The Rocky Mountain Region’s CALLBOARDCALLBOARD Fall 2012 Edition JB& N A Labor of Love Inside BeBeBeBe len —The Hub City: B, 2013 Convention News, Division News, Photos, Articles and More! The NationalThe Rocky Mountain Model Region Callboard Railroad Newsletter 12/6/2012 Association Page Publication Information The Callboard is published quarterly by the Rocky Mountain Region of the National Model Railroad Association and is available online at: www.rmr-nmra.org/callboard.htm All materials, articles, and advertising must be submitted to the Editor and in an electronic format. Contact us for a copy of our submission guidelines. Official Publication of the Rocky Mountain Region Advertisers may contact the Editor to request guidelines and a rate card. of the National Model Railroad Association Editions are mailed to the address in the current NMRA membership list to FALL EDITION those without an email address, and the NOVEMBER 2012 list is updated monthly. Subscribers with an e-mail address will automatical- FEATURES ly receive the PDF version. New Mexico Railroad Heritage……………………….…….. 7 Address corrections can be made by Rails along the Rio Grande 2013 Convention ....................... 8 calling Jenny Hendricks at the NMRA: New Mexico area news……………………..……………… 11 (423) 892-2846 [email protected] 2013 Convention Guest Speaker ....................................... 12 Thank you for supporting the Callboard ! Belen – The Hub City ………...… .................................. 13 JB&N Railroad - A Labor of Love ..................................... 18 Publication Team Technical Corner ......................................................... 30 Scratch Building Corner ................................................. 33 Editor : Chris Fallis 1222 N. 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The Callboard is copyrighted by the Rocky Mountain Region of the National Front cover design by Jeff Wright. Model Railroad Association. No part of this document may be used without express written permission from The Callboard Publication Team. Non-Region members may download the electronic version at http://www.rmr-nmra.org/ callboard.htm . The Rocky Mountain Region Callboard 1222 N. Cascade Ave Colorado Springs, CO 80903 [email protected] The Rocky Mountain Region Callboard Newsletter 12/6/2012 Page 2 portation“ system with sources and users of the goods that have to be moved. I had to plan my routes, talking into account the terrain in the virtual world. I had to ex- with cavate and lay my roadbed and the track upon it. This is GaryGary MyersMyers a lot of work and I am sure that there are Achievement Program points out there that I can score for this effort! The NMRA ‘s Achievement Program is not as daunting a My second feature column as President and I task as some people make it out to be. In future issues haven’t even done anything “officially Presidential” yet! of the Callboard, look for information from Jim Laird, our Our Fall 2012 Board of Directors meeting will be held Sat- Region’s AP chairman about advancing your skill levels urday afternoon, at Caboose Hobbies in Denver on No- with limited cost and space. For those of you con- vember 10th. Lots of stuff on the slate for the coming strained by the household Chief Financial Officer or Fa- year, so we hope to get the Region prepared. For one cilities Manager, this will be a boon to you. thing, we are cleaning up the Bylaws and may have a few tweaks to improve the Constitution for you to decide on Finally, sad news from Eric Lundberg, MMR: the Spring 2013 ballot. While cleaning up our laundry, we’ll be participating with Jack Hamilton’s efforts in the Well known modeler Frederick G. Carlson died NMRA Long Range Planning committees. Hopefully, we’ll September 24, 2012 in Pueblo West, Colorado. Fred is be able to communicate to everyone how great things are survived by his wife Sue and three children, Fred D. Carl- going to be! Well, whatever comes of this, your Board of son, Stephanie Jester, and Jennifer Carlson as well as Directors will even work on our own issues to make im- five grandchildren. He was retired from the Association provements here in the Region. How ‘bout that? of American Railroads (AAR) Transportation Technology As exciting as all that sounds, I can tell you I am a Center (TTC). lot more excited about next year’s Regional Convention, Fred had been a model railroader most of his life Rails Along the Rio Grande 2013, in Albuquerque. I’ve and earned his Master Model Railroader (#197) award already been working on some models for the Model Con- from the NMRA in 1993. He served as president of the test to see if these models can exceed previous efforts Rocky Mountain Region from 2004 to 2008. (and they better!). I am one of those modelers that is on Professionally Fred was both a fine artist and earned wide acclaim in the field of railroad air brake func- the steep end of the learning curve, and the model contest tion, application, testing and development. really makes me earn my modeling stripes (er, stripe, or at Following high school he pursued his interest in least until I get one!). I really enjoyed the convention in art through a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, Albuquerque in 2008, so I know the convention committee but before he could complete his studies there he was has to work very hard to make this one even better, and called to duty and joined the U.S. Air force and was a they are hard workers. If you haven’t gone to a conven- Weather observer stationed in the United Kingdom and tion before, it’s hard to explain just having 24 hour days Libya. Following his discharge he earned a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Illinois and full of trains, just having a great time, making some new went to work for the Illinois Central Railroad. friends and talking and doing model railroading with eve- After several years of railroad service, he was ryone who loves it as much as you do. It’s a great way to hired by the AAR as a research engineer at the Chicago get out of the basement, really recharge, and do some- Technical Center where he focused on air brake re- thing new in the hobby that maybe you haven’t tried be- search and testing. When operations ended at the Chi- fore. Well, heck, maybe it ain’t that hard to explain. cago facility, he relocated to the DOT’s transportation center in Pueblo, Colorado. “Remember, this is Model Railroading fer God’s sakes!” Fred was instrumental in the development and application of AAR interchange standards for Electroni- cally Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) Brake Systems, elec- tronic air brake testing and numerous other advance- withwith ments in railroad braking technology. He retired in 2006 Chris FalLIS and while active was elected secretary of the industry’s Chris fallis Air Brake Association, an office he continued to hold until his death. “You know you are railroad fan when……..”. I found my- Fred was an ardent model railroader and was self thinking of that old joke when I recently found a video widely known for his Gladstone & North Houghton layout game called “Minecraft”. Think of it as a virtual reality both in Chicago and Pueblo West. He also had a deep Lego game with unlimited building blocks. Once I found interest in model railroad operations and hosted regular out that there was a way to build train tracks and run operating sessions on his G&NH. The G&NH depicted a trains on it, I was hooked. I had to mine the iron ore for rail line serving ire ore mining in Michigan’s upper penin- the steel rail and the mine carts that ran on them.. I had sula running from Gladstone on Lake Michigan to the to cut trees for the cross ties. I had to find coal to power central Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior. It is set the “train”. I had to have a reason to develop my trans- in 1963. The Rocky Mountain Region Callboard Newsletter 12/6/2012 Page 3 Rocky Mountain Region - JOIN OUR NMRA E-GROUP! OFFICERS 2012-2014 PRESIDENT Gary Myers [email protected] (720) 837-4393 The Rocky Mountain Region VICE PRES. Richard L. 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