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FRONTIER FLIMSY

The Quarterly Newsletter of the Niagara Frontier Region, NMRA

www.nfr-nmra.org December 2017 Volume 63 No. 4

Waybill Executive Reports Page 3

Division Reports Page 3

Officer Reports Page 7

SLD Record set by Grant Knowles Page 9

Getting Published in the Frontier Flimsy by Richard Sparrow 1

Convention 2018 Page 16

Regional Train Orders Page 18

On the right we see the November 25th WOD make-and-take clinic in London, ON. Eleven members took part in building the DV Ross Laser Kit provided by Imagine That Laser Art.

Below we see 30 members of the SLD working on the Scratch Building A Turnout theme project and various other modelling projects during one of their regular workshop sessions. Related article in this issue.

—The NFR Frontier Flimsy—December 2017

The Niagara Frontier Region NMRA

Frontier Flimsy

December 2017 Volume 63 Number 4 Stanley Conley, Editor

2194 Valley Drive Ottawa, ON K1G 2P8

The Frontier Flimsy is published four times annually by the Niagara Frontier Region of the National Model Railroad Association, Inc. and is distributed openly on the web at www.nfr-nmra.org.

Material for publication is welcome. Send articles, coming events, notices, etc. to the editor. Materials including photographs may be submitted by e-mail. Materials will be credited at the time of publication and will be returned if requested. Articles appearing in the Frontier Flimsy may be reprinted in other non-profit publications providing that credit is given to the author and the Flimsy.

Advertising is accepted in the Frontier Flimsy; please see the region web site for information and rates.

Opinions expressed in the Frontier Flimsy are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of the NMRA, the Region, its officers, or other contributors to the Frontier Flimsy.

Special thanks to the spirit of Diane Dodds for proofreading and nitpicking.

Email notification is coordinated by Richard Sparrow.

The Niagara Frontier Region Flimsy

2194 Valley Drive, Ottawa, ON K1G 2P8

The Niagara Frontier Region Regional Officers

President Richard Hatton 205 Country Lane, Stayner, ON L0M 1S0 705-428-9997, [email protected]

American V.P. Matt Bierl 146 Los Robles Street, Williamsville, NY 1422 16721 716-632-3686, [email protected] Canadian V.P. Tim Warris 312-b St. Patrick Street PO Box 1420, Port Dover, ON N0A 1N0 519-583-1099, [email protected] Secretary Vacant – Tony Kerr Acting Treasurer Tony Kerr

1361 Creekwood Trail, Oakville, ON L6H 6C7 905-338-8881, [email protected]

Division Superintendents

Central Ontario Richard Hatton 705-737-9363 [email protected] International Ron Johnson 905-547-4135 [email protected] Ontario Northland

Trevor Ross 705-983-9602 [email protected]

St. Lawrence Chris Lyon 613-837-8522 [email protected] Western Ontario

Steve Juranics 591-212-9694 [email protected]

Regional Officials

Achievement Program

Peter Nesbitt 613-592-0110 [email protected]

Convention Coordination

Les Radvanyi 416-543-1052 [email protected]

Flimsy Editor Stanley Conley 613-523-8237 [email protected] Flimsy Distribution

Richard Sparrow 905-892-7958 [email protected]

Historian Open Membership/ Registrar

Open

Model Contest Open WebMaster Tim Warris 519-583-1099 [email protected]

The NFR Frontier Flimsy—December 2017—

Niagara Frontier Region Executive Reports President Richard Hatton Here we are summers closing and now it’s time to hit the basement and create. Time to expand, detail operate finish etc. all the things we have on our wish list.

Keep your eye on this Flimsy for updates to the 2018 convention. It is in September and has some old, some new and a new popular vote categories.

This year’s special contest is What happens to a boxcar when it stops being a boxcar. Thousands of retired boxcars lay about all over the country, the challenge here is what can be done with them. The guidelines are in this flimsy. The intent here is to get your creative juices flowing and come up with a unique diorama representing your ides.

This should be a lot of fun I am sure we all have a boxcar that is less than perfect in our collections that we can turn in to something special. Hope to see your creation in Huntsville

The convention will be unique from conventions past as well as a little more Freedom.

Keep your eye on the Flimsy.

This fall we implemented a new membership drive and it seems to be working as we have gathered in new members at every show. Currently we have the offer ending at the end of December, if things keep progressing we may have to extend it. This is an item to be discussed on the next executive call.

As you know it takes the kind act of volunteers to make things happen. We could use more help in the NFR and we have openings in many areas and with the internet today most of these positions can be done on line and discussed in conference calls so we don’t have to travel all over the place to accomplish our tasks, volunteers can do their thing at home in their own time. Yes there

is some deadlines. The more the merrier as many hands make light work.

If you can help us please contact me @ [email protected]

Thanks for your time

See you at the convention

American Vice President Matt Bierl Canadian Vice President Tim Warris Secretary Vacant – Tony Kerr Acting Treasurer Tony Kerr

Niagara Frontier Region Division Reports

Central Ontario Division Superintendent Richard Hatton Well it’s time to head to the basement and create.

As most of you know I moved 5 years ago and have been working on the house and finally getting a chance to work on my Layout. Bench work is done 75% track is in and I’m looking forward to getting the mainline done very soon.

All the switches will be scratch built some using a fast track jig, some hand laid some a combination of both. Unfortunately in my haste the first few switch I built I tried for speed and now regret it as I have had to repair many of what I built in haste. Oh well live and learn and learn I did. Thanks to all who have helped me along the way. Once the main line is done I will be holding an open hose to show what I have so far and what I intend to build. I am hoping


for some input that will help improve what I am doing. Given the time of year this will happen in early January. Keep an eye on your email.

As many of you may have heard we are holding an open workshop at Lee valley. This is a place to bring your project and spend a day with friends modeling and helping each other should we be having any issues. The facility is great and they like having us there. There was a few of us even spent a day on the show room floor in a modelers corner set up and answered many questions about the hobby.

We have been approached by Lee Valley to consider putting on an introduction to model railroading in their Seminar room. We are working on this now as we will be dealing with people with a high skill level so we will have to take that into account when developing the clinic.

So should be fun once we start getting more requests than we have space for we will start expanding it throughout the COD.

The next Seminars we have booked are February 25 and May 6 2018. If you are interested contact me at [email protected]

There is so much more we can accomplish in the COD but I could really use some Volunteers to help organize events like this throughout the COD.

You know how to reach me.

See you at a train show near you

International Division Superintendent Ron Johnson This fall's activities reflect an increasing number of events organized by the International Division in different formats. The division is trying to utilize a variety of locations throughout the division so that members can limit their travel.

On Saturday, September 9th, 2017, a group of avid railfans gathered at the Laking Gardens Footbridge overlooking Bayview

Junction. Unfortunately, our friends at Canadian National provided only two trains. The scanner revealed a unit had blown a fuse (I'm not known for my technical knowledge) and a supervisor was coaching the onboard crew on replacement.

The group adjourned to an open house at the nearby location of the Burlington Model Railroad Club where trains on a smaller scale were much in evidence as well as a barbecue lunch. As soon as we left the bridge the bottleneck was cleared and 4 trains appeared in rapid succession, but still visible from the Burlington Club's location

On Saturday, October 21st, 2017 the division's Fall Meet was held in Mississauga.

Three clinics were presented, the first on scratch building structures by Dave Paterson who certainly demonstrated why he deserved his MMR. Among his recent projects was an HO scale TH&B ferry which, in real life, crossed Lake Erie. This impressive achievement is 4 real feet long! Oddly, Dave's own layout is based on the Pennsylvania RR.

Al Welch's presentation on Sprucing up a Brass Steam Locomotive was so good he has compiled a PowerPoint presentation which is available to readers of this publication. James Whatley's detailed photos make this topic come alive. For a copy, send an email to our address [email protected] and use the word PowerPoint in your subject line.


Dave Howard then provided a Slide presentation of Steam in Southern Ontario. If there are any deficits in this older technology, the historical data certainly compensated. Hard to believe the many steam excursions Dave captured pounded the rails a half century ago.

The ID elections returned basically the same highly experienced and dedicated slate of officers. The only exception was the untimely retirement of Richard Sparrow who was completing nine years as Superintendent, including heading the Grapevine Express conference. Richard's leadership was active, thoughtful, and knowledgeable. Ron Johnson was elected to fill his shoes.

The latest of a series of Modeling days was held November 25th at Smithville's carefully restored T.H.&B. station which was moved off Canadian Pacific property by the local historical society, but still only a few feet from the main line. This building is definitely worth a visit, but the present occupants (the local Chamber of Commerce and Archives) are only open a few days a week.

The next modeling day will take place February 10 at a private home in the Niagara-On-The-Lake area. Space allows only 10 participants, so anyone interested should register with us at [email protected] utilizing the subject heading of "modeling day". A certain number of power tools will be available.

St. Lawrence Division Superintendent Chris Lyon Well we are into the fall and the modelling juices are starting to flow. We had a very successful SLD gathering with a super turn out. We had clinics about Fast Tracks track systems and Arduinos. A church group was making apple pies in the back of the meeting room while we learned about raspberry pi 3 in the front.

The display table was bristling with projects in all scales from scratch built signals in N to a caboose in 1 Gauge. Fine Scale Structures, Reefer rolling Stock, custom made locomotive parts and track-laying tools with jigs were only some of the many items out for everyone to see.

The afternoon was bathed in a bright sunny fall light as we visited and operated Fred Mill’s Large Scale Model Railroad in the back yard. It was a very big eye opener for those who could never have imagined the details and operations potential of outdoor

railroading. Folks ran radio-controlled locomotives moving from town to town doing their lifts and drops using a switch list. Yes they had to walk to their turnouts and manually throw their switches.

We are really looking forward to seeing SLD members attend the summer Saturday morning ops sessions at Fred’s. This was just a quick look at the great fun large scale offers. It really can be addictive.


I am so glad to see that the NFR is moving forward with the convention for 2018. Looks like we will be all gathering for the Portage Flyer in the Muskoka’s in late September. This convention may turn out to be one of our best as the location and plans have great potential. Start thinking about clinics, contests railfanning and an opportunity to socialize with fellow modellers.

Ontario Northland Division Superintendent Trevor Ross Members of the Sudbury Railway Modelers helped to supervise the model railroad layout at the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Center during the 2017 season. Many museum visitors were introduced to the model railroading hobby during their visit. The Sudbury Railway Modelers meet monthly at the museum. The next meeting is scheduled for January 17. If you would like to be added to the communication distribution list just send me an e-mail [email protected]. This winter’s project will be the construction of a portable HO layout (approximately 8'x4'). This will provide an opportunity for many individuals to learn new model railroading skills. Additional clinics (e.g. programming DCC decoders) are also planned. Everyone is welcome. The web page is at www.sudburymodelrailroading.com Western Ontario Division Superintendent Steve Juranics The Model Railroading season is back in full swing in Southwestern Ontario. We’re very fortunate in this area to have so many flea markets and train shows almost every week-end. The WOD sets up our Booth and organizes a Modeller’s Corner at most of the shows. It’s a great opportunity to interact with the model railroading community and occasionally recruit a new member.

On October 21st the WOD held a day of clinics and followed with our AGM. Graham McDonald made an excellent presentation on the life of his layout. From conception, through the building stages

and now to its removal and re-assembly at a museum in Parry Sound.

I (Steve Juranics) did an impromptu presentation on the disassembly of my Muskoka Central layout, and preparation for the re-assembly in our new house (presently under construction).

On November 25th the WOD held a make-and-take clinic in London, ON. Eleven members took part in building the DV Ross Laser Kit provided by Imagine That Laser Art. Steve Juranics lead the group in painting the model prior to starting assembly. Nick Masney and his design engineer Dave from ITLA were in attendance to show us the full line of their kits and assist in the construction process. All the attendees had some great looking partially finished models at the end of our 4 hour session. The beauty of the ITLA kits is that everyone can make them look different, but they go together so easily, it’s not hard for even a novice to assemble a great looking model.

Following the clinic there were three local layouts open for viewing. Thanks to John Kanakos, Larry Porter and Don Wesley for opening their layouts to clinic attendees.

Our next big event will be the Paris Train Show, which is organized by the WOD. It is scheduled for January 21st, 2018 at the Paris


Fairgrounds. The local Girl Scouts run the concessions and the Boy Scouts help with the set-up and removal of the tables.

Niagara Frontier Region Officer Reports Achievement Program Chairman Peter Nesbitt

I’m pleased to say that since my last report the following AP certificate has been earned. Steve Juranics Scenery Congratulations Steve on your fine achievement. I am scheduled for some surgery in mid-November and if it goes ahead as planned, I may not be responding to AP questions or submissions in as timely manner as I have in the past. It is possible that things sent to me by email may get overlooked just based on the volume of other emails that may accumulate. If you don't get a response after a couple of weeks, feel free to resend it. We are in the prime modelling season now and I do hope that there is more AP activity than I have seen in the past few months. Getting involved in the program is a great way to improve your modelling skills and to give back to the hobby. Don't be put off by the requirement for paperwork. Either myself or your Division AP Chair will be happy to help you with the process, and it is not as complicated as it may appear from reading the requirements.


Another SLD Record Set! By Grant Knowles MMR

The SLD set a new attendance record at the October 28th KitBusters workshop - there were 30 energized participants! From humble beginnings where KitBuster's attendance could be counted on a single hand, it has progressed to a very popular forum often commanding 20 plus attendees.

The October workshop was focused on learning how to scratch build turnouts. After a short clinic on the day's events and a review of the building sequence, participants proceeded to prepare their rails for the turnouts which entailed filing the rails for the frogs, points & stock rails. This provided the opportunity to learn how to use the jigs, understand the parts of the turnouts and how to file, the latter of which was new to many folks. Fortunately we had a number of these jigs floating around so the wait time wasn't too long. After the rails were prepared, assembly could commence. PCB ties were cut to length then inserted in the turnout jig, then the stock rails were positioned and soldered in place followed by the point rails and frog. The guard rails were the last thing to add. Of course I've over simplified the process as there were numerous things to pay attention to while all this was taking place.

Fred is busy guiding David through the process of assembling the frog rails.

Kevin is using the NMRA Track Gauge to demonstrate the turnout assembled by Chris is bang right on. Chris was all smiles when he ran a railway truck through with no derailments!


At the end of the day, there were at least 6 completed turnouts and some very proud modellers! From what I saw, folks were catching on very quickly to building turnouts and the finished product performed flawlessly. We'll repeat the same format at the future KitBusters Workshops giving people ample opportunity to complete both of their turnouts.

I'd like to thank our helpers: Fred Adams, Kevin Kelly, Steve Watson & Jim McSherry for providing their coaching and encouragement to those building turnouts for the first time.

If you haven't already, I strongly encourage participants to watch the Fast Tracks videos (https://www.handlaidtrack.com/building-turnouts-video-series) as these provide excellent information regarding the use of the jigs and building the turnouts. Now that you have experienced the process first hand, the videos will make more sense to you now.

I'm looking forward to the January workshop where more turnouts will be completed.

Alex & Felicity worked together to assemble an S scale turnout. Though Alex had not completed his turnout by the end of the day, he was very pleased with his progress and how well everything was coming together.


Getting Published in the Niagara Frontier Flimsy by Richard Sparrow

We know that one of the major challenges for many hobby newsletter editors is to pry enough material out of the members to fill the space for each issue.

By showing that you don’t need dedicated publishing software, or special cameras and photo lighting equipment to get an article published in our NFR newsletter, this article is intended to help with that challenge by getting more NFR members to contribute articles to the Flimsy.

By doing this, each edition will provide a longer read for all of us, and Stan Conley, the Flimsy editor, will have a few less pages to worry about filling!

I am pretty sure that if you contact your Divisional newsletter editor and ask him or her if you can submit an article, they too will be happy to accommodate you.

Also, if you are participating in the NMRA Achievement Program, you are missing a “gimme” if you are not working on, or have already attained the Author certificate.

There have been several articles written in the professional model press, explaining how to create and submit articles for publication in these national magazines. The following notes are not intended to cover this subject.

So, how do you go about submitting an article for publication in the Flimsy, or your Divisional newsletter?

First, you need to decide on a subject,

It will be easier to write about if it is one that you are quite familiar with. Also, one that hasn’t been “done” lately, and that you think will be of interest to other model railroaders.

Good candidates will probably be found in the modeling projects you have recently been working on. For example, a helpful trick that you developed for shortening the time required, or improving the result of a particular modeling process or task. Maybe you designed a special jig or technique to help with the construction or installation of a component on your layout. Or a piece of prototype research you have been working on may have yielded some hard-to-find information that could really help other modellers.

Once you have selected the subject, the next thing is to get the text written.

Most word processing software will work, but if the one you use is a bit obscure, just check with the editor to make sure they can work with that file type. This article is written using Microsoft Word.

It may help to just jot down the major points that you want to include, and then put them in the order in which you want to tell the story. During this process, you may think of things you want to say that you might have forgotten if you just go straight “off the cuff”

With the list of major points prepared, start writing down the story. For these types of articles a conversational style works well. Write it down just as you would tell the story if you were sitting around in the lounge after an operating session at one of your Round Robin groups’ layouts.

If it makes sense to add photos or drawings to your story, that will be the next item on the agenda.

Now, there is a bit of a catch in this one, because if the subject involves the construction of a structure, or some aspect of building your layout that is already completed, you will have to have taken photographs during the construction process. In some cases you may be able to go back and “re-stage” the photographs, but doing it during the process will be much easier – so, plan ahead! Having a photographic record of how you did various layout building


tasks is never a bad thing anyway, and can come in handy when you need to do maintenance or revamp something in the future.

Photos taken with a standard point and shoot camera, smart phone or tablet will be fine for including in your article. The photo below was taken with a tablet, which I balanced unattached on top of the tripod and held as steady as I could while my wife pressed the button. (I wonder if tripod adapters are available for tablets and smart phones?) The Canon and smart phone shown below were used for the other photos in the article. The Panasonic, (silver) has been used for previous articles that have been published in the Flimsy.

Here are some notes on taking photos that I have found helpful in the past. I am by no means an expert on photography, and putting some time into learning more about it, and the capabilities of my cameras would probably improve the results significantly. It’s on my list!

(The photos used in the rest of the article show an HO flat car load (Walthers combined harvester) mounted onto a false deck (car siding) so that it can be off-loaded and re-loaded easily during operations. The packing cases contain ¼” diameter magnets to hold the load to the steel weight that is right under the floor of the Athearn “blue box” flat car).

If you are taking overhead shots, or shots of low items, you can usually get the subject into the frame without including the surrounding clutter just by arranging the subjects on a table top, on a cutting mat in this case.

The photo above shows the set-up for taking such a photo. Use a tripod where possible, and also the delay timer on the camera if it has one, so that if the camera moves when pressing the shutter button it doesn’t affect the photo.

Below is the resulting photo of this set-up.


Note that having the camera mounted high in order to eliminate any area outside the mat, we don’t get much detail of the side of the flat car. If we lowered the camera to get more side detail, it would be more difficult to keep the shot entirely on the cutting mat. The next photo shows one way to get a lower shot to show more of the flat car, without including outside clutter.

A sheet of dollar store craft cardboard has been set up on the work bench by taping it to the paint rack at the back, and to the cutting mat at the front to form a “no seam” backdrop. Use a colour that doesn’t clash with the subject, and that has enough contrast to enable the subject to be seen clearly. I used white to begin with on this project, but the camera, operating in automatic mode, compensated for the light reflection off the white cardboard by cutting down on the exposure time. The resulting photo was much too dark. The sheet of cardboard being used here is actually black, but the lighting in the room makes it appear a mid grey colour, and also places a couple of areas of “glare” on the sheet that by accident make the resulting photo (below) appear a bit more interesting. In this case the glare was a bit too much, and I had to darken the photo a little. By just double clicking on the photo in its jpeg format, it opened in a photo editing program that came with my laptop, and it was very straightforward to make the print darker. The background still retains the graduated grey colouring.


If you have large items to photograph like this, some camera stores and on-line suppliers carry the cardboard in rolls up to about 10 foot wide and in a variety of colours. Check on-line for “no seam photo background” to see the range of options.

The lighting used in all the photos in this article is simply the room lighting, which is one 4 foot, two tube fixture with soft white fluorescent tubes. The fixture is about 5 feet above the bench surface. It seems to reproduce the colours fairly well. I have used additional lighting from a resident desk lamp in the past, with a curly fluorescent white light, but in some cases it produces a yellow hue. Editor’s note: see sidebar on white balance.

One of the great things about digital photography is that is doesn’t cost anything except a little time to experiment with effects like lighting.

If you need to reproduce a drawing or sketch to illustrate your article, just scan, or take a photo of your original. The photo below

shows a sketch that I made to calculate the dimensions and spacing of louvre slats used in a steel plant structure.

Using a tripod, the camera was centered vertically above the drawing so as to minimise distortion, and using the delay timer produced a good clear image.

Once you have all the photos and illustration files needed for the article, saving them all to a new separate folder that has the title of the article will help when putting the article together. If they need to be edited at all, it can be done from this folder where they are still in jpeg format. Then copy and paste them directly from there into the document as you are writing, and adjust the size as necessary.

The last task in the process is to proof read your work. Proof reading isn’t like reading a book where you tend to read groups of


words. To proof read thoroughly, you need to actually read each word. You may be surprised how many mistakes you find in the first go through. Don’t rely on the spell check in your software – it won’t always find words that are spelled correctly but are misused or are in the wrong place. For example, spell check may pass over “to much” when it should be changed to “too much”

So summing up, if you are like most modellers, you have a wealth of experience from the time you have put into the hobby and the many projects you have successfully completed during your model railroad career. You have developed all kinds of skills and techniques that will be of interest and benefit to other modellers. So take the plunge and share some of that experience by writing an article. It is just one more way to gain satisfaction from this great hobby.

Play safe, and we’ll see you in the Flimsy!

Correcting colour cast issues in photographs

By Stanley Conley

Although our modern digital cameras can do amazing things and automatically make all manner of decisions and corrections that yield wonderful images with little input from the user, they still can be fooled easily by simple colour issues. By default many cameras automatically adjust overall the colour in an image based on an educated guess as to the likely colour of the incident light. The most common example is a camera that assumes it is outside in sunlight but is actually indoors in florescent lighting so the image looks green.

This is a colour cast issue. There are two solutions to this problem, adjust the camera, or post process the image.

In the first instance, many cameras can be adjusted for ambient light, daylight, shadow, florescent, incandescent are typical settings. Some cameras have that ability to capture a custom ‘white balance’ setting, usually by pointing the camera at a white

or neutral grey card or object and following some procedure to remember the adjustment values. Photos taken subsequently will be adjusted to reflect those values. If you do this at the beginning of a session all photos taken in the same incident light will be custom corrected as you take them.

The post processing method will depend on your software, but usually in the edit mode there will be a method to select an area of the image that is supposed to be white or neutral grey and then the software will apply that difference to the entire image, correcting any colour cast in the image.

The following two photos are lifted from Richard’s article and post processed, in the first the lettering on the flat car was the assumed white area, this results in a greyer flatcar, and wooden deck, losing the yellow beige tone of the original, but it also brought out a blue

tone in the background black paper. In the second photo it was easy, I assumed the pad was white paper, and the software made it so.


"Touch the Past, Embrace the Future!" Join us September 28th, 20th and 30th, 2018 in the Town of Huntsville, first incorporated in 1886 when the railway arrived. Located 215 km from Toronto, 130 km from North Bay and 350 km from Ottawa, enjoy the scenic drive through the fall colours of Muskoka as you come to the NMRA - NFR Annual Convention. This year’s event takes place in the Active Living Centre right beside the Muskoka Heritage Place - Pioneer Village, Museums & the Portage Flyer Steam train. Downtown Huntsville is only a 10 minute walk

Along with the traditional judged contests, clinics and banquet, watch for emerging details on a new format.

This year will include a special themed contest “What Happens to a Boxcar when it quits being a Boxcar”.

Make plans now to attend and start work on your Boxcar Challenge diorama.

Volunteers make this happen, please give us a little of your time, contact Les Radvanyi, Convention Co-coordinator, [email protected].


Boxcar Challenge What happens to a boxcar when it quits being a boxcar?

This year the convention wants you to open your imagination and create something unique.

This will be a popular vote challenge. We want to make it easy and fun so 2 simple rules

1. Size matters, Diorama maximum size a. O scale,=20” X 12 “ b. HO scale=10” X 6” c. N Scale=5” X 3”

2. The boxcar must be recognizable. It can be all beat up weathered but must be identifiable. No furniture using boxcar boards and pieces

Is it a Diner, a tiny house, a bridge, something else?

So break out your thinking caps and show us your creativity

Examples


Regional Train Orders January 17, 2018. Capreol, ON. The Sudbury Railway Modelers meet. Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Center. Info: [email protected], or www.sudburymodelrailroading.com January 20, 2018. Ottawa, ON. SLD Meet. Emmanuel United Church, 691 Smyth Road. Doors open at 9:00am. Info sld-nmra.ca January 21, 2018. Paris. ON. 2018 Paris Junction Model Train Show. Paris Fairgrounds 139 Silver Street. Sunday 10:00am to 3:00pm.Info: Edward Howes 519-442-7193 or [email protected].

February 10, 2018. Niagara-On-The_Lake, ON. Modeling day. Space allows only 10 participants as this will be hosted at a private home, so anyone interested should register with us at [email protected] utilizing the subject heading of "modeling day". February 24, 2018. Ottawa, ON. SLD Workshop. Emmanuel United Church, 691 Smyth Road. Doors open at 9:00am. Info sld-nmra.ca February 26, 2018. Vaughan, ON. COD Modeling Day. Lee Valley Tools at approximately 400 and Langstaff Ave. March 24, 2018. Ottawa, ON. SLD Meet. Emmanuel United Church, 691 Smyth Road. Doors open at 9:00am. Info sld-nmra.ca April 28, 2018. Ottawa, ON. SLD Workshop. Emmanuel United Church, 691 Smyth Road. Doors open at 9:00am. Info sld-nmra.ca May 6, 2018. Vaughan, ON. COD Modeling Day. Lee Valley Tools at approximately 400 and Langstaff Ave. May 26, 2018. Ottawa, ON. SLD Meet. Location TBD. Info sld-nmra.ca September 28-30, 2018. Huntsville, ON. NFR 2018 Convention. The Portage Flyer. Info to be announced.

The next generation of model rail enthusiast looks on with awe at the Paris Junction Model Train Show in 2017.

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