2013 UNW / Snohomish County 4-H Foundation Show - Monroe, WA

Effective Jan 3, 2013 the only remaining building with space available is 4-H.

Layouts/Clubs/Participants: Please contact Susan directly for coordinating your participation.

5) Group/Club Display Setup Times: 
Fri February 2nd 1PM - 9PM 
Sat February 3rd 6:30AM - 9AM 
 
FOR BOTH DAYS WE ASK ALL PARTICIPANTS TO BE READY BEFORE THE DOORS OPEN AT 9AM!

6) Clinics

Saturday Feb 2, 2013

11:00 AM - Noon: Noel Holley
Location: Pavilion
Topic: Milwaukee Road Electrification
Description: The Milwaukee Electrics. The Milwaukee Road was a world pioneer in the use of electric locomotives, and from 1915 until the 1950s, the Milwaukee had the world’s longest railroad electrification.  The slides and presentation by Noel Holley will show you those fascinating locomotives and the line that carried them from Montana to Seattle and Tacoma.

11:00 AM - Noon: Dave Montgomery
Location: 4-H Building
Topic: The Modeler's Tool Box
Description: What every well intentioned modeler should have on hand!

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Walt Huston
Location: Pavilion
Topic: DCC - "Just The Basics"
Description: Just the Basics" of DCC such as wiring the layout, reverse loops and Power Districts. Walt will cover wiring frogs for power too, then take questions from the audience.

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Bob Zenk
Location: Pavilion
Topic: Epic Fail - Those Krauss-Maffei Diesel-Hydraulics
Description: 1960s German high-tech horsepower comes to America, and fails..successfully. The world's most audacious experiment in diesel motive power, with dozens of photos on view for the first time in fifty years. What really happened, from the insider's view on both sides of the ocean. (See this one, but come back for Part Two!)

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM: Bob Zenk
Location: Pavilion
Topic: Never Say Never: The Salvation of SP 9010
Description: How to save a KM - the story of SP 9010 and the unlikeliest restoration ever. Pulled from the scrap pile 45 years ago, converted to a Camera Car for a NASA-style locomotive simulator, abandoned and vandalized, then rescued by an unprecedented international cooperative effort. Amazing inside story of the Camera Car, pics of the incredible 2013 restoration effort, and a lot of cool KM modeling too.

Sunday Feb 3, 2013

9:30 AM - 10:30 PM: Mike O'Brien
Location: Pavilion
Topic: Scenicing Your Layout
Description: "ike will demonstrate a simple, yet effective step by step process of how to create and add scenery to your layout to help bring it to life. From the ground up (literally), we’ll cover terrain colors, ground covers, and ground foliage, too.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Tyler Whitcomb
Location: Pavilion
Topic: Building A Scenic Diorama The TW Way
Description: How you can build a photo diorama. This clinic will focus on N scale.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Martin Burwash
Location: Pavilion
Topic: "Vis Major, The Railroader's Perspective"
Description: The 1910 Wellington avalanche, talking about how the events unfolded, and more important, WHY the events unfolded as they did. By seeing the disaster from the point of view of the railroaders, some of the myths will be debunked and a better understanding of the event can be gained. Martin will give a short presentation, then open the floor to Q&A.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Susan Evans
Location: 4-H Building
Topic: Modeling Ponds, Streams And Miscellaneous Water
Description: Learn the art and science of realistic model pond and stream construction from the ground up. Different products, tips and pitfalls will be covered. Other incidental water applications for a layout will also be discussed.

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Doug Hoff
Location: Pavilion
Topic: Basic Scenery
Description: Doug will discuss scenery basics for your model railroad or diorama

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Jim Morgan
Location: 4-H Building
Topic: Track Laying And Ballasting Basics
Description: Jim will discuss the basics of laying track and ballast for your layout

7) Participants (as of 01/07/2013):

Clubs & Layouts

4DHO Modular group
Absolutely Nut
Andy Beekhuizen
Area 51 Hobbies
Azalea Hills
Big Boy Trains & Hobbies
Blue Caboose Custom Paint Services
Blue Mountain Trains
Bob Dahl
Bruce Kane
Buddie Williams
Butch Crist
Cascade Rail Foundation
Cordell Newby
Dan McDaniel
Darrah Company
Dave Blackshaw
Dave Ellis
David Barth
David Howry
David's Toys
DBN Inc
Dean Daughenbaugh
Dennis Millard
Dennis Miller
Dennis Tichi
Details in Scale
Donald E. Marty Trains
Dons Rail Stop
Doug Hoff
Ed Curington
Ed Rutledge
Eddie Mack
Gale Olson
Great Northern and Cascade Railway
Great Northern Services
GreatNorthern Railway Historical Society
House of Trains
Iron Horse Models
Jack Tingstad
Jeff Weinstock
Jenni Brismeur (Massage Table)
Jerry Gilman & Joe Lombardi
Jerry's RR Stuff
John Miller
Joseph Farnik
Karl Rehm
Ken Wolfe
Ken Vogel
Ken Yohe
Kirk Reddie
Leland Fultz
Lowell Smith Signature Series
Mark Graves
Meyers Custom Trains
Milepost 683
Mountain Lionel
Ngineering
Nichols Trains
Old Mill Embroidery
Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Society
Online Trains
Pacific Northwest RPM
Pattern Pool
Platinum Rail Publications (N Scale Magazine)
Plummer Creek Woodworking
PNR-Convention
Randy Wallenberg
Robert Washburn
Rocky Barrick
Roderick M Bayard
Ron Ball
Roundhouse Hobbies
Salsgiver, & Carr
Scentsy
Seattles Train Center
Signal Signs
Simple Brilliance
Skykomish Historical Society
Steve McHugh
Steve Olson
Sunset Junction Model Trains
Tacoma Trains
Ted Livermore
Tex Wilson
The Don McCune Library
The Short Line Model RR Supply
Theodore Wahl
Tim Smith
Tim Timmins
Tom Laughlin
Train Room
Trains & Things
Tyler Witcomb
Victor Anderson
Walter Appel
Wes Jones
Xtrains.com - Model Railroad Landscape Supplies

Layouts

4D Hi Railers
4h T Trak Layouts (N and HO)
Baby Gramps
Boeing Empl Model Railroad Club
Geo-Trax train
Kitsap Western
Mary's Big Circus
Mt. Rainier N Scale Club
Northwest Public Transportation Historical Group
NW Pacific Z Scalers
NW RR Museum
Pacific Northwest On30 Modules Group
Pacific Northwest Railroad, 4dNTRAK Group
Puget Sound Garden Railway Society
Puget Sound Northern Railway
Seattle Pacific and Eastern (4d HO)
Smith N Scale
Stilliguamish Pacific RR
Tacoma NW Model RR Club
TTOS - Canadian
UNW - legacy
Whidbey Is Model Railroad Club
wTrak - Modular Wooden Track

If there are any questions, please email the show coordinator at swaptables@unwclub.org