San Francisco area NMRA Coast Division Meet:12/4/11

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Hi, all,

As a model RR public service to all:

Any of you who are in the San Francisco Bay Area, next
weekend you are invited to come as a guest to the Coast Division Meet on
Sunday, December 4, 2011 at the Boy Scouts of America HQ building
at 1001 Davis Street in San Leandro, CA.

http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast

Guests are always welcome at the NMRA Coast Division meets, there's no
charge (what a deal!)  We have Show and Tell, Photo and Model Contest, Clinics,
all free of charge, provided by the Coast Division.

You may especially like these two clinics (see below), and you get to find out
what's going on in model railroading in the San Francisco Bay area NMRA
Coast Division at the same time as well.

http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/meet_clinics.shtml

You can see full pictures, details about all the happens in our quarterly meet
reports web pages (going back to Dec 2005), at:

http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest.shtml 

For those of you not able to attend, here's three photos of general interest, enjoy!

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For us N scalers:

1)  The future of our hobby is well assured.  Dominic DiMaio, age 12, displayed this
superbly weathered N scale SP SD50:




2)  NMRA 2011 National Convention Model Contest 1st Place Diesel, GM&O Ingalls Diesel in HO,
by Tom Vanden Bosch




3)  Edwin Ness just knocked our socks off with his O scale model of his house under
construction.  Used scale-sized model lumber and is built and framed with the exactly
correct construction techniques, spacing, and dimensions.   Impressive!!!



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AGENDA

Here's what we have planned:

9:00 AM ............ Doors open. Free Door Prizes. Buy Raffle Tickets.
9:30 AM ............ Get Aucon Cards.

10:00 AM ............ "Operations, Plain and Simple" by Seth Neumann.
An initiation into the wonderous world of operations with a view to the simple

11:00 AM ............ "Building a Resin Car Kit" by Dave Connery
Dave will walk us thru the steps, share his tricks and techniques for
construcng a resin molded freight car

11:00 AM ............ Model Railroad Roundtable moderated by Jerry Littlefield

12 Noon .............. Business Meeting

~1:00 PM* ......... Auction starts, Roundtable continues

1:30 PM ............ Model/Photo Contest Results
3:30 PM ............ Timesaver Results, Raffle

9:30 AM – 1:15 PM:
Model Contest: Favorite Model
Photo Contest: Favorite Railroad Related Photo
Allen Fenton Timesaver Switching Contest (unl 3:15)


See more about all this by downloading the December 2011 Coast E-Dispatcher:

http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/dispatcher/E-Dispatcher201112.pdf


We also have Show and Tell: bring any model to share and show off!
Works in progress welcome!

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SWITCHING CONTEST

Have a go at the Allen Fenton Timesaver
switching puzzle, Which is a fun, devilish little
switching layout and friendly competition we have at
every Coast Division Meet.

You got to try it!


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If you're interested, please come by as our guest of the Coast Division, Pacific Coast
Region, NMRA.


Happy Holidays to all,


As a public model RR service On behalf of the NMRA Coast Division,


John Sing
Coast Division Model Contest chair-flunkie

NMRA PCR Coast Division Model Contest /
Photo Contest / Show and Tell web pages:
http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest.shtml


X2011 West National Convention photo/video repository:
https://www.facebook.com/x2011west?sk=photos