Open House is Approaching Once More!

With only a few days left until open house, we are ready for the public. This season's open house dates are:

Nov. 26th. & 27th.

December 3rd. & 4th.

January 7th. & 8th.; 14th. & 15th.

Saturday: 11AM-5PM

Sunday: 12PM-5PM

Due to the flood not much progress scenery wise has been done, but a lot of hours and effort by our members have been put into restoring the layouts to running order. As we get through this season, we want to thank everyone who has been following and supporting us on here, our facebook page, and just in general. We hope to see everyone that we saw last year and then some! See ya'll there. All aboard!

8/19/11

i know i know if every one is wondering the roof is fixed and we are in the process of rebuilding the layouts the ho layout got hit the worse. also due to the storm the dispatch tower is being rebuilt as i speak. there is so much going on the parkersburg yd is getting torses switch machines.and getting a new bridge over it. The coal mine is being redone. we have a new power plant going up. tin plate is redoing all there track. O  scale is putting cameras up. We are really buisy with getting ready of open house season.

Sorry I haven't up dated the blog lately. So let me catch you up on everything.

In December the open house went OK we had a descent crowd. Our founder of the club that had a surgery died because of complications.

In January the open houses were great we had a lot of people and made a lot of kids happy.

February was interesting our biggest news was the roof blown off on the 25th and the club getting flooded on the 28th. for more info on this subject go to our facebook page

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It is that time of the year again open house season is here this weekend starts it off what could be better eat turkey on thursday go shopping on friday and spend saturday and sunday with us. all of the dates are up on the club website. the address is also there so what are you wating for come on down. see you all there.

The new DCC Electrical Cabinet has been installed and wired. Testing is now complete. Everything seems to be working the same as it was before the change-over. Phasing between all Boosters now seems to be correct. (A couple of Phasing issues were found and corrected.) This was verified by running several trains around the layout, in the Parkersburg Yard, down to the Port, on the Branch through Wieland, and up the Ohio River Sub. Trains did not slow between districts and breakers did not trip.

A note about this Electrical change: This change was not done to correct any abnormal issues. It was done to remove the old DC power supplies and cabinet, and make the DCC wiring neater and easier to work on if issues were to develop later. Plus it gets some of the electronics under cover and away from the prying hands of visitors.

The May Operating Session is now over. A major electrical change is to begin. For the next two weeks (May 26th through June 2nd at least) the HO layout will be inoperable. (That means that no trains will be able to be run during this time.) A major DCC Booster reconfiguration and wiring change will be taking place. The old gray power cabinet will be removed and a new special DCC cabinet will be installed. Two weeks is the least amount of time required for this change, and it may be longer. Speedy work is sloppy work, as many of you have already experienced, and sloppy work always must be done over and does not save time. An estimated time of completion should be available at the June meeting.

The annual March meeting and Banquet for this year is now over and a good time was had by all. The first business meeting for 2010 will be on April 7th. The next HO operating session is scheduled for March 21st. Work continues on all layouts.