UNW Member Profiles

Peter G. Kim

Started in hobby: 1999
Joined UNW: 2001
Modeling focus: Milwaukee Road Bellingham branch
1970's
Modeling interest: Custom painting locomotives and
rolling stock
Other interests: Pacific NW Railroad history
Occupation: Port Logistics Coordinator

Kent Williams

Started in hobby at age 4
Restarted in 1991
Joined UNW in 1992
Modeling Focus is my home layout "Oregon, Washington, Navigation, & Railway Co" based upon 60's Portland Oregon where 5 Class 1 RR's converged. My main focus is really Operations. My personal layout runs on CTC signaling, however I operate on several other layouts.

Inspirational websites include:
http://www.ownry.com

http://www.wwvrailway.com/  Modeling the Walla Walla Valley

http://members.tripod.com/mr_layouts/sunset_valley.htm - Bruce Chubb's
website

http://www.lwmweb.com/sw&sf - Rick Fortin's layout in San Jose.

Other Interests - Golf, Cycling
Occupation: Supposed to be retired but I now manage an IT department at
Ananda Village.

Keith Lyons

Started in hobby: Age 4
Joined UNW: 1974
Modeling focus: Northern Pacific 1953-1970 Tacoma Division
Modeling interest: Steam-Diesel transition
Favorite Railroading and Modeling Websites/Links:

http://blwnscale.com/   Brooklyn Locomotive Works
http://www.4nscale.com/   Rio Grande Hobbies
http://www.onlinetrains.com/   Online Trains
http://www.nscalesupply.com/   N Scale Supply
Prototype Speeder Car info:

www.pro-online.org

www.narcoa.org
My band: The Encounters

Dave Montgomery

Cut my teeth on my grandfathers HO layout in the early 50's.
Was reintroduced to model railroading in '93, Joined the UNW in '94 just before the Portland NMRA/nscale convention.
My main Interest in MR is building. Anything anywhere anytime. Detailing, weathering, and repairing locomotives and rolling stock.
The computer is the last place I will spend any time so most of my inspiration comes from magazines, books, video tapes, friends, and the world around me.
Other interests? In the past I have golfed, fly fished, worked as a volunteer at the Museum of Flight on the B-29, and still do wood work.
By trade I am a printing pressman, operating a 29" two color press.

 

Shawn Newkirk

Started in the hobby in 1978(first train set)
Joined UNW in Nov of 1986
Modeling focus: Santa Fe, Northwest agriculture, BNSF
Modeling interest: Rail lines between Everett and Vancouver, short lines, rail lines throughout Spokane
Favorite links:

http://blwnscale.com/  Brooklyn Locomotive Works

http://texnrails.com/
Other interests: Darts, Medalist Dart League
Occupation: Teacher

 

Bruce Portzer

Started in hobby: 2000 (not counting childhood train sets from Marx and American Flyer)
Joined UNW: 2002
Modeling focus: BNSF in northern Idaho, also known as "The Funnel"
Modeling interest: a little bit of everything
Favorite Railroading and Modeling Websites/Links:
http://www.icehouse.net/funnelfan  (Ted Curphey's Funnelfan site)

http://www.bnsf.com

Other interests: radio stuff
Occupation: engineer (no I don't drive a train, I test new network technology stuff Cingular Wireless)

 

Tom Hart

Started in hobby: When I was 8
Joined UNW: 2002
Modeling focus: SP/UP/ATSF/MP Transition Era mostly
Modeling interest: Learning about wiring and scenery
Other interests: Golf
Occupation: Retired Naval Aviator (Viet Nam Veteran) and Retired High Tech
Sales and Marketing Manager
 

Wayne Resch

I'm in charge of the layout transportation, and trailer maintainance. I got
started in the hobby in 1945 with two Lionel trainsets[which I still have]
given to me by my father on Christmas.

I joined the UNW about 1994 and have been active ever since.

My focus is the 1920 to 1960's mostly Great Northern and Santa Fe roads. My interests are working and running on layouts and learning, learning, learning. Other interests are RV'ing and Country Western Dancing.

For the next 2 years or so I will be driving truck as I have been for some 28 years with the current employer, along with 3 years over the road interstate. My future is playing with the 5 grand children, playing with the UNW, and retirement.

For membership information, or if you would like to help out at one of the shows, please contact Dave Moser at dmsltjo@msn.com