PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE!by Steve Bumgardner !Hello everyone. It is the fall time of the year and it seems that all the folks I know are starting to plan for Halloween. A few are even talking about Thanksgiving! I think it is a great time of the year, but prefer not to rush it. This year for CAMRRC it has been typical, not a lot of unplanned things happening. The club membership this year is at 78 regular members and 14 honorary. This is a very good thing for the club. Our monthly meeting attendance had a run rate of about 40 to 45 members. We have been at this level for some time. We have been getting 1- 2 guest and/or new members at our monthly meetings this year. This is still a very good turnout for a club of our size. And yes, to repeat myself, I would like to see it at 95 to 100%. !Our meeting format continues to be the same for this year as it has been. Dan LePage is doing a very good job in organizing the ‘show & tell’ and general presentations. I am sure that he will continue to do so the rest of the year. I am sure that our members will make every effort to help Dan in these activities, it is a big task. We have had a lot of participants during the ‘show & tell’ portion of the meetings. This has been very informative for all of the members and is always something to look forward to. Our presentation session, which follows, has been interesting and informative. These do require time for the participants in them. We owe all

of the folks who participate in them a big thank you! !Our annual swap meet in August, ‘Beat the Heat’, was a success again this year. All of the tables were sold out; we had to create a waiting list for those people who wanted to purchase one. We had in the order of 400 people come through the door for the event. The break down was approximately 360 adults and 40 kids. That does not include the vendors or our club members. The vendors were still impressed and very appreciative of the way they were treated by the club. That is a big deal and a big Thank You to the membership for making it possible. A special thanks to all of the people in our club who put in a lot of time and effort into this activity. The work for this event starts as soon as the previous one is finished. And of course gets more intense as the year progresses. So we are already active in the early planning stages for next years. !The fall is always a busy time of the year for our club. This year we have the added event of electing club officers. Election ballots will be sent out in October to all active members. and results will be announced in November. This is your club so step up and become involved in guiding the direction it takes! !This fall there will be elections for the following;

• President • Vice-President • Secretary • Treasurer • Director !

NEWSLETTER!

Central Arizona Model Railroad Club!October - December, 2014!

Volunteers will be needed for the club’s coming events. The December train show at the Prescott Resort and the gift shopping for kids at Christmas. The show is on December 6 from 9am to 5pm. Setup starts at 7am. There will be signup sheets for these events at our normal meeting. They will help to ensure that our last two key events this year will continue to be successful. Club members can sign up for these activities and help support these functions. Please consider the need and joining the team. !Stan Cedarleaf is running the Resort December train show for the club once again. He did a traffic job last year in doing this activity, so to ensure no good deed goes unpunished we asked him to do it again. So let’s support Stan and the club in this show. !!Our club Christmas party will be held on December 10, 2014. It will be at the StoneRidge Golf Club. More information will be given to the membership concerning this event as it becomes available. The final date for signing up for the Party will be in November at our club meeting. !!A reminder (and a repeat) for all of us, please wear your club name tags. This is actually for all club events and meetings. Not everyone in the club knows everyone else by name. This is particularly true for our families who would be more comfortable and would like to know other club members. This is an easy way to identify our club members to them.

I am looking forward to continuing working with my fellow members in the CAMRRC and the Board of Directors. I hope that everyone will have a good fall and a wonderful Holiday season. !!SCHEDULE!!CAMRRC regular meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month. They feature tables where you are welcome to bring items for sale and most months also feature a program. They are a also great way to get together with your fellow members. Meetings begin at 7pm at the Prescott First Lutheran Church, 231 W. Smoketree Lane off Willow Creek !October 8 - CAMRRC meeting, First Lutheran Church November 12 - CAMRRC meeting, First Lutheran Church November 22, 23 - Cal Stewart Swap Meet, Ontario, CA, info - http://www.ttos-sw.org/cal-stewart_brochure.htm November 29 - Desert Division Turkey Meat auction, Phoenix, info - http://www.tcadd.org December 6 - Arizona Toy Train Show, Glendale, TCA Desert Division, info - http://www.tcadd.org December 7 - CAMRRC train display at the Prescott Resort. Contact Stan Cedarleaf to participate. December 10 - CAMRRC Christmas party and dinner. See President’s Message. !!WE LOOSE ANOTHER FOUNDING MEMBER!!Lorne Noyes - Another one of the Central Arizona Model Railroad Club founding members has passed

BOARD OF DIRECTORS!!STEVE BUMGARDNER, President! 775-3184! ! ! Board Members! DAN LePAGE, Vice President!! 636-9726! ! ! GEORGE KLIMAS! 778-9249! JIM HANNA, Secretary! ! ! 778-2110! ! ! BONNIE RUDY! ! 759-8129! DICK GAGE, Treasurer! (c)802-272-1352! ! ! JACK HENDRIX! ! 445-6935! !

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away.  Bob Wittman: a member since the club's inception back in the late 1990's, back in the days when part of the 'old armory' was used for a layout.  In speaking with Pat Wittman, Bob passed away around noon today.  There will not be a funeral service, but possibly a grave side remembrance at the VA cemetery.  For many years Bob held office on our board of directors.  He will be missed, especially by us 'old members' who knew him well.

!Bob Pratt - Bob was an early club treasurer. He was always ready to pitch in and help and he ran the August swap meet for several years. He will be missed. !!Bob Lanning - So sorry to hear about Bob. I know he has not been well for quite a while. I met Bob, who was with Mike Nelson quite often, when I first moved to AZ 23 years ago. I met both of them while I was helping build the Clemenceau Museum Diorama.  Mike had his clock/train shop in Prescott then. Bob was always a great guy. He had a good sense of humor and was always willing to pitch in and help with a club project. We will all miss him dearly, and our hearts go out to Pat. !!!!

TV STARS FOR THE SWAP MEET!!We know it is a tough job, but somebody had to do it - appear on TV to promote the Swap Meet. Your editor and Stan Cedarleaf made the great sacrifice this year. Here are shots from in the studio during the filming. !

!NO FALL LAYOUT OPEN HOUSES!!Unfortunately we did not have sufficient responses to schedule an open house Saturday tour for folks in the Prescott to Dewey areas this fall. We will try for a Prescott to Paulden open house tour in late winter. Contact your editor if you are interested. !!!!!

A BEAT THE HEAT WINNER!by Dick Gage !The gentlemen receiving the train set is T. Peck of Prescott Valley. The other winner was Larry Laidler also of Prescott Valley.  He also signed up as a new member presenting us a check for membership and a badge.

!TOM MCCOLLOCH’S NEW TRAIN ROOM!by Tom McColloch !I am finishing the space for a new HO scale model railroad and hope to start layout construction soon. The building used to be a two car garage and I have

converted it to shop space and a 20’ by 20’ layout room. The garage is old and had barnwood siding that was badly deteriorated, along with two overhead doors that were falling apart. I removed the garage doors and framed the openings, and installed twelve short windows around the room to provide some daylight. The windows are high on the walls so that the railroad backdrop will be underneath them. I Installed Hardie panel on the outside of the building, and the inside has been insulated and finished with drywall. I am working now on installing a suspended ceiling with recessed lighting.

I developed a track plan to fit the available space. It is a walk-in design, with no duck-unders needed to access the railroad, and wide aisles to accommodate operators. The layout will have a single track mainline with passing sidings and is designed for continuous running. There will be some 3% grades that will require helper locomotives, and a number of industries will be located around the layout to provide good operating scenarios.

The layout will be a free-lanced railroad set in the mid 1960s. I kept the locomotives and rolling stock from my last layout, so this railroad will be the Western Division of the Rochester and Lake Erie. The motive power is F units and early GPs, with lots of 40 foot box cars and 55 ton hopper cars. I do run

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equipment that I like, however, so occasionally some more modern cars get included. I also have some Alco locomotives

in Lehigh Valley paint scheme, which I ran on the Rochester Model RR Club, so the LV will have trackage rights on this layout. I will be using NCE digital command control for operating. This will be the fourth layout I have constructed as an adult model railroader.

I welcome all members to follow the construction of this layout, and I would be happy to help others who may need assistance. I am always interested in railfan opportunities, too, so contact me if you would like to get together. You can reach me at 928-237-4666 or tommccolloch@gmail.com

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MORE TRAVELS WITH NORM!by Norm Delucchi

Back in 1971 / 72 having been stationed at NAS Quonset Point RI, I had the opportunity to visit South Carver MA (Edaville) and ride some of the equipment from the Maine 2-foot railroads that were saved from scraping by Ellis D. Atwood. He ran the trains around his cranberry bogs using the cars to haul the cranberries. During the Christmas holidays, he had numerous holiday scenes set up along the right-of-way.  Upon Atwood’s death, the majority of the equipment made its way back to their real home in Maine. With a visit to the Narrow Gauge Museum in Portland ME, we rode on possibly the same equipment that I rode some 42 years before; but this time in Maine on a 1.5-mile trip along Casco Bay.  The trip provides great views of the bay and surrounding area. On a side note – since we rode the train I have read that some of the cars were victims of vandals.  Using PayPal I donated to the museum to help with the cost of the repairs.  In addition, the museum will be moving to a new location near Gray ME by 2016.

We traveled back to Rochester NY (our second visit) so my wife could spend a bit more time with her sister and nephew’s family.   About 90 minutes south of Rochester is the Arcade & Attica railroad.  This railroad is a common carrier but on weekends they run an excursion using a coal fired 1920 2-8-0 for a 90 minute round trip from Arcade to Curriers.   The trip is mostly through farmland.   During the week, they use GE 65 and 44-ton diesels to handle the limited amount of freight business.

HUMOR FROM CHARLIE SCARDINO!!"Why can't a steam locomotive sit down?"  Ans. "Because it has a tender behind." ! + A large, two engined train was crossing America. After they had gone some distance one of the engines broke down. “No problem” the engineer thought and carried on with half power. Farther down the line, the second engine broke down and the train slowed to a dead stop. The engineer decided he should inform the passengers about why the train had stopped and made the following announcement, !“Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you took the train instead of flying”. !(think about that one!)

We then headed south to West Virginia and the Cass Scenic Railroad.  I know some of the Club’s members have ridden the train in Cass.  The train follows the same right-of-way as the West Virginia Pulp and Paper and the Mower Lumber Company from the town of Cass to the top of Bald Knob.   Riding behind a shay climbing an 11% grade is an absolute thrilling event.   The scenery is beautiful – considering most of the trees are second or three-growth. Our locomotive was the Western Maryland #6 – the second largest shay built and the last shay built.  At the half waypoint to Bald Knob, Whittaker, a representative logging camp shows some of the buildings and equipment used by the loggers.  Prior to catching the train, I wandered through the shop area – the employees and volunteers went out of the way to show me around the shop and all the locomotives.  In addition to the railroad, many of the building in the town of Cass have been restored and available for vacation rentals.  The mill at Cass is in ruins after a fire in the 1960’s. 

The next major stop on our travels was to be the Henry Ford Museum / Greenfield Village in Dearborn MI.  On the way to Dearborn, we stopped in Independence Ohio and rode a beer tasting train on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. The train traveled through the Cuyahoga National Park.  Completely different scenery from WV but just as beautiful. On board a special train – “Ales on Rails” - we sampled six different local Ohio beers along with some very delicious hors d’oeuvres.  We rode in a restored Florida East Coast observation car (this was an extra fare) with only eight other folks.   Riding the car with us was a representative of the local distributor who spent time describing the

various beers. We did get a very nice commemorative glass.

At the Henry Ford museum there is an absolute great reproduction of the DeWitt Clinton train – I am sure Charlie Scardino would like to engage some club members to obtain it for his historical park. Also Charlie – there is a reproduction of the Best Friend of Charleston in South Carolina that you may also want. !Having just lucked out with timing to ride the ‘beer train’ we fell into another special train; this time it was a bourbon tasting train on the French Lick Scenic Railway located at the Indiana Railroad Museum in French Lick.  French Lick Indiana is very close to the Kentucky border and the home of many bourbon distilleries.  The train itself did not compared to the Cuyahoga train – this time the ride was in an old commuter coach.  A very bad speaker system announced the brands served and the lovely lass serving them did not know the names of the

bourbon served or any information about the very tasty appetizers. Moreover, no commemorative shot glass.  The museum at French Lick has an outstanding G scale display of a circus train unloading – the town was the winter headquarters of one of largest circus in the country. My narrative does not include some museums, layouts, train rides, and right-of-way exploration that I found time for during our travels.  However, there is one more ride that I am afraid club members would razz me about; a 45-minute ride on the Jefferson and Big Cypress Bayou Railroad in Jefferson Texas.  This meter gauge train started out as an amusement park ride in Florida, but in the early 1970 found a home in Texas.  They have a small steamer (currently in for minor repairs) and a 6-cylinder gas locomotive for power.   The train follows a part of the Big Cypress Bayou and past the remains of one of the largest Confederate powder and ammunition storage facilities.  During the Civil War, steamships could navigate all the way from Shreveport to Jefferson to deliver powder and weapons.  Special rides at night for a ghost train. Behind the Jefferson Historical Museum is the R.D.Moses Model Railroad – a very detailed layout showing an historical view of the T&P (Texas & Pacific) railroad.

!!COLIN CLAXON STARTS HIS LAYOUT!by Colin Claxon !I have started on the layout that I have wanted to build for years. It will be in a garage bay and be around 20 ft long and will have a "dog bone look”. The center area will bee around 11ft long but only

2 ft wide. The ends of the layout bulge out to allow trains to turn and room for the town at one side and a yard at the other. !The era represented will be 1890-1910. As I like to focus on one train at a time, I am planning to stick to DC. l will use Peco electrofrog switches to be able to park another engine on a siding. I am going to try to run two scales alternately with the same track - On30( O scale narrow gauge)  and HO. The O scale will be fantasy, mostly an adobe village. The HO will be mostly Prescott in the early days. Structures  and engines/rolling stock will be kept under the layout table while the other scale is in use.

!FOR A CHANGE IN COLOR!by Mark Ziven !One  of  the  problems  that  we  all  run  into  in  our  model  railroad  hobby  is  where  to  

spray  paint  and  customize  rolling  stock  and  parts.  

In  our  new  home,  the  garage  was  designed  to  service  antique  cars  with  a  grease  pit  and  hoist.  Those  plans  were  scrapped  when  the  price  quotes  were  offered.  

I  still  have  the  garage  and  ?loor  space,  but  the  exhaust  system  never  came  to  be.  

With  the  model  trains  it  became  evident  that  I  needed  more  than  just  a  scrap  box  from  Costco  to  act  as  a  “catch  pan”  for  the  over  spray  mist  and  fume  generated  by  “rattle  can  spray  paint”  or  my  most  versatile  Badger  Air  Brush.  

Not  taking  a  back  seat  to  the  TV  show  character  MacGyver,  I  was  off  to  ?ind  something  to  adapt  into  a  spray  booth.  (Micro-­‐Mark  wanted  $700.00  for  theirs)  

I  needed  some  sort  of  “fan”  but  not  one  with  3  or  4  blades,  a  squirrel  cage  unit  of  some  kind.  

My  second  trip  through  Habitat  for  Humanity  produced  the  perfect  candidate,  an  antique  kitchen  exhaust  hood  from  the  60’s.  

General  Electric  didn’t  know  what  hit  it.  The  hood  assembly  was  disassembled  down  to  just  the  blower  motor  and  it’s  housing.  Now  a  plan  was  hatched  to  build  a  spray  booth  that  was  relatively  portable,  with  good  access  to  the  parts  being  

painted  and  capture  the  overspray  spray  and  fume  at  the  same  time.  

After  many  sketches  and  lots  of  erasures,  all  of  the  ideas  were  in  place.  

The  tools  came  out  to  craft  the  framework.  (  Only  drop  offs  already  in  house  were  used.)    Piece  by  piece  the  GE  was  revamped  until  it  had  the  ability  to  draw  the  overspray  and  fume  through  a  ?ilter  system  and  exhaust  only  the  fume  into  the  waiting  “dryer”  tube  stuffed  with  activated  carbon  attached  to  more  ?ilter  material.  

The  ?inished  unit  is  relatively  light,  less  than  20  lbs.,  (mostly  the  fan  and  housing),  well  balanced.    It  runs  quiet  with  no  vibrations  and  uses  a  common  sized  furnace  ?ilter.    It  is  easy  to  handle,  ?its  on  a  work  bench,  has  good  visibility,  a  rotating  tray  to  support  the  piece  being  painted  and  a  carbon  ?ilter  discharge  that  scrubs  the  exhaust  air  and  stores  under  my  work  bench.  

All  of  that  for  an  investment  of  $5.00  and  a  little  MacGyver  to  make  something  out  of  nothing  and  a  paper  clip.  The  best  part  is  the  1/20  h.p.  GE  motor  tag  reads,  Made  in  the  U.S.A.  

!IS THIS ON YOUR SANTA’S WISH LIST!The Train Bag will be crafted from hand-tooled acrylic resin or hand-carved ebony. Moynat creative director Ramesh Nair told WWD that he sourced a specialty atelier in Italy to carve each train, which takes three days to complete. He also acknowledged the nostalgic nature of trains, telling WWD, “Every grown-up guy has a child inside.” From the sounds of it, no detail was spared in the bags' design, with the resin bags to feature a brass smokestack, side rods and steam-dome clasp. 

If you're in the market for one of these limited-edition pieces, it's going to cost you: the resin bags are set to retail for around $13,000, with the ebony version coming in at just over $4,000. 

PICNIC RECAP!Lorne  Noyes  sent  some  nice  photos  of  the  September  club  picnic  at  our  host’s,  Jim  Sigmond,  to  share  with  those  who  could  not  make  it.    

CAMRRC NEWSLETTER!

Peter Atonna, Editor!

2575 N. Feather Mountain Rd.!

Paulden, AZ 86334 !

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! This year’s Beat the Heat open houses and your Editor’s current dismantling of his layout brought back this memory of my first Beat the Heat Open House. Yes, our house was still under construction in August 1999, but I set up my portable layout (now my Polar Express layout}, ran an extension cord from the guest house where we were living and had a flyer at the swap meet offering an invitation to come visit. Actually a dozen folks did!