Here is an awesome helpful hint from one of our members! I use small tweezers a lot when building models. One of the issues I’ve had is small parts flying out of the tweezers and of course they always seem to end up on the floor. They just don’t grip well since they’re steel. I…

Just a reminder that the monthly meeting is coming up at 7:00 PM tomorrow, Tuesday, August 19 at Songbrook. It looks like a fun agenda:1. We will cover basic model railroad electrical concepts. This will be the first of several sessions on the subject.2. Discuss and review the Songbrook show. What went well? Where can…

Saturday, September 27thBattle Ground High School, Battle Ground, WAShare the flyer linked below with your everyone you know!Southwest Railroaders Model Swap Meet 2025Call now to reserve vendor tables, details in the flyer linked above.Questions? Contact Larry Sprenkel at 360-619-8899We hope to see you there!

July Club Meeting, coming soon!– July 15th, 7pm – Songbrook—“Crating” module pairs—New garments have arrived!—Making power feeders to allow modules to easily convert from all-DCC to DCC (red track) and DC (yellow track) Want existing modules, already with power feeders, to be included in layouts where we might change the inner loop to be DC,…

June 21st – 9:00am – 2:00pm24483 Warthen Road, Elmira, Oregon Dale deals in equipment from estate sales, consignments, and the like. In the past he has had good stocks of Kato Unitrak, N-Scale locomotives, rolling stock, and many other items at good prices. He has invited others with G-Scale trains they’d like to run, to…

The club discussed hosting a garage sale, so those selling items can collaborate to offer their wares to club members, as well as to those in the local community. Details to come.

At our June meeting, the club determined to enable DC operations on the rear/yellow track of our layouts; or at least a separate loop of the rear track if the layout enables it. Testing of the DC operations will hopefully be tested at the Songbrook event in July 2025.

Saturday, July 26th – Operations to begin @ 8:30am – Songbrook Mobile Home Park, Eugene

Come see amazing HO and N scale layouts in action and shop from vendors selling trains and train supplies. Dates & Times: Friday, June 20: 9 AM – 6 PM Saturday, June 21: 9 AM – 6 PM Sunday, June 22: 9 AM – 4 PM Location: Jasper Grange — the white building at the…

The t-shirt/cap printing company got off to a slow start on our order, but anticipate finishing by the end of June. We should have them for our July meeting and exhibit day.