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Headlights Merlyn Jarman, Superintendent

Oil Can The Oil Can is a publication of Division 7, MCR, NMRA, Inc. Opinions expressed herein are the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Cincinnati Di-vi7, the MCR, the NMRA, its officers, or its members. Space permitting, The Oil Can welcomes news items, articles, and letters on model railroading and related top-ics. Deadline for submissions is generally the fifteenth of the month preceding.

Cincinnati Div. 7, MCR, NMRA Inc October, 2007

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September is a hat trick! To use the hockey reference, Assistant Superintendent, Randy Kerka, gave us a new “three for one” clinic presentation. I heard many favorable comments on the three short clinics presented by Ed Swain, Bruce Knapp, and Scott Firth. Nice job, gentlemen! We had a close call that could have resulted in an alert to Homeland Security when resident Model Rail-road Militia Leader, Bill Edwards, launched an unprovoked attack at the end of Bruce’s clinic! Luckily, and in secret, Bruce was wearing Kevlar underwear to deflect the foam missiles that came his way. Model Railroad knowledge and a Show, now that’s getting your money’s worth! Thanks Johnny’s and Tim!!! A big thank you to our host for the September meeting, Johnny’s Toys in Latonia, and Tim Cook who graciously hosted Division 7. As usual, Johnny’s Toys was very generous in support of our raffle. Okay, we all dropped a few dollars in there but it was a great venue to do so. ALSO, thanks to Tim Cook and Tom Vogt for having their layouts open! 40 Years and still strong-be a part of it! We have one more meeting (Oct. 14th) before our annual Fall Show-Oct 27th and 28th. This will be one of your last opportunities to volunteer for one of the many functions that help make this show a success. Rick Crumrine and his fine Fall Show Crew are going all-out to try and outdo themselves from last year’s spectacular model railroad event. PLEASE volunteer to help with Set-Up, Tear-Down, Admissions, Company Store, Division 7 Membership Booth, Modelers Aid Booth, and Security. I know you will all support Rick and the efforts of Division 7 Fall Show Team. Sign up forms will be at the October Meeting or contact Rick Crumrine. Changing of the Guard The only thing constant is change (someone famous said that) and so it is for Division 7. Some key Div. 7 Members that have faithfully served us in various capacities are now moving on. But the Good News-this is your chance to step up and fill one of these key positions: Company Store-become the purveyor of “Division 7 wear”, Division cars, etc. Don and Dianne Rowland will share their Storekeeper knowledge with you Spring Flea Market Chairman-our fun swap meet event held every March. Ron Gribler will show you the ropes! Car Projects-help continue the long lineage of successful special-release Division 7 cars. Become a freight car research detective and enjoy the pride of bringing something new to the model railroad market. Jim MacKnight will share the “A to Z” of the process. Please consider serving individually or form a Team with a fellow Model Railroader(s) to handle these critical Division functions. This is part of giving back to the hobby and serving the Division that serves you! Fall is here-time to Model Railroad! Merlyn

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Division 7 Officers

Superintendent: Merlyn Jarman 17765 Horizon Way Lawrenceburg, IN 47025 812 539-3232 [email protected] Asst. Super: Randy Kerka 8127 Fox Knoll Dr. W. Chester, OH 45069 513 777-0536 [email protected]

Secretary: Bruce Knapp 118 Cliff Rd. North Bend, OH 45052 513 941-2713 [email protected]

Treasurer: Ed Wagner 9687 Rexford Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45241 513 563-8409 [email protected]

Board of Directors

Bob Adams 859 384-0369 Charlie Atkinson 513 856-7881 Mike Brestel 513 661-2141 John Burchnall 513 860-3852 Rick Crumrine 513 231-5328 Roy Hord 513 777-5337 Paul Maciulewicz 513 779-1686 Jim MacKnight 513 733-1246 Don Phillips 513 226-2233 Dave Read 513 398-7323

Ed Swain 513 779-8211

Committee Chairs

Achievement Prog: Frank Koch, 513 732-6208 Community Svce: Jim Macknight 513 733-1246 John Altshool 513 851-0559 Company Store: Dianne & Don Rowland 513 755-7381 Contests: Jack Laubisch 513 752-3988 [email protected] Membership: Bob Adams 859 384-0369 [email protected] Modelers Aid Pat Homan 513 861-2057 Bruce Knapp 513 941-2713 Fall Show: Rick Crumrine [email protected] Oil Can Editor: Don Phillips [email protected] Web Master: Ivan Baugh [email protected]

Mid Central Region Officers

Regional Trustee– Howard Smith

President: Jerry Ashley 235 Franck Ave. Louisville, KY 40206 502 893-0801 [email protected] Vice-President: Dick Briggs 4397 Hidden St. Grove City, OH 43123 614 277-0314 [email protected] Secretary: Tom Atherton 13524 Newton Rd. Middleburg, OH 44130 216 898-9435 [email protected] Treasurer: Gary Sole 1837 Farr’s Garden Path Westlake, OH 44145 216 650-2192

Second Section Randy Kerka, Asst. Superintendent

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Mother nature has done me a favor and seen to it that my grass went to sleep early this yearOK… maybe it is just dead! Anyway, it’s been a long time since yours truly has done thismuch summer modeling. I hope you all have found the same. On September 9th, we met at Johnny’s Toys Totters Otterville Childrens Entertainment Center at the Latonia store. Tim is always a great host. I promised him that no one wouldexpectorate on the carpet and he, in turn, promised us air conditioning. Thanks Tim! Wewere thoroughly entertained and informed by three fine “Mini-clinicians” all from our own ranks! Scott Firth, Ed Swain and Honest Bruce Knapp. Thank you gentlemen! I am alreadylooking for clinicians for mini clinics in 2008 as well as regular clinics for January, February and March. Contest categories were Models: “Tank Cars” and Photos: “Steam or DieselServicing Facilities or Roundhouses”. Layout visits were to Tim Cook and Tom Vogt. Bothlayouts were excellent! Thanks for being open, guys. You will be happy to learn than Bruce Knapp escaped serious injury when an uncommonlyquiet and docile Bill Edwards finally unleashed a devastating barrage of foam darts in rapidsuccession. Bill later informed me that he is fully licensed to operate that infernal device! And… despite a prior arrangement with Bruce, I won nothing in the raffle. Could it be thatwe have totally lost control of our Raffle Chairman? October 14th will find us back at the Anderson Senior Center. Our clinician will be our ownworld renown and “narrow-minded” Roy Hord. Roy will not allow us to leave the meetingwithout knowing everything worth knowing about Railroad Telegraphy. Bruce McClure hasagreed to be open that day. I am still looking for one more layout out East. Call me or email me at [[email protected]] if interested. The 40th Annual Division 7 Train Show is October 27th and 28th at Lakota West High School. With the support that we always get from our membership, I know this will be the best showever! On November 11th we will head up to the Hamilton Senior Center. I have really been lookingforward to this one as we have National Clinician and well known “Man-of-Steel” Dean Freytag coming in to give his “Steel Mill Modeling” clinic. Many of us already own a Freytag book or two and will agree that he is THE authority on the subject. I sat down with Dean forquite some time at the Detroit National Convention and I can tell you with no reservation…we are in for a treat! I think the WhistleStop will be in full operation and then we will be visiting “Travelin’ Charlie” Atkinson’s Hocking Valley and Bill Mense’s C&O. On December 9th we will return to the Westwood United Methodist Church for the AnnualPot Luck Slide Show. Bring your 35mm slides OR digital slides in .jpg or PowerPoint formaton a USB memory stick or CD. Please limit them to groups of 10 slides. As time allows wewill go around again for another 10 slides.“Honest Bruce” Knapp promises that one luckyattendee will win that engine he has been touting. Contest categories are Models: “False Fronts (thin-line buildings)” and Photos: “Your choice!!!”. Layout visits: There is no layoutvisit yet scheduled. (Maybe Jerry Strangarity & who knows?) If you have ever thought about having your layout open for an after meeting visitation,please, call me, write me, email me, telegraph me… cause if you don’t… I will never know.[[email protected]] And here is another reminder that we are looking for a fewgood members to take over and/or assist with some important division functions: namely, Company Store, Car Projects and the Spring Flea Market. The outgoing folks in these areasare very willing to train any member who would like to get involved with these very importanttasks. This is an excellent opportunity for some of you new folks to get involved! This month’s “rambling” concerns adding sound to your layout. Not just engines andcrossings… but scenery and structure ambience too! Cows mooing (or screaming) in thestockyards, city traffic noise, sawmill sounds, outhouse ambience, waterfall sounds, are justa few of the hundreds of cool sound effects that are available from several vendors in simplemodules (at reasonable prices) that use small speakers hidden under the layout. To learn more just Google [model railroad sound] on the Web. Next month we’ll talk a bit about on-board video! Catch you later. Randy

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Fiction and Fact from Don’s Almanac The Oil Can - October, 2007 -

Some more history On February 23, 1830, the first railroad charter in the state of Ohio was issued to the Ohio Canal & Steubenville Railway Co. Not only was it the first railroad chartered in Ohio but was also the 2nd railroad to be chartered in the United States. (The first being the B & O.) It failed to achieve the needed financial backing andwas never built. The 2nd railroad to be chartered in Ohio was the Richmond, Eaton & Warren Railroad on December 29, 1831 and while construction was started and considerable work done it was never finished. The 3rd Ohio charter and the first to actually be built and finished went to the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad on January 5, 1832. On February 23, 1855, the line having been extended to Cincinnati, the name was changed to The Sandusky, Dayton & Cincinnati Railroad. On January 5, 1866 it was sold and the name changed to The Sandusky & Cincinnati Railroad Co. On January 11, 1868, having been extended to Cleveland, the name waschanged again to Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad Co. Finally on November 1, 1890, the CS&Cwas leased to and eventually became part of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. In early 2002, Division 7 came out with the first of two CCC&StL hopper cars for car projects. The first as originally built and the 2nd a year later as it was rebuilt. So the next time you see one of these cars go by on yourlayout remember its prototype heritage goes all the way back to the first railroad to be built in Ohio.

The Gilbert Ave. Mystery

We received numerous responses to Dave Puthoff’s question about the rail exposed by construction onGilbert Avenue. Several suggested the possibility that they were relics of the original Cincinnati Northern.Further research showed that not only was the CN a 3 foot narrow gauge but also approached Cincinnati downa 3.4 % grade on a long trestle that was located behind or to the west of the existing Baldwin building. Thisfor all purposes paralleled what is now I-71. As you drive up I-71 from downtown Cincinnati you will see a large excavation taking place just north of the Baldwin building. The excavation has uncovered several stonepiers that are assumed to be what’s left of that trestle. At the top of the hill, the remains of the old tunnel are still visible.

Pat Holman advises he recalls riding Cincinnati Street Railway’s streetcars from Hyde Park todowntown on Rts. 68, 69 & 70 all of which traveled up and down Gilbert Ave. He also suggests that theexposed rails are the left rail of the up track and the left rail of the down track. Several others have advancedthe same theory. Hence the 5 foot spacing.

Jim Sicking currently working at the Cincinnati Transit Historical Society Library provided thefollowing: The first record of tracks on Gilbert Ave. was 1872 for horse drawn streetcar route 10. The horsecars rode on 5’2 ½“ rails and even with extra teams of horses it took 30 minutes to make it to the top of thehill. In 1885 having proved successful in San Francisco, the Gilbert Ave. line was the first in Cincinnati to be converted to cable by adding a slot between the existing rails for the cable. In 1898, the line was the firstCincinnati route converted to electric however the first electric motors were not strong enough to pull the hill so the cable was still used for some years until stronger motors became available. (John Watson reports theoriginal building that housed the steam plant for the cable is still standing at the top of the hill. Converted toan office building, it’s called the Cable House.) In 1946 Trolley busses started replacing the streetcars and fora while, both rail cars and trolley busses ran on Gilbert. 1951 saw the last street car to run on Gilbert Ave.Over the years starting in 1926 most existing rails were replaced and these probably date prior to WW II. Aswith many of the old street rail lines, as the road surface was repaired, they simply paved them over and after60 plus years, Gilbert Ave. has probably been resurfaced more than once. This seems to answer the question of the origin and why the odd spacing between rails.

Don

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Modeling: Senior Division

Jim MacKnight 35 Frank Hermanek 20 Ron Gribler 09 Ron Pearson 06 Clayton Hillard 05 Charlie Atkinson 04 Tom Brueggeman 03 Perry Simpson 03 Barry Martz 02 Paul Musselman 02 George Roos 01

2007 Competition Point Standings Through September

Photography: Senior Division

Jim MacKnight 40 Jim Corbett 12 Rich Piland 09 Perry Simpson 08 Frank Hermanek 07 Jim Hodde 05 Clayton Hillard 05 Jim Rollwage 03 Jerry Baston 02 Rick Stern 02 Robert Chapman 01

There are two opportunities for competition next month as we have our regular scheduled Division meeting on October 14 and then our Annual Fall Train Show on October 27 & 28. The contest for models on the 14th is Heavily Weathered or Damaged Passenger Cars (a NEW category) - not to be confused with passenger equipment relegated MOW service. For Oct. 27/28, the category will be Coaling Towers/Water Towers and/or Plugs/Sanding Facilities/Steam Engine Fa-cilities/Diesel Engine Facilities/Fueling Facilities/Roundhouses with Turntables. (This is a NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-OFFERED Category in Model Competition!). This will give the paying public an opportunity to see some of the models we build for our layouts. For Photography competition on the 14th make your entries in relation to Trains in inclement weather (as you know, trains traveled in all kinds of weather, not just sunny times, so show us this aspect of railroading with your photographic expertise)—–rain, fog, snow, sleet, hail, etc.. are all to be considered. For the 27th & 28th, we want to see photographic entries of Division 7 members’ home layouts which will show the paying public what some of these “basement” or ‘outdoor” or “attic” empires look like.

Jack Laubisch, Competition Chairman

September Competition Results Models:

Tank Cars

Box Stock: 1st Pl. Jim MacKnight - Shell Oil SCCX 1202 2nd Pl. Clayton Hillard - Sherwin Williams #105 3rd Pl. Frank Hermanek - Precision Scale Car Kit Bashed: 1st Pl. Frank Hermanek - Mobile Gas WSRX 8044 2nd Pl. Jim MacKnight - American Clay ACFX 75360 3rd Pl. Ron Gribbler - Shell SCCX 54890 Scratch Built: 1st Pl. Tom Brueggeman - Conoco CONX 5 No Other Entries Junior Division: No Entries.

Photography: Steam/Diesel Engine Facilities

Model Slide: 1st Pl. Jim MacKnight - 2-Stall Eng. House No Other Entries

Model Print: 1st Pl. Jim Rollwage - UP Coal Chute @ Denver 2nd Pl. Jim MacKnight - V&O Sand & Oil Facility No Other Entries

Prototype Slide: 1st Pl. Jim MacKnight - Cass Water Tower No Other Entries

Prototype Print: 1st Pl. Jim Corbett - CUT Ash Pit 2nd Pl. (tie) Frank Hermanek - B&M Oil Facility 3rd Pl. (tie) Clayton Hillard - Turntable & Rndhouse

Junior Division: No Entries

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Tips from a Master Modeler

RESISTANCE SOLDERING

Last month when I wrote about welding, brazing and soldering I suggested that you should try resistance soldering as it’s a great tool to make joints close to each other without remelting them. Well I took that advice and kitbashed a Bowser/Pennsy H9, a 2-8-0 Consolidation (Connie) and scratchbuilt a 1923 Mack Railtruck. Going back, years ago the price was right and I purchased the H9 kit. Never built it, as Belparire fireboxes are not to be found on my HO Gauge Imperial Valley Railroad. For years the kit sat on the shelf until along came a MRR’er article on modeling an ALCO N-5a in HO Scale. Simply great, as it gave construction guidelines and a list of commercial parts for converting the engine into a type N-5a. Finally, the H-9 could be transformed into a proper looking Connie; but not until all the cast-on details were re-moved and a new cab built. Removing the cab left gaping, see-through slots in the Zamak casting. These were filled in with Squadron Green Putty; and, following another MRR’er article, new components for the cab were laid out and cut from 0.010” brass. Assembling the detail parts into the cab was done using two “new” tools. These included silver-solder, a lead free soldering alloy, in powder and paste form, and a resistance-soldering unit. (The paste is both a vehicle, for easy dispensing of the powdered solder alloy, and a flux, which cleans the surfaces to be joined while preventing oxidation of the joint.) The soldering unit consists of a power supply with rheostat; an on/off footpedal for power input; a tweezer type handpiece; and, two electrodes – a ground (an alli-gator clamp) and a handpiece probe. The ground is attached near the area being soldered while the probe is “touched” to the spot being joined. This causes a low volt-age, high amperage current to pass through the parts being joined. Resistance at the joint generates heat that melts the solder/paste making a clean, well-bonded joint. Heat is controlled and confined to the area being worked so it does not spread out to loosen neighboring details previously joined. Operation is simple: attach the clamp, touch the probe to, or near, the mate faces, and de-press the foot switch allowing current to flow causing the solder to melt. When the solder flows the foot pedal is released BUT – the probe is held firmly in place until the joint has cooled and the solder has hardened. This takes only a few seconds and assures a tight joint. A rheostat on the power supply controls the amount of current delivered, so an assortment of parts and sizes, big or small, can be soldered. However, part size will dictate the amount of energy needed for joining. Therefore, it is best to experiment and deter-mine what power level is right for the parts you’re working with. And, ALWAYS REMEMBER: touch, press and hold the probe in place until the joint has cooled. As noted earlier, the resistant soldering unit was used in joining the 2-8-0’s cab walls. To keep the cab’s corners tight and square components were fixtured using one-inch hardwood blocks purchased in Hobby Lobby. A thin bead of paste is spread along the inside of the joint to-be and the probe is then drawn along it causing it to melt and form a continuous, bright metallic fillet. This is repeated for the four walls and roof. The finished cab is shown in Photo 1. In assembling the 2-8-0’s cab I used the probe; whereas, the tweezer handpiece was mostly used to construct the 1923 Mack Rail-truck shown in Photo 2. While the Railtruck’s cab was assembled using the probe, all the small flat details, as the sideboards and trucks were joined using the tweezers. As with the probe - release the foot pedal to stop current flow and maintain pressure, hold-ing the tweezers shut, until the solder has solidified. Honestly, I could not have kitbashed the 2-8-0 or built the railtruck without the resistance-soldering unit. It enabled me to make joints, neighboring each other, that would have been impossible with a heated soldering pen or gun. Without the resistance-soldering unit neither the Mack Railtruck nor the 2-8-0 Connie would ever have been built.

Frank

Photo 1

2-8-0

Photo 2

By Frank Hermanek MMR # 360

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Around

The Region

10/06/07 Div 4 Carnival of Railroading. Cuyahoga Fairgrounds, Berea, OH 10/20/07 Div 10 Lexington Train Show Oleika Shrine Temple Lexington, KY 10/27-28/07 Div 7 40th Annual Fall Train Show. Lakota West High School, 11/3-4/07 Div 3 Dayton Train Show Hara Arena, Dayton, OH 11/11/07 Veteran’s Day “Triangle Trip” Bloomington, IN 11/17/07 Div 8 Fall Train Show & Sale. Highland V F W Post. Louisville, KY 03/08/08 Div 7 Spring Flea Market. Lakota West High School 05/15-18/08 MCR Port City Meet Mid-Central Region Convention, Cleveland, OH

06/25-29/08 N-Scale National Convention Louisville, KY 07/13-19/08 NMRA National Convention Anaheim, CA 07/05-11/09 NMRA National Convention Hartford, CT

White Elephants are Back at the 2007 Fall Show

I’m back again for any individual Division 7 members with a few items that they wish to sell, but not enough to justify the cost of a table. Fill out the inventory form on page 7 listing your name, address, and telephone num-ber and each individual item with a description and code, so I can match it back to you, and your firm asking price. (I won’t negotiate to a lower price) Each item must be clearly marked and priced. Put all your items in a bag or box and get them to me. Make special arrangements to meet me or bring them to the show on Saturday morning, I’ll log them in, sell them, calculate how much you get back (the division will keep 10%), and you can pick up your unsold material and money on Sunday right after the show closes or ater the show at a later meet-ing.

All items are placed in the White Elephant Sale at your own risk. Neither Division 7 nor Frank Koch assumes any liability for items damaged or stolen during the show, though we will provide due diligence for their safety. We will not accept items that are not prepared as indicated here. We reserve the right to refuse any material that we deem unsuitable. If you want to help out at some time during the show, let me know.

Frank Koch

Get ready, the BIG 40 is coming

Scale Survey Last month we asked our readers to answer a survey as to what scales they were involved in. To date we have received a grand total of 8 responses out of a possible 325. Since we advised we would report the results in a future issue, here they are.

# Gauge # Gauge # Gauge 2 O 2 rail 3 On30 2 HO 1 O 3 rail 1 S 2 N

You may know where you are, And God may know where you are; But if the Dispatcher doesn’t know where you are, Then I hope You and God are on very good terms

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2007 Division 7 Fall Show White Elephant Sale (10% of actual sales retained by Division 7

Name:________________________________________ Street Address__________________________________ City, State, Zip:___________________________________Telephone_________________________ Initials Last 4 digits

of phone # Item

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1st Pl. Box Stock Jim MacKnight

1st Pl. Kit Bashed Frank Hermanek

1st Pl. Scratch Built Tom Brueggeman

Miniature Golf on Tom Vogt’s layout

Wicked Wanda’s on Tim Cook’s layout

September Contest Winners

September Layouts

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Next Meeting

2 PM Sunday October 14, 2007

Anderson Senior Center

D irectio n s

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40th Annual Model Railroad Show

Lakota West High School

Saturday October 27, 2007 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Sunday October 28, 2007 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

8940 Union Center Blvd - West Chester, Ohio 45069

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As we announced in last month’s Oil Can, Miami University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science was using the design and building of a model railroad as part of this semesters curriculum.. Eight teams will each build a model railroad from the ground up to start honing their engineering skills. On September 20th Bill Edwards, Scott Firth, Greg Klinker, Dave Kullman, Dave Read and Bob Shreve journeyed to Oxford to put on Model Railroading Clinics for the budding engineers.

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Knapp’s Notes The Oil Can - September, 2007 -

September Meeting

We returned to Johnny’s Toys, Latonia, Kentucky for our September meeting. The 70+ attendees seemed to bepleased with the location and facilities. Tim Cook and the good folks at Johnny’s went out of their way tomake us feel welcome, including 10 $10.00 gift certificates for the monthly raffle. Tim Cook and Tom Vogt had their layouts open after the meeting and, of course there was a bit of shopping to be done inJohnny’s train department. Three of our division members shared their expertise with the attendees. Ed Swain gave a short, but excellent clinic of using sheet styrene for concrete roads and sidewalks. If you missed Ed’spresentation we plan to make it available either through the Oil Can or on the Division 7 web-site. Scott Firth made a very informative presentation on estate planning, with the emphasis on individual members traincollections. I did my usual discussion of basic locomotive maintenance. The high point of the meeting, for meat least, was the return of my good friend [I won’t say old] Jack Fischer. Jack has been on the Division SickCall for the past few months and has certainly been in everyone’s prayers. Jack, it was great to see you; sorryabout the raffle. Speaking of the raffle; please notice that Randy Kerka DID NOT WIN this month. We also had an unfortunate incident with Bill Edwards and some foam rockets; you can’t take some people out in politesociety. I also was happy to welcome visitor Tom Blaznek to the September meeting. I know Tom from CharterBus Company, in fact, Tom helped with transportation at least one of our region conventions.

Dick White I had several folks ask why we were so hard on Dick White, especially with all the references to his advancingage. I think part of the reason was Mike Brestel wasn’t there to harass and Bill Edwards was armed. We shouldall be ashamed of picking on this poor gentleman; but then I ask myself “why”? None of us could come up withan answer. Oh well, Dick is a very good sport. On a serious note, Dick was the chair for two regional conventions and I had the privilege to work for him. Dick is one of the best organized people I have everworked with; he made convention planning exciting. The Monthly Raffle I can’t finish my article without some passing reference to our honest[?] raffle. I need to thank Dick White andMike Brestel for the donation of some O scale items for future raffles; also a great big THANK YOU to TimCook for the gift certificates. Bill Mense and clinician Dean Freytag have donated two Plastruct kits for our November meeting. We have had an anonymous donation of of a P2K New York Central USRA 0-8-0, with a DCC decoder installed, for our December raffle. The Plastruct kits and the 0-8-0 will be a special drawing; the tickets will be on sale at the October and November meetings. The special tickets will be $1.00 each. Toanswer a couple of concerned members this month’s winning tickets were drawn Friday night at the BODmeeting. If you would like to improve your chances of winning you might consider [1] putting both parts of your ticket in the hopper [doubles your chance of winning] or [2] I understand the raffle staff can be bribed. Happy Modeling, See you in October.

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Thank You !

A big thank you to Ron Gruber from DCC Trains who donated

6 Microscale N cars and 6 Athern HO cars

to the Honest Raffle.

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National Model Railroad Association, Inc. Division 7, Mid-Central Region PO Box 62501 Cincinnati OH 45241

If there’s an asterisk on your mailing label, call Bob Adams about your membership! (859) 384-0369 [email protected]

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Month Date Location Program/Speaker Layout Visit Contest Topic

Oct.

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Far East

Anderson Senior Center

Railroad Telegraphy

Roy Hord

Rick Crumrine Bruce McClure

Models: Heavily Weathered or Damaged passenger cars Photos: Trains in bad weather

Oct.

27-28

North

Lakota West High School

40th Annual Fall Train Show

Show Layouts

Models: Dioramas-Steam/Diesel Service facilities or roundhouses Photos: Members open houses

Nov.

11 North

Hamilton Senior Center

Steel Mill Modeling Dean Freytag

Charlie Atkinson Bill Mense

Models: Hoppers, loaded or empty Photos: On-line structures

Dec.

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West Westwood

Methodist Church

Annual Pot Luck Slide Show

TBA

Models: Backdrop Buildings

Photos: Hoppers/Gondolas Loaded/Empty

Cincinnati Div. 7 Hotline (513) 662-RAIL

Div 7 Web Site - www.cincy-div7.org MCR Web Site - www.midcentral-region-nmra.org

Coming Down The Line Cincinnati Division 7, Mid-Central Region, NMRA

2007 Schedule

NOTE: ALL REGULAR MEETINGS START AT 2 PM (Unless otherwise notified)

Modeling Problems? Member aid Committee Pat Homan (513 861-2057)

Bruce Knapp (513 941-2713)

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