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North Raleigh Model Railroad ClubNews & Information |
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Highlights of the Club's October Meeting Fourteen members attended the Club's October meeting, hosted by David McDowell — thanks David. Jim Anderson has rejoined the NRMRC after several years absence — welcome back, Jim.
Standards Committee projects were discussed.
In other business, Powerpole connectors have been ordered for the new modules that will be built by members, for the Mountain Turnaround module, along with spares some of which may be used for protected section jumper cables relating to Geezer Gate.
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Highlights of the Club's September Meeting Twelve members attended the Club's September meeting, hosted by David McDowell — thanks David.
Standards Committee projects were discussed.
The club voted to pay for the repairs to the two broken mirror signs. The new mirrors have been shipped.
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Highlights of the Club's August Meeting Fifteen members attended the Club's August meeting, hosted by David McDowell — thanks David.
Standards Committee projects were discussed.
The club voted to pay for the repairs to the two broken mirror signs.
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Highlights of the Club's July Meeting Seven members and one guest attended the Club's July meeting, hosted by Jim Reske — thanks Jim.
Standards Committee projects were discussed.
There was extensive discussion of the DCC equipment and operations at Derby City Express.
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Highlights of the Club's June Meeting Thirteen members attended the Club's June meeting, hosted by Monty Smith — thanks Monty.
Standards Committee projects were discussed.
David Derway brought the Club shirts order for delivery and payment.
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Highlights of the Club's May Meeting Twelve members attended the Club's May meeting, hosted by Brian Sadler — thanks Brian.
Standards Committee projects were discussed.
David Derway has received the order for Club shirts, and will bring them to the June meeting for delivery and payment. Prices are:
The business meeting ended at 7:58pm.
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Older Meeting Notes To access Monthly Meeting Notes older than 6 months Click Here to access the Meeting Notes Archives page. |
The following are future Train Shows in which the NRMRC is planning to participate:
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David Derway is taking orders for Club shirts. Estimated price is $20 + shipping for shirts without an embroidered name and $25 + shipping for shirts with name embroidered. Different shirts available are:
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The Standards Committee has a number of projects underway, as follows:
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:30pm Host: Donald Cariss If you are visiting this area or you are a non-Member and would like an invitation and directions to this meeting, send us an E-mail.
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2008
| Month | Host | Month | Host |
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January 9 |
Annual Meeting |
July 9 |
Jim Reske |
February 6 |
Dave Koss |
August 6 |
David McDowell |
March 5 |
Mark Blaustein |
September 3 |
David McDowell |
April 2 |
Pete Slugg |
October 1 |
David McDowell |
May 7 |
Brian Sadler |
November 5 |
Don Cariss |
June 4 |
Monty Smith |
December 3 |
Joel McCurry |
| Month | Topic | Presenter |
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January |
Annual Meeting |
Annual Meeting |
February |
See "Program" |
David Thompson |
March |
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April |
How to Make Dirt |
Pete Slugg |
May |
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June |
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July |
Module Certification |
John Wallis |
August |
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September |
Making Trees |
David Derway |
October |
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November |
Crimping Digitrax Signal Bases |
David McDowell |
December |
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| Month | Topic | Presenter |
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January |
Annual Meeting & Gift Exchange |
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February |
Lightweight Module Construction |
Dave Thompson |
March |
Track Laying & Ballasting |
David McDowell & David Derway |
April |
Steam Locomotive Tune-Up |
Rick Dellafave |
May |
N Scale Photography |
Brian Sadler |
June |
Preview of Derby City Express (Louisville) |
John Wallis & |
July |
Constructing an NTRAK Module — Postponed to August |
Joel McCurry |
August |
Constructing an NTRAK Module |
Joel McCurry |
September |
Basic Wiring & NTRAK Module Wiring |
David McDowell & John Wallis |
October |
Layout Automation with DCC |
David McDowell |
November |
Trucks, Wheels & Couplers |
John Wallis |
December |
Annual Railroad Questionnaire |
John Wallis |
October 16 – 19, 2008 | |
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National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) Sheraton Reston Hotel |
For up-to-date information go to home.comcast.net/~potomac_nmra/MER2008/ | |
This is a listing of prototype excursions scheduled in the near future and departing from locations within a few hours drive of the Research Triangle Park area. Spencer NC to Charlottesville VA & Return
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To read articles from TRAKing Ahead, the former Newsletter of the North Raleigh Model Railroad Club, click in the appropriate box below for prototype or model railroad oriented articles, or for stories of actual train trips taken by our Members. |
Articles from TRAKing Ahead |
Articles from TRAKing Ahead |
Articles from TRAKing Ahead — Travel by Train A Commuter Train Named "The Canadian"
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