LS 2008 August8511 - Turkey Creek Division, NMRA · I would like to thank both Warren Weston MMR...

EtflhC Lightning Slinger August 2008

Lightning Slinger

MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE TURKEY CREEK DIVISION OF THE MID-CONTINENT REGION, NMRA

VOL. 22 NO. “For all gauges and all ages” August 2008

See You At The HOLIDAY VILLAGE

Union Station You can help it all stated August 20, 08

Monday thru Sunday Call Louis 913-393-3495

Or Ted 816-861-3449 G - O - S - HO

Move it up Wire it - Track it - Scenic it - Test it

Union Station Kansas City Model Railroad Show

Need help in September on the 27th & 28t. Turkey Creek has a table at the Union Station Model Railroad Show from 9AM to 5 PM both days. We need to have at least two members at all times. Times are 9 AM to 1 PM and 1 PM to 5 PM both days. There will be free parking for

those that help. Please give me a call at 913-393-3495 or e-mail at [email protected].

2 Page August 2008 Lightning Slinger opbd

From THE SUPER’S DESK….

Hello everyone! Last Tuesday, July 15th, we had our monthly meeting. We had one visitor from the Lawrence model RR club. We also had Chuck Hitchcock attend for the first time in over a year. We had a light attendance, I believe due to having to move up the meeting date to get a room for the meeting. We also were unable to have the scheduled clinics because the overhead projector was loaned out and I did not know who had it! I will discuss this later. But we did have Dennis Owens get up and give us a short half hour presentation on the history of American railroads. Thanks again for your clinic! You really saved the day. We did not have a report by our paymaster again at this meeting. In fact our paymaster has assigned Louis as his replacement while he is away. Louis reported that we are doing OK. There was no white elephant exchange at this meeting. We did have some AP awards given at this meeting. Roger Percival received four awards. He received three awards for Cars and one for Motive Power. Be sure to congratulate him the next time you see him. Well that time has finally come! I do not need any more clinics for this year. But if you have a clinic that you are thinking of giving but it needs work, please consider completing it for next year. A year gives all of us time to put something together before then! I am sure the new Superintendent could use all the volunteers he/she could get. First, we will not have a regular meeting at the Lamar location in August. We will be having our annual train show and meeting this coming August 2nd. Second, I will be collecting the PC projector after the last clinic that is using it at the train show. It seems to me the best way to prevent problems in the future of no projector and no way to allow the clinicians to present their clinics! It was suggested that we try to use a check out procedure so I would know who has the projector but that does not get the projector to the meeting. It may tell me who to call or e-mail before the meeting but it does not mean they did not pass it to someone else or that they will make the meeting. If I have it then I know where it is so I can assure the clinicians that the projector will definitely be available for the meeting. I have to be at every meeting to lead the meeting so I will keep the projector for the rest of my term as superintendent. Now I have been able to talk Warren Weston into moving his clinic “Modeling Grain Elevators” to November. His clinic will replace the clinic that was to be given by Bob Miller. The second clinic “How to set up signaling and CTC using JMRI and PanelPro” by Jim Duncan will be moved to another time also. I have asked if he would be interested in January and he said that he would so that clinic is the first schedule for 2009. Well that is all I have for now. See you at the July meeting, until then happy railroading!

Kerry Lindenbaum, d


OFFICERS

Superintendent Kerry Lindenbaum NMRA LM 5767 913-648-8201

[email protected]

Paymaster Jack Boren

913-962-2408 [email protected]

Clerk Louis Seibel

913-393-3495 [email protected]

Division Director Brad Morneau 913-897-0669

[email protected]

Train Show Chairman’s for 2008

Louis Seibel 913-393-3495 [email protected]

Membership Chair Editor Gary Hankins 913-782-3645

[email protected]

L S Editor Ted Tschirhart 816-861-3449

[email protected] Louis Seibel

Nancy Chapman

AP Merit Awards and Achievement

Joe B. Robertson, MMR 816-331-2773

[email protected]

Web Master Paul Myers, MMR 816-734-3719

[email protected]

Web http://www.tc-nmra.org. TURKEY CREEK DIVISION

IS A 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION

Turkey Creek Division Minutes

July 15, 2008 The meeting was called to order by Kerry Lindenbaum. Kerry asked if there were any visitors or members who had not been to a meeting for a while. We had one visitor from the Lawrence model RR club and Chuck Hitchcock MMR. Next he asked if there were any AP awards to be given out. Joe Robertson MMR said that he had some. Joe asked Roger Percival to come forward. Roger received four Merit awards three awards for Cars and one for Mo-tive Power. Louis then gave a short talk on the show in August. Next was to be two clinics but we had no overhead pro-jector. I would like to thank both Warren Weston MMR and Jim Duncan for there efforts in doing their clinics. Both of them have been rescheduled clinics. Dennis Owens said that he would a short talk on the History of American Railroads. He did a great impromptu talk THANKS. Meeting was adjourned. Respectfully, Louis Seibel, Clerk Next Meeting September 23


Tom Stolte will be having his house of the MoPac Layout on Oct 12 2008. So bring your wife and kids and someone else that would like to see it. Open House Tom Stolte will be having his open house for all the folks that want to this Mopac HO scale layout out here near McLouth KS. It is a 20 by 40 ft layout, double deck, with CGW and Rock Island power. It runs from KC MO to Omaha NE with a branch line to Lincoln NE. You can see it Oct 12th 2008 at 1 pm to? 26550 227th street McLouth Kansas 66054

From Andy Sperandeo Hello all, Again, please excuse this group mailing, but I wanted to let you all know that I'm going in for my cancer surgery on Monday. The surgeon will remove my left lung, but I expect a good outcome overall. I saw an oncologist last Monday to make sure that surgery was the best option, and I'm now convinced that it is. The form of cancer that I have is pretty rare, and it's one that doesn't respond to chemotherapy and is affected only slightly by radiation. That makes surgery the best if not the only choice, and the long-term survival rates after surgery to remove this cancer are very good. I don't have all the e-mail addresses that I have at work on file here at home, so if you know of anyone who' be interested who isn't on this mailing list, feel free to let them know. I'll be a Wau-kesha Memorial Hospital once again, but I expect to be home by Friday at the latest. I'll be seeing you, Andy

Please keep Scale Rails in hard copy form. This is the single best thing the NMRA has done in years.....Steve and his crew have in my opinion made SR one of THE PREMIER model railroad publications out there!!!!! As a fixed income person on disability I am letting my subscription to MR run out to offset the increase...Scale Rails has become to show piece of the NMRA (and in my opinion is superior to MR)...let us not shoot ourselves in the foot by making it a web item. Ron Morse, MMR Morse Productions [email protected] http://morseproductions.blogspot.com/

Dear Railroad fans,

The Trains are Coming! More than 113,000 visitors went to the Liverpool showing of "Art in the Age of Steam." On Sept. 13 it opens in Kansas for it's only other stop. Our web site now has a large number of images of the works that will be on display as well as the extensive programing associated with the exhibition. http://www.nelson-atkins.org/ We've learned that CBS Sunday Morning News plans to visit us Sept. 29 and 30 to do a feature on the exhi-bition and I will alert everyone when that show date is announced. The 280-page catalogue has received excellent reviews and is now available on Amazon.com for around $40. Randy Attwood Media Relations Officer The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 816.751.1321 Cell: 816.582.8753 [email protected]


The First Annual Union Station Model Railroad Show

September 27th & 28th, 2008 Show hours 9am to 5pm The show is put on by the Union Station Kansas City Model Railroad Society (USKCMRRS). This organization is made up of Volunteers that help take carry of the Union Station owned model railroad collections and displays We hope to be able to provide a greater interest in the hobby of model railroading by having this show. We hope to have a steam engine and other displays outside that weekend. Inside we will plan to have for the show the Sprint Festival Plaza and the KCP&L Exhibit Gallery. We hope to have a number of Model Railroad Club layouts, Railroad Historical Societies, Operation Life Save, Manufactures, Vendors and Clinics for this show. We hope to do advertising for this show with Flyers, Radio, TV, Newspaper ads, Magazines ads, and web sites. We are also looking of Corporation sponsors for this event. If interested in being part of this show please fill out the form below. Vendor and Manufactures tables will be $15.00 for an 8’ x 30” table.

Union Station Model Railroad Show Registration Form

Manufractures, Vendors, Historical Societies, and Mode Railroad Clubs Registration Form

Tables Costs $15.00 No. of Tables Total Cost Name:

Address:

City

State Zip

Telephone #: Total Enclosed:

E-Mail Address: Scale Modeled

Make Checks Payable to: Union Station Kansas City Model Railroad Society

30 W Pershing Road, Suite 850 Kansas City, MO 64108

913-393-3495 816-861-3449


Lenexa Community

Registration Table

Door Prizes

Mark Juett Clinic

Robert Snare Clinic

Food Boy Scouts Troop 92


Clinic Room

RoRon Morse MMR

Dennis Owens Clinic

Jim Duncan Clinic

Robert McBean Clinic


Contest Entries

Appreciation Board for Door Prizes


Contest Entries


08-02-2008 016 Door Prizes Vendor List 08-02-2008 017 Contest Room 08-02-2008 018

Contest Entries


Contest Entries


Tom Stolte Home Layout


THE SWITCHING LIST

The Switching List contains all known Mid-Continent Region, NMRA, train shows and Division meetings. It also lists all known club shows and swap meets in the Mid-Continent Region (IA, IL, MO, AR, NE, KS, and OK). To list your event, send it to: [email protected], or Gary Hemmingway, 3201 SW Stone Ave., Topeka, KS 66614. To subscribe, or unsubscribe, to The Switching List send an email to the above link. Look for us on the MCoR web site: www.mcor-nmra.org.

DIVISION MEETINGS

KANSAS CENTRAL DIVISION meets the 1st Saturday of even numbered months at various locations around the division area. This is a new schedule for 2008. Meetings are at 1:00 pm. For the full schedule check the MCoR website or email Gary Hemmingway: [email protected]. The next meeting is: (Please note date change for August) August 9, 2008 Gary Hemmingway: 3201 SW Stone Ave., Topeka, KS. From the KS Turnpike, exit at the South Topeka Toll Booth, follow I-470 to Gage and exit. Turn north then turn right (east) at the BP station. Turn right onto Twilight and follow it to Stone, which is the first actual street. Turn left (north) 3201 is at the top of the hill on the left (west) just before the fire hydrant. From I-70 get off on I-470 and follow it south to Gage. Turn left (north) then follow the above directions. From US 75 southbound, get off on I-70 and follow the above

Door Prizes

Leaving the Happy

Some Thing Differ-

Heartland N scale Layout


directions. All are invited regardless of NMRA membership. GATEWAY DIV. (ST. LOUIS, MO) meets 3rd Monday each month, 7:00 P.M. Odd numbered months: Trinity Lutheran Church, 14088 Clayton Road at Woods Mill Rd (Hwy 141), Ballwin, MO; Even numbered months: VFW Hall, O’Fallon, IL http://www.gatewaynmra.org/division.htm TURKEY CREEK DIV. (KANSAS CITY, MO & KS) monthly meetings 4th Tuesday, 7:00 P.M. Johnson County Offices, NE Branch, 6000 Lamar, Shawnee Mission, KS (DMV Building on SW corner of Lamar and Martway)

WESTERN HERITAGE DIVISION

(OMAHA, NE / COUNCIL

BLUFFS, IA) meets second

Saturday (except June and

December) at noon. Sump

Memorial Library, corner of

Washington and Second Streets in

Papillion (across from Runza). Visit

www.whdnmra.org for more info and a map.

EASTERN IOWA DIVISION For the latest information see our web site at http://eid.mcor-nmra.org and download our most recent newsletter, the Wig-Wag. Or, contact the Eastern Iowa Division Superintendent, Rich Mahaney, at 505-640-5909 or [email protected] KATE SHELLEY DIVISION meets monthly on the fourth Thursday of each month 7:00 p.m. Meeting location varies call 515-232-8689 or e-mail [email protected] for location. INDIAN NATIONS DIVISION meets at the New Hardesty Library at 8316 E. 93rd. St. (Just east of Memorial) in Tulsa, OK. The time is from 9:30am to 12:30pm. Each meeting we have various presentations from clinics, to slide shows. After the meetings we have a layout tour at one of the members layouts. Meeting dates are: January 26, 2008, March 29, 2008, May 31, 2008, September 20, 2008, and November 19, 2008. Contact Dave Salamon at [email protected] for further information. PLATTE VALLEY DIV. (HASTINGS, GRAND ISLAND, KEARNEY, NE) meets 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in members homes on a rotating basis. Info: John O’Neill, Div. Dir., 308-384-5011 or [email protected]. WESTERN KANSAS DIVISION (GARDEN CITY, KS) Meets every Monday evening from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. at 4091/2 N. Main St. (second floor above “Stage” department store) 7 layouts on display (2-HO, 5-N) Operating sessions available Info: Robert Simmons, Division Director (620) 521-3591 or [email protected]. CLAREMORE & SOUTHERN RR OPERATING SESSION, From March through October we will operate on the 2nd Friday evening from 7:00 to 10:00PM. Let me know if you can make it. Thanks. George Maulsby, 9372 E. Clover Creek Dr, Claremore, OK 74017-1487, Claremore & Southern RR www.csrailclub.com [email protected] 918-341-9446


We meet at the NE Johnson County Office, located at 6000 Lamar, Shawnee Mission, KS (the southwest corner of West Martway and Lamar).

TURKEY CREEK DIVISION 4954 Marsh Avenue Kansas City, MO 64129-2111

FIRST CLASS MAIL ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED 4955

TURKEY CREEK DIVISION MEETING 7:00 P. M. September 23, 2008

Johnson County Offices

mcor-nmra.org/divisions/turkeycreek/

2008 September 23 October 28 - meeting place to be announced November 25 December 16, Third Tuesday of the Month Holiday Party All meetings start at 7PM Northeast Johnson County Offices 6000 Lamar, Mission, Kansas

LS 2008 August8511 - Turkey Creek Division, NMRA · I would like to thank both Warren Weston MMR...

Documents

Transcript of LS 2008 August8511 - Turkey Creek Division, NMRA · I would like to thank both Warren Weston MMR...