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- About & Bylaws
- New Members Message - Sent to new members upon being added to
the members-only private Yahoo discussion group
QuickTime vs
YouTube: The YouTube version is provided in case you cannot play the
QuickTime version. You can get Quicktime Player for Windows free from
Apple here.
- Video #1 - May
2007, Meet the Susquehanna S Gaugers
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This video
introduces you to about 13 of the total 24 Susquehanna S Gaugers
members. There is also a short demo of the Z-Stuff automatic crossing
gate system by member Dave VanGilder. (Videotaped 5/6/07, 9 min)
YouTube . . . . . . Quicktime
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- Videos #2 & #3
- Layout Tours (photos shown in below "Photos of Members Layouts"
section
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Layout #1, "Heavy
Steam Division" (Videotaped 5/6/07, 8 min).
YouTube . . . . . . Quicktime . . . . . . Photos
Layout #3, "Christmas
Fantasy" (Videotaped 2/17/08, 9 min)
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=== Steam Up Videos ===
Note there are some PHOTOS of the 2004 and 2006 Steam Ups below in Section "C. Photos of Club Events"
- Video #4 - 2008
Steam Up
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This
YouTube video shows the Susquehanna S Gaugers 4th annual "Steam
Up" held April 4 & 5, 2008. Members "challenged" several Northerns
by hooking them to a 143-car train. Another member wired up a
back-to-back pair of automatic reverse loops, with an automatic passing
siding in one of the loops. There is also a demo of an automatic block
controlling 2 trains on the same track, using a RR Concepts 'Switching
Interface Module'.
YouTube
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- 2014 Steam Up: Vimeo | Photos
- 2015 Steam Up: Vimeo
- 2018 Steam Up: Youtube | Vimeo | Photos
===
Automatic Controls Videos ===
- Video #656 -
Automatic Controls Demo by Mark Anderman, Williamsport Pa
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Videotaped
4/1/07, at Susquehanna S Gaugers Steamup by Chris Cooley and edited by
Mark Anderman, this shows 3 trains running automatically on the same
circle of track, using an automatic control system wired up by Dennis
& Corvin Oberholtzer and Mark Anderman, using stock Gilbert
pressure-activated track trips & semaphore. (6 min)
YouTube . . . . . .Quicktime . . . . . .Anderman's Wiring Diagram
Comments:
We believe this system could probably be modified by removing the block
in the mainline, and using just the 2 blocks in the sidings. The
semaphore would control power to the sidings; i.e. at about 2/3 of the
way around the loop, the train on the mainline would "release" one of
the trains parked on the sidings, thus maintaining spacing between
trains, but without using the 3rd block on the mainline. [===] This
scheme is demonstrated in the largescale video "How It Works" (YouTube .Quicktime) which shows a similar arrangement in largescale.
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- Video No. 658 description on the AutoControls.org Video Page, has the
links to the Automatic Block Demo from the 2008 Steam Up.
- Video No. 659 description on the AutoControls.org Video Page, has the
links to the video, photos, & wiring diagram, for the 2-track
Automatic Passing Siding, that was operated at the Nov. 2008 Toy Train
Expo.
- Additional S gauge videos are
described in the AutoControls.org webpage, Section F 'S Gauge Videos & Photos' section.
- Additional
railroad videos -- are on the Track2 'Model Railroad Videos' page, including 2007 NASG Convention in Baltimore MD &
2008 NASG Convention in Lowell MA.
- Events
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Note: Older photos are on trainweb.org as linked in these two Sections
C and D.
. . . . . Newer photos
are in Google Photos albums
D. Photos of Members Layouts
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- Layouts
- Most
of these
Layout
links are also on the "S
Gauge" section of the Trainweb.org/pa
Photo Page (has local photos in all gauges)
E. Other Miscellaneous Photos
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- Photos of our business
card holder (made by Mark Anderman, 2008)
- Photos of Steam Depot GE 44 Tonner Loco
- James
Edwards S-gauge PCC Cars, custom-made
in Philadelphia Pa in mid 90's
(Craig O'Connell's "S" Traction Supplies page is the most complete guide for S traction on the internet)
- Photos of the S-Helper Service Portable Display Layout
There is a 5-minute VIDEO showing this layout operating at vimeo.com/1535803
F. Links To Other Clubs & Repair People
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- SSG List of Nearby S Gauge Clubs
- NASG List of Nationwide S Gauge Clubs
- Track2 RailNet -
North Central Pa Model Railroad Info - Club Contacts. Repairs Photos
- NASG List of S Manfacturers
G. - Links To S Gauge Reference Info
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- "S-Trains" Yahoo Email Discussion Group, by Paul Yorke
- S-trains.com, by Paul Yorke
- NASG.org -
National Association of S Gaugers
- S Scale Model Railroading Homepage, by Craig O'Connell
- O-Gauge Railroading Forum
- About SSG Handout
(pdf)
- Officers' Tasks
- Previous Meeting Locations
- Old SSG Newsletters
- Old Quicken Treas. Recs
- Old Interest Form
- Letter
to S-Helper Service, Requesting Smaller Radius Curves Nov 99
- Computer-Control S Ga DCC using QuickBasic & DOS, with NCE DCC
& SHS SW9 w/Soundtrax decoder
- Custom-made Closed Frog S-Trax Switches
- Mark Anderman,
AF parts - AndermanFlyer.com, photography WildStudio.com
- Mark Benfer, Universal
Primary Health Care Plan - UniversalPrimaryPayer.blogspot.com
- Jim Ingram, Track2 Railnet NC Pa Rail Info - Track2.com
- Bob Persing,
reproduction Plasticville - BobbyLines.com
- Carey Probst,
personal page - hcProbst.com
- Steve Russell,
Mobility Services, LoyalsockMobility.com
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