WHAT: POTOMAC DIVISION Hobby Barn Clinic
Just a heads up that the next JRD Zoom call will be April 12th. You should have gotten an email invitation which will be resent on Friday Morning.
Items for Discussion
1. May Meeting
2. Joint Build - Hopper
3. Partnership Program
4. What's on your Work Bench?
NMRAx March 23rd - This Saturday
3 clinics start later on Saturday so come for a relaxing evening starting at 6 PM
Ed Fisher Obituary and Service Details
https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/va/fredericksburg/edward-fischer-17753145
Handout of todays Chain link Fences by John Winter
JRD Hangout this Friday February 9th on Zoom. Check your email for invitations
Topics
Next Meeting in Ashland
First T-Trak Meeting
Whats on your Workbench?
Layout Tour 2
Ed Fischer’s HO Piedmont and Tidewater Railroad represents a short line that runs up the Northern Neck from Reedsville to Fredericksburg, which was planned but never actually built--pure freelance. It also includes a rebuilt Virginia Central Railway from Fredericksburg to Orange---proto-freelance. No stacks, no racks, no locals ducking into holes to let the varnish by; it is a switching layout with lots of places to spot railcars but not a lot of extras like scenery.
Our First Layout is Jim Moores Southern Railway themed layout The layout is HO Scale and measures 16ft by 27ft. The setting is the Appalachian Region of Southwest Virginia, Southern West Virginia and western North Carolina in 1949. The layout focuses on coal hauling with a few through Freights and Passenger Trains.
Check your email for login credentials
December 8th at 7th
Topics:
Next Meeting
New Tools in Philip Taylor Collection
What is on your work bench
Our annual meeting for the James River Division will be on January 13, 2024 during the meeting in Fredericksburg, VA. Please contact the Superintendent or Ken Montero if you wish to run for office or have an agenda item.
Agenda
1. Election of Officers
2. New Business
Manifest Destiny — Expanding the USMRR Aquia Line by
Bernie Kempinski
It is a well-known axiom that model railroads expand to fill all available space. Bernie will describe how he used system analysis tools to help design the optimal plan for his expanding O Scale USMRR Aquia Line railroad. He’ll also discuss what’s new on the railroad including an automated telegraph, random events, time table and train order operations in the 19th century. If you’re not interested in the techy stuff, there will be plenty of pretty pictures, bad jokes, and dancing girls. There will even be a movie. Just kidding about the dancing girls, but come anyway.
