Newsletter of the Nutmeg Division, Northeastern Region, National Model Railroad Association Volume 16, Issue 3 September 2015 - November 2015 Your portal to more fun in model Railroading To promote Model Railroading and help educate modelers in the skills of Model Railroading Volume 16, issue 4 of THE FLYER will be scheduled for publication by November 30, 2015. If anyone has an article, story or anything else that they would like to have published in the next issue of THE FLYER please send it to Ron Pelletier at [email protected] as soon as possible. Please visit our website at http://www.nutmegdivision.com INDEX From the Desk of the Superintendent and Treasurer, James Mayo Page 2 From the Desk of the Clinic Chairperson Peter Luchini Page 3 From the Desk of the Layout Tour Coordinator Greg Lane Page 3 From Communication Manager / Editor / Membership Promotion Manager Ronald Pelletier Page 4 Articles / Stories / Letters Page 4 Introducing Layout Command Control Looking for Kit Plans The Lincoln Funeral Train Is Coming to Troy Ohio Call for Clinicians and Vendors Revised Substitute Bus Schedules How to Perform a Saw Move For Fun B & M Eastern Route Activity Little Rhody Train Show Scheduled for October 2015 CNY Division Train Watch Fall New Jersey MER/NER Regional Convention Hopefully You Heard it Here First A Message from Mike Brestel – NMRA At Large World Wide Director I Want You to Volunteer for the Amherst Railway Society 2016 Railroad Hobby Show New Members / Re-rail Members Page 17 Achievement Program – Certificates Awarded Page 17 -1- Birthday Announcements Page 17 Listing of organizations in the Nutmeg Division and the Bordering Sister Divisions Page 18 Calendar of Local Events for the Nutmeg Division and its Bordering Sister Divisions Page 19 National / Regional Convention Events Page 23 General Information of the Nutmeg Division and the Other Divisions of the Northeastern Region Page 30 New Address for the NMRA Page 36 From the Desk of the Superintendent, James Mayo: [email protected] August 2015 I’ll start off this column with a new subject. The Nutmeg Division has an opportunity to promote the hobby, promote our brand and eventually make some money (the first two are in our mission statement as a not for profit). The Amherst Railway Society has been putting on modeling clinics before and during the Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield. These clinics have been growing at a rapid pace and are beginning to strain the resources of the Amherst Railway Society. The show director has asked us (the Nutmeg Division) if we would be interested in helping out. This will start out by us providing a few volunteers to assist in the running of the clinics. If the growth of the extra fare clinics continues on pace, The Amherst Railway Society will not be able to continue this well received show item. So the proposition is, if growth in the extra fare clinics continue, the Amherst Railway Society would be very grateful to co-present the clinics with the Nutmeg Division. Eventually the Nutmeg Division would grow into the headline host, with the abundant resources of the Amherst Railway Society to help us along. The board has heard this pitch and is eager to follow up, now it is up to the membership to decide if this is something we want to pursue. We will need volunteers willing to help with support services (roadies) at next years (2016) show. So when I go around at the next meeting, I will be asking everybody, do you want to go to the best railroad hobby show for free? So do you want to go to the best railroad hobby show for free? We (the board) could use some help with clinic and layout suggestions for next year. So if you have a clinic idea, see Peter Luchini [email protected] or if you have a layout to show and share see Greg Lane [email protected] . I will be taking picture submissions for the new Nutmeg Division promotional banner. The board would like pictures of “us” doing Nutmeg Division “stuff” and pictures from member’s layouts. If you have a project that you have worked on or are planning, bring them along. Get some feedback and give the rest of us some ideas and incentive to move that project that has been sitting on the desk. If you have an event that you deem noteworthy, forward the information to myself or Ron to be included into the announcements. If you have not renewed your NMRA membership, please do so! And remember to support your local hobby shop. James Mayo Superintendent Nutmeg Division From the Treasurer: Balance as of 7/31/15: $1751.16 -2- From the Desk of Clinic Chairperson Peter Luchini [email protected] Clinic Details for the OCT 10th and DEC 12th 2015 membership events of the Nutmeg Division CLINICS FOR THE OCTOBER MEMBERSHIP EVENT: Clinic #1: “SCRATCH BUILDING 101 WITH Ron Poidomani Basic techniques for scratch building structures, including necessary tools, available resources, using mockups, types of building materials and work bench considerations will be covered. Focus will be on scratch building craftsman style structures. Clinic #2: JMRI Sudro Brown How to find and get JMRI / Decoder Pro / Panel Pro onto your computer; use of Decoder Pro to program a non-sound locomotive; if time permits Sudro will delve into the complexities of sound decoders. CLINICS FOR THE DECEMBER MEMBERSHIP EVENT: Clinic #1: “NYCS Brick Signal Towers” with David Mackay from the NYCSHS will describe modeling these towers. He will also describe the search for these NYC Lines East Brick Towers. This includes looking for prototype photos, the search for dimensions, itemizing the details, and then finding a manufacturer. Dave is on the Board of the NYCSHS and is in charge of the models they make for the membership. Clinic #2: “Home Layouts” with Carl Liba, Carl Liba will present and discuss his collection of layout photos from several Metro North and Albany Layouts. Carl Liba was a member, and a former Superintendent, of the Metro North Division and had the opportunity to visit a number of their layouts. In addition, he was on the planning committee of the 2009 NMRA Annual Meeting. He visited several layouts in the Albany area as they planned the home visits for that meeting. There is always something to be learned by looking at another modeler’s layout. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ From the desk of the Layout Tour Coordinator Greg Lane: [email protected] or at 203-245-0240. Dear Nutmeggers, One of the highlights of our bi-monthly meetings is the opportunity to view, admire and assess other members’ layouts. Through the generosity of many members and non-members, we have had a steady stream of great layouts in 2015, thanks to Bob Murphy, Mike Wlochowski, Fran Richard, Chris Greaves, and Jonathan Harger. Just finished at our August meeting was Chris Adams’s “The Valley Local” and that of our “exhausted ruler” James Mayo’s “Shreveport & Central Mississippi”. Reports have been that both layouts were well-received. Thanks go out to Chris and James! I am pleased to advise that we are “fully covered” for layouts in the remaining months of 2015, including those of Bob Davis and Pete Luchini (October) and for December, the S and G scale layouts of Charles Bettinger and Jim Covell, both in Vernon. Maybe it is a bit early, but this is a first call for fellow Nutmeggers to volunteer their layouts for the 2016 year. Having guests is about the biggest motivator to action I can think of so if interested, let me know. Note that we are looking for a wide variety of layouts, small or large, finished or unfinished. Unfinished layouts can be highly instructional for approaches to design, benchwork, roadbed, trackwork, wiring, structures and scenery. Smaller layouts or modules can inspire those among us who have not even started to build! Ready to volunteer or need more information see me at our meetings, or you can contact me at the above. Greg Lane // Layout Tour Coordinator -3- From Communication Manager, Newsletter Editor, Membership Manager, Ronald Pelletier [email protected] I would like to thank everyone that supplied an article / story / or letter. It is greatly appreciated. I apologize for not publishing this newsletter any sooner. For those of you who don’t receive the NMRA Magazine you may not know of another benefit that supporting the NMRA provides. Below you will find an article about another New Standard that the NMRA has set. “Introducing Layout Command Control” The Nutmeg Division has a total of three voting members of the Board of Directors. Each director serves for a three year term. In April of each year, one of the three directors term will expire, so there will be a vote in April of each year to either select a new director for a three year term or to re-elect the outgoing director if that person has so decided to stay on for another term of three years. James Mayo was re-elected as Director and Superintendent in April 2015. James Mayo’s (second) term as director ends in April 2017 Greg Lang (first official) term as director ends in April 2018 Douglas Henley’s (second) term as director will end in April 2016 There will be another election for a director’s position in April 2016. If you are interested in being an officer of the Nutmeg Division or to volunteer for the Nutmeg Division, please contact Ron Pelletier at [email protected] _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Articles / Stories /Letters -4- (EDITOR) This is a follow-up about an e-mail that I had sent out back in July 2015, a friend of Mike Tylick of the Little Rhody Division was: Looking for Kit Plans A friend is looking to find the scale drawings for a kit he is starting to build.