and more is coming this weekend. channels than we can use. If you get Area 6 welcome two new members But it’s a fine time to get things your hands on one I’ll be happy to to our area and they are: Matt Pap- done such as contacting railroads set it up for you. pas from Brooklyn, MN and Charlie and setting up excursions which That’s about it for now, be safe out Cowden from Buyck, MN. We all has occupied a great deal of my there and pray for spring!! hope to meet them soon on the rails. time and that of the other NEREX ECs.

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