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Garden State Division
Each month we will try to highlight a neighboring Division and give you links to their newsletter and website. Thus giving our members a chance to visit our NER brothers and sisters.
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Greetings Members!
Our first layout visit of the new season! Ken Nelson's Poco Valley is a perennial favorite and Ken is a wonderful host. A true operating layout, right down to it's custom paint scheme that also enjoys the benefit of well thought out and executed scenery.
Please note our start time and
DO NOT arrive before
7:30 pm. Thanks for your cooperation!
Don't forget to return the ballot found in this month's issue before November 20th.
YOUR VOTE IS IMPRTANT!!
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What's on track for this month
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Ken Nelson's
POCO Valley Railroad
The Poco Valley is similar in many ways to a real railroad. It has location, direction, purpose, and operating rules. The railroad has a reason for being- transporting coal and cement locally mined and produced and serving numerous other on-line industries. The railroad operates various local and through freights as well as commuter and named passenger trains. The railroad has connections to the Boston and Maine, New York Central, Delaware & Hudson and the Erie Lackawanna.
The Poco Valley is designed for operation but make sure you take a good look at the scenery and structures. Make sure you inspect the scratch built Rockville trestle with all the nut and bolt castings. Check out the engine facilities at Nelson City and think about the work involved in scratch building the staircase on the coaling tower.
The Poco Valley has a long history as it was first started in 1960 and went through a major reconstruction starting in 1983. So now with 55 years of service under the same flag, connecting Boston through Nelson City to Chicago, it has outlasted some prototypes. Just think, the Poco Valley flag has outlasted Conrail by 34 years.
Ken has worked on the New Hope & Ivyland, the D&H, has
written articles on model railroading for several modeling
publications and wrote a series of articles on railroad operations
for the
Form19
for which we are grateful.
Friday October 9, 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
15 Washington Road
Scotia, NY 12302
Check your Form 19 for maps and directions
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News from the National
NMRA Directors and Officers
The NMRA Board recognized the newly elected and re-elected members: Peter Youngblood, MMR (North America At Large Director), Mike Bartlett (Pacific District Director), Joe Gelmini, MMR (Eastern District Director). It also recognized newly elected Vice President - Administration Clark Kooning, HLM, MMR and Vice President - Special Projects Gerry Leone, HLM, MMR who took office at the General Membership Meeting on Thursday evening at the recent NMRA Convention in Portland.
Additionally, the Board thanked outgoing Vice President - Administration Dave Thornton for his many contributions and years of service. The Board also named Pete Magoun, MMR, as new Lead Director.
NMRA adopting standards for Layout Command Control
The National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) Board of Directors has agreed to adopt standards for Layout Commands Control (LCC), formerly known as NMRANet. LCC is an operating system protocol, which will work hand-in-hand with Digital Command Control (DCC), handling all non-motive power related functions on a model railroad layout, such as signaling, telephone, and automation. In essence, LCC is DCC for the rest of your layout. LCC was developed over the past several years by the OpenLCB Group - a large group of volunteers with expertise in electronics, networking, programming, and model railroading similar to the group that developed Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI). The final draft of the LCC protocols and the specification documents have been published for comment on the NMRA's website. Look for an article describing all of the benefits of LCC in a future issue of the NMRA Magazine.
Tom Draper - HLM, DSA, FA, MSA, PA
Director - Support Services
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I look forward to seeing you at the October 9th meeting.
Sincerely,
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