This is the first time we have hooked together tables built by different people. Modules from three people were built separately and brought together. Other than repairing wiring that was pulled loose in transit, there were no operational problems. The specifications worked!

We took a short video. You can see hints that this isn’t your grandmother’s oval:

We ran some 40 car trains; the North guys showed their module loop. Robert woke everyone up with his booming sound system that has some nice possibilities.
We had two guests. Bruce, an HO modeler from Shasta area. And we had Mitch from Loomis who I think is going to be our newest member. He took home a few S scale boxes. There were four first time visitors to my layout – Bruce, Evan, Mitch and Robert.
Nine of us had dinner afterwards at the Waterloo Restaurant just down the road. Ribs and pasta, beer and pie a la mode. What is better than that?

The club met at Jim Sweeney’s home to inspect the new helix. This was installed to reduce the grade to get from the lower to the upper level in the next room. Looks like the inspectors are on the brink of approving the helix.

We also discussed our new modular layout. There was one table completed to the point of some track installed. Too bad somebody forgot to bring the legs so we had to look at it on the floor. We ironed out some more specifications, which are being refined as we begin to build the modules.

Other topics for the day: O/S West in May (increasing our involvement) and a possible new car to be produced by the BASS group for S Scale.

A small group met at Michael Eldridge’s place to continue to hash out our new module standards. Michael had built a sample module, shown here, and a lot of discussion generated some changes. There is still a lot to be decided, but most of the basics of table construction are now in place.

We just returned from a great couple of days and nights in the beautiful Mount Shasta area. Our thanks go to our three hosts, John Rolston, Dave Scott, and Bill Young. Their enthusiasm, thorough preparations, and cordial hospitality ensured a truly memorable weekend. We toured several layouts in the area, N scale, HO scale, and S Scale.

You can see pictures of the layouts here: Weed Layout Tour.

We got to show the modular layout to young and old at the Colfax Railroad Days. This may well be the last time this layout gets displayed. There are rumors that a new layout, following Free-mo designs, is going to be built.

We set up the club modular layout at Dunsmuir for Heritage Days.