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Editors: John Hansen & Ted Wiese RAILINGS
from the KING SNIPE Bill
Logan wrlogan@msn.com 2003
Midwest Narrow Gauge Wrap-up Three
Mini-Bunch members in the Cleveland area
- John Chlebowski, Nat Howard, and John Hansen – opened their
railroads for viewing. Great work fellows! For those who managed,
presented clinics, displayed and sold modeling supplies and literature,
opened their railroads, as well as attended – my kudos.
Views along the OR&W – The Journey of Bell #11 - Bill's latest article about Ohio River and Western locomotive #11 and how the bell came to be part of a home on the National Registry of Historic Places. Gn3 Tracks Next
Meeting - Columbus, Ohio Remember
that a new King Snipe will be elected at the meeting WRLogan *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Discussion
at Spring Meeting Jim
Ruisinger and Doc and Butch Sage will be co-ordinating the fall meet in
Columbus. Jim is also gathering information on the cost of having shirts
and other garb embroidered with the Mini-Bunch logo. He will have
information at the Fall meet. Although
many members will probably return to the Greenford meet next April, the
group also voted to organize a separate spring meet. Possibly this will
be at Cass, WV. The
layout tour on Sunday after the meeting was a moderate success.
John, Nat and John each had between 15 and 22 people visiting
their layouts. Bruce Bowie took photos of their layouts. He has posted
them on his photo site: http://photos.yahoo.com/in2trains@sbcglobal.net
The photos are in separate folders for each of the railroads.
Fall Mini-Bunch Meeting October 4 and 5, 2003 Jim
Ruisinger
sent in the following information: However, I have
secured a new location that will suit our purpose very nicely. In fact, a bit nicer than our original choice.
The new location is Lane Avenue Baptist Church.
It's located, you guessed it, on Lane Avenue right across from
the Lane Avenue Shopping Center. It
is easily accessible from the east via SR 315 and from the west via US
33/Fishinger Rd, which is a stone's throw from I-270 on the west side of
town. We will have one
large room for our clinics and evening program.
There will be two partitioned-off rooms for displays and vendors
and two classrooms for contests. Additionally, we CAN stage our cook-out as we had
originally planned. We also
have use of a smaller room off their kitchen for coffee, donuts and our evening
meal as well as limited use of their kitchen facilities. We can gain access at 9 a.m. and should be wrapped up by
9 p.m. or shortly there after. Now the little downside.... the
cost is $200. Primarily due
to the fact that their cleaning crew normally is in there on Saturday
afternoons and they would have to pay them extra to come in long
after hours to clean up. It's
been hinted that a portion of this (maybe $50) might be kicked back
to us if we don't turn the place into a shambles and do things like put
away/ stack up chairs and tables and stuff and generally clean up
after ourselves. There are also some additional things like
no smoking or alcohol in the building. Doc Sage is working on our clinic program and Butch Sage putting
together a meal plan with associated costs.
Once that is done, we can get the info out to everyone. The dates
remain unchanged. October 4 and 5. From
the Editor An interesting sidelight: I guess railroading - model and full-size - has a greater level of obsession over there. I was in a regular supermarket and the magazine rack had 16! different magazines devoted to model and full-size trains. (Only MR was from the US) Fritz Prosch is gathering a complete set of the
Mini-Bunch newsletters for a historical file. His files do not include
all of the newsletters for the past five years. Can you help him
complete the file? Maybe
you can bring any that you have to the fall meet. In reviewing Dale Brown’s files about two months
ago, I came across an interesting document. It turns out that we are a
‘legal’ organization and that we have bylaws! (Comment was made at
the spring meeting that we have “no rules.”) Not True!!!
We filed with the
Secretary of State of Ohio in early 1980’s. Presumably this was done
in conjunction with the 1985 National Narrow Gauge meet that was held in
Columbus. By the way, the bylaws state that our leader is to be elected
at the spring meeting in odd numbered years.
My railroad is progressing. Due to the pressure of a
NMRA Div 5 layout tour in May, there is some scenery to help keep the
trains off the floor. Two photos are on the cover of the newsletter.
More photos showing construction progress on the layout can be seen on a
photo site: http://photos.yahoo.com/ngtrains455 and select the San
Juan Southern folder.
The open house was really a disaster from the
stand-point of railroad operation. The day started with three operating
locomotives. After four hours operation, there were none functioning.
Now, why does a loco-motive develop a short circuit while operating? It
rained all day, and about three hours into the open house, the lights
flickered a bit. Power never went completely off, but DCC must be more
sensitive. My last locomotive kept getting slower and slower. Even after
taking off all the cars, it kept slowing down.
Is there a way to make a railroad run as well at an
open house as it does when there are no visitors? Photos from
the spring meet and layout tour
Some
impressive G scale models at Greenford
Close-up
of Don Smith’s On3 Shay. Don described how he converted Doc Sage’s
layout
Doc Sage's HOn3 D&RGW - Doc's HOn3 layout is based on the D&RGW. This smooth running HOn3 layout will be on tour for the Fall 2003 Mini-Bunch meet, Oct 4&5 2003. Follow the link to see how it looked in the summer of 2003. Notes from
Bob Richardson Changing
Position of the Third Rail From
Around the Narrow Gauge World The
Colorado Railroad Museum reports that C-19 #346 will be shipped to the
Strasburg shops in PA to rebuild the boiler and work on the running
gear. Cost is about $185,000 plus shipping costs. The
Cumbres and Toltec line is operating four days per week. The full line
is run - Chama to Antonito and then back the next day. Buses are used to
ferry passengers back to their starting point. Only 487 is currently
operating. They
are sponsoring Chama Steam II in late October. This will include freight
and passenger trains, photo opportunities, etc. Cost is $500 and limited
to 65 participants. Not
narrow gauge, but the Ohio Central running from Sugar Creek has
discontinued passenger runs. Name Badges
available Some members have never received a name badge since they were not
available for a number of years. Others have lost theirs. Jim Eakin has
a vendor who can make badges. So send $10 to Ted, and we will have a new
badge for you by the next meeting. (Tell us how to spell the name too - nickname
- or whatever.) Mini-Bunch Newsletter on Internet Thanks to David Keith, our webmaster, we have the
chance to see the photos in color. We will send each newsletter to David
for posting. Generally, there will be additional photos that we do not
have room for in the newsletter. If you send your email address to Ted, it will be added to the address
book, and you will be notified when the newsletter is available on the
Internet. Notes from
the Editors John
and Te HELP
NEEDED!!!! We
plan to send out 4 newsletters per year. We are looking for articles on
modelbuilding and prototype that will be of interest for the members.
John and I have a special interest in Western narrow gauge. Would anyone
like to try their hand at preparing a column on logging or Eastern
narrow gauge? LAST COPY
????? If
your label has “last copy” written on it, then we would appreciate
your sending $8.00 to Ted for the next 2 years. Your subscription lasts
for 8 issues following your payment of $8 or following your registering
at a meeting. Please
note that you must register at each meeting to be marked ‘present.’
Registration includes payment of the registration fee which will be set
for each meeting.
arties Responsible for this Newsletter
To find more narrow gauge links, go to the Mini-Bunch
Links page Chama Steam II in 2003
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