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Hostlers show recap and March meeting. - Monday, March 08, 2010I just want to take a moment and thank all of those that came out this last weekend and supported the UGRS set-up, operation, and teardown at the 2010 Hostler Model Railroad Festival. A great time was had by all who participated. Our modular layout was tucked away in a side room but it offered us better sense of control since were wrapped around two walls and only had the public coming at us from one direction. We were also less than 30 ft from our trailer for unloading and loading (which went with considerable ease using the new larger club trailer). Set-up took approximately 3 hours) would have been quicker if I hadn't for gotten my Dremel tool for trimming some track, and I think we set a record on tear down of on 45 minutes. We also finalized the sale and delivery of our old trailer to the "O" scale club during the show. Thanks again to all those who helped out.
Coming Events.
March Meeting is scheduled for 3rd Saturday on the 20th 10:00 AM. Problem is we need some where to meet. A good theme of the meeting would be preparing the out door layout to meet spring and summer. This could include hints on track straightening, correcting frost heave problems, erosion, planning the next steps to developing your garden railroad. This is also the best time of year for starting any new vegetation if you have an established railroad. Any contributions to on this subject matter I'm sure would find interested ears. We due need to have a place to meet though.
April Meeting will be on the 17th / weather a littlie warmer and we could chance meeting outside to visit a railroad.
May Meeting would be on the 15th / there are two choices I will leave up to club individual club members; 1. Ron and Holly Senek are holding an open house for their layout in Spring Creek, NV. (just south of Elko) Holly will be sending out more details in the near future. 2. That Saturday is the Boy Scout Jamborall at the Weber County Fair Grounds to celebrate 100 years of Scouting in the United States. I've accepted an invitation to set-up and operate our modular layout along with two or three other model railroads on that date from about 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
That about sums it for now, but we do need to meet and discuss some activity options and goals of where we want to take our club in order to better serve our members.
Lynn Stringham (UGRS President)
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Hostlers show. - Friday, February 26, 2010Hello UGRS
I turned one show over to someone else (Dave Fulghum) and he thourghly spoiled me, I've managed to get us behind the 8-ball getting ready for the Hostler Show in Ogden. But be fore I talk about that I'd like to say thank-you for all those that came and helped at the Great Train Expo back on the first weekend of February. Even though our start-up the first day was a little shaky on the outside line getting trains operating, Ron Senek saved the day with his impressive battery operated unit. We did get everything operating as it should for Sunday. We had a very impressive set-up and received a lot of great comments. Thanks again to all those who came and assisted in making it all possible, particularly Dave Fulghum who was our coordinator and Jin Dahn who was there the entire time all 3 days keeping trains running, and those that sacrificed the first half of the supper bowl to help teardown. Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you.
On to the next coming up event in one week is the Hostler Show at Station in Ogden (25th Str. & Wall Ave. on the North side of the UTA Inter-Modal Center). We've got a great location this year in the south end of where the Mineral Museum use to be. Show access is off the northeast corner of the big hall. We will start our set-up at 1:00PM (I plan to be there around noon with the trailer) on Friday March 5th. The show will open at 4:00PM and run till 9:00 PM. On Saturday we will be running trains from 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM. And on Sunday the show will operate from 10:00AM to 4:00PM at which time teardown will commence. As always at the shows feel free to bring your personal locomotives and rolling stock along with any structures and items of interest to put on the modules. I'm planning to have set-up for 32 modules, 12 corner modules and 20 straight modules. 18 of the modules will be against the south and west walls of the room. I've been told by the a show coordinator that a vendor in our room is selling out a bunch of G-scale stuff he purchased to build a railroad in his backyard but lost the property. It promises to be a great time so I hope you can join us. Please drop me line by email or phone to let me know when you can be available to set-up, operate or tear-down.
Those who have not yet paid your dues please get it in. We just recently acquired a bigger trailer to get all of our equipment into have expended a large portion of our treasury.
If you have any questions please contact me and let your buddies in the club know especially those without email.
Lynn Stringham
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January Meeting... - Thursday, January 07, 2010Happy New Year Utah Garden Railway Society
I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. I sure did and they seemed to fly by. As I mentioned before Christmas, our club has acquired eleven additional modules. I had hoped to work on the modules to integrate them in with the rest of the club set-up, but just as my holiday break started, my only sister contacted me and said they would be staying with their 8 children the week between Christmas and New Years, so I had to postpone work on the modules.
My plan now is to work on the modules this Friday and Saturday (Jan. 8th and 9th) and next Saturday (Jan 16). The effort will entail building end caps, modify and verify table heights, test and confirm track electrical continuity, and build two filler stub modules to fill the space when setting up modules in a "U" shape or "L" shape configuration.
On January 22 & 23 we are scheduled to participate in the Ophir, Tintic and Western Model Railroad Show at Thanksgiving Point just over the county line in the north end of Utah county off I-15.
I'd like to start set-up on Friday (Jan 22) at 1:00PM. The show opens at 4:00PM and closes at 9:00PM. On Saturday (Jan 23) the show goes from 10:00AM to 6:00PM with tear down following. Last year we had a lot of fun at this show and the OT&W gang are great hosts. I realize I've reeled off a lot activity here but any help at the shows or assistance at my home in West Haven preparing the modules would be appreciated.
We are confirmed to participate in the Great Train Show to be held at the South Town Expo Center on Feb. 5-7. Dave Fulghum has volunteered to take the point on that show. As more iformation becomes available in the weeks prior to the Great Train Expo, Dave will be communincating to the club with regards to set-up times and manpower needs.
As a final item, it's a new year and 2010 dues ($25.00) are do. Make a check out to UGRS and send it to Ralph Osborne, 7918 S. 2175 E., South Weber, UT. 84405, or give it to me at the railroad show.
If you have any questions please contact me.
Lynn Stringham (President Utah Garden Railway Society)
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Upcoming events.. just thought you'd like to know... - Friday, January 01, 2010
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Hostlers show recap and March meeting. - Monday, March 08, 2010I just want to take a moment and thank all of those that came out this last weekend and supported the UGRS set-up, operation, and teardown at the 2010 Hostler Model Railroad Festival. A great time was had by all who participated. Our modular layout was tucked away in a side room but it offered us better sense of control since were wrapped around two walls and only had the public coming at us from one direction. We were also less than 30 ft from our trailer for unloading and loading (which went with considerable ease using the new larger club trailer). Set-up took approximately 3 hours) would have been quicker if I hadn't for gotten my Dremel tool for trimming some track, and I think we set a record on tear down of on 45 minutes. We also finalized the sale and delivery of our old trailer to the "O" scale club during the show. Thanks again to all those who helped out.
Coming Events.
March Meeting is scheduled for 3rd Saturday on the 20th 10:00 AM. Problem is we need some where to meet. A good theme of the meeting would be preparing the out door layout to meet spring and summer. This could include hints on track straightening, correcting frost heave problems, erosion, planning the next steps to developing your garden railroad. This is also the best time of year for starting any new vegetation if you have an established railroad. Any contributions to on this subject matter I'm sure would find interested ears. We due need to have a place to meet though.
April Meeting will be on the 17th / weather a littlie warmer and we could chance meeting outside to visit a railroad.
May Meeting would be on the 15th / there are two choices I will leave up to club individual club members; 1. Ron and Holly Senek are holding an open house for their layout in Spring Creek, NV. (just south of Elko) Holly will be sending out more details in the near future. 2. That Saturday is the Boy Scout Jamborall at the Weber County Fair Grounds to celebrate 100 years of Scouting in the United States. I've accepted an invitation to set-up and operate our modular layout along with two or three other model railroads on that date from about 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
That about sums it for now, but we do need to meet and discuss some activity options and goals of where we want to take our club in order to better serve our members.
Lynn Stringham (UGRS President)
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Hostlers show. - Friday, February 26, 2010Hello UGRS
I turned one show over to someone else (Dave Fulghum) and he thourghly spoiled me, I've managed to get us behind the 8-ball getting ready for the Hostler Show in Ogden. But be fore I talk about that I'd like to say thank-you for all those that came and helped at the Great Train Expo back on the first weekend of February. Even though our start-up the first day was a little shaky on the outside line getting trains operating, Ron Senek saved the day with his impressive battery operated unit. We did get everything operating as it should for Sunday. We had a very impressive set-up and received a lot of great comments. Thanks again to all those who came and assisted in making it all possible, particularly Dave Fulghum who was our coordinator and Jin Dahn who was there the entire time all 3 days keeping trains running, and those that sacrificed the first half of the supper bowl to help teardown. Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you.
On to the next coming up event in one week is the Hostler Show at Station in Ogden (25th Str. & Wall Ave. on the North side of the UTA Inter-Modal Center). We've got a great location this year in the south end of where the Mineral Museum use to be. Show access is off the northeast corner of the big hall. We will start our set-up at 1:00PM (I plan to be there around noon with the trailer) on Friday March 5th. The show will open at 4:00PM and run till 9:00 PM. On Saturday we will be running trains from 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM. And on Sunday the show will operate from 10:00AM to 4:00PM at which time teardown will commence. As always at the shows feel free to bring your personal locomotives and rolling stock along with any structures and items of interest to put on the modules. I'm planning to have set-up for 32 modules, 12 corner modules and 20 straight modules. 18 of the modules will be against the south and west walls of the room. I've been told by the a show coordinator that a vendor in our room is selling out a bunch of G-scale stuff he purchased to build a railroad in his backyard but lost the property. It promises to be a great time so I hope you can join us. Please drop me line by email or phone to let me know when you can be available to set-up, operate or tear-down.
Those who have not yet paid your dues please get it in. We just recently acquired a bigger trailer to get all of our equipment into have expended a large portion of our treasury.
If you have any questions please contact me and let your buddies in the club know especially those without email.
Lynn Stringham
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January Meeting... - Thursday, January 07, 2010Happy New Year Utah Garden Railway Society
I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. I sure did and they seemed to fly by. As I mentioned before Christmas, our club has acquired eleven additional modules. I had hoped to work on the modules to integrate them in with the rest of the club set-up, but just as my holiday break started, my only sister contacted me and said they would be staying with their 8 children the week between Christmas and New Years, so I had to postpone work on the modules.
My plan now is to work on the modules this Friday and Saturday (Jan. 8th and 9th) and next Saturday (Jan 16). The effort will entail building end caps, modify and verify table heights, test and confirm track electrical continuity, and build two filler stub modules to fill the space when setting up modules in a "U" shape or "L" shape configuration.
On January 22 & 23 we are scheduled to participate in the Ophir, Tintic and Western Model Railroad Show at Thanksgiving Point just over the county line in the north end of Utah county off I-15.
I'd like to start set-up on Friday (Jan 22) at 1:00PM. The show opens at 4:00PM and closes at 9:00PM. On Saturday (Jan 23) the show goes from 10:00AM to 6:00PM with tear down following. Last year we had a lot of fun at this show and the OT&W gang are great hosts. I realize I've reeled off a lot activity here but any help at the shows or assistance at my home in West Haven preparing the modules would be appreciated.
We are confirmed to participate in the Great Train Show to be held at the South Town Expo Center on Feb. 5-7. Dave Fulghum has volunteered to take the point on that show. As more iformation becomes available in the weeks prior to the Great Train Expo, Dave will be communincating to the club with regards to set-up times and manpower needs.
As a final item, it's a new year and 2010 dues ($25.00) are do. Make a check out to UGRS and send it to Ralph Osborne, 7918 S. 2175 E., South Weber, UT. 84405, or give it to me at the railroad show.
If you have any questions please contact me.
Lynn Stringham (President Utah Garden Railway Society)
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Upcoming events.. just thought you'd like to know... - Friday, January 01, 2010
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