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December 2012 – January & February 2013 www.ECGRC.com Vol 2013-1
Jim Campbell Final Departure With much sadness, we report the final departure for Jim Campbell. Jim passed away Monday evening, 14 January 2013. It was very unexpected.
Page Contents
1 Jim Campbell Final Departure
2 William Winne Departure, Departed Members
3 RR Museum Dues, Christmas Luncheon
4 President’s Message
5 Lionel Christmas
6 Jay Cotton Festival
7 Storage Building
8 Fairhope Train Show
9 History Display, Train Wreck
10 Health & Welfare, Events
11 Birthdays & Anniversaries, Thanks, Santa!
12 Water Tower, Bagdad Festival, Feb Meeting
13 St Anne’s Christmas Fair
14 Santa Rosa Co Fair, Lumberjack Fest, Rock Piles
Jim was feeling poorly Sunday afternoon and resisted going to ER but eventually relented. They found serious heart problems and Jim ended up with a quadruple bypass surgery Monday afternoon. It appeared all was well with Jim when he came out of surgery doing fine, but unfortunately his heart developed very low pressure after an hour into recovery and did not survive. Kathleen Myers was Jim’s significant other for seven wonderful years. Kathleen was totally shocked by how quickly things went so terribly, terribly wrong.
Jim was a very good friend. Always in a cheerful mood, eager to be helpful. Jim helped with many of the recent construction and clean‐up projects. Jim put a lot of effort into the third lobe with creating the oil distribution facility, cleaning the area of a ton of pine needles, rehabbing buildings, making roadway
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sections out of some old roofing tiles from the Depot. You can still see his roadway work in the third and second lobes today. Jim also made some nice videos that are still on YouTube today. Jim had a video talent I did not realize.
Recently, Jim worked hard and managed to collect an M&M train for his niece. He even found the A‐B‐A diesel set (which I did not know existed). Jim put together a very nice M&M train.
Jim’s work at Hurlburt Field was shrouded in much national secrecy. So we do not know very much about what work he really did for the government. I do know that he frequently worked weekends in a SCIF (highly classified and secured facility) which did not allow cell phones. So he had to get outside back to the parking lot to make a phone call.
Jim’s departure leaves us with a big hole in our hearts. Jim will be greatly missed.
William Winne Final Departure
: In talking with Christina on From Paul Weston
Friday, 8 Feb 2013, learned that William passed away about three weeks ago, about 18 January, from leukemia. Christina stated that he loved taking their two boys, Kaleb 12 and Jacob 7, to the club to run trains together. She plans to continue the tradition with the boys on Fridays as time allows. They moved here about a year and a half ago from Indiana. I met the family at a Messianic Sabbath service and invited them to the train club. They soon came by and
joined our club a few weeks later. Bill had already started treatments for the leukemia at that time and was making progress in combating the disease. Bill had been employed as a diesel mechanic before they moved to our area.
Christina Winne and sons Kaleb and Jacob We expect to see more of Christina, Kaleb and Jacob at the Jordan Lot. Bill Winne will be missed.
DEPARTED CLUB MEMBERS
As happens with any final departure, it brings to mind others we have appreciated and lost. Jim Campbell and William Winne’s final departures bring to eight the Club’s loss of family and friends.
This is the list of Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club members we have bid farewell. So many special memories of people we still miss.
R.A. Caraway Bill Miller
Joni McDermott Dennis McDermott
Susan Wolcott Janet Ramstad
Jim Campbell Bill Winne
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RR Museum Dues
It is that time of year again; everyone needs to renew their RR Museum dues for 2013.
Just $30 for the year and with the loss of both the Hoot-N-Holler Bingo and Bingo Magic parlors income, your dues are even more needed.
The Club dues ($35) are due on the anniversary of your joining the Club.
Those who have paid already, thank you very much from the Museum Board and Treasurer.
Christmas Luncheon
The Christmas Luncheon was held Saturday, Noon on 15 December 2012. Stephanie Carrington was the coordinator, keeping track of who was coming and with what goodies. Lots of people helped with the Christmas Luncheon. It was great.
I got plenty of deviled eggs and bountiful portions of pumpkin pie. Thanks. Yum.
Lorene Fasnacht decorated the Diner, especially the tables, besides bringing mashed potatoes and gravy. Bill smoked a large 14 pound turkey and stripped that bird clean. Pat Stevens brought some deviled eggs, as did someone else that I lost track of. Frank brought
some key lime pie. Ethel and Ed Couturie brought some pumpkin pies. Mary Caraway provided chips and dips. Rodney Rich had some plates, cups and other things.
This list is very incomplete. There were many others. The
candied yams were great but I am not sure who fixed them up. Angie Gomez prepared green beans. Mike Stokes brought some sliced beef or ham and cheese.
Rodney Rich, new member from Panama City, donated a railroad car kit as the door prize. That was won by Ethel Couturie. Reports are it will be done in the color of pink. Thanks, Rodney. Congrats, Ethel.
Elf Lorene in the kitchen getting the banquet ready.
Some of the folks.
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We had a long list of Club members. Tried to run a list of folks, including the RR Museum folks. But, our list taker was asleep on the job or distracted by all of the activity and good food. Bottom line though, we had a bunch of folks. AND we had many RR Museum visitors stroll through and we talked up using the Diner for their events, like a family dinner or birthday party.
More of the folks.
Ethel Couturie and Mary Caraway, too.
From my perspective, there was more food there than I could eat. I finished the leftovers I hauled home in my large cooler. I was stuffed and ready for a long winter’s nap.
Again, thanks to everyone. It was great.
President's Message : From the Club President, Jack Grill
A lot has happened in the past couple of months; some sad and some glad. We lost two of our members. We hardly
got to know Bill Winne as he joined just last July. It sounds like his wife and children will be regular visitors, though, so we will be able to enjoy their company. Jim Campbell had been with us for quite a while and we knew him well. We will think of him often as we enjoy the fruits of his labors in the tile roads he painted and striped and, of course, the Campbell Oil Company. I'm so glad he put his name on it.
Campbell Oil Co. built by Jim Campbell On the glad side of the emotional coin, we had a terrific Lionel Christmas. The attendance on the second Saturday was the highest for any event at the museum save for the centennial of the depot. The old warehouse was finally torn down. That building, while historically significant, was not restorable due to its dilapidated unsafe condition. While we are still waiting for the remaining pit to be filled in, the major impediment to removal of the third passenger car is now gone. That leads into the best news. Our new shed is finally finished. All of our "road show" items will soon be relocated there from their storage place of some years in that third car.
Keep in mind that our annual election of officers is coming up in April with nominations due at the March meeting. I would like to urge someone to volunteer to be secretary. Ed is doing a fine job, but I would like to see somebody else in that position as he already does more than his share of work around here. Ed is also the museum board secretary and acts as our unofficial caretaker as he spends more time at the layout than anyone else. Ed said he will continue to produce the calendar and the newsletter, so don't let that stop you from considering the position. Check the official requirements for secretary in the club bylaws which are on the club website. The hardest thing is that you must be able to write fast and read your own writing, which leaves me out by a long shot.
Jack
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Lionel Christmas The WFRM held its annual Lionel Christmas this past
December. The weekends of 7‐8 and 14‐15
December were the primary events. This included
having the evening operations up to 8 PM on the
two Saturday evenings.
Christmas decorations started going up the
weekend after Thanksgiving inside the Freight
House, on the Bridge Tender's Building and at the
Jordan Lot.
Boys admiring the HO layout in the Bridge Tender's Building - pic by George Wilson
Freight House decorated and the N and O scale layouts - pic by George Wilson We ran several lighted passenger trains at the
Jordan Lot Garden Railroad. The lighted passenger
cars with detailed interiors showed up great as they
cruised around the tracks. Bill Carrington had his
very long Atlantic Coast Line passenger train. The
purple livery is always popular with folks. Ed Dice
included one of his ACL cars, too, for an added car
in the purple train. Orlando Gomez brought out his
very long Pennsylvania RR lighted passenger train in
its reddish‐brown livery. Frank Paine ran a pair of
old time Sierra coaches with added Christmas lights
and singing carolers. Did I hear singing on that
train?
One of the long lighted passenger trains. PRR or ACL? Mike Moore and his friends set up an O scale layout
on tables at the West end of the Freight House.
Mike even ran Ed Dice's Sunset Limited O scale train
using one of Mike's appropriate steam locos on the
head end. Need to find me a good Sunset Limited
loco, hmmmm...
Mike Moore and his O scale layout - pic by George Wilson Across the two weekends, the visitor count was 939
visitors at the Jordan Lot. The Gate Kitty brought in
$519 to help keep the RR Museum and the Jordan
Lot Garden RR going. The extra effort to get a
reliable visitor count helps the RR Museum and
provides justification for the Santa Rosa County
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Tourism Development Board (TDC) to provide
financial support with advertising flyers. Thanks to
those who stuck to it and kept counting the folks
coming into the Jordan Lot. It is boring but
important.
The Riding Train at the Jordan Lot was almost
constantly busy giving rides to the kids and kids‐at‐
heart.
Another load of passengers on the Riding Train Now the list of folks attending and running trains
during the Lionel Christmas run below.
Orlando & Angie Gomez – Pennsylvania passenger
well lit, new VERY long car carriers
Bill & Stephanie Carrington – Atlantic Coast Line
passenger well lit and very purple
Frank Paine – two trains, one with carolers singing
from a decorated set of passenger cars
Carolers by Frank Paine
Paul Weston – refurbished tinplate train
Jack Grill – RS‐3 freight loco, TTC PCC (Toronto
Transit Commission) as well as his RDC
Ed Dice – coal train with Christmas ornaments and
lights
Ben Love & Mary Beth Love – freight train
Mike Stokes – new Mikado steam loco with a
freight train
Ian & Barb Sinclair – freight train
Many other folks attended the operations at the
Jordan Lot but did not run trains. If anyone running
a train got missed, my apologies.
Jay Cotton Festival Ed Dice, Tom Augustine and Tom's son‐in‐law, Mike,
set up and staffed the RR Museum exhibit at the Jay
Cotton Festival and Christmas Parade Saturday, 24
Nov. That was the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It
was a good little event and was the third time that
the Jay historical group has done this festival.
Cotton was spread all over the area from the recent
and on‐going cotton harvesting. Bitter cold met us
early Saturday morning with a constant light wind.
Two small ovals of G scale trains were set up and
three different trains ran during the day. Tom set up
the RR Museum’s N scale layout and the info display
board with some pictures. Tom also set out the four
history books that Tom Moody authored.
Folks came to the festival area from all sides of the
venue. We were on the south side of the main
festival venue area and did get lots of folks walking
by into the festival and then back out again later on.
The Christmas parade went right by our location on
Spring St. towards the end of the Christmas parade
run.
We took a space of about 15’ deep by about 40’
long for the trains and display tables. Plus our two
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vehicles parked close behind, which was great. We
had several classic cars park next to us, including
one motorcycle.
Visitor count was 513 for the RR Museum exhibit.
Coffee was hard to find though, but Tom was
successful there. Need more coffee materials next
time.
Because of the numerous college and professional
football games scheduled late afternoon, the
festival attendance dwindled early afternoon. Most
all vendors were either packed‐up‐and‐gone, or
packing by 2 PM. We started packing up at 2 PM.
Pat Cashman did express her appreciation for the
RR Museum’s participation in her Cotton Festival.
Storage Building Things have been happening with the new Storage
Building at the Jordan Lot. Lots of progress with its
construction and completion. Things have been
happening so fast it has become difficult to keep
track of things that happened, when they happened
and WHO worked on things. So if someone's effort
did not get credited below, let Ed know and you can
become the next on‐scene reporter with all of the
privileges and responsibilities accorded with such
an august position. ;‐)
Storage Building during construction The green metal siding got put up on 17 Nov. by
Orlando, Frank and Sam. The corner planks got two
coats of white paint on 18 Nov. by Ed. Those corner
planks were installed by the Sanborn crew while
they put up the hardy boards. Hardy board installed
by Sanborn Construction, finished about 30 Nov.
The hardy board siding was painted by the Sanborn
crew. Electrical service by Ron Armstrong's crew
consisted of line power to building, large circuit
breaker panel, a GFCI outlet, two 8‐foot light
fixtures, and outdoor light wiring start. Extra
electrical outlets were installed by Ed – six outdoor
outlets, four additional inside outlets, outdoor light
(donated by Bob Fasnacht) and boxes (9‐10 Jan, 25
Jan). The inside insulation and walls were done by
Orlando, Bill Carrington, Mike Stokes, Ed, and Keith
on 26 Jan.
Ceiling plywood, painted walls and ceiling white
primer were done by Orlando, Mike, Bill, and Ed on
2 Feb.
The shelves were started by Orlando on 3 Feb. while
some of us watched the Super Bowl game. The shelf
chains were installed on 9 Feb. The VERY LONG 8‐
foot light strips were reinstalled by Ed and Jack Grill
over 4 and 5 Feb. And lastly, the floor was painted 9
Feb. So moving of ECGRC things from the Third Rail
Car happened Thursday thru Saturday, 14‐16 Feb.
Now the Third Rail Car is empty of ECGRC things.
Shelving start by Orlando Whew! Lots of hands. Lots of hard work. Lots of
activity. It looks like lots of empty shelving but it will
get all filled up quickly with things from the Third
Rail Car and members' trains.
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Fairhope Train Show The SouthWest Alabama Railroad Modelers
(SWARM) has wrapped up its hosting of the
Fairhope Train Show. They ran it for 20 years. It
took a lot of work by many people, and many we
did not know about. Herb Kern was the nexus of
work crews. Herb was doing everything,
everywhere, all of the time. Herb’s declining health
problems severely limited his activities such as
marshaling a train show.
Fairhope 2010 public at the garden RR The old kindergarten elementary school building
availability was also very much in question – open,
re‐use, sell off, tear down, and so on. There were
many discussions, ideas, intents, and stories. All
contributed to the uncertainty of the old school
building future.
Fairhope 2010 and the precious belles
Fairhope 2012 with baby Mocking birds in the bush by the tracks Thus, sadly, SWARM decided it was time to retire
the train show after 20 terrific years.
Ed Dice has participated in most of those train
shows with either the Montgomery AL HO modular
layout, as the NMRA/SER/Gulf Division rep, and
with the ECGRC lawn garden railroad.
While the Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival will still go
on, the train show has retired for a well‐deserved
rest.
It was a great ride. Thanks, SWARM!
Fairhope 2012 garden railroad
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CRESTVIEW TRAIN HISTORY DISPLAY
Paul Weston set up an information display on the
local railroad history at the Crestview library.
Crestview library display of local railroad history - pic by Paul Weston : "It showed the history of the railroads Paul reports
in N.W. Florida. The Yellow River Railroad history
was displayed as it ran from Crestview to Florala.
The railroad was built to support the logging
industry and the trees they harvested were up to 6
feet in diameter.
There was a section on the restoration of the Milton
depot showing before and after restoration
pictures.
A display of G scale trains and the addresses of local
model railroad clubs completed the presentation.
The display ran thru December and into January.
The local newspaper, Crestview News Leader,
published a nice news article on the library display.
Many thanks to Tom Moody for his research help
and, Ed Dice and Frank Paine for the use of their
model train equipment."
: "Nice work, Paul. Jack" Jack Grill
Thanks, Paul, for spreading the word on railroads,
local history, the RR Museum and the garden RR.
Milton Train Wreck Milton authorities reported a significant train
wreck.
Milton Train Wreck - pic by Paul Weston While the local news media panned any coverage,
this significant freight train wreck did occur.
Fortunately, track damage was very limited and
relatively minor. The box cars and other freight cars
were righted back onto the tracks and proceeded
without further impediments on down the tracks.
However, the train engineer was the notorious Mr.
Paul Weston and investigations are still proceeding.
Exact cause was not listed in the available incident
documents. Some local folks attributed the train
wreck to alien squirrels with hostile intents. Some
credence was held by some in that alien life‐forms
in other places like Mars could very well be
instantiated with the form of intelligent squirrels.
Other observations revolved around monster tree
leaves and other debris on the track right of way.
Authorities were not able to authenticate that a
sobriety test was performed on Mr. Weston within
the prescribed time window immediately after the
train wreck accident.
Pending final investigative reports, the engineer
jumped onto another train, a steam engine
passenger train, and encountered another
"incident" on the Milton tracks. Mr. Weston
immediately hopped into an available airplane and
documented that monster leaves did, in fact, cause
the train derailment incident. The arbor society has
not responded to requests for comments as of press
time.
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Aerial photo of steam engine and monster leaves - pic by Paul Weston Given these two train incidents in a relatively short
period of time, authorities are keeping a very close
eye on the activities of Mr. Weston pending final
decisions on the accidents.
Health and Welfare
Stephanie – doing OK but still having some
troubles. Get better, Steff
Carol Stewart – TMJ is still a major bother.
Larry Ramstad – 70 and still chugging along.
Working a charity service in memory of Janet.
Mary Caraway – hand surgery went fine and using
hands now to fix up house and get it listed. Anyone
need a very nice home?
Art Tuttle – bone is healed well, and getting
around very well.
Paul Karczewski – the 7‐1/2” railroad is expanding
and growing. Great progress with lots of help from
friends
Tom & Kathy Perry – Toys For Tots has been a big
success as Bob & Kathy are busy stuffing bags,
collecting toys and all of that for over 400 needy
kids.
Paul Weston – Niece passed away after long
illness.
Bobbie Dorner reports: “on‐going hip problem.”
Frank Paine reports: “All well here. Frank”
Terry Tucker reports: “April & I are fine. Terry &
April Tucker”
Jim Crabb reports: “Still a volunteer at Anahuac
National Wildlife Refuge (45 miles E of Houston).
No train action but lots of bird photography. Life is
great! Health is good for my age. Watching 10 year
old grand daughter playing basketball is
marvelous.”
Pat Stevens reports: “I will pulling out on February
22 thru March 8 on a two week cross country RV
trip to Phoenix, Az. where the second NASCAR race
of the season will be underway. I am truly looking
forward to this R&R. Definitely need it.”
Bill Wertz – Is slowly recovery from some oral
surgery.
Events Dec 1-2 – St Anne’s Christmas Market
Dec 7-8 – Lionel Christmas
Dec 14-15 – Lionel Christmas
Dec 15 – Club meeting and Christmas Luncheon
Dec 25 – Christmas
Dec 31 – New Year’s Eve
Jan 1 – New Year’s Day, parades
Jan 19 – Club meeting
Feb 12 – Fat Tuesday
Feb 14 – Valentine’s Day
Feb 16 – Club meeting
Mar 2 – Forestry Conclave & Lumberjack Festival, Milton PSC campus
Mar 16 – Club meeting
Mar 16 – Bagdad St. Patrick’s Arts & Antiques Fair
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
December 2012
6 – Susan Cope birthday
7 – Jack Grill birthday
10 – Jerry Stewart birthday
14 – Ed Couturie birthday
21 – Ethel & Ed Couturie anniversary
22 – Kathy & Tom Perry anniversary
23 – Ted & Nancy Batchman anniversary
January 2013
5 – John Kashynski birthday
17 – Carol Stewart birthday
20 – Carol & Jerry Stewart anniversary
22 – Eva Dice birthday
February 2013
3 – Tom Perry birthday
3 – Susan & Bob Cope anniversary
5 – Beth Sloan birthday
7 – Paul Weston birthday
9 – Ed Dice birthday
10 – Keith Rapley birthday
20 – Carolyn Rush birthday
22 – Steve Addicks birthday
23 – Jim Rush birthday
If your birthday or anniversary isn’t listed, let Ed know.
Thanks, Santa! Upon my return from Katy, Texas for a belated Christmas with my daughters and son-in-law, I found at the Train Room a large gift. It contained a yellow cattle car with the Katy roadname.
Katy cattle car brought by Santa
New gift fits in well with the rest of the Katy Train The gift tag just said “From: Santa”
So, THANKS, SANTA!!! from Ed.
Not actual image of Ed playing operating with new car, but same emotions! Choo Choo!!
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Water Tower Thanks to Mike Stokes for his extensive rehab of the water tower. It is an old wooden model and those wood and glue joints suffered greatly over the years. It was falling and had fallen apart, with pieces scattered hither, thither and yon. We are still trying to find yon for some missing timbers. Thanks, Mike.
Water Tower rehabbed by Mike Stokes AND, Mike put together the train station that was donated by Dick Engler. Dick gave us the unassembled Piko kit back in Oct 2012 at the swap meet. Mike did a great job on it. It is located on the second lobe close to the new bridge. Thanks again, Mike. And, thanks again, Dick.
New Train Station assembled by Mike Stokes and donated by Dick Engler AND, Mike was seen leaving the Jordan Lot with the old church. It was very, very well weathered having
suffered the ravages of time, Sun, and Mother Nature.
Remember folks, we have lot of other buildings that need some tender loving attention.
Bagdad Festival
March 16 is the third fund raising festival for the Bagdad folks in their efforts to build and open the Bagdad Mill Park. In support of that, Ed Dice and Frank Paine will set up a couple small ovals and run some garden trains. Frank will have his Bagdad Log & Lumber loco pulling some of his log cars. Ed will run some various trains. We have a 14’x22’ picnic pavilion area reserved at the Rec Center and Community Center. All of this located at School St. and Poole St.
There will be a lot of green in the area for the St. Patrick’s Day theme of the festival.
If you wish to participate, let Ed know.
February Meeting The February Club meeting was held on a chilly AND WINDY Saturday, 16 February 2013. Initially, we planned a very short meeting in the Diner to avoid conflict with a birthday (but they ended up showing up late). But the nice sunny weather brought the meeting to the Jordan Lot picnic tables. After a late start while waiting to gather stragglers to the meeting, it eventually got rolling.
All parts of the normal meeting were covered and addressed. Meeting minutes, treasurer’s report, President’s discussion, old business and new business. The next Club meeting will be Saturday,
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16 March 2013. And hopefully it will be a warmer time at the Jordan Lot.
Recently we have had two new Club members join. Jim Brown joined in December. Expect to see Jim and his son Jackson around the tracks. Tom Fitzpatrick joined in February with his son, Matthew. Yes, we now have two Matthews. Matthew is definitely a train nut and eager to run trains.
St Anne's Christmas Fair The annual St. Anne's Christmas Market was held Saturday and Sunday, 1‐2 December 2012. Weather was great and crowds not heavy like at the county fairs but still very interested in the trains.
I set up two large ovals in the 35' x 70' space on the patio plaza. Within that was a small oval for the Christmas train with Santa waving, plus the cloverleaf track.
Set up Friday presented a surprise with the revival of the St. Anne's Christmas Lights. While not as big and spread out over the many past years, they did have mostly the front areas set up with Christmas lights. And there were several visitors admiring the Christmas lights and the trains Friday evening. The Saturday evening crowd for the Christmas lights was bigger with trains running until 8 PM when the crowds dwindled.
Christmas Market shoppers admiring trains. Where are the trains? They got lost? One significant milestone reached was filling the cloverleaf with lots and lots of Eggliners to fill up the cloverleaf. After struggling with lack of power, "More power, Scotty, MORE POWER!!!", finally got
the long string of eggliners powered up and moving. And how many did it take to fill the cloverleaf? It took 24 eggliners all in a line. The set up ran for several hours. A video was captured and posted on Large Scale Online for national viewing. Autographs available by appointment.
Cloverleaf with 24 Eggliners Weather was great and very uncharacteristically warm for a December. The warm weather brought out the dew and it was a heavy dew and fell quickly like a shower during the Friday and Saturday evening. Got surprised and ended up with lots of wet equipment and boxes. One minute no dew, next minute dew everywhere.
Track laid out was estimated using geometry, trigonometry, and a touch of calculus. Came up to 450.44' of track laid out on the patio. The wiggles in the front track area added a little extra movement to the trains. The M&M Train ended up being a surprise hit with a few ladies who were M&M fans. The kids liked all of the trains.
Perry water tank – more in the next newsletter.
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Santa Rosa County Fair
April 5, 2013 brings the 22nd annual Santa Rosa County Fair. This is a very family‐oriented county fair. And we have participated for several years now with the G scale display getting a bit bigger each year.
Santa Rosa County Fair April 2012 - a busy exhibit So far the plan is to participate in much the same way and expect same arrangements. Last year was great with lots of space and VERY CLOSE parking arrangements. We hope for the same this year. If you wish to participate, contact Ed Dice.
The schedule is Friday, 5 April 2013, opening. Then Saturday and Sunday regular Fair activities going on. Closed Monday and Tuesday for some rest and recuperation. Wednesday through Saturday regular Fair activities going on again. Close Saturday evening, 13 April, with take down and pack up and clean up on Sunday.
Last year there were 21 operating tracks, including two N scale tracks. Lots of train running activity and almost too much to see in one quick look.
Forestry Conclave & lumberjack festival
The annual Forestry Conclave & Lumberjack Festival is coming around again. On Saturday, 2 March 2013, the Forestry Conclave & Lumberjack Festival will be held at the Milton PSC campus. Plans are to have the RR Museum display and N scale layout in the library hallway again. No G scale loops, track or display. But volunteers are needed to help staff the RR Museum display during the day. Shifts are just for two hours and it is inside and out of the weather. So come talk about the RR Museum, its facilities and some railroad history.
Rock Pile Plan is to have piles of rocks delivered to the RR Museum. Two piles will be in the courtyard area to help fill in the area and lessen the problem with mud and standing water. The rain showers lately have kept it a mushy, mushy mess.
Galoshes required and no splash zone In addition, a pile of rocks will be dropped at the Jordan Lot for various filling in various areas around the Jordan Lot. Main area is the walk path area alongside the Train Shed. So it surely will be available as a work item on the next First Saturday Work Day, 2 March 2013. Plus, the engine cab at the Jordan Lot needs some rust scraping and applying the rust inhibitor so it can be painted. Plus, there are more than a few weeds still needing trimming around the Jordan Lot, including the thick brush on the north side of the north fence line. So bring some elbow grease and Advil, and an appetite for Lorene's picnic lunch.