The July meeting of the Color Country Model Railroad Club will be held at Ed’s Clubhouse, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 7 pm. Our club president will give a presentation on turnouts – all you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. The meeting will be in the downstairs portion of the club house.

Just a reminder the HO Group will meet this Saturday from 3:00 – 6:00 PM at the home of the Ascape Tennsion & Sulphur Gulch Railroad — 563 West 2040 South Circle, St. George. Although this is an HO group meeting, members from all scales are welcome. Ed Kruger will do a demonstration on installing DCC decoders in locomotives. He has had much experience and will share the tricks of the trade with us. As more of us move to DCC, this is an important demonstration to help us with this challenging part of the conversion. After Ed’s demonstration we will have a mini-operating session on the ATSG. Those who would like are welcome to stay and operate the railroad. Many of the industries are still invisible but their locations are marked and there are pictures to indicate what will be. Nevertheless, the track is in so we can deliver traffic to these yet to be constructed industries.

The June meeting of the Color Country Model Railroad Club will be held at Ed’s Clubhouse, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 at 7 pm. This month Craig Harding will do a presentation on “date nails” and then Doug Whetstone will introduce you to an on-line program that will help you inventory your railroad collection for insurance purposes. Come on out and join us.

Just a reminder that we agreed to meet this Saturday from 3:00 – 6:00  PM at the home of the Ascape Tennsion & Sulphur Gulch Railroad — 563 West 2040 South Circle, St. George. 

Clinic:  some aspects of operation.   (1)  Yard operations, function of various tracks, sorting cars for delivery.  (2)  Industry switching operations, run around tracks, remote run around, blocking cars, switching moves.  Yard demonstrations with actual trains in the Ascape Yard and the Provo/Grand Junction Staging yard.  Industry operations at Silver King Mine, Park City and Castle Coal, Coalville and Tucker Junction. 

Mini Op Session: (1) The coal train to Coalville (2) The mine train to Park City (3) Car Sorting Ascape Yard  (4)  Through Train Provo to Grand Junction.    Other trains as time permits. 

Model Railroading is fun — and operation is even more fun. 

Dave

This month the N Scale meeting will be on Thursday, June 3rd, at 7:00pm at James’ house, click on the link to get a map to his house.

On Friday, May 7th, the Color Country T-Trak club will be running their layout at the Washington City Library. The Library is located at 220 N 300 E, Washington, UT 84780.

We will be running local Utah trains, like Utah Railway, BNSF, and Union Pacific. We also have a UTA FrontRunner train, just like the ones up north. For the younger kids, we have a Thomas the Tank Engine running on the layout. Operation Lifesaver, a group which teaches train safety, will have a display there as well.

We will be running trains from 10:30am-5:30pm. There is no cost to attend, that’s right, FREE! Bring out the family, come out and see our train layout and have fun!

Here is a direct link to the pictures: http://colorcountrytrains.org/sud/?page_id=28&album=2&gallery=23

The T-Trak Club will be taking the modules to the Ogden Train show on March 5th thru March 7th. This is a great train show to attend as there are several real train engines and cars there, plus a car museum. It is also next to a UTA Frontrunner station, so you can ride a train to the train show! This is one of the larger shows of the year. If you can get up to Ogden, check out this show and come and visit us!

We are putting this video up on the website due to the fact that the module was destroyed in a fire. So long tunnel module.