Superintendents Corner

From the Super:

We have several major events coming up and I hope you all come out and support them. 

We have the Western North Carolina Model Railroad Club show at the Ag Center on March 2 & 3, where we will be staffing a table for recruiting. We need people to man the table while the show is open; at least 3 sessions for Friday and 4 on Saturday. Multiple folks can man the table. Contact Mike Nicoletti. Participants can earn credit for the AP Volunteer Certificate. 

The Southeastern Region Convention is in Gatlinburg, TN on 1 – 3 June, 2012. It’s close to home, they have some good clinics on tap and they are planning a tour of the Dollywood train facilities. It’s a good time and you’ll meet lots of model railroaders from all over the Southeast. The website link is: http://www.ser-nmra.org/convention/2012-gatlinburg-convention  You’ll even see several of our own members giving presentations there. 

I’d like to start a themed modeling contest for each meet. We will have a popular vote for the Best of… The first contest, in April, will be Freight Cars. Bring in your favorite car, hopefully one you worked on this winter, so we can all admire your handiwork. The vote winner will get a spiffy certificate, suitable for framing, at the next meeting. We plan to have a rotating sequence of topics, which we’ll post for everyone soon. This is not to be confused with our Show ’n Tell.

 Speaking of meets, our next one will be held in Enka at the Library. Hello, Haywood County folks, we’re coming closer to you. We have a sizeable number of members over there and we’re trying to reach out to them. If you know of a suitable location towards Waynesville, get us that information so we can hold a meet out there. 

Lastly, I’m asking all of you to sign up for the Land of Sky Division (LANDOFSKYDIV) Yahoo group. It’s a great way for us to exchange information quickly. The NMRA is starting to generate some entry level, on-line clinics for those of us relatively new to the hobby. Being in this group will allow me to notify everyone when one of these clinics is available.