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Capital DivisionClerk and Editor: Mark Cowles
All Photos are by the editor unless otherwise credited.
Superintendent Andy Keeney
Division 5, NCR, NMRA
March 2018Our next get together is Saturday, March 10, 1 p.m. at the
Olivet CollegeOlivet MI
( See Map on the last page.)
CLINIC PRESENTER - TERRY DAVISScratch Building a Wood Flat Car
Details below.
Layout VisitNone this month in order to provide time for scratch building.
>>>> NOTE THE CHANGE IN THE LOCATION! <<<<
SHOW & TELLNone this month in order to provide time for scratch building.
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This is the denim shirt. The shirts are being produced by Daylight Sales so you can be assured of a quality product.
For the Capital Division’s 2018 sponsored NCR Region Convention, we are offering Convention shirts.You may order shirts to wear during various events this year to help us advertise the Convention.
Shirts may be picked up, by you or a designated friend, at Capital Division (Div 5) monthly events or at the Convention table at the Lansing Model Railroad Show in November.
These smart looking light blue denim shirts are available for sale when you register for the 2018 NCR Convention. Convention shirts are also available in a light blue polo.Shirts will be delivered at the Convention. We must have your shirt order in hand by Sept. 15, Shirts will not be sold at the Convention, so register and get your shirt order in now!
January Show & Tell Models
Roland BuntingHO Quarry Conveyer
Ron St. LaurentBachman HO GG1 w/sound
Terry Davis
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum.
Terry’s HOn2 1/2 gauge 0-4-4 Forney locomotive.
This 30” gauge model locomotive is a stand in for the 2’ gauge locomotives that ran on a number of small railroads in Maine up until the eve of WWII.
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From the web a film of the Maine narrow gauge railbus.
David Wentworth’s HO scale Bar Mills kit with added stone foundation.
David’s South River Modelworks HO scale Mill Kit with added foundation.
South River Modelworks is now out of business due to the retirement of the owner.
Mark Cowles’s N scale Nickel Plate Alco PAs. Left to Right: 1967 ConCor, 2005 Life-Like, 2010 Broadway Ltd.
Top: The Broadway Ltd. model on the right is DCC w/ sound and has the original, short lived metallic “Nickel Silver” side paint. Bottom: shows different rear bulkhead paint colors, blue, grey, nickel silver.The ConCor model is one of the few unpowered units produced in N scale. I use it as a trailing unit.
Brooks Stover’s scratch built S scale Buffalo Creek & Gauley’s Mack Railbus
Editor’s Photo
Photo by Jonathon Pulling
Brooks Stove’s S scale Swandale Co. Store.
Built with cardstock on tagboard.
This building was located along the BC&G railroad’s line.
Division 5 Visits Dave Regan’s East Lansing & Elsewhere HO scale Model Railroad.It is based on the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern RR that his Dad worked for.
Photos on this page by Jonathon Pulling.
Photo by J. Pulling
Note the highway bridge under construction.
Dave’s layout is populated.
As this is, potentially, a family publication, not all of the figures can be shown.
Scout hikers
Future plans for the railroad Include a harbour. Dave has built several boats to go into that section when completed.As many of you know, your editor has a fondness for boats, and the laker shown is similar to one his grandfather worked on in the 30s
and, although shorter, similar to one he worked on in the 60s.
This style of Great Lakes vessel, boat in Lakes terminology, is know as a “Canaler”. The were built short enough to go through the old Welland Canal and St. Lawrence River locks.They were common until the new Seaway opened in 1959 when they were quickly phased out as being uneconomical to operate.
The other vessel in the photos is a river style car float.
Make and Take Clinic on March 10
The clinic will be held at Olivet College in Room 103 Mott Hall at 1:00 pm (same room we typically meet in). We will be building an old style flat car in anticipation of using it for one of the 4 scratch built cars required for the Motive Power – Master Building AP Certificate. I have had 8 people “reserve” a spot for the clinic and I will have enough “stuff” to construct 12 cars. Any of the 4 spots that are not spoken for as of the day of the clinic will go by draw for any walk-ins. I will provide:
Lumber
Plans and instructions
Paint
Trucks (10 pair anyway – I found a good deal from Tichy on archbar trucks – I am short 2 pair to make 12. If anyone has an extra they can use – please bring them.)
Stirrup steps
Bolsters and screws
Turnbuckles and truss rod material
Stake pockets
I will not have any Kadee couplers – but will have screws to attach them – please bring a pair with pockets.
I will have tools available to be borrowed, but if you have any of the following, you might want to bring them so they don’t have to be shared.
Suggested tools:
#11 X-Acto knife, single edged razor blades, chopper
Scissors (for opening packets and cutting out plans
Magnetic gluing board, or a small piece (10” x 5”) insulation foam 1” thick
1 or 2 pair(s) fine jewelers forceps (tweezers)
Sprue cutters
wire cutters or rail nippers
Red (or brown) and black bottles of craft paint (flat)
AC cement, accelerator and debonder
white or carpenter’s glue (small bottle)
toothpick (glue applicator)
Emery board and small files
Optivisor
Straight edge (HO scale rule) & small machinist’s squares
Pin vise, 0.060 drill(or thereabouts – for truss rods and stirrup steps) and a #53 drill for the screws for trucks and couplers (I will have a pin vise available that will hold a #53)
Digital caliper
If you don’t want to try the project, or only wish to observe, I am planning to run train related DVDs on the projector in the room, so all are welcome.
I look forward to seeing you all on the 10th. If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected].
From the Yard OfficeHello fellow model railroaders. Hope you are keeping busy with model railroad related activities!I am definitely keeping it at a good fast pace. Wish it helped reduce the pounds and strengthen the muscles but at least I am having a lot of fun.My friends and I are keeping busy working on the transition from the Protrak program to a new Car Card/Waybill system. I will have more info on the in the next Journal.Your Convention Committee is staying hard at work preparing for the October convention. That really is not that far away and we will be contacting each of our members to see what they are willing to take on to make this a great convention for everyone in the Region to enjoy. Over the next few months as we start getting closer to the convention date, we will be signing our members up to participate in the presentation of the convention. It will take
the majority of our members to take a part in this so we will have a successful first class program for all to enjoy. So be ready to sign up to take your part when we contact you!! Our next Convention Planning meeting will be March 12th at 7:00PM at the Meridian Twp Fire Dept location that we are now using for our monthly Division meetings. Please give some thought to getting involved and join us at this meeting. We will really appreciate your participation and help.This month we will be enjoying another fun clinic that Terry Davis will be presenting. It will again be at Olivet College as it had been in the past and Terry has been working on another great clinic for us to partake in. Please see additional info elsewhere in this Journal.Since we will be travelling all the way to Olivet, and I don’t want us to rush Terry’s presentation or short change the time we will have to work on our project, we decided that for this month it would be best not to have a layout tour. I just don’t think there is enough time to make it work and be fair to all concerned. I have not heard from anyone with any thoughts on what they would like to see us do for our special summer activity this year. So, I am looking at setting up another layout tour down towards the Northville and Livonia area. I will be making contact with the layout owners and come up with a date that will satisfy both them and us. I will give you additional info in the future.In April, we will be holding our monthly event at my place and we will be having at least 2 clinics that all can attend. Bill Neale, MMR will be presenting a clinic that we hope to make “hands on” for everyone to participate in, all about weathering freight cars. For the second clinic, I will be demonstrating scenicking a freight yard area with tracks, ballast, dirt and weeds, etc., using materials and tools that I have discovered through my process of scenicking the Nashville. Those that would like to try applying these various materials will be able to practice. You will see that it is pretty hard to mess these things up to the point that you can’t save them!!Hope to see you all on Saturday.Best, Andy Keeney
Repurposed Cabooses - Rich Mahaney’s Caboose Challenge for the ConventionBuild a diorama, 1’x1’ or so showing a repurposed caboose.
Alongside a restaurant south of Grand Rapids, MI.
Grayling, MI behind the old MC/NYC depot, now a local museum.
Former Wabash caboose at the Eastern Shore Museum, Parksley, VA. Former Nickel Plate Road caboose at the Eastern Shore Museum, Parksley, VA.Repainted and ready for lettering.
Rich Mahaney Photo. Rich Mahaney Photo.
MR Mahaney Photo at an IN railraod museum.In front of the restored depot at Lapeer, MI.
From the Prototype. Grain Elevator Critters. Photos by Rich Mahaney
Photos by the Editor.
Superior, WI taken from the harbour tour boat.
Cleveland, OH 2017
Toledo, OH 2017
The Andersons, Maumee, OH
Various models.
THE CABOOSE PAGE
GTW Caboose in Corunna Park
Division 5 Officers - March 2017 - March 2019
Superintendent -Andy Keeney 517 316 5660
Assistant Superintend - Mark Frechette
Paymaster - Ron St. Laurent
Clerk & Editor - Mark Cowles 517 546 524
Webmaster - Craig Rosenberger
FOR SALEAn NMRA member from the Canton, MI area, Tom Fleming, is moving and has an N scale layout and a large amount of material for sale. The layout is an L shaped, double deck layout, 8’ x 16’, with a western/midwestern theme with an emphasis on coal trains.He has bundles of unused flex trak, and lots of structure kits, most unopened. Also available, roughly 100 railroad books. He is willing to sell items individually.Contact him at 734 397 1914 or at [email protected].
Convention Planning CommitteeMeeting Schedule.
New Location
Meridian Township Fire Department5000 Okemos Rd, OkemosEnter off of Central Park Dr.
Mon. March 12All are welcome and encouraged
to attend and get involved.
We will need lots of Volunteers for the Convention!
Directions to Olivet:
Take I 69 sw from theLansing area.
Take exit 51 for Ainger Rd toward Olivet. Turn left onto Ainger Rd.Continue onto Kalamo St.
Turn right onto N Main St.
Turn left onto Cottage St.