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ABTO August Membership Meeting
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Banner Desert Medical Center
Rosati Education Center
Ocotillo Conference Room
1400 S. Dobson Road
Mesa, AZ. 85202
480-412-3000
www:BannerHealth.com/Desert
Board Meeting—8am Membership Meeting—9:30am
Coffee and Donuts will be served
THE ABTO GAZETTE
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FOR SALEFOR SALEFOR SALEFOR SALE
THE ABTO GAZETTE
FOR SALE by Dottie Mullen Bachmann 2-6-0 Mogul w/tender and Air Wire 250.00
Bachmann 2-6-0 Mogul w/tender 100.00
Bachmann Climax 400.00
Misc. RR Cars—$15.00 Those e/w metal wheels—$25.00
Misc. Passenger Cars
35 Misc. Freight Cars
4 Misc. Cabooses
Please Contact Dottie Mullen at 623-825-1671
These ABTO items are being offered for sale
Logo Patch $ 2.00 Tan Cap with Logo $12.00 Apron with pockets and Logo $13.00 Denim Shirt with pocket and Logo $20.00 Club Vest with Pockets and Logo-Appliqué $27.00 Polo Shirt with Pocket and Logo $26.00 (available in white, tan and light blue) Sizes larger than XL will be an extra charge To place an order, please contact Tony Vacek 623-566-9274 or [email protected]
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The new Aristocraft 2-8-0 Consolidated in 1:29 scale is now out. List
price is $891.00. $539.89 +s&h at *RLD Hobbies. Available in undecorated,
B & O, Western Maryland, ATSF, Union Pacific, New York Central & US
Army. I don’t understand why it isn’t made for the Pennsylvania RR on the
first run. Maybe because Lewis Polk is a NYC fan.
For us BNSF fans an Aristocraft Dash 9 in 1:29 scale in the
newer BNSF “Swoosh” paint scheme is planed for this year.
Only one road number though.
WHAT’S NEW!WHAT’S NEW!WHAT’S NEW!WHAT’S NEW!
American Mainline has finally released the Bethgon Coalporters after a couple
of years of teasing us. Available in BNSF black, BNSF mineral brown, NS, UP, CSX,
BN, CN, Conrail, Wisconsin Power & Light & undecorated. All but the undecorated
version are available in 4 different road numbers. List price $149.00. $111.89+ s&h
at *RLD Hobbies. I ordered all 4 of the black BNSF ones.
American Mainline has also released a PS’-4750 Covered Hopper in
1.29 scale. Available in Illinois Central, Illinois Terminal, Rock Island,
C&NW green, BNSF “Swoosh”” D&RGW. Santa Fe, Conrail, UP, BN,
CN “Wet Noodle”, NW, CSX, S&NW yellow & Data only. List price
$169.95. $127.89 + s&h ar “RLD Hollies.
USATrains released their new 60 ft boxcars in 1:29 scale. This
car has their new cushioned coupler feature that simulates the
real operation of the prototype boxcar. Kadee 830 compatible.
Available in Santa Fe, UP, SP, Conrail, Great Northern, C & O, BN,
CSX, Rio Grande, NYC, Burlington, PRR, EL, WM, CP, NS, Soo Line,
Southern, Rock Island, BNSF, WP, NH & the Milwaukee Road.
List Price $159.95. $89.89 + s&h at *RLD Hobbies.
Coming soon from USA Trains is a “Shorty” tank car in 1:29 scale. Available in Undecorated
both black & white), ULTX, GATX, SHPX, Hooker Chemicals, Sunoco, ADM, Wyandotte Chemicals,
Dupont, Celanese Chemicals, Brea Chemicals, CPC International, Canadian General, Geigy
Chemical, Tennessee Eastman—Kodak, NS, Penn Salt, Quaker State, JM Huber, Shell Proctor,
UP, BNSF & Christmas. List Price $149.95. $89.89 + s&h at *RLD Hobbies preorder.
* I’m not advertising for RLD Hobbies but they have the best prices I can find on this item.
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SIGS (Special Interest Groups)
MODULES OPERATING SESSIONS Roger Crooks Ennis Thompson Brian Casull
480-964-6058 602-527-0402 480-563-8924
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
PHOENIX CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CARDON CHILDREN’S
Jim Kangas Don Halver/Roy Towne
480-569-1756 480-786-4138/480-361-1969
[email protected] [email protected]/[email protected]
PAINTING/AIRBRUSHING GANDY DANCER Don Sorenson
480-684-4652 Needs a Coordinator
MTH 1/32 G-SCALE MENTOR Roy Towne Bill Nagle
480-361-1969 480-899-9054
[email protected] [email protected]
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OUR CHRISTMAS TOUR UPDATE
Recently, we’ve sent some CCMC pictures by Sandy R. into the Garden Railway magazine with
a short criteria of our Open House Event. This is the first advertisement of the year, which won’t be
published until the October edition? With the progress of the CCMC digital electrical control and
lighting that has been materializing lately, the layout can be one of our featured attractions for this
year’s Open House Tour. Ralph Cunningham, Roy Towne, Jim Snyder, Don Halver, Dan Stoecklin and
the Rauperstrach’s have many hours into the unique layout at the hospital.
With the general meeting coming up in August at the hospital, everyone should be looking to
seeing a culminating production of the early 1900’s reproduction of Sedona Railroading and sur-
roundings.
We have 14 layouts, plus the hospital for the tour in December. A group meeting will be called
sometime during the 2nd week of October. The cut off date is September 15 for new people to join.
With Ginny coordinating the advertisemen, we’re looking for a big push of advertisement,
DVD’s, newspapers, fliers and etc. to promote model railroading in the valley and surroundings. Also,
Michael T. and Ginny have been instrumental in finishing the nice TRIFOLDS for advertisement about
the club and railroading, etc. They should be ready for the modules event next week at the Mesa
Public Library.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
AUGUST 2011
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1Mesa Library
SETUP —8am
RUN TRAINS
11am-7pm
2 Mesa Library
Run Trains
10am-7pm
3Mesa Library
Run Trains
10am-7pm
4Mesa Library
Run Trains
10am-7pm
5Mesa Library
Run Trains
10am-5pm
6 Mesa Library
Run Trains
10am-5pm
7 Library Closed 8Mesa Library
TEARDOWN
8am
9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20Board Meeting
@ 8am
Membership Mtg.
@9:30am
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
Monday, August 1—–—8am—-SETUP Module @Mesa Library—Mesa Library—64 East 1st Street. Mesa. AZ Monday, August 1——–11am-7pm—Run Trains @ Mesa Library Tuesday, August 2 thru Thursday, August 4th—10am-7pm—-Run Trains @ Mesa Library Friday, August 5 thru Saturday, August 6th—10am-5pm—-Run Trains @ Mesa Library Monday, August 8——-8am—-TEARDOWN MODULE Saturday. August 20——8am—-Board Meeting @ Banner Hospital (more information on Page 10) Saturday, August 20——9:30am—Membership Meeting @ Banner Hospital (more information on Page 10) Saturday, Sept. 17——-11:30am—Verde Canyon Railroad Station—departure at 1pm Saturday, Sept. 17——-Blazin’M Ranch—gates open @ 5pm, dinner bell rings @ 6:30pm
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
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Backyard Railroads 2006 Eaglewings
Garden Railroad Tour, Backyard Railroads
2007 Eaglewings Garden Tour & Backyard
Railroads World’s Longest Train. Owner
ABTO. These are new to the library and
were donated to the library by Dan Hoag
of Eaglewings Ironcraft.
Concrete in Railroad Construction: A Treatise on Concrete for Railroad Engineers and Con-
tractors. Published by Atlas Portland Cement Co. Owner: Roger Crooks. This book was listed
in the book review of the July/Aug issue of the Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette so I
bought a copy. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. The original
was scanned and reproduced. This book was originally written as a marketing tool to pro-
mote the use of concrete instead of wood, steel or iron. There are over 120 black & white
photos and illustrations of concrete structures related to railroad construction. The photos
and illustrations are of bridges, bridge piers 7 abutments, retaining walls, depots, tunnels,
coal and sand towers, signal towers, power stations, shops and fences. The use of this book
in the model railroad world is to aid the modeler in improving accuracy when building mod-
els. This book was originally published when the use of concrete and especially reinforced
concrete was not as substantial as it is now. I am amazed at the small amount of rebar in most of these struc-
tures.
LIBRARY NEWSLIBRARY NEWSLIBRARY NEWSLIBRARY NEWS
The ABTO Library is composed of two elements. 1) Books owned by the
ABTO Library. 2) Books owned by individual ABTO members who make their
personal collections available to other members. ABTO members are welcome
to borrow any books on the library list. To borrow an ABTO book contact
Roger Crooks. To borrow a members book contact that member. The library
list is posted a Azbigtrains.org. An electronic copy of the library list is available
from Roger Crooks on request.
Coming Soon! Backyard Garden Railroads 2011 National Railway
Convention Tour . The ABTO library should have this video by the
August meeting.
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RUNNING SESSIONS Brian Casull
Ennis Thompson arrived early with the Board but it wasn’t to attend the meeting. He cornered the Chief Cook and Bottle
Washer of the Snort bear and Widget RR and Mining Company and headed straight for the Big City Yard to set up his consist
for the railroad operations contest scheduled to begin three hours later. Ennis cleverly decided to use the caboose as the
header in front of his two Little Critter Switchers assigned to his consist. Where the heck was E.T. Pack & Ship? Where should
he position the Gon and Reefer that he had to set out there? Should the Ore Car, Hopper, and second Gondola be before or
after? Has anyone ever heard of The Mines Of Moria? He then left to reconnoiter the Snort Bear & Widget RR and Mining
Company to be ready when the rest of his crew arrived.
Don Sorenson hurried in around one hour before the four PM meeting start time. His consist was scheduled first to leave the
Big City Yard and he knew that he was behind in preparation and only a miracle would save him. He studied the savvy Cap-
tain Thompson’s consist. Two can play this game and he muttered under his breath. His crew soon arrived and together they
plotted and planned. How to use the Alco Switcher assigned for their motive power? Roy Towne brought in a “ringer” MTH
switcher. After consultation with the Contest Chair and Judge-it was allowed into the competition at Patience of Hoag Yard.
His tag team assigned there including John Meyers and Bob Clark could get a leg up on the timer by quietly working that yard
consist and positioning the pick ups to their advantage. Now what order should the setouts to WorldCo be in? Where did you
say Snowhite Company was located anyway? Now if Ed Fishencord can only master the nuances of Fezziwig Yard……
Set in a desert landscape complete with awnings, misters and lots of food and drink—the game was afoot. As other ABTO
club members arrived and the Board ended it’s meeting, Ennis huddled with his crew. Definitely the better organized (if
smaller) tag teams included Bob Rauperstrauch and Jim Gardner. This conspiracy continued as Captain Sorenson went “on
the clock.” The onlookers waited, and waited, and….waited Don had hit a small operational glitch. Seems that all of the
“boots on the ground” led to boulders on the track. But Don & Crew were undaunted and quickly took their assigned posts
and trains were rolling…....
Since that initial toe in the water episode of club member’s hands on operations, the germ of an idea has matured to the
concept of why not have on going operating sessions? Borrowing an idea from Nascar-serial events with different operating
challenges and a running point total.
Kick off meeting at the The Snort bear & Widget Saturday, September 24th at 9:00am to see who is interested.
1. Spend an hour or so playing on the RR to get the hang of the layout and some hands on experience.
2. Have breakfast.
3. Those interested will decide the actual structure of the competition ba’sed on points for number of cars success
fully spotted or picked up and total time.
4.. The first “break the ice” competition would happen after breakfast.
5. There will be a subsequent “racing season” consisting of a “tour stop” in October (also at the SB&W but a differ-
ent set of operating puzzles) and ending at my house for the November Club Meeting (The final “race of
the season” would occur during the regular meeting)
6. Points totaled, prizes issued—specially painted railroad cars by Jim Gardner which could be rotated amongst the
point leaders until the final tally and actual presentation to the winner(s) at the December Christmas Party.
7. We will start simple with the level of difficulty and skill level needed escalated throughout the season (or seasons
to follow if this idea works out)
Brian Casull
Photos on page 5 of past running session
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ABTO MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
The renewal fee is $30.00 per year and the new
membership fee of $35 per year entitles you to
attend all meetings and events, to receive the
monthly newsletter, and to have one name badge
created for you. Additional badges may be pur-
chased for $7 each.
ABTO CONTRIBUTIONS
Members are encouraged to contribute articles,
letters, illustrations and/or photographs related
to garden railroading for inclusion in the news-
letter and/or posting on the club web site.
Members who have hobby-related items for sale
or trade may submit an advertisement for publi-
cation and/or posting at no charge. Please limit
each ad to a maximum of four lines. Accompany-
ing photos will be considered for publication as
space allows.
OBJECTIVES
Membership in Arizona Big
Train Operators (ABTO) is open
to anyone with an interest in
gardening and the creation &
operation of large scale model railways. At our
meetings, items of mutual interest associated
with the hobby are discussed and demonstrated.
Meetings are typically held at member’s homes,
where they have the opportunity to showcase
their railway creations. General meetings are
usually held on the third Saturday of the month.
ABTO BOARD MEETINGS
Board meetings will be held on the morning of
the general meeting of each month. Board meet-
ings are open to members who are current on
their dues and have an item for the agenda. If
you plan to attend, call a Board member to con-
firm location, time and date
ARIZONA BIG TRAIN OPERATORS
Arizona Big Train Operators 1633 E. Lakeside Drive Unit 1 Gilbert, AZ 85234
