NMRA Palmetto Division 2024 Fall Joint Division Meeting
When: November 16, 2024
Where: Northgate Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 633 Summit Dr., Greenville, SC
Note: Fellowship Hall entrance and parking are behind the church
Registration Fee: $10.00 per person
> 8:30 – Doors open
> 9:00 – Call to Order
Dr. Walter Laseter led an excellent hands-on clinic on 7/13/2024 at Northgate. We had 13 participants, and everyone went home with new skills and new toys.
The Palmetto Summer Division meeting 2024 was held June 15 at the Railroad Auxiliary Building. We were treated to a great clinic on the history of the Rockton and Rion by Chris Kovacs, who later served as our guide on the train ride where we saw many of the things Chris told us about. Everyone seemed to have a great time.
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Our Spring Meet was held on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Historic Central Depot in Central, SC (413 Gaines Street).
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Our Palmetto Division was well-represented at the CRMHA Train Show in Easley, SC, on February 16-17. In addition to the NMRA Information table, several of our members brought their excellent T-Trak-HO modules and ran trains for the kids (young and not so) to enjoy!
When: October 14, 2023
Where: Northgate Baptist Church
We had a great meeting, with 43 in attendance. Dave Winans shared an interesting clinic on making rocks from ceiling tile, we reviewed the recent hands-on clinics and discussed the recent and upcoming NMRA conventions. We had great participation in the contests, (photo, favorite model and tips/techniques), and got to tour 2 excellent layouts (see photos). We also had excellent sales of our polo shirt and hats.
Our Palmetto Division was well-represented at the 2023 Greer RailFest. We had both our NMRA booth and our T-Trak HO layout up and running. Check out the photos from this community event.
Excellent hands-on clinic on weathering techniques led by members Chuck Jenkins and Jack Varadi. Slides available [here].
Given on September 30, 2023 at Northgate Baptist Church in Greenville, SC. After discussing the basics of weathering, clinicians discussed (and worked with) weathering with powders and washes.
We had two sessions of "DCC-EX Hands-On Clinic" on Mon June 19 (6-8pm) and Sat July 8 (9-11am) with 8 and 7 participants. Both sessions were at Northgate Baptist Church.
Notes [here]
Each clinician built, configured and tested their own Arduino-based DCC-EX command station.
The photos are from the 2nd session (we forgot to take photos at the 1st)
Our Summer 2023 meeting was a big success! It took place on June 10, 2023 at AMROC, 1800 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.
The AMROC folks again provided us with an excellent venue for the meeting, and shared their many model railroads with us after. They are impressive in their willingness to share our hobby with others.
Rich Lehman provided a very interesting clinic on "Nearby Excursion Railroads". His slides are available here: [here]
