This Saturday
A
Joint Meet
The
Garden State Division
and
The
New Jersey Division
The
Spring Meet will be dual meet held with
our
sister Division from South Jersey
Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 9:00 am
Location
Hillsborough
Township Municipal Building
379
South Branch Road, Hillsborough, NJ
Hillsborough is just a little south of
Somerville on Rt. 206 and the municipal building is located a short distance off
of Rt. 206
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Directions and maps are available in the Whistle Post
Just
click the Whistle Post LINK below and go to page 11.
Activity Fee: $5.00
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Meet
Activities
Clinics
”Light Up Your Layout
With LEDs!” Presented by
Mike Prokop
This clinic demonstrates the many kinds and
types of LED strip lights that are available, along with neat ideas and the
techniques for using them to illuminate your railroad. If it’s new construction
or an existing layout, LED lighting can provide an easy and cost effective
method of making your layout shine! Light up dark hidden trackage, staging
yards, under the table storage areas, and display cabinets. Working hardware
samples of the LED strip lights will be shown along with power supplies,
controlling devices, and mounting products.
“Sheet Styrene Backdrops” Presented by
Jim Fawcett.
Jim has created flowing and seamless
backdrops on his two deck layout from styrene sheets. He will show you how four
distinctly different applications were used. All attachments are what Jim calls
“temporarily permanent”; very stable and seamless, but removable. Also, the
benefits of styrene include it being light, easy to clean and cut, handle, and
attach. It can be used for backdrops on layouts, modules, and dioramas. As a
bonus the leftover pieces are great for making models.
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“Bring 'n' Brag”
Session
Door
Prizes
Achievement
Program Judging
“Bring a
Friend” for the
Special NMRA Rail Pass Membership
Drive
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After the meet, there
will be FOUR layouts to visit:
“The Sceniced and Undecided”
Rick and Linda Spano’s layout is well known to many as it
has been published several times including in Great Model Railroads. The large
“N” Scale layout features long trains passing through the Canadian Rockies, an
operating rotary coal dumper with live loads, a sea port and large city scene on
the banks of a bay. Special lighting and sound effects and much more are
featured.
“Newark
Terminal Division”
Jim Homoki's HO
layout features the Penn Central and CNJ equipment and operations in the
1969-1974 era. Each main line runs as its’ own railroad, with interchange in the
Newark area. Operating sessions are held monthly and with a recent extension to
Jersey City, now lasts about 3 hours. Most locomotives are sound equipped, with
control by Digitrax.
“Neshanic River
Railroad”
Jim Grill’s
N-Scale Layout based on the Lehigh Valley and Central Railroad of New Jersey
running side by side through eastern Pennsylvania. It has been designed and
built with operation as its basic theme. The model transportation system has
been in operation since 1984 but has been rebuilt three times. The first was
done because of a move to a new house. The second and third rebuilds were due to
floods caused by Floyd and Irene.
“New England &
Western Railroad”
Ed Sproles’ layout is a freelanced HO scale New England
railroad set roughly in the late 60’s to early 70’s. Motive power is leased from
other regional railroads, mainly BM and MEC, it operates with NCE DCC. The
double track mainline goes around the walls of a 30’ x 34’ basement, with one
major city and freight yard. Elsewhere two industrial switching areas service a
number of large commercial buildings. A connection to the north brings in
Canadian traffic. The visible mainline is signaled and scenery is basically
complete.
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To view photographs of the layouts on tour
Just
click the Whistle Post LINK below and go to page 8.
Addresses
and maps to layouts
will be available at
meet.
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We will have a “White Elephant” table. Bring
your unwanted
items to sell. There are always
bargains!
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The NMRA Garden State Division is
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