Home Activities

Reservations are not required for Tuesday and Friday meetings.
Masks are still required.

Club members have been using their isolation time to build, experiment and innovate! See the pictures below - and maybe be inspired!! Thanks to everyone who sent me pictures of your activities. I've grouped the members' photos in separate galleries, by member's name (as of Sunday May 10). They are, in alphabet order, starting at the top - Bill, Bob, Dave, Doug, Paul, Randy, Rick and Walt.
I can add more, if you send them to me, preferably by email. Include descriptions of your photos - otherwise I will make something up! - Chris

The beginning of Bill's layout. Followed by wiring and building structures.

Below: Part of Bob B's layout and snow shed. Bob's layout continues to progress - the snow shed background, great corner work, and trees. The last picture in the frame is Bob's wife's cousin Graham Murphy took several photos of CP 424, a D4g class 4-6-0 built in Angus Shops in May 1915. It was the last steamer to pass through Calumet, Quebec (in 1957), and was scrapped in 1966. Calumet was home to my mother-in-law and to my Dad, and his in-laws lived there for a number of years.

Below: Dave N's layout in his man-cave. Five new pictures added Feb 2/2020 (at the end of the gallery)

Below: Doug G's layout in the basement. The layout is ECR - standing for "Extra Cash Railroad"

ECR (Extra Cash Railway)

Waterfall

Street scene

The mountain coming along

Doug's 1st Hornby kit.

And another new switch tower

Three new switch towers for ERC

Bus depot

New switch tower for ECR

The dairy

The power station

The farm and farmhouse.

A farmers work is never done!

Below: Paul F's layout is progressing during all our lockdown time. The main passenger station, is strongly based on that at Shrewsbury, England. General view from the south (photo 1). The station platforms are partially built on a bridge over the River Severn, a fairly unusual arrangement. Still to come: shelters on the two island platforms, and the whole of the main station building and associated landforms on the left. View from the north end. The structure on the backdrop is the old Shrewsbury prison (which had its own station platform!), now a tourist attraction. Much photoshopping to get this prototypical! New pictures added (at the end of the gallery, in January 2022) Paul's explanation: This is what you will see as you first come in to the layout room, and you can see how it relates to the station area I finished last year; there is still a big unscenicked gap that I will have to give some thought to. All the tracks coming out of the south end of Shrewsbury station have to curve back and go through the backdrop into the staging area - hence tunnels. While the Abbey Foregate area - bridge, abbey church, shops - is fairly prototypical, the tunnels and hilly area area is of necessity freelanced but are typical scenery of the region. There are still some details to be added, but they will have to wait until we return from the sunny south in April.