riogrande5761 At least there are a few Rio Grande folks flying the fallen flag around here! Where is your club in case I get a wild hair to come visit? I'm just north of Stafford on 95.
At least there are a few Rio Grande folks flying the fallen flag around here! Where is your club in case I get a wild hair to come visit? I'm just north of Stafford on 95.
We are about 3 1/2 hours away in Danville VA, midway across the state right on the North Carolina Line. Here is the club's website http://www.dmrrclub.org/ we meet on Mondays and Thursdays at 7PM. (Thursdays generally we meet for dinner beforehand at 5:30) Jim
7j43kYeah, that's what every club needs: ANOTHER person hanging out and jakkin' but not doing much work ("I doubt I would participate as a routine member..."). Ed
Ed,What else can you do when a select few is the only ones allowed to work on the layout?
Larry
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Brakie,Yep, only a select few are allowed to work on our club layout...the ones that actually want to. All one has to do to work on our layout is volunteer. To volunteer, one should go to the chairman of the committee you want to work on: scenery, electrical, trackwork, benchwork, layout design, etc., then ask. If you have a specific task you'd like to do ("I'd like to work on signals," or "I want to build a factory," etc.), the chairman will work with you to make sure you know what needs to be done, then will let you run with it. If you run into problems, see the chairman and he'll help you.
The chairmen are appointed by the club president and approved by the Board of Directors at my club. They are expected to run their committee using the budget money the club provides and give monthly written reports at each club business meeting.
Paul3Yep, only a select few are allowed to work on our club layout...the ones that actually want to. All one has to do to work on our layout is volunteer.
Paul,Volunteers wasn't needed nor wanted.
Your club sounds like the club I was a member of before my heart attack..I help design and build the industrial areas.
I kitbash a rather large (18"W x 24"L) Whirlpool plant.
BRAKIE 7j43k Yeah, that's what every club needs: ANOTHER person hanging out and jakkin' but not doing much work ("I doubt I would participate as a routine member..."). Ed Ed,What else can you do when a select few is the only ones allowed to work on the layout?
7j43k Yeah, that's what every club needs: ANOTHER person hanging out and jakkin' but not doing much work ("I doubt I would participate as a routine member..."). Ed
At the last club I toyed with joining, there were indeed a number of members always "over there" yakkin instead of working. As opposed to what some of us were doing. I never dreamed that they might have been held back by management. I shall have to re-evaluate my opinions of them.
On the other hand, there seemed to be enough of them that they could have formed a sort of revolutionary committee, and DEMANDED a chance to join us. I, for one, would have welcomed my comrades!
Ed
I think "Dave's" attitude about clubs is necesary if you're going to enjoy being a club member. "My way or the highway guys" will never be happy in a club environment. And that's ok..different strokes for yadiyada. But for me the club experience has made all the difference re enjoying the hobby. I do my thing/s (track laying, ballasting, wiring) and other members do what I do not like to do (e.g. woodworking). It all works out.
I was a member of an "old school" HO scale train club for many many years. DC control(layout predated DCC by many years) and there was no interest in converting due to the way the full CTC board and track detection circuits operated. Layout room was 15' wide by 50' long, heated and AC. Designed for operation and when I started there at 16years old, it was just enough "operation" that made it fun. Basic hand written switch lists. If you needed five 40' box cars, you grabbed those off one of the yard tracks and assigned them to certain customers. I moved away for about 9 years and when I returned, they had changed to the car card system. Now it was a much bigger pain in the arse(to me atleast being autistic) to build up trains in the yard and work peddle freights. So for the final years, I ran the coal yard, building up and breaking down large unit coal drags and swapping out power. The new car card system was to much like "work" after a long day at my real job. I personaly find DCC is the same way, to much work and confusing to program up engines and consist. But that is just my preferance. The only group I belong to is a loose knit group of guys and thier wives that operation G scale live steam on the leaders portable layout at a few shows and his house a couple times a year. Otherwise, I am a lone wolf now. There is a local club, its run by a pair of dictators that want to micro manage everything. Mike the Aspie
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome