ScOONs Meeting Summary 6th August - 10 Members attended, chaired by Roger
The meeting started with a discussion on the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh
Alan - has been running his Bachmann Thomas locomotives and also putting them on You Tube and the society website. He has also built two baseboards for his engine shed layout.
Ian - is getting ready for the Edinburgh exhibition and showed us pictures of the progress on his return corner modules, with track now ballasted and tunnel mouth built on his second one, SNYME (Gaelic for junction). He has also built a Metcalf signal box.
Vern - has been in Lower Michigan during the week visiting many museums and railway meetings.
Hugh - showed us photographs of two of his TT wagons he has converted into 009..
Rik - showed us the progress he has made on his modules for the Edinburgh exhibition. He has laid his track and completed some of his scratch built buildings.
Chris - has been arranging some of his buildings on his layout.
Roger - is also working on his module for the Edinburgh exhibition. He was also invited to the Kirkcudbright exhibition with his 'Coffee Table Layout' and is now a member of the Kirkcudbright Model Railway Society.
A conversation then took place on rack and pinion railways and Ian showed a photograph of some amazing point work on one.
Our next meeting will be on Monday 18th August and will be chaired by Tom.
Our next exhibition will be at George Watson's College in Colinton Road Edinburgh on the 6th/7th September. Public transport is available to the venue from Princess Street. (Number 10 bus. I believe there are also other buses to the venue).
Hi Guys
Just in case you can't find my post here's
My YouTube channel most of my posts are short mainly to let my relatives see that I do actually run them from time to time lol https://youtu.be/v0Qn_JeRDXc?si=vB3phKthJEu7jdXV
Thanks
Alan