Their HO Chesapeake & Allegheny (also spelled Allegeny) was featured many times in MR years ago, and their op sessions were detailed in a clinic at the Valley Forge NMRA National by Frank Winner and me.
What's happening lately?
- The loop-to-loop-with-a-gimmic (John Armstrong's term) track plan has stood the test of time.
- The monthly operating sessions were moved to the 3rd Friday (as in tonight) about a decade ago.
- The operation sessions have been on-going for about 30 years and are great fun.
- Twice a year, the sessions are all steam - summer 2004's is tonight. Fewer cars billed since model steamers just don't pull like diesels.
- The layout runs as good as it looks - sticking with DC.
- The signal system has been upgraded to LEDs.
- WE NEED MORE STAGING cry was answered a few years ago with four added tracks off the hidden lower reverse loop.
- Switching on the layout is a lot of fun - and the industries switched look beautiful thanks to Doc Holtgrewe.
- The moonshiner hillside between the Steel Mill and Nagel Steel has been torn out for rebuilding to another switching/urban area.
- Doc Holtgrewe is back building model structures for the new area - he does about one a week - and even his wife thinks he's better than ever - Logan spent a few years building over 400 1/72 scale WW II aircraft models.
- Membership has hit the max of about 31. The building is too small for a larger membership.
- The accomplished modeler/bull shitter membership ratio is higher than it's ever been.
Stop by any Thursday night you are in the Annapolis area. Or any 3rd Friday
7-11:59 PM. Expect to be asked to run on Fridays.
Doug Hughes 410-647-2370
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887