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The SouthErneR - Fall 2004

The Official Publication of the Southeastern Region of the National Model Railroad Association

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In this issue:

National Convention Report & Photos of Contest Winners

Making Stumps by the Hundreds Dismantling the UC&W RR

And The Usual Goodies...

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Features: Making Stumps by the Hundreds Some Assembly Required 2004 Seattle Convention & Contest Gold Award Winning Model Earthquake on the UC&W RR Pictures from the SER Convention

WAYBILL Fall—2004 Volume 45, Number 4 .1

The SouthErneR The Official Publication of the

Southeastern Region of the National Model

Railroad Association

EDITOR

Paul V. Voelker 6438 Paradise Point Road

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Photos from the 2004 Birmingham convention taken by Mr. Clinton Smoke including scenes from the Sloss Furnace Tour , Nortrak Tour , the Ban-quet and the Trainshow .

Departments: A Word From The Editor President’s Car VP’s Keyboard Good and Welfare Division Reports Directory The Club Car Upcoming Events Calendar

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ON THE FRONT COVER: Bob Beaty took Second Place in Motive Power—Steam at the 2004 Seattle National Convention this past July. More photos of the contest winners can be found at the NMRA website: www.nmra.org or in a special “52 page 2004 National Contest Book” download available at our region’s website: www.ser-nmra.org


I n t h e p h o t o a b o v e y o u s e e ( b a c k r o w f r o m l e f t ) P a u l V o e l k e r — P h o t o & P a s s C o n t e s t M a n a g e r ( a n d E d i t o r o f T h e S o u t h E r n e R ) , Al l e n G r o s s — Ch i e f J u d g e , J o h n J o h n s o n — M o d u l e C o n t e s t M a n a g e r , M a r t y V a u g h n — C o n t e s t M a n a g e r a n d ( f r o n t r o w f r o m l e f t ) R a ym o n d B i l o d e a u — A s s t . N M R A E d u c a t i o n D i r e c t o r & A s s t . Co n t e s t M a n a g e r & J a n W e s c o t t — N M R A E d u c a t i o n D i r e c t o r .

This issue marks my second full year as editor of The South-ErneR. Hopefully everyone has enjoyed your newsletter and it has been worth receiving in the mail. You probably have gotten the word by now that the NMRA member-ship has voted in the new “Regulations” by a 4 to 1 margin. Due to this acceptance by the mem-bership of this change at national level, all of the regions & their divi-sions must also change to conform to these Regulations. That means we must change the way we fund our operations including this newsletter since the annual dues we pay to the region will no longer be charged to the membership after September 2005. That means that the region must find some other way to fund its operations since there will no longer be any dues collection for the region after September 2005. You will still pay national’s dues and some por-tion of that money will be “rebated” to the region but it doesn’t appear as though it will be enough to fund the newsletter and everything else that falls under “operating expenses” for the region. The newsletter will almost certainly have to go to a subscription to still be able to fund it at its current level of quality. There is also the electronic version (the E-SouthErneR) which contains more pages (in color) residing at the region’s website. This electronic version could be used as a low-cost method to distrib-ute the newsletter rather than printing & mailing a smaller hardcopy version, however there is a “catch” to this logic. The minimum run using the current printer is 500 issues. Anything less than 500 will still cost us at the 500-issue minimum. Running 350 is-sues won’t help us except on the postage side which is trivial in comparison. We also have to think about all those SER members

who are not currently dues-paying members who will now be SER m e m b e r s u n d e r t h e n e w “Regulations” and must be in-formed about both elections and region conventions (although not necessarily using the newsletter to do this). That has to also be funded somehow. On the bright side however, the money we formerly had in the budget to send the Trustee to the NMRA BOD meetings will no

longer need to be budgeted for after 9/2005 as there will be no region Trustee after that time. That is about a $700/year savings from the budget. The newsletter is currently running a little over $4000/year to print and mail with a distribution of about 610 mailings. Over the past three years I, & Scott Perry before me, have tried to get (or keep) the quality of the newsletter fairly high while keeping the cost to the membership as low as possible. We are pretty much at the limit of what is possible with the current, printed version short of reducing the number of pages from 28 to 24 (the size of this issue). There are still a few things I can do to cram more stuff in but I don’t want to make it so everyone needs a magnify-ing glass to read their newsletter. What we really could use some advertising $$ from the hobby shops &/or manufacturers to share the cost of producing the newsletter (unless the membership wishes to fund a no-ads newsletter). The bottom line is that both the board and the mem-bership needs to start thinking about ways to gener-ate funds outside of the current dues collection. The region needs some kind of fundraiser in order to sur-vive. Ed.

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR This Block is part of the rigging em-ployed on Allan Gross’ Spar Tree model. Composed of 12 parts, the block is 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch in size.

See photo story on Page 10.


Well, the train has left the station and I believe that not only are we on it, it is going in the right direction. Since I last wrote to The Southerner we have implemented several new ideas, set up some ad hoc committees and I have appointed some “volunteers” to some committee chair positions. The most obvious change in the last four months is the look of the SER web page and the information it now contains. When I appointed Mike Broadway as the new Web Master, he said “give me a couple of months.” Well he did not need it! He has revised and brought on line an exceptional page presenting the Region and providing a forum for information to our membership. Thank you Mike. Second, Director Mike Ferry and I corralled Tom Cusker, Divi-sion Super for the Steel City and the Chairman of the 2004 convention to take over the SER Convention Coordinator po-sition and rewrite and update (streamline, if you will) the Con-vention Handbook. The old one would scare any Division away from hosting a convention. Tom is deep into the rewrite and will have it available for BOD review soon and once ac-cepted, we will put it on a CD for all Divisions. In addition, Tom has been working closely with two divisions for the 2006 convention and we have a winner for 2006 and a potential host for 2008. Bluff City Division in Memphis has agreed to host the 2006 convention and we are going to invite the mem-bers from Mid-continent Region to join us. One of your new Directors, Scott Perry, has taken on the pro-ject of making the Region less dues dependant. He has some exciting ideas and will present these to the BOD in October. In addition to reviving the SER shirts and other items, Scott is working on a SER Clinic CD containing topics from scenery to rolling stock. I am looking forward to his presentation. Under the new NMRA Regulations, there is more emphasis on Education and sharing of the hobby and modeling talents. Dean Belowich has stepped up to be the new Education De-partment Chairman, responsible for sev-eral aspects of promoting the hobby. The Achievement Program, the Contests, and Member Aid now fall under Dean. George Gilbert has agreed to assume the responsibility for overall coordination of the AP program, and Carey Jenkins has agreed to step back in as Contest Chair-man. Charlie Brown will continue as Member Aid. Dudley Ross, a great N –scale modeler and a “sleeper agent” in Montgomery has agreed to take on the Good and Wel-fare Chairmanship from John Stevens now that John has assumed the duties of Secretary. John did a great job and now Dudley will follow. Most of you have not seen Dudley’s N scale model of the C and O. But you will get the opportunity next year at the 2005 Convention in Mont-gomery. Director Tom Schultz, Membership Chairman has agreed to chair a commit-tee on implementing the new NMRA regulations on “Single Membership” and determining how best to embrace all of the NMRA members within the Region, develop a fiscally responsive publication charge and how we are to reallocate the use of the return “dues” we will receive from National. Randall Watson, Treas-

urer, will be working in close har-mony with that group to track the impact to our budget. Our Regional activities are open to all NMRA mem-bers and we need to encourage them to participate and also join us by now “subscribing” to our great publication, The Southerner. Also, these fellow modelers and NMRA members along with our neighbors need to feel welcome at any Region/Division sponsored event. I have also asked Phil Hutchinson, Executive Advisor, to chair a committee to identify the required changes to our By-laws to bring them into conformity with the new NMRA regulations. We have to be in compliance by September 1, 2005. Which means we will present the membership the required changes for review at the first of the year and then ratification at the Annual Meeting in Montgomery. It is a tight schedule but a quick review indicates the mandatory changes are few and should be easy to reword. The committee is charged with en-suring our Tax exempt 501-C3 status is not compromised. I am still banging the drum for all of us to help increase the membership. There are roughly 1099 NMRA members cur-rently within the geographic area of our Region. Of those, 590 receive the Southerner. Previously we would have referred to the 590 as members of the Region. Now under the one mem-bership initiative, all NMRA members are also Region mem-bers. It will be my job, with your help to encourage these modelers to also sign up to receive the Southerner, and be rec-ognized by and receive the benefits of the comradeship and fellowship of the rest of our membership. I know that the Piedmont Division and the Steel City Division have an active and aggressive membership campaign in the works. I am ask-ing the other Division Officers to get their membership in-volved in not only welcoming the current NMRA members it their area but reaching out to encourage participation by other model railroaders that are not currently a member of the NMRA. There is a new membership class available now for

some one that wants a trial period to “test the water” of participation. And there is the Associate member category. It is for those that do not want to receive the Scale Rails Magazine but still be a full participating member in all other respects. Finally, I would like to thank the Steel City Division for an excellent conven-tion. I also want to thank Dean Be-lowich for his innovative idea of a sepa-rate contest category for entrants and to provide a “Display” area for non-contest models. The Hand Car Sheds entered in the contest were all superb. The pictures of the contest entries and the display entries are on the SER-NMRA.ORG web page. Go see them if you did not see in person. I hope Dean and Carey will come up with another great category for Montgomery. Bob Beaty President, SER

The President’s Car R o b e r t B e a t y , M M R

DAVE MULLER AWARD As a reminder, the categories with applicable points are below. All Division Superintendents submit your candidates name and point count by March 1st of each year to be presented at the SER Conventions currently held in May. CERTIFICATES OR DEEDS DONE POINTS Holds "Volunteer" Certificate 20 Holds "Official" Certificate 15 Holds "Author" Certificate: 10 Other Certificates, MMR, Gold Spike Award 10 Has put on one or more clinics (per clinic) 5 Active in putting on a Division convention (per full day) 5 Active in putting on a SER convention (per full day) 10 Active in putting on a National convention (per full day) 7 Organized a modular and/or sections layout show 15 Active as a contest or AP judge during a convention 10 Active as Committee Chair for at least 6 months this year at Division level or higher. 10 Served as an AP judge for at least 6 months 10 Active in a modular or sectional layout 5 Boy Scout Merit Badge program (per badge) 5 Signed up one or more members to both NMRA & SER 3 (per member)

Send nominees to Lenny Polinsky at:

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Hi all, summer is now past and it is time to start think-ing about doing some serious modeling in the basement or where ever. I am planning on getting a lot done this winter myself as I will be starting a HO and a Sn3 layout this year as well as continuing to work on my 7.5" rail-road.

Some of you like myself work well on your own, but oth-ers need a little structure in their life to help them along. That is where the NMRA comes into play. Just the struc-ture of monthly meetings is enough to keep a lot of peo-ple motivated and their interest up. I know that when I come home from a meeting, train show or other train related event I am ready to build or work on my trains.

There is one main person in the NMRA that makes these local monthly meetings pos-sible. It is not our President, V.P. or any of of the board, it is not anyone at National or the Region level. It is your local Division Superinten-dent. Now I have talked about this before, but this time we have a real need for two Division Supers. The Head-quarters Division in east Tennessee is currently in need of a new Super. as is the Palmetto Division in South Carolina.

We need two people to step up and fill these positions as soon as possible as these are the glue that holds the NMRA together. While being a Super. is not a hard job, it is an important job. Please contact me the Super. in question about taking over one of these positions and help out if you can. This is a job you will love.

Pat Turner, Pres. CSRR

http://www.CedarSpringsRR.com

[email protected]

The VP’s Keyboard P a t T u r n e r

National Model Railroad Association SouthEastern Region (SER)

Convention May 27, 28, 29, 2005

Holiday Inn, Montgomery East I-85 1185 Eastern Boulevard

Montgomery, Alabama 36117 Ph. 334-272-0370

Friday-12pm-8pm (Registration, Clinics) Saturday-8am-6pm (Banquet 6-10)

Sunday-9am-12pm (B'fast 8-10) & (Annual Meeting 10-12)

Full Registration $90 (before 4/15/05) $100 after April 15,2005

Achievement Judging, Model Contests, Layout Tours, Clinics, Award Banquet. Bring an entry for Achievement Program assessment or exhibition.

Vote for your Favorite Models

Train Show at Alcazar Shriners Temple, 555 Eastern Boulevard

(3 minutes by Auto from Holiday Inn) Dealer Tables-Company Store-Modular

Layouts

For Information Contact Phil Hutchinson; ph. 334-272-1923

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Need some HELP with your model rail-roading? Why not give us a call! Get assis-tance with wiring, benchwork, scenery, lo-comotive repair, and even DCC! The ser-vice is free for all NMRA members, so give it a try!

M e m b e r A i d C h a i r m a n Charles Brown, MMR

3 Springbrooke Trail, Dallas, GA 30157

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News flash! If you haven’t been there lately,

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Lots of region info including current and past issues of The SouthErneR with additional pages and in full color!


Believe it or not, a 4 x 8 layout based on a heavily logged mountain will eas-ily require almost 400 unique stumps. The need for this many stumps came when Paul Voelker asked me to help scenic the Little River Railroad Raffle Layout last winter. To purchase that many stumps would have cost approxi-mately $300 and you would still have to paint them. Besides there are only a few different stumps out there to buy so they would all look the same and most were too small. So, we decided to produce our own and set up a little factory in the basement. You’ll want to decide how big your stumps will be so the best thing to do is gather pictures of stumps from the time period that you want to model. For the Little River Layout the time period is 1920 and the trees of the area were mostly very large Chestnut, Pop-lar and Hemlock trees. Some of these trees were 14 feet in diameter, with the average being about 10 feet in diame-ter. Of course, there were many smaller trees that were cut at that time as well. What we want to do is make three different types of trees, and make three different sizes of each of these types. That would be a total of nine trees. Since we were pressed for time and only had a week to get these done, I only made six stumps and a few small ones. Paul and I also wanted trees that would fit on the hilly terrain that the layout would represent. There were slopes on the layout between 45° and 60° along with some flat areas. So of the six stumps, we would need a few that could be mounted on the slopes, just as the real trees grow. The pic-tures of trees that I found in the log-ging books showed deep crevasses in the bark and unusual shapes, so I made photo copies of many of them and hung them over my work bench for reference. I made the stump master using Primo modeling clay that can be purchased from any craft store or Walmart. This particular type of clay is really a form of heat-treatable plastic and holds de-tail very well. Using a Lazy Susan sto-len from my wife’s spice cabinet, I put a sheet of tin foil down on the top. Take about a ½ ounce of the Primo clay and work it between your fingers to make it soft and pliable. Then you can put the blob in the middle of the Lazy Susan. After selecting a picture of a stump that I liked, I made the general shape of the tree using the clay and a flat modeling clay tool. This gives you a smooth and flat surface when you cut the clay into shapes. Stumps are not perfectly round and they have a ten-dency to taper sharply as the rise up-wards. Be sure to study the pictures very carefully. Notice that most of the really big trees are cut very high up, sometimes ten feet high or more. Of-ten I use a scale “person” while I’m carving so that I can keep the size of the stump in check. A ten foot high stump is about ten feet wide as well. Put your person next to it and see if it

makes sense and looks good to the eye. After sizing up the stump, I begin to shape the leaders to the roots. I do this I’ll be taking the flat clay tool and making slices down the trunk line. Once these are dug into the clay, I’ll smooth them out with my fingers to make the roots “flow” out of the trunk. Depending on if I want a tree growing at an angle I’ll push the stump over slightly and then cut the top of the stump at an angle. When you cut a tree the top surface is usually parallel to the ground, so you want your roots at angle and the top flat. Once you have the basic shape of the tree you can begin to carve the bark. Using a sharp dentist’s pick, I make long vertical cuts down the trunk of the tree. I’ll do this in a haphazard way so that the bark looks rough and textured. You don’t have to be an artist to do this, just keep working until it looks like a tree. Don’t worry about the little round balls of clay that are scattered over the trunk; we’ll take care of them later. When you are satisfied with the trunk, take a brass bristled brush and brush the trunk up and down. This will add fine detail to the stump and make the deep furrows more rounded and natu-ral. You can use your fingers to better smooth the surface if it looks too rough. On the top of the stump take your den-tist’s pick again and make some “growth ring” circles gently on the top. You will only need a few to get the look of a tree ring. To represent saw marks, take a hobby knife blade and just lay it flat a few times on the surface of the

clay with a small amount of pressure, making a slight indentation in the clay. Do this a few times at slightly different angles and it looks just like a saw mark. Now, wait until your wife leaves the house and sneak up to the oven. Lock all the doors and turn out the lights while you pre-heat the oven to the set-ting requested on the clay. Put your clay stump on a baking pan and cook it the recommended time. When you take it out, the clay will be rock-hard and very hot. You will burn your hand

Making Stumps by the Hundreds

[Little River Lumber Company Raffle Layout Project Part 3] By Scott G. Perry

With Photos by Paul V. Voelker


if you don’t listen to me and I’ll be sure to look for people with blisters on their hands at the next convention. Take the stump when it is warm back to the workbench and brush it hard with the brass brush to get the little clay balls off the bark. A perfect stump! Now you can make tons of individual stumps like this very quickly, and just paint them and glue them to the layout if you only need a few dozen. How-ever, we needed lots more of them very quickly. After making six of these and a few smaller ones, we prepared to make molds of them. The best thing to do if you haven’t made molds before is to go to the hobby shop or craft store and buy a resin casting starter kit from Alumilite called the Super Casting Kit. This has everything you need to get you started in resin casting. You can also find a distributor on line at www.alumilite.com and they have many educational references on the site, too. I’ll use the mold maker mate-rial from Alumilite to make the stump mold. Wash all the stumps in warm, soapy water to remove the fingerprints from the surface. If you don’t you will have fingerprints on the mold; trust me. After that, I arranged the stumps on a sheet of .010 styerene and build a dam

using plastic strips around the stumps that was about twice as high as the tall-est stump, and about as much wide. I sealed the dam with caulk and allowed it to dry. When dry, I dusted the stumps and the dam with a light coat-ing of talc that I purchased at the drug store. Blow the remaining talc out of the dam and you are ready to cast. Using the instructions from Alumilite carefully measure and mix the mold making compound. Try to keep as many bubbles out of the mixture as you can, but don’t fail to mix it prop-erly. Take a paint brush and paint the compound gently on to the stumps until each stump is covered. Then gen-tly pour the mold compound over the stumps until the dam is completely filled. Go get some dirty clothes and put them in the washer and turn it on so that the washer is vibrating. See, your hobby can get chores done, too. Then place the mold dam on top of the washer and shake the bubbles out of the compound. Leave the mold to dry for 48 hours. Once the mold is dry, carefully remove the stumps from the mold and you are ready to cast. If you want to make plastic stumps, you can follow the resin directions given by Alumilite. This is the fastest way to make stumps and they will have the most detail. I decided to make my stumps out of Hy-drocal plaster since I had 50 lbs of it on hand and it is much cheaper. The mold is capable of making hundreds of castings if you take care of it and clean it in water once in a while. All you have to do is make a thin mix-ture of Hydrocal plaster and water, stir it well and slowly pour the plaster into the molds. Taking a toothpick, you can stir the plaster in the mold to help re-move the air bubbles. Allow them to dry for a while and then pop them out and start over on the next set. I usu-ally do this in the morning before I go

to work, come home and do another set before dinner, another one after dinner and so forth. It really goes pretty quick. Once you have the stumps, it is time to start painting them. I used cheap

The stump mold. Five different large stumps can be made a one time. Shown below is a stump that can be used on a steeply sloping hillside. Not all trees grow on flat or gently sloping terrain, many grow in places that seem to defy the laws of physics.

Model Flex paints were used to paint the stumps. The colors are 16-175 Rail Brown, 16-173 Mud, and 16-11 Concrete Gray.

Here Scott applies the Mud color to the cut portion of the stump. Later he will use either Rail Brown or Concrete Gray to simulate the bark of the trees simulating differ-ent species.

Scott reaches for a set of Tweezers out of his toolbox to make the job of holding the stumps easier as he paints.


acrylic paints that I bought from Wal-mart, but they weren’t flat enough for the color I wanted. So, I bought a few bottles of Accu-Flex paint at the hobby shop and they looked much better. Paint the tops of the stumps with a yellow wash made with paint and wa-ter. On the plaster, this will dry very quickly. Then paint the stump sides with different colors of browns and

greys. Most stumps are not brown, so use brown sparingly. Then spray a light coat of black wash made with black ink and alcohol over the stump. After the stump dries you will have a fine looking specimen. I then take the

stumps and glue them to the layout with hot glue. Using dried leaves that I found in the front yard, I grind them up in a blender until they are dust and sprinkle them over the stumps so that they look more dry and dusty. In about four evenings you can easily make your 400 stumps and they will be unique and perfect for your layout! Have fun! Copyright 2004, All rights reserved Southerner and E-Southerner granted first serial rights, only for 2004

At left, Scott is painting the bark color on the stumps. Above are the completely painted sumps ready for “planting” on the lay-out. Changing the color of the bark simulates different species of trees while using the same molds.

A.C. Kalmbach Memorial Library Monthly Progress Report for August 2004 Compiled by Brent Lambert, Director KML

September 8, 2004 Book Projects Open Loads Book We have completed the layout and editing for this book project. This book will be full-color, softbound, and 110 pages in length. A representative from the printing company is scheduled to pick up the files before the end of this week. Also, copies of the artwork and other information have been forwarded to the MAP department and to Haber & Quinn for advertising purposes. Freight Car Photo Book Larry Kline and Ted Culotta have begun work on this book project which is projected for publication in 2005. It will contain over 300 photos from the KML collection and feature prototype data regarding various freight car types in use during the 1940s. I will provide more information when it becomes available. Monthly Visitation Statistics The library had 23 visitors for the month of August. Of these, eleven were NMRA members and twelve were non-members. Research Questions August 2004 Total Questions Received: 64 NMRA Member Questions Received: 45 Non-member Questions Received: 19 Paid Internship The “wheels are in motion” in our efforts to find a paid intern for the Spring 2005 college semester.

Using $750.00 obtained from grants and donations, we intend to bring in a local college student to help with the processing of the Kentlein-Porter Collection. An internship contract has been drafted (detailing expectations and requirements of the position) and the necessary contacts have been made with local universities. From this point until November 1, we will be accepting applications for the position and expect to have the intern chosen by the first week of December. The internship will begin in mid-January and end in April. Donations We have received several nice donations over the past few weeks. Among them are a couple of sizeable book donations which have landed on our surplus shelves. These include some real gems, such as Pacific Coast Shay by Dan Ranger, Last of the 3-Foot Loggers by Krieg, and Rails, Sagebrush and Pine by Ferrell. For a complete list of our surplus books, just check out the “surplus” link on the library webpage. Also, just yesterday we received a magnificent piece of railroad history. A gentleman from Michigan emailed me a couple of weeks ago inquiring about a “plaque” that came from a Porter locomotive. Of course, he was describing the builder’s plate and wanted more information about the locomotive to which it once belonged. So, I responded to him with all the information that we had pertaining to that particular unit. To make a long story short, he was so pleased with the information that he decided to donate the plate to KML. What makes the plate so special is that it came from Porter c/n 363 built in March of 1880. As it turns out, the locomotive belonged to a logging company and was the victim of a washout many years ago. So, it spent the better part of the last century at the bottom of a lake. A diver found the locomotive in recent years and pried off the plate. The guy who wound up with the plate had it bronzed and painted. Although the bronzing may hurt the monetary value of the piece, I believe the historical value to be more important in this instance. What a prize! Respectfully submitted, Brent Lambert—Director A.C. Kalmbach Memorial Library


“SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED” Allan Gross, MMR, Rigs a Spar Tree at the National Contest

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Not every model that shows up for the contest is really “done” when it arrives, some require assembly of all of their sub-assemblies to be com-plete, some require more than that. Such is the case with this Hayrack Yarder Spar Tree. The builder, Allen Gross, spent several hours rigging this little jewel after he arrived at the convention. This was all tedious work but when it was completed it was well worth the effort expended—it won First Place (!) in the Non-Revenue category at the 2004 national conven-tion in Seattle this past July.


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Leslie Eaton, MMR conducts a clinic during the national trainshow.


GOLD AWARD BEST OF SHOW


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Train Show May 27th - 29th in Montgomery, AL

To be held in the Alcazar Temple, 555 Eastern Blvd

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Well, as usual I was busy in the contest room again this year, even more so than last year as this time we actually “intended” to come away with a multitude of photos of all of the contest entries for use on the national contest webpage. That should be up by the time you read this. Go to the NMRA website and scroll on down to the “Education Dept.” heading. A little further down will be the link to the contest page and the pho-tos of the winning entries. I shot well over 1000 photos at this contest be-tween the contest room and the train show’s module contest. Then after the convention was over with, I shot over one thousand more while I toured Washington state and part of Oregon. Having the laptop available to dump into when the card filled up was useful too as I could see on-the-spot which photos need to be re-shot. Now let me tell any doubters, it is well worth the price to buy as high-end a digital camera as you can afford—you’ll never regret it! My suggestion is to look at what you think is the most you can afford and then remember that adding another $100-200 to that figure will just about equal the cost in film developing you will save over the course of the first year. If you take a lot of photos like I do, double that figure. Now that I don’t have to worry about de-veloping costs when I get home, I tend to shoot many more photos than I did before. The more you shoot, the more likely it is that a larger num-ber of your shots will be worth keeping. The best thing about digital is that you can just blast away! No worries about how to pay for de-veloping the film rolls as there are none. You have better odds of getting something really good the more photos you take. If you aren’t sure about the exposure, heck, just take a few more shots, you can always delete them later if they don’t come out right. I can’t tell you just how much easier it is to put the magazine together knowing that I have a wealth of photos to choose from. At least one of them will be what I need to convey to you what it is I wish to say or show about whatever it is that is the subject. For example, referring to the Gold Award entry alone, I took 77 photos of this one model and wish I had taken a few more as there are actu-ally some parts of the engine that I wish I’d got-ten a better view of (although it is pretty thor-oughly covered anyway). As expected, Sam Swanson brought the models he had entered at the region contest but he’d done some extra work to the car shop and added a hopper car being worked on. The pho-tos of his model appear elsewhere in these pages. Bob Beaty also brought something to the con-test, a 22 Ton Class A Climax that picked up 93 points and Second Place. It also acquired the Bachmann Innovations Award. I ran across many people from the region includ-ing, in no particular order, Bob Beaty, Richard & Barbara Dalrymple, Tom Banks, Joe Gelmini, John & Gerry Travis, Bob & Connie McIntyre, Tom Cusker, Phil Hutchinson, Ron Gough, Perry Lamb, Steve & Joe Pusey, Chris White, Pat & Rhonda Turner and Charles & Linda Millar, How-ard Goodwin, Keith & John Retterer. I know a lot of the wives were with them but I only remember seeing the ones I have listed. Sorry if I left any-one out. Paul V.

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Fort Stevens, OR

Columbia River Gorge looking north at a BNSF tunnel

Mount Rainier, WA

Shortline RR in Yakima, WA

BNSF yard at Wishram, WA

Museum of Flight

Camp 6, Tacoma, WA


A pair of Perry’s proceeded to promulgate the precise procedure for pummeling the pike. It appears that it is time for the Utah, Colorado and Western to move to its third new home, and thus the demise of the cur-rent railroad. The wrecking of the UC&W occurred on a silent Sunday morning while awaiting the onslaught of hurricane Fran-ces. Luckily the day was perfect and the wind not too strong. Perry Lamb’s UC&W is set to move to its new home in late September, so Scott Perry was recruited to assist in the removal of trackage and benchwork, with hopes that it will all be incorporated into the new layout. While many people think that rip-ping up a layout is a no-brainer kind of thing to do, it actually requires some thought. Especially when you start consid-ering that Perry’s layout has well over $500 of new track components. His thought was to save as much as possible for the new layout which will be consid-erably larger than the current design. Every dollar counts!

The main part of the project was centered around a very large staging yard facility. This was mounted on removable bench-work and luckily the track had not been glued down. When you have friends help-ing you, be sure they know what goals you are trying to achieve before you start. We both took a minute to survey the layout and talk over the procedure before we took tools in hand. Carefully we examined the underside of the layout to locate wires, connections and other obstacles. The track was inspected for rail cuts, spikes, and for soldered connections. Our goal was to re-move as much track and benchwork as possible and to do it in pieces that could easily be reused.

We took the time to remove any and all obstructions from the room. Perry has several small tables under his layout for

storage and some rather delicate train equipment. If it can be broken, move it out of the room first. Taking time to prepare the area will make working easier and safer. If you don’t have lights underneath your layout, provide the team with flash-lights or some other illumination. The first thing we removed was the power supply system and DCC controller compo-nents. We wanted to make sure that there was no electrical current in the area where we were cutting wires, and we didn’t want to damage the boxes. They are quite heavy and could have easily fallen to the floor and been damaged. Next we started removing the trackage. Perry used Walther’s HO track, which is sturdy and quite expensive. There was a large array of turnouts and crossovers on the benchwork that are new and quite costly that we wanted to save. We first began moving the long flex track sections

of the yard. Some of these were soldered, and some were not. Most of them had power feed wires attached. Perry pulled the wire leads out of the benchwork about two inches and cut them with a wire cutter. With a quick hit of the soldering iron he removed the wire and loosened the sol-dered track joiners. You have to be very careful not to overheat the track at this point, as it can quickly melt the ties. This is one of those projects that requires you to be patient and take your time. I got in too big of a hurry and split one piece of track, not realizing that there was an insulation gap cut into the track and a piece of plastic was glued with ACC between the rails, and to the roadbed! It pulled the ties right off the track. I’m a firm believer in saving everything, so as we pulled out the track spikes, we put them in a plastic bowl. Using a refrigera-tor magnet, we were able to pick up er-rant spikes along the old roadbed. We also saved the wire leads, broken ties and even the rail joiners. Even if they are not

usable again, they make great junk for de-tailing. Be sure to wear eye protection when pulling up spikes, as they can get away from you really quick and land in a soft spot like your eyeball.

When you get to a turnout, take a minute to analyze it. Ask yourself; are the rails soldered at the joiner? Are the points loose? Is it glued anywhere with ACC? If I broke it, how much would I have to pay to replace it? After this, start by removing the turnout throws. In our case it was very easy as Perry used Caboose Industry Ground Throws. We did have to be care-ful not to pull the points off of the turnout be removing the linkage incorrectly. Next, using a small screwdriver we gently pried the turnout up, looking for spikes that needed to be removed. After checking the turnout for damage, we packed it carefully so that it would not get broken during the move.

Crossovers are very delicate and can be the most expensive piece of track on a lay-out. Perry had two of them. The matter was further complicated in that he had to cut insulation gaps in the main rails on both sides, thus making the piece structur-ally weak. Great care was taken to remove all spikes and track nails before removing. Each feed wire was cut and removed and all joints carefully unsoldered. The track was partially glued where the insulation gaps were, and a screwdriver had to be inserted underneath the ties to dig it out of

Earthquake on the Utah, Colorado & Western By Scott Perry

What We Learned While Removing The Layout: 1. Recruit good help. 2. Size up the project and set goals. 3. Remove obstructions from the room. 4. Take your time. 5. Save everything. 6. Handle turnouts carefully. 7. Use cordless tools when available. 8. Good lighting under the layout is important. 9. Pack track carefully, labeling the boxes. 10. Have friends bring extra tools.


the cork roadbed. Both crossovers have survived and are recuperating nicely.

After the track was removed, Perry wanted to remove the benchwork sections from the wall. Since Perry built these units to be moved from the previous location they were easy to disassembly. We care-fully went over the joints between sections to make sure nothing was connected. Af-ter that, we unbolted all the sections and unscrewed them from the support brackets.

When working under the layout, take time to set up good lighting, as it makes the work go quicker and more safely. They moved quite easily, but were very heavy. Removing a layout is definitely a two per-son job.

When the benchwork sections were gone, we then used the cordless drill to remove all of the wall brackets. We saved the

good screws, being careful to check for stripped heads. All pieces were stored carefully for moving to the new location. All in all the disassembly went quite well. There is really something to be said for planning the layout to be mobile in the first play. Perry would have lost a lot of hard work and money if he hadn’t done so. I can’t wait to start laying new track in his huge new basement!

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Since the last Southerner, I have written 89 letters. I know, I couldn’t believe it myself when I added them all up. There were a lot of letters for Milestone Birthdays, thirty-three of them to be exact. Unfortunately, I had to write five letters for member deaths or family member deaths. Fortunately, I only had one letter for a member who had surgery. These are the normal areas that I write letters for. I wrote a lot of letters covering areas that I usually don’t have to write letters for. I wrote eight letters of thanks related to the recent convention in Birmingham. Three went to guest clinicians, two went to the conven-tion co-chairs, and three went to junior modelers who attended. I wrote five letters to members who received awards at the convention either for service to the Region or for their modeling skills. I wrote ten letters based on the results of the recent elections. Some were letters of congratulations to members who were recently elected to the Board of Directors. Some were letters of thanks to members who are no longer on the Board. One was to a Division Superintendent who has stepped down. The second largest area of letter writing during this period involved an area that I am really excited about. It involved certificates from national for years of membership. I recently received a package containing thirty certificates. I sent packages to twenty seven of the members. Twenty-four of them received their certificates celebrating 25 years of member-ship. Three of them received certificates celebrating 50 years of mem-bership. One of the certificates came back as undeliverable, and three of them I can’t find an address. If anyone knows an address for William A. Horn, Bob Sons, Manon Thompson, or James Snow, please contact me. I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I accepted this position. I didn’t know too many people outside of my own division. I had never been to a Region Board of Director meeting, or attended a Region Convention. I discussed the job with the previous chairman, John Blanchard. He told me how many letters he had written, and how much time it was taking up, and I thought “I can handle that”. He also said he had tried to figure a way to write more letters about good things rather than about member illness and deaths. That little seed grew into the Milestone Birthday Program. If you look back at my committee reports, you will also notice that I have gotten more comfortable writing them. I have greatly enjoyed doing this job. I have made a few mistakes along the way, but I recovered nicely. This job has also earned me points toward two MMR certificates. I have already earned the Associa-tion Volunteer Certificate. I will soon have enough points for the Model Railroad Author Certificate. Bob Beaty, the Region President, told me at the convention that he was going to work on finding a replacement for me so I could focus on being the Region Secretary. He was successful in his quest, and my replace-ment will be announced at the Fall BOD meeting. During the transition period, feel free to contact me or the new guy with your Good and Wel-fare concerns. Respectfully, John Stevens

GOOD & WELFARE By John Stevens, Chairman

MONTH REASON FOR LETTER DIVISION June 2005 Robert Hultman Mother passing Cumberland George Bloodworth Mother passing Piedmont Bob McIntyre Mother passing Piedmont Tom Schultz Father passing Steel City Tom Schultz Convention Co-chairman Steel City Tom Cusker Convention Co-chairman Steel City Dave Frary Convention Clinician Outside region Charlie Getz Convention Clinician Outside region Sam Swanson Convention Clinician Outside region Lenny Polinsky Vern Yarbrough Piedmont Malcolm Sokol Mack Craig Award Steel City William Latture Will Miller Award Steel City Tom Schultz Gold Spike Award Steel City Sam Fell Silver Spike Award Steel City Cass Turner Thanks for coming HQ Josh Saxton Thanks for coming Piedmont Briana Smith Thanks for coming Dixie Mark McAllister Outgoing Superintendent HQ Lenny Polinsky Outgoing Director Piedmont Mike Baunstein Outgoing Director Empire Phil Hutchinson Outgoing President Dixie Roy Tritt Outgoing Executive Advisor Central Savanna River Pat Turner Re-elected VP HQ Randall Watson Re-elected Treasurer Piedmont Bob Beaty Incoming President Steel City Scott Perry Incoming Director Piedmont Paul Voelker Incoming Director Piedmont Edward Archer Milestone Birthday Outside region John Cowles Milestone Birthday Palmetto John Williams Milestone Birthday Atlantic Gerald Shanahan Milestone Birthday Central Savanna River J. P. Price Milestone Birthday Land O’Sky Elliott Eggleston Milestone Birthday Steel City Kerry O’Keeley Milestone Birthday Smoky Mountain Patrick Malone Milestone Birthday Piedmont Thomas Brown 25 Year Certificate Gulf Carl Eiseman 25 Year Certificate Cumberland Wanda Gagneaux 25 Year Certificate Dixie Joseph Gamble 25 Year Certificate Steel City Jesse Griffith 25 Year Certificate Cumberland Alan Hart 25 Year Certificate Bluff City William Jones 25 Year Certificate Empire George Krug 25 Year Certificate Magnolia George Lefavor 25 Year Certificate Cumberland Keith Lewis 25 Year Certificate Steel City William Michels 25 Year Certificate Palmetto Charles Millar 25 Year Certificate Piedmont Arthur Nelson 25 Year Certificate Piedmont William Nelson 25 Year Certificate HQ J.P. Price 25 Year Certificate Land O’Sky John Roxburgh 25 Year Certificate Smokey Mountains Charles Saint 25 Year Certificate Bluff City Glenn Samuel 25 Year Certificate Steel City Cornelius Sherman 25 Year Certificate Bluff City Clair Wall 25 Year Certificate Empire Otis Warr 25 Year Certificate Bluff City Kenneth Werner 25 Year Certificate Empire Ray Wright 25 Year Certificate Steel City John Harrold 50 Year Certificate Smokey Mountains Grant Whipple 50 Year Certificate Atlantic James Snow 50 Year Certificate Gulf July 2005 Bernie Wooller Member passing Mid South T. Hogan Milestone Birthday Magnolia Joe Nichols, Sr Milestone Birthday Piedmont Wayne Dees Milestone Birthday Steel City Lee Schramm Milestone Birthday Piedmont Paul Lefstead Milestone Birthday Piedmont Floyd Neese Milestone Birthday Palmetto Otis Warr Milestone Birthday Bluff City Wallace Edwards Milestone Birthday Central Savanna River Fred Lindquist Milestone Birthday Piedmont James Cowan Milestone Birthday Piedmont George Fletcher Milestone Birthday Palmetto Joe Richardson Milestone Birthday Empire August 2005 Lenny Polinsky Surgery Piedmont Charlie Staffa 25 Year Certificate Palmetto Larry Deagon Milestone Birthday Steel City Julian Morrison Milestone Birthday Smokey Mountains John Esmond Milestone Birthday HQ Robert Johnson Milestone Birthday Atlantic Keith Jones Milestone Birthday Bluff City Michael Ferry Milestone Birthday Smokey Mountains William Rinck Milestone Birthday Piedmont Nelson Fox Milestone Birthday Smokey Mountains Jared Harper Milestone Birthday Piedmont Ewart Ball Milestone Birthday Land O’Sky Tom Stopson Milestone Birthday Magnolia Frank Smith Milestone Birthday Steel City William Barger Milestone Birthday Steel City

HO Scale “Critter” on Display at PSX 2004 Seattle Contest


Well, time is zipping by and report time is here again.....and I am not ready.... again. Seems like just a little while ago I was displaying my G scale railroad at the Bessemer 2004 Convention back in May. Sure had a great time there. Things are popping down here in the Gulf Division. Besides ducking erratic hurricanes and having to use perfectly good plywood to board up windows, we have managed to have quite a bit of model railroading fun in the area. In the Mobile, Alabama area, SWARM is gearing up for their annual March 2005 Train Show in Fairhope, Ala-bama. This is in addition to SWARM's very active monthly model railroading meetings and get-togethers for not only O-27 gauge but all scales, from N to G (as in Gr-Gr-Great balls of fire....). The Bay Area Railroaders (BARR) are also busy with their O scale model railroading and have their active calendar of activities, too. One group or the other have been displaying their respective O gauge modular lay-outs at one of the local malls getting lots of visibility in front of the public of Mobile, Alabama. Over in Biloxi, Mississippi with the MS Gulf Coast Model Railroad Club (neighbors to Gulf Division, I know), the June Train Show at the Imperial Palace Casino and Con-vention Center went terrifically. It was such a great success that plans are all in motion for the same thing next 10-12 June 2005. And our Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club will certainly be there again with our mobile G scale rail-road and fill up an even bigger area this next time. A good time was had by all, even if they did not win any of the ca-sino's jackpots. (Or at least they did not tell me they won any jackpots.) We did have a jackpot of fun with our model railroading in a terrific air-conditioned convention hall. Here in Pensacola, Florida, we have plenty of railroading activity, both model and full-size. The Pensacola Model Railroad Club is preparing for their 2nd Annual Model Train Show at the Hadji Temple on 11-12 September 2004. It was a great train show last year and we expect another great train show this year. Stay away Hurricane Frances, Ivan and all of you other hurricanes. Frances is not listen-ing. The Pensacola Train Show will have modular layouts in Z scale, N scale, HO scale, S scale, O-27 gauge, and G scale with lots of vendors filling up the hall. And both of the Club's N and HO modular layouts will be on display at the 10-day long Pensacola Interstate Fair in October. Also in the Pensacola area, the West Florida Railroad Mu-seum is having their annual Fall Open House on 16 October in Milton, Florida. This Open House will focus on the rail-roading history of the L&N Depot. Now where can I find an L&N locomotive in G scale to run on the Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club's flatcar layout? In addition, the West Florida Railroad Museum also has its regular daily traffic of assorted CSX trains zooming by the Depot. One day we caught a military transport train with lots of tan painted humvees, trucks and other assorted vehicles, containers and trailers headed west. My guess is that they were return-ing from the Middle East given their rather worn paint jobs and convoy markings. Thanks to those fighting guys and gals manning that equipment for us over here. Our Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club, also here at the West Florida Railroad Museum, is still growing in members and activity. We have had several train shows and meets where we set up our mobile G scale railroad and exhibit a wide assortment of garden trains. This included a short stint at a Train Collectors Association (TCA) meet this past July at a little town called Jay. We had a great time and got to run our big trains and show off the Garden Railroading to lots of the public. We answered lots and lots of questions not only with folks at the TCA Meet in Jay, Florida, but at all of our various train show exhibits. With a little luck, we will have our brand new Club vests of emerald green for the

September train shows. The West Florida Model Railroad Club has a very strong and permanent HO layout also at the West Florida Railroad Museum. Our membership is growing again and given the tight quarters of the HO layout, we may have to go to shifts, too. Or become a very close model railroading family. DCC has been successfully introduced and working signaling is shortly down the track. It is terrific for the public to see 5 separate trains on the same mainline loop all operated under DCC. Of course, the operator is almost going crazy trying to keep the engine numbers straight. This Club's layout is growing in capabili-ties and operations as our time permits the additional con-struction. Now if we can only get the N scalers at the Mu-seum to get an N scale layout up and going. Over in Fort Walton Beach area, the Miracle Strip Model Railroad Club have been busy with their Club DCC HO lay-out. They still have lots and lots of members and thus can't fit everyone into a single session at the clubhouse, so they railroad all week long with several sessions during the week. Does anyone else have such "too many members" problems? Way over in Panama City, the two model railroad clubs are running along rocky tracks and working to get reorganized into smoother operations. We wish them speedy and suc-cessful efforts. Farther still to the East over in the southern Dixie Division, the Wiregrass Railroad Historical Society is holding their annual Train Show at Dothan, Alabama on 18-19 Septem-ber. They will have lots of dealers and many modular lay-outs and two large G scale railroads - one inside and one outside with the rough-and-tough Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club. "We don't need no slimy sunscreen!" Now this is were we really, really, REALLY want all of the nasty and pesky hurricanes to stay way AWAY...way, far away. There have been several queries answered for model rail-roading folks in the Gulf Division area seeking other model railroaders and related information. Plus, we get requests for contact information from folks outside of the Gulf Divi-sion area coming here to visit and wanting to see other model railroaders while on their vacations. All requests have been answered as fast as possible with hopefully posi-tive results. Whew! I am tired just talking about all of this model rail-roading activity. So much going on, it is rather hard to keep up with it all and still get my chores done at the house and go to work everyday. How can I get model railroading as a full-time, high-paying job? Happy railroading everybody. Edward Dice, Gulf Division Superintendent, [email protected], 850-293-3532/850-455-1313

The summer has been a blast in Hotlanta for the Piedmont Divi-sion. We are continuing to average over 70 members and visitors for our Monthly Meetings the second week of each month in Tucker. If you are in the area please come by and be our guest. We would love to visit with you and you should enjoy the eve-ning’s program. The activities start at 7PM. Our monthly meeting in July featured an excellent and informa-tive clinic presented by Walt Liles titled, “Modeling Coal Opera-tions in Appalachia”. He detailed the basic operations that in-volve mining sorting, and loading the coal onto hoppers. What was very interesting was the part describing the loading at very small tipples. These are sometimes done with one man and can take a consirable amount of time. Walt’s interest in motive power

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display at the Camack Railroad Days event in Camack, GA, and at Belvedere Baptist Church, Belvedere, SC, for their first annual Block Party. The local museum here in Augusta, GA, is providing us with the use of their exhibit space the weekend of November 20 to set up HO and N scale modules. This event is open to the public. Ad-mission is $4 on Saturday and free on Sunday. Terry Pitts, Division Superintendent, will complete five years as Super in a few more months. Just shows what happens when you miss a meeting! Take a look at Terry's web site,

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to see pictures of his trip to the NTRAK 2004 Convention in early August.

Then Central Savannah River Division (Div 9) of the SER/NMRA has been meeting in a local church after the loss of space when a local hobby shop closed. For more information about the meetings (1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month), contact Sam Smith at (803) 279-9919 or Terry Pitts at (706) 854-1529 (a new number, please update any records). Division 9 has been involved in efforts to built an accurate replica of the Aiken, SC, depot on its original spot. There are opportuni-ties to display N and HO modules as well as some efforts under-way to try a live steam display as well. Since the last report, we have had the Bend Track modules on

It has been an active summer in the Bluff City Division. We have formed a committee to plan to host a SER Convention in the Memphis Area, possibly in 2006, There are some large local events that will likely require the SER event to be scheduled into June, instead of the normal Memorial Day weekend. We are still in the early planning stage in that no one site as been chosen. The Memphis Modular Group lost the setup space for the HO Scale layout that they had been using for the past year and a half. They are now searching for another larger space. The Mid-South Rail Runners, the N Scale modular group has invited the HO group to join them at there setup location. As listed in previous Southerner Articles, the N Scale occupies a space of 5000 square foot plus. The actual useable space available is about 16,000 square feet. A lease arrangement and some modifications will have to be done before they will move in. Both the N and HO group have plans to build semi-permanent layouts in their spaces. In the future, other model railroading groups will be offered invi-tations to come aboard, as well. There will be a Train Show in Memphis, on October 16, & 17, at the Hilton Hotel, in conjunction with the L & N and the GM&O Historical Groups’ Joint Conference. The Bluff City Division is sponsoring the train show with many of our members working the event. There are also layout tours planned. The Hilton Hotel is the old Adams Mark, off of I-240 at US 72 (business). By: Ned Savage.

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is second-generation diesel power and he did a very good job discussing the engines that were commonly used to move the coal through the mountains. Master Model Railroader Ron Gough was the clinic presenter in August. As many of you know Ron has done very nice scenery using the Geodesic Foam method on his layout. Ron took us step by step through the easy application process. He quickly built a realistic mountain on a module. Many of us use very traditional mountain building methods and Ron definitely got the group “thinking out of the box”. One clearly does not have the mess that is associated with methods like hard-shell. As I am writing this article we have not yet had the September meeting. The clinic is going to be a good one presented by our Director of Operations, Howard Goodwin. On October 16th the Piedmont Division is hosting our first annual live auction. Every-one is invited to bring items to sell and or just bring you and be ready to acquire those hard to find items. The clinic Howard is presenting is all about Model Railroad auctions. Howard is a veteran auctioneer and he is going to lend is expertise on the do’s and don’ts of auctions. He is also going to share some of the funny things that have happened to him while he has been doing the auctions. As you can guess he is also going to be the auction-eer in October. The auction check in and set up is at 5:30 PM. The actual auction starts at 6:30 PM. The location is the Elks Lodge in Tucker where we have our monthly meetings. I have been talking to our mem-bers and many of them are ready to bring some very interesting items. There should also be a number of bargains. There is a small admission at the door and all proceeds will go for future events and activities of the Division. Along with the clinic each month we feature a theme. In July it was “Track Cleaning Cars. In August it was “Freight Cars with and Without Loads”. In September is will be “Promoting Model-ing and Contest Models”. This means we are asking the members to bring in their models they are currently working on and the “masters” will help with any questions. This is a good check up to see how the models are going and getting ready for the No-vember Model Contest. George Bloodworth and his L&K Railroad was our featured open house for July. Charlie Cole and his ever popular outdoor “Bird, Squirrel & Rabbit RR” was the open house in August. Ed Laity is going to host the open house in September. We know he gets tired of us saying it but in reality Ed’s layout is one the finest smaller layouts you will ever visit. Everyone in the Division is getting ready for November when the Piedmont Division hosts our second annual Piedmont Pilgrimage. Many of the Region members attended the open houses last year. It was a smashing success. This year the number of open houses has been increased from 12 to over 30!! The idea is to have a group of layouts in the immediate area that you can visit on Sat-urday and Sunday. As we get closer to November please consult the Division website for direction and descriptions of the layouts. Brochures will also be available at the Division meetings and local hobby shops. Well that is all for now. See you in November! Bob McIntyre Superintendent

CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER - DIVISION 9 Terry Pitts, Jr.—[email protected]

Cumberland Division and TC RY Museum members have been involved in the preparation for and putting on Day Out With Thomas (DOWT) 2004 over Labor Day Weekend and on Sep 11 & 12, 2004. Today, Sep 11, has been the best day ever among the 3 DOWTs we have hosted. We were even selling tickets for vestibule space only on some of our 8 trips behind Thomas today. Also Nashville Ntrak has a 30’ x 50’ N scale RR running at the TN State Fair Sep 10-19. We have an HO modular RR 10’ x 44’ operating in the DOWT Gift Shop. Over the 4 days of DOWT, plus the TN State Fair, we will have brought the hobby of model railroading to thousands of kids of all ages. Although DOWT requires a huge amount of volunteer work, it is THE major fund-raising effort each year for both C Div and TCRM. Thanks so much to all who have made DOWT 2004 such a success! CSX has invited Cumberland Division and TCRM to participate in their Family Day at Radnor Yard on October 9, 2004. Since the TCRM excursion train is running 2 trips to Watertown that day, 1 originating in Nashville and 1 originating in Cookeville, our participation will be a Nashville Ntrak N scale RR set up in the old blacksmith shop building at Radnor Yard. These opportunities to work with CSX on such events are always welcome since we get to see CSX facilities up close and CSX employees and family members get to see model railroading Middle Tennessee style.

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Our next model railroading promotion opportunity will be Whistlestop Weekend, a 4-day event at Adventure Science Center in Nashville over November 11 thru 14. Normally the Nashville Ntrak modular RR stays set up thru early January 2005 and the HO modular RR usually stays set up for 1 week after Whistlestop Weekend. Our next event will be the Fall 2004 Division Meet on Saturday November 20, at TCRM in Nashville. Normally our Division Meet is the 1st Saturday in November, but this year we’re moving it to the 3rd Saturday because of an excursion train TCRM will be operating on November 6. The new 24’ HO modular yard designed & built by several Division members (overseen by Len Hollinger) works fine and provides a more easily transportable yard than our 36’ freight yard. Thanks, Len, for the many hours of work you put into this yard. It shows in the fit and finish (Len is also an expert woodworker and has the power tools to do benchwork right!) and the design. Now to get the 36’ yard rewired to be DCC-friendly and back into service. All for now….. Bob Hultman

Joe Morrison, my eyes and ears in far eastern Tennessee, reports only routine activity among the individual modellers and SER members in that area. There are no clubs. Other Division news centers around the Knoxville Model Railroaders club, the only active club in Division 12. KAMR continues its work building a significant HO layout for the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge. Completion is targeted for November 1. In June, KARM members conducted a week-long, half-day, model railroading camp for twenty attendees as part of the Children's Museum's summer program. This is the third year for the camp. This year's camp was almost twice as big as previ-ous years' and unfortunately, a number of children had to be turned away. KAMR's big focus for the next couple of months will be prepar-ing for and running their first ever public "Atomic City Train Show" to be held at the Children's Museum in Oak Ridge on Sat-urday, November 13th. Vendors are being solicited. On November 20th the Children's Museum will hold it's annual Appalachia Fest, with the theme "Rails Thru Appalachia". KARM will, of course, play a big role in that program with oper-ating train displays, MS Train Simulator on a big wall screen, and conducting a Boy Scout model railroading merit badge program.

SMOKY MOUNTAIN - DIV. 12 Larry Burkholder - [email protected]

SOUTHEASTERN REGION DIRECTORY

OFFICERS President: Bob Beaty, Jr., MMR (205) 987-2385 [email protected] 741 Dividing Ridge Rd, Birmingham, AL 35244 Vice-President: Pat Turner (423) 744-0429 [email protected] 119 Co Rd 162, Niota, TN 37826 Secretary: John Stevens (770) 632-0753 [email protected] 175 Roscommon Ct., Tyrone, GA 30290 Treasurer: Randall Watson (770) 831-5736 [email protected] 730 Morning Creek Lane, Suwanee, GA 30024

DIRECTORS Exec. Advisor: Phil Hutchinson (334) 272-1923 [email protected] 5743 Carriage Barn Lane, Montgomery, AL 36116 Director (06): Mike Ferry (931) 788-1828 [email protected] 8316 Cherokee Trail, Crossville, TN 38555 Director (06): Tom Schultz (205) 879-3603 [email protected] 2798 Montevallo Road, Birmingham, AL 35223 Director (08): Scott G. Perry (770) 932-3364 [email protected] 2711 Reflection Drive, Buford, GA 30519 Director (08): Paul V. Voelker (770) 967-1644 [email protected] 6438 Paradise Point Road, Flowery Branch, GA 30542-3143

COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN AP Program: George Gilbert (615) 352-1254 [email protected] 750 Rodney Drive, Nashville, TN 37205 Contests: Carey Jenkins (205) 979-0023 [email protected] 1834 Tall Timbers Drive, Hoover, AL 35226 Conventions: Mike Ferry (931) 788-1828 fer rym@cit l i nk.net 8316 Cherokee Trail, Crossville. TN 38555 Education: Dean Belowich MMR (843) 651-1850 [email protected] 334 Chastain Court, Murrels Inlet, SC 29576 Good & Welfare: Dudley Ross ( ) - @ 3427 Oak Shadow Lane, Montgomery, AL 36116-1917 Historian: Joe Nichols, Sr. MMR (770) 396-6447 [email protected] 4554 Chadwell Lane, Atlanta, GA 30338 Legal Counsel: Charles Cole (770) 427-3133 [email protected] 918 Arbor Forest Landing, Marietta, GA 30064 Member Aid: Charlie Brown, MMR (770) 943-5280 [email protected] 3 Springbrooke Trail, Dallas, GA 30157 Membership: Tom Schultz (205) 879-3603 [email protected] 2798 Montevallo Road, Birmingham, AL 35223 Registrar: Howard R. Garner (864) 878-4705 [email protected] P.O. Box 826, Pickens, SC 29671-0826 Webmaster: Mike Broadway (205) 991-0626 [email protected] 3110 Meadowbrook Trail, Birmingham, AL 35242

DIVISIONS 1 Mid-South: Thomas Bailey (931) 433-4207 [email protected] 1008 First Avenue, Fayetteville, TN. 37334 2 Steel City: Tom Cusker (205) 621-1778 [email protected] 3022 Long Leaf Lane, Helena, AL. 35080 3 Dixie: Phil Hutchinson (334) 272-1923 [email protected] 5743 Carriage Barn Lane, Montgomery, AL 36116 4 Gulf: Ed Dice (850) 455-1313 [email protected] 3242 Windjammer Court, Pensacola, FL 32526-2544 5 Piedmont: Bob McIntyre (770) 518-8932 [email protected] 155 Fox Grape Lane, Alpharetta, GA 30022-6159 6 Empire: Richard Dalrymple (478) 471-8883/fax 8994 [email protected] 107 Cordell Court, Macon, GA 31220-5227 7 Palmetto: Howard R. Garner (864) 878-4705 [email protected] P.O. Box 826, Pickens, SC 29671-0826 8 Atlantic: Nathan P. Stone (912) 354-2604 [email protected] 4808 Taylor Road, Savannah, GA 31404 9 Cent. Savannah Terry Pitts, Jr (706) 736-9581 [email protected] River: 3043 Brookhaven Way. Augusta, GA 30909-2236 10 Bluff City: Ned B. Savage (901) 682-8716 [email protected] 136 Greenbriar Drive, Memphis, TN. 38117-3208 11 Cumberland: Bob Hultman (615) 833-5158 [email protected] 1305 Chestnut Drive, Brentwood, TN 37207 12 Smoky Mt.: Larry Burkholder (865) 408-9903 [email protected] 206 Coyatee View, Loudon, TN 37774-2172 13 Headquarters: ——-OPEN——- 14 Magnolia: Mike Barry (228) 762-0929 [email protected] 5411 Hyland Drive, Pascagoula, MS 39567 15 Land O' Sky: Fred Coleman (828) 694-0339 [email protected] PO Box 361, Naples, NC 28760

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Palmetto Division 7 Palmetto Division, Pickens, S.C., Howard R. Garner (864) 878-4705 Associated Model Railroads of Columbia, Columbia, SC Jack Huffman 803-699-2518 or amroc.org for information. Central Railway Model & Historical Association, Pickens, SC, Howard R, Garner (864) 878-4705 [email protected]

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Piedmont Division, Alpharetta, GA., Bob McIntyre (770) 518-8932 Northwest Georgia N Track Club, Woodstock, GA Located in the Woodstock Depot—Downtown Woodstock @ Canton Rd./Arnold Mill Georgia Association of Narrow Gaugers, Pat Turner (423) 744-0429 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/georgiangers [email protected] North Georgia Lego Train Club, James Trobaugh (770)-844-1076 http://www.ngltc.org OR [email protected] Chattahoochee Express Operating Group, Bob McIntyre (770) 518-8932 North Georgia Modurail, Jon Cook (770) 993-9620

Smoky Mountain Division 12

Smoky Mountain Division, Larry Burkholder (865) 408-9903 Knoxville Area Model Railroaders, Oak Ridge, TN, Larry Burkholder, (865) 408-9903

Steel City Division 2

Steel City Division, Birmingham, AL, Tom Cusker (205) 621-1778 Wrecking Crew Model RR Club, Bessemer, AL, 1004 West Lake Mall

Mobile Society of Model Engineers, Alabama Gulf - Chapter, NRHS 2800 Graham Rd., S. Mobile, AL Call Dave Miller (251) 645-2296 for information

The Club Car — This is a list of clubs and organizations in the South Eastern Region. Most have some NMRA members. If you have a club that is

accepting new members or visitors, please send the information to Paul V. Voelker at: [email protected]. Please note, you must provide a contact name and phone number! If you have a website you can send us the URL as well!

Atlantic Division 8 Atlantic Division, Savannah, GA. Nate Stone (912) 354-2604 Coastal Rail Buffs, Savannah, GA., Nate Stone, (912) 354-2606 http://www.coastalrailbuffs.org/ Golden Isles Model Railroad Club, Brunswick, GA. Grand Strand Model Engineers, Myrtle Beach, SC.

Bluff City Division 10 Bluff City Division, Memphis, TN, Ned B. Savage, (901) 682-8716 The Memphis N-Scale Road Railers The Memphis Society of Model Engineers

Central Savannah River Division 9 Central Savannah River Division, Augusta, GA, Terry Pitts, Jr. (706) 636-9581 Georgia-Carolina Model Railroaders, Augusta, GA, Roy Tritt (706) 733-6870

Cumberland Division 11 Cumberland Division, Brentwood, TN., Bob Hultman (615) 833-5158 Nashville NTRAK, Nashville, TN., Ken Harrel (615) 352-4576 http://www.nashvillentrak.org Nashville Garden Railway Society, Nashville, TN., Ross Evans (615) 292-6555 Tennessee Central Railway Museum, Nashville, TN., Terry Bebou, (615) 244-9001 FAX -2120 [email protected] http://tcry.org Mid-South Live Steamers, Columbia, TN., Hank Sherwood (615) 665-0512 http://www.midsouthlivesteamers.org [email protected]

Dixie Division 3 Dixie Division, Phil Hutchinson, Montgomery, AL, (334) 272-1933 Central Alabama Model RR. Club, Montgomery/Prattville, AL, Phil Hutchinson, (334) 272-1933 Alabama Model Railroad Association, Opelika, AL Southeast Alabama Model Railroad Club, Dothan, AL, Chuck Batherson (334) 677-3413

Empire Division 6 Empire Division, Richard Dalrymple, Macon, GA., (478) 471-8883 FAX -8994 Columbus Model Railroad Club, Columbus, GA., David Cotton (706) 323-1417 Flint River Model Railroad Club, Albany, GA., Jimmy Swinn (299) 883-3517 Middle Georgia Model Railroad Club, Warner Robbins, GA http://members.cox.net/mgmrc/ Bill Attaway (478) 328-1743 [email protected] Thomasville Model Railroad Club, Thomasville, GA., Ben Strickland (912) 465-3730

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Gulf Division, Pensacola, FL, Ed Dice (850) 293-3532 cell - (850) 455-1313 home Miracle Strip Model RR Club, Shalimar, FL Chris Beard (850)-244-0161 www.geocities.com/miraclestriprrclub [email protected] Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club monthly meeting usually on third Saturday of the month at 1:30 PM in the Diner Car of the West Florida RR Museum, Milton FL, POC: [email protected] or 850-293-3532 Mobile Society of Model Engineers. Dave Miller, at (251) 645-2296 for information West Florida Model Railroad Club, Milton, FL Keith Rapley (850) 434-6374 West Florida Railroad Museum, Milton, FL Pensacola Model Railroad Club, Pensacola, FL Southwest Alabama Railroad Modelers (SWARM), Mobile, AL Herb Kern (251) 660-1659 George Nelson ( ) -

Headquarters Division 13 Headquarters Division, http://www.camrc.org Chattanooga Area Model Railroad Club, Dale Bryant [email protected] (423) 752-0141 or (423) 991-5243 www.camrc.org Chattanooga Society of Model Engineers, Dunlap, TN http://csme.livesteamtrains.com Andy Morrision (423) 344-8502 Crossville Model Railroad Club, Crossville, TN, Mike Ferry (931) 788-1828

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Land O'Sky Division 15 Land O' Sky Division, Naples, N.C., Fred Coleman (828) 694-0339

Magnolia Division 14

Magnolia Division, Pascagoula, MS., Mike Barry (228) 762-0929 Jackson Society of Model Engineers, Jackson, MS Jackie Meck (601) 842-0909 www.jsme.org MidSouth Division 1

Mid-South Division, Fayetteville, TN., Thomas Bailey (931) 433-4207 http://www.geocities.com/mta136/ Northeast Alabama Model Railroad Club, Guntersville, AL

Charles Dick (205) 878-2537 [email protected] Redstone Model Railroad Club, Huntsville, AL

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391-H. Car #79262 was built by ACF in Berwick PA, in Nov 1918, in lot 390-H. The CCC&St.L rostered 6,600 USRA 2-bay open hoppers by 1924. These USRA hoppers were 30’ 6” inside length, with a capacity of 1,880 cu. ft. and 110,000 lbs. (55 tons), and were originally built with Andrews trucks and “K” type brakes, having drop lever-type hand brakes. Later lots received Bettendorf trucks and vertical-staff brake wheels. Rebuilds and Longevity: Many CCC&St.L USRA hoppers were rebuilt during 1935-37. Cars #79262, 79464 and 79536 were rebuilt at Beech Grove in Mar 1935 with Union Metal Products Co. (raised) paneled sides, and have reweigh stenciling “BG 3 35”. The lot numbers remained unchanged. Subsequently, several hundred additional cars of other lots, including 412-H, were rebuilt with raised panel sides between 1935 and 1937. The 1953 ORER indicated that 1,841 hopper cars of NYCS series 840000 - 841999 were still in service. In 1953, NYCS still rostered 7,931 of the original 13,347 USRA hopper cars. But by 1961, only 135 USRA hopper cars remained in service with NYCS. Kits: These kits are a special run of the Accurail USRA 55 ton panel side two bay hopper kits.

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IN THE NEXT ISSUE:

• Board of Directors Meeting

• Building a small 3x6 foot HO Scale Layout

• 2005 Region Convention Barn Contest

• Much, much more….

2005 SER CONVENTION

BARN CONTEST

NATIONAL: 2005 NMRA Convention: Cincinnati, OH 2006 NMRA Convention: Philadelphia, PA 2007 NMRA Convention: 2008 NMRA Convention: 2009 NMRA Convention: REGIONAL: 2005 May 27, 28, 29 Montgomery, AL 2006 Pensacola, FL (Tentative) 2007 Atlanta, GA 2008 Memphis, TN (Tentative) OUTSIDE THE REGION: DIVISIONAL: Land O'Sky Division - Regular Meeting First Thursday of Every Month, All Souls Cathedral in Biltmore, NC, 7:00 pm. Until Concluded. Piedmont Division - Regular Meeting 2nd Tuesday of Every Month, Elks Lodge, 1775 Montreal Rd., Tucker (Atlanta - East Side) Smoky Mountain Division—Regular Meeting 1st & 3rd Sunday of every month Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, TN 3 - 5 pm work or operating sessions 5 pm business meeting 1st Sunday Steel City Division - Regular Meeting Third Thursday of Every Month, Southside Branch Public Library at 7:00 pm. 1814 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL Local Shows and Events (Date Order by State): - Alabama - Dothan—December 11 & 12 Wiregrass Heritage Chapter, National Railway Historical Society 14th Annual Wiregrass Model Railroad Show & Sale National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds, 5622 US Hwy 231 South, Dothan, AL 9am-4pm CST Sat., 10am-4pm CST Sun. Admission: Adults $4, Children Under 12 FREE Contact: Danny Lewis, 491 Ashley Circle, Dothan, AL 36305 [email protected] - Georgia - Atlanta - East Side—Saturday, October 16th Piedmont Division Model Railroad Live Auction Check-in & Set up 6:00 PM, Auction Starts at 7:00 PM Elks Lodge, 1775 Montreal Rd., Tucker, GA For info: Bob McIntyre (770) 518-8932 www.piedmont-division.org Atlanta Area—Every Weekend in November Piedmont Pilgrimage Home Layout Tours For info: Bob McIntyre (770) 518-8932 www.piedmont-division.org - Florida-

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- North Carolina - Brevard, NC—October 15 & 16 Narrow Trak 04 Silvermont Mansion on East Main Street, Brevard, NC Two day narrow gauge meet featuring model/prototype seminars, manufacturer displays, popular vote model contest & modules. For a non-binding registration form send a SSAE to: Narrow Trak 04, 216 S. Broad St., PMB4SE, Brevard, NC 28712-3702 Specify type of registration: Individual, Operating Module(s), or Manufacturer Display. - South Carolina - Associated Model Railroads of Columbia 1800 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC Jack Huffman 803-699-2518 or www.amroc.org Every Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. 30 min. business meeting on first Thurs. of month We welcome visitors and potential new members - Tennessee - Memphis Society of Model Railroad Engineers First Saturday of Every Month All Saints Episcopal Church at 1508 South White Station Road in Memphis (Except in May!) 7:00 pm - Swap meet, videos, how-to programs. Prototype, too!

U P C O M I N G E V E N T S This is a list of all upcoming events that have been sent to the SouthErneR. Please submit info on your events occurring within the next year to the SouthErneR prior to the next deadline. Send new information, modifications, or corrections to:

Melvin G. Sheppers at: [email protected]

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