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The Texas Western ST AR Our Club Mourns the Passing of Leo Palitti… 790 Club Facebook Page Likes Facebook.com/Texas Western Model Railroad Club/ In This Issue: Passing of a Friend ..……1 The Business Car ……….2 Current Build……..………3 Open Run Saturday .……4 D1 August Meeting ……..5 Calendar of Events……….6 Signal Landed……….……7 CDO’s Sky Top Lounge …..8 Memories of Leo…………9 Birthdays July/August.…10 Nearly Last Page ….…..11 In Memoriam………..…..12 Vol. 24 No. 4 August 2020 This is Your Newsletter. Please submit your articles to the Editor. [email protected] Like Us on Our Club Facebook Page. facebook.com/ texaswesternmode lrailroadclub/ Ce To the August Business Meeting 7 PM - 9 PM Thsday, August 6, 2020 If you feel comfortable to attend bring your own Mask ( if you can’t make it please mail your dues to Ken’s home address, or pay on our website paypal account, at twmrc.org ) Welcome Back! Texas Western Clubhouse, 6808 Forest Hill Dr, Forest Hill, TX 76140 Leo Palitti 2/15/1955 - 7/12/2020 In Memoriam
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Our Club Mourns the Passing of Leo Palitti…
790 Club Facebook
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Facebook.com/Texas Western Model Railroad Club/
In This Issue: Passing of a Friend ..……1 The Business Car ……….2 Current Build……..………3 Open Run Saturday .……4 D1 August Meeting ……..5 Calendar of Events……….6 Signal Landed……….……7 CDO’s Sky Top Lounge …..8 Memories of Leo…………9 Birthdays July/August.…10 Nearly Last Page ….…..11 In Memoriam………..…..12
Vol. 24 No. 4 August 2020
This is Your Newsletter. Please submit your articles to the Editor.
Like Us on Our Club Facebook Page. facebook.com/texaswesternmodelrailroadclub/
Come To the August Business Meeting 7 PM - 9 PM Thursday, August 6, 2020
If you feel comfortable to attend bring your own Mask ( if you can’t make it please mail your dues to Ken’s home address, or pay on our
website paypal account, at twmrc.org )
Welcome Back! Texas Western Clubhouse, 6808 Forest Hill Dr, Forest Hill, TX 76140
Leo Palitti 2/15/1955 - 7/12/2020
In Memoriam
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The STAR is published Bi-Monthly by The Texas Western Model Rail-road Club & The Texas Western Railroad Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. www.twmrc.org
2020 Executive Board
David Crumpton Chief Executive Officer [email protected]
Clarence Zink Chief Operations Officer [email protected]
Ken Marcoux Chief Financial Officer [email protected]
John “Trapper” Kirkpatrick Chief Administration Officer [email protected]
Chris Galvin Chief Development Officer [email protected]
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From The “Katy” Business Car
Great things are happening at the club. For those of you that are still trying to shel-ter in place due to COVID-19 concerns, let me pull the curtain back and reveal some really exciting views around the club. If you have not viewed our TWMRC Facebook page and posts lately, you will see that we have raised the BNSF signal into its permanent spot in front of the club. Jim Archer and Don Hayes are working on plans to wire it into the building and connect it to the original “blinking” mechanism that was donated by BNSF. The “blinking mechanism was brand new in the box and was dated 1979! Talk about classic! The “blinking” mechanism will be located just inside the front door and will give visitors a chance to see part of what was in those big silver cabinets sitting beside the signals on a real railroad. The mechanism is electro-mechanical and you can see the contact points rocking back and forth as they make a clicking sound to cause the signal lights to blink. It is a really cool piece of history. I am in the process of having a plaque made that I will install on the signal to show our appreciation to the BNSF railway. Don Hayes is busy rehabbing the older signal so we can install it next. Inside the club, work on the GM plant area is making progress. Jay Waters is building the GM plant at home and hopes to have it ready in a few weeks. In the Dallas Union Station area, Jay Waters and Jerry Fussell are laying track to make the station look as prototypical as possible with as many passenger tracks as can be squeezed in as possible. On the end of the layout next to the Electrical Room, Darrell Cowles, with some help from Trapper Kirkpatrick and Jim Archer are laying new track to go into the Ft. Worth Federal Depot.
Part of the track will disappear behind the depot into the wall of the helix and connect to a track that goes to Houston, just like the prototype railroad operations. Jim Archer has also installed a track detection system and warning lights that will let approaching trains to the helix know if another train is in the helix. Well done Jim. Clarence Zink is busy working on trackage around the Texas Steel area and expects to breathe life into it soon. Chris Galvin has plans to start with landscaping around Tower 55. Good bye foam base!! He will be building a team to get that done. Curtis Stanley is now working in the library to help Jim Hollis organize the library and help us find and organize all of those special treasures we have in there. If you are not yet working on a Gang, look around at the areas under development and talk with the Job Foremen and ask them if they need help. My goal is to see everyone actively engaged somewhere on the layout. There is no better way to feel a part of something than to be putting in your labor and heart into it. I do not want anyone to feel that they are on the outside looking in. So, please get involved and join in the construction. Thanks,
David Crumpton
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August 2020 Business Meeting
Thurs. Aug. 6th @ 7 PM
at TWMRC Clubhouse 6808 Forest Hill Dr,
Forest Hill, TX 76140
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My Current Build from the QUARANTINE This build contest is named for Leo Palitti, “The Leo Palitti Model Railroaders Diorama Contest 2020”. Leo was one of the Admin’s for the Facebook page: HO SCALE MODEL RAILROADING (ALL CAPS). The contest ends on August 31st.
Here are some early stages of my Flaherty & McCabe Bar Mills Models Kit.
Chris Galvin
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Open Run Saturdays We Will Have Our August Open Run On Sat. Aug. 8th We Welcome All of our TWMRC Members to our Open Run! Masks Required! 2 - 9 pm
( Photo’s: Top - Jim runs a BN SD-9 as Jay watches the train roll by on the FW&D trackage. Middle - Terry watches as Steve runs a UP freight thru Tower 55. And Steve running a Heritage CNW & UP Commemorative Loco near the Garrett yard in Arlington. )
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Cowcatcher Division 1 AUGUST 8th Zoom Meeting Program: Signals / CTC, Block, Dark Territory, & Torpedoes by Erik Lewis. (stay tuned for login and password to enter the online meeting.)
After the success of the May Thru July Zoom D1 Meetings, Mike Mackey announced that the August D1 Zoom meeting will take place on Saturday, August 8th, from 10 AM - 12 Noon.
Mike encourages everyone to visit the divisions social media sites and to take the t ime to look at the NMRA’s Achievement Program on the national web-site, www.nmra.org
You can also check out the D1 YouTube channel, to see the wonderful clinics that Texas Western’s David Kranda has filmed and uploaded for our benefit. h t t p s : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m /cowcatcherdivision1/ h t t p s : / / w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /nmralonestarregiondivision1/
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The Train Schedule
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Upcoming Meetings, Events, Train Shows & Clinics
August 2020 1st - YMR August Meeting Cancelled/The Group Normally Meets The 1st Saturday of every month from 10 AM - 12 Noon, Saturdays. Masks must be worn by everyone attending. TWMRC Clubhouse.
6th - TWMRC August Regular Business Meeting, 7 - 9 PM. Thursday, Everyone must wear a mask or face covering to attend. At the Clubhouse
8th - Division 1 Virtual August Zoom Meeting, 10 AM - 12 Noon, Get the login info from [email protected]
8th - TWMRC Open Run Saturday, 2 - 9 PM, Members Only, Masks required
13h - Work Night, 6 - 9 PM Thursday, TWMRC Clubhouse
15th - Work Day, 3-9 PM, Saturday, TWMRC Clubhouse
20th - Work Night, 6 - 9 PM Thursday, TWMRC Clubhouse
22nd - Work Day, 3-9 PM, Saturday, TWMRC Clubhouse
27th - Work Night, 6 - 9 PM Thursday, TWMRC Clubhouse
29th - Work Day, 3-9 PM, Saturday,
6th Annual Area Fall Train Show
CANCELLED
Sat. 9 am - 5 pm Plano Centre
2000 E. Spring Creek Pkwy Plano, TX 75074
$10.00 per person Children 12 and under
Free w/paid adult Scouts & Scout Leaders
in Uniform, Admission is FREE
www.dfwtrainshows.com
LSR NMRA Cowcatcher Division 1
Sat. Aug. 8th Zoom Meeting
Program - Signals by Erik Lewis.
10 AM cowcatcherdivision.org
Join Us For Texas Western
Open Run Days
Come out and Run Your Trains on the 1st Saturday After Our
TWMRC Monthly Meetings.
2 pm - 9 pm, (Must Wear a Mask!)
A Recent Restoration completed by David
Crumpton is on display at the club.
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Installation of the first of the clubs two RR Crossing Signals was completed in July.
A Big Thanks to the city of Forest Hill City Works Dept. for the assistance in getting our signal unloaded and set in place in front of our club house. Several of our members lead by Dar re l l Cowles & His Team coordinated the placement of the signal back in mid-July. Since then, Jim Archer and Don Hays have worked on getting the signal lighting working. Jim had a great idea to display the donated working blinking mechanism in a glassed cabinet and placed it just inside our front door as you enter the club. All can see it working when the
light switch is turned on inside the club.
- Editor
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CDO’s Sky-Top Lounge Car
t’s never easy to lose one of our friends and the passing of Leo Palitti has made for a hard couple of weeks for all that knew him. Leo was so loving and gracious with his time and talent. Our hearts hurt for Lorrie & the rest of Leo’s family as they mourn and remember their
lives with this awesome man. It’s safe to say that Leo influenced myself and countless others with his fabulous structures & scenery making expertise. We were lucky to have such a positive and productive builder among us.
( Leo re-visiting His model of the Branch Davidian Compound now on permanent display at a Waco Historical Exhibit about the 1990’s conflict. )
At our July TWMRC Business Meeting it was discussed that we begin putting Scenery on our layout to put our best foot forward for a November “Open House” for the City of Forest Hill, that our previous CEO promised the city. The club wants to show off our layout and to express our appreciation for their efforts to get out club dried out and rebuilt during the great flood the year before. At our most recent BoD meeting it was agreed upon to begin those scenery efforts around Tower 55. It is our goal to continue putting in scenes throughout the 53” level by weathering and ballasting track, putting in ground scenery, and complete backdrop painting of clouds and lower background painting, add structures, bridge underpasses, and other details to put our trains onto a scenic stage.
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I put together a Scenery Crew of Steve Parrish, & Terry Morris and hope more that want to get involved “on the layout” will join us. We recently had a quick airbrush basics and paint lesson, then the fellas’s got to it around the Tower 55 tower area. Steve and Terry put there best efforts forward and feel more a part of the Texas Western Team!!! We will be bringing in a guest clinician to show us how to put in some grassy patches, though not a dominant feature around the tower in 1962, our research has proven the green stuff did exist around this part of the layout. We will be modeling electrical boxes and their switch lever coverings that populated the tracks and turnouts around the tower and determining the ballast color(s) to use on the tracks. I know the club established some of these colors when some ballast colors were approved that the late Gary Cox had researched. If you have any further insights, we welcome your input in this area as well as other scenic suggestions.
Happy Rails !!!
Until the next STAR Newsletter in October 2020… Facebook.com/texaswesternmodelrailroadclub/ #JoinTheTexasWesternModelRailroadClub,
Chris Galvin
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( Memories of Leo Palitti ) Follow He & Lorrie’s Facebook Page to see their home layout. @ Black Bear and Bayou Railroad
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Texas Western Railroad Association 6808 Forest Hill Drive, Forest Hill, TX 76140
Together Let’s All Keep the Clubhouse Clean
Let’s All Pitch In and Pick Up Trash, Clean Restrooms, and do Sweeping as Needed!
Birthdays July & August 2020
Ryan Zamarron David Kohler William Brown Mike Corley Chris Galvin Kathy Galvin 7/1 7/4 7/5 7/15 8/11 (58) 8/30 (38)
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Nearly The Last Page….. The BOD has decided to bring you an Open Run Day. Every 1st Saturday after our monthly business meeting you can run trains all day.
There will be no working on the layout on that day. If you need help programming your DCC loco’s please ask someone for assistance. Wipe the dust off your train boxes and throttle and come on down and enjoy running your favorite train.
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Leo Palitti 2/15/1955 - 7/12/2020 In Memoriam
Its with a heavy heart that we say Good Bye to Leo Palitti, 65, who went on “To Glory” July 12, 2020 after a long illness. The Entire Texas Western Model Railroad Club Family sends our condolences to Lorrie and the rest of the Palitti family. Leo was a Charter Member of our Club and his contributions to the both to the TWMRC and to the our hobby in general are numerous. He was generous with his friends and to many of our new members over the many years he was with us. Rest in Peace Brother Leo. - Editor
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I’ve worked many a private party drawing caricatures at corporate, high school graduations & wedding receptions all over dfw. this photo is from the 2nd floor of THE Dallas Union Terminal near the ballroom. - EDITOR
