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Central Coast Railroad Festival (Calif.) - Show Your Railroad The Central Coast Railroad Festival returns this year to San Luis Obispo and northern San Barbara Counties on October 4-6, 2019 (Friday-Sunday). As in past years I will organize a tour of model railroads and garden railroads in the above areas. Last year we had thirty-two railroads on the tour and we already have close to twenty for this year. But more railroads always are welcome. If you have an operating railroad I would like you to consider participating in the tour. Participating in a layout tour is a great way to share your work and meet your fellow model and garden railroaders. You’ve probably worked hard on your railroad so you might as well get some recognition from people who will appreciate your efforts. We are only asking railroad owners to be open for four or more hours on just one day. Additional days and hours are at the owner’s option, including "early bird" showings on Thursday, October 3. And we are asking owners in Santa Maria and areas south of Santa Maria to be open only on Sunday, if convenient for them. All you need to do is operate your trains. I will do all the planning and publicity, as I have done for fifty-nine previously tours since 2006, including eight previous tours for the Central Coast Railroad Festival. This tour will be a free, self-guided tour. No buses will be used. If you have any questions before committing to the tour, please ask. In any event, please contact me OFF LIST in the next several weeks if you are interested so we can add your railroad to the tour. Once you have been added to the tour I will contact you later this month to set your days and hours. Thank you. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA Moderator - Model Railroads of Southern California Layout Tour Coordinator - 2019 Central Coast RR Festival E-Mail: chiefbobbb@... [chiefbobbb AT verizon DOT net] Festival Website: http://www.ccrrf.com/ Photos From 2018 Tour: http://www.ccrrf.com/1810xx-MRSC-Layout-Tour-photos-Chaparro.html

Just in case there are, like me, members of this list who are not on Facebook, there will be a small layout meet on July 13th, at the Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation 14 inch gauge railroad site, 12505 C.R. 99, Findlay, Ohio, 45840. Setup is at 9 am. Meet is from 10 am to 4 pm in the NWORRP enginehouse. Jeff S..

The Central Coast Railroad Festival returns this year to San Luis Obispo and northern San Barbara Counties on October 4-6, 2019 (Friday-Sunday). As in past years I will organize a tour of model railroads and garden railroads in the above areas. Last year we had thirty-two railroads on the tour. If you have an operating railroad (Even a small one) I would like you to consider participating in the tour. Participating in a layout tour is a great way to share your work and meet your fellow model and garden railroaders. You’ve probably worked hard on your railroad so you might as well get some recognition from people who will appreciate your efforts. We are only asking railroad owners to be open for four or more hours on just one day. Additional days and hours are at the owner’s option, including "early bird" showings on Thursday, October 3. And we are asking owners in Santa Maria and areas south of Santa Maria to be open only on Sunday, if convenient for them. All you need to do is operate your trains. I will do all the planning and publicity, as I have done for fifty-nine previously tours since 2006, including eight previous tours for the Central Coast Railroad Festival. This tour will be a free, self-guided tour. No buses will be used. If you have any questions before committing to the tour, please ask. In any event, please contact me OFF LIST in the next several weeks if you are interested so we can add your railroad to the tour. Once you have been added to the tour I will contact you in August to set your days and hours. Thank you. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA Moderator - Model Railroads of Southern California Layout Tour Coordinator - 2019 Central Coast RR Festival E-Mail: chiefbobbb@... [chiefbobbb AT verizon DOT net] Festival Website: http://www.ccrrf.com/ Photos From 2018 Tour: http://www.ccrrf.com/1810xx-MRSC-Layout-Tour-photos-Chaparro.html

I welcome Darryl Huffman and Chris to the Moderating Team. Hopefully you will never hear from them again as this groups is well behaved. Thanks fro helping out guys. -- Bruce Wilson Barrie, Ontario Life Member NMRA Member Gauge 0 Guild Member Scale 7 Group Member 7mm NGA Member Bird Studies Canada Member Ontario Bird Banding Association

I am looking for a couple of volunteers to help out with moderating this group. The duties would consist of approving new members and moderating posts as needed, not an onerous task. If you are interested contact me at [email protected] Thanks -- Bruce Wilson Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Getting back into the hobby and catching up on which of my Yahoo groups made the moved to io. Also, just noticed the Ness Street Yard track plan on the homepage, it was always a plan I wanted to try. Take care. Paul Pearson Denver, Colorado

Model Railroads of Southern California's 59th layout tour will be Saturday, February 23, in the area between and including San Bernardino and Barstow. Other major towns in that area are Adelanto, Apple Valley, Hesperia and Victorville. This is the same day the Roundhouse Gang will have its swap meet in San Bernardino so layout visitors can shop and the swap meet and then head north to the layouts. If you have an operating model or garden railroad, live in the tour area and are interested in participating, please contact me OFF LIST at: chiefbobbb@... [chiefbobbb AT verizon DOT net] Thanks. Bob Chaparro Moderator Model Railroads of Southern California /g/ModelRailroadsofSoCalif

This is a link to an nine minute video of Shotgun Tom Kelly's HO Layout, courtesy of Tom Cataldo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDq3zp56Xkk The music and special scenic effects in the video, produced by Jhani Kaye, are a cut above the typical home layout video. At the seven minute mark the video shows the time lapse construction of the layout. Those of you in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas may recognize Tom Kelly as a local radio personality. His father was an Engineer for Santa Fe and actually ran three locomotives represented by models in this video. The suspended layout descends from the ceiling and rests on a pool table when in use. It was built by Lloyd & Betsy Kluesner of Lloyd's Layouts in Paramount, CA. Shotgun has been honored for his work in broadcasting with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, plus 2 Emmy Awards for his work as a television host. He makes his home in San Diego, is heard weekdays on SiriusXM radio's "60's on 6," and is currently President of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters. Bob Chaparro Moderator Model Railroads of Southern California /g/ModelRailroadsofSoCalif

Small layouts need small buildings. I'm sure most on this group are familiar with the small cast metal buildings that Woodland Scenics has produced for years. I'm looking for similar size HO scale buildings in metal, wood or resin. I cannot remember manufacturer names from years ago that I can search online for. Something "Timber" comes to mind. Can anyone recommend SMALL (not even Campbell kits size) building kits in HO Scale? Dave

Hi, ScaleScenes are a British company producing card model railway kits for buildings and structures at various scales. They are mainly British scene but some of their industrial buildings would not look out of place anywhere. Recently they brought out a complete kit for an industrial layout to fit inside a boxfile: https://scalescenes.com/product/ly01-industrial-boxfile-layout/ I thought this may be of interest to the Small Layout Group. I am not connected to the company, but I have bought and used some of their products on my layout Jenswell. Regards, Chris Nicole

Short notice but I wanted to alert anyone in the northern Indiana/Southern Michigan area of a Small Layout Presentation at the Michiana Division NMRA monthly meeting this Saturday in South Bend, Indiana. You do not need to be an NMRA member to attend. If you have a micro or a portable small layout, they would love to have you bring it with you. Jason Cook +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Members and non-members, We will have TWO presentations at our meeting at noon EDT this Saturday, October 27, 2018 at the German Township Library. Address: 52807 Lynnewood Ave, South Bend, IN 46628 Phone: (574) 271-5144. 1. Prototype: Ron Christensen, MMR, will explain railroad braking systems. 2. Model: Ben Brubaker will present the development of his Inglenook switching layout....and the layout will be at the library. Looking forward to seeing everyone Saturday.....and please bring someone with you who has never been to one of our meetings before. If you have an Inglenook or micro layout that is portable, please bring it for added discussion. Someone, I can't remember who, had a micro layout about 10" x 20" at one of our meetings at the library in Chesterton a couple of years ago. We'd like to see that layout again. Neal Thomas, Secretary, NMRA Michiana Division Elkhart, IN cell 313-506-5985

Hello group - I may have missed this as an answer to the question at hand, but to me a "small layout" is just that - a small layout. Not a module (though some of these may be operated as independent layouts in the smaller scales such as N or Z). To me a small layout is a permanent structure occupying no more than a small bedroom such as shelf layouts that are 2' deep and which run around the walls of the room, or a physically small layout (hence the name) such as the Oklahoma and Western (4' x 7'). Just my two Lincolns. Mike Calo Odenton MD (the town a railroad built)

Gentleman , I am in need of an instruction sheet (s) for a Keystone Shay with a NWSL power kit. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance , Larry Kean (grumpy55)