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Page Updated August 21, 2010
This months meeting was at George's Prescott Valley home. We all started at the Best The Heat Swap Meet. Nice to finally meet Peter and Mary Jane Atonna from the Central Arizona Club and to see Bruce Petrarca, Mr. DCC again. Most of us wound up finding something to buy. After the meet we met at George's. Jim, Matt, George, Mark, Tim, Gary and Mike were in attendance. Business topic focused on the club layout and getting the scenery started. Next months meeting at Matt's will focus on getting the layout ready for Railfair and staring on the scenery. Also we will focus more on getting scenery done over running trains at Railfair. Matt also informed us we received a donation of scenery items from an architect. There is a plentiful supply, lots and lots and lots, of balsa wood for the club members to use. The only thing that was asked is we send pictures to the donor of our projects.
After the meeting we all were impressed with the work George has done on the layout. George can run either DC or DCC engines but we did have some kind of electrical issue, sparks, that gave some of our DCC engines problems. Overall this is a sizable layout with plenty of room for multiple crews to stay very busy during operating sessions.
Here are some pictures of George's layout.
Our next meeting will be at Matt Furze' home at a special time of 10 AM September 18 to work on the club layout. If you live in the Phoenix metro area, and would be interested in attending our next meeting, just send an E-mail to our President, Matt Furze at mattfurze@cox.net or give Matt a call at 602-375-8229.
Future meetings:
October 11 - 12 - Railfair
November 16 - Pending
December 11 - Tentative date, annual Christmas breakfast, site pending.
January 16 - Matt's home for our annual business meeting.
February 15 - Pending
March 15 - Pending
A reminder: You are never too old to have a happy childhood.
We are a round-robin club. We do not have a permanent home - but rather we move from members house to members house on a monthly basis. We share our knowledge and experience with one another, displaying and critiquing each others model making, view prototype train videos, help each other in building our home layouts - laying track, wiring, building scenery and running the trains in a prototype manner. We also go rail fanning on the two transcontinental main lines as well as the dozen or so short lines in Arizona.
The club has a portable modular layout. This layout is a working layout that is run at model railroading events like the city of Scottsdale's annual Railfair event. Work is normally done at these events to show both a running of trains and a demonstration of how to work on a layout providing visitors with help building their own layout.
Annual dues for the club are $20 per year.
Ponderosa North - Goals & Objectives
The PNMRRC participates in the many public model railroad shows and exhibitions in our state. One of our main goals is to inform the public about the great hobby of model railroading. In this capacity, we put on frequent demonstrations of how to build a model railroad - from bench work and wiring, to track layout design, to building structures and scenery to operating the miniature empire. Our members practice their craft in both HO and N scales. Most of our members are also members of the Arizona Division of the Pacific Southwest Region of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), and several of our members have been officers or volunteers in the NMRA.
If you live in the Phoenix area and are interested in joining our group, just drop some E-mail to our President Matt Furze.
If you are a member of a rail oriented club or group in Arizona and would like to publicize your activities for free on this site, or if you have any comments or suggestions about this site, just drop a line to the webmaster.
Click on the logo to get a better view of the first 2. The third logo picture is larger but unfortunately the quality is not great.
These were the 3 previous logos used by the Ponderosa North. The 3 were meant to cover different eras in railroading. At one time club member had decals of all 3 and used them on their own layouts.
A while back we ran out of decals. The copies of the logos we did have were not good enough to use as masters to make more and of those in use, the club favored the first logo design. I contacted a friend of mine, Mark Albers, who had designed my railroad logo and another business logo, to help me redo the club logo so we could have new masters. Well, he did that and added some color. After a vote of club members at Railfair 2002 we are proud to announce the new and improved Ponderosa North Model Railroad Club Logo...
I think you will agree, Mark did a nice job and boy do the colors make a big difference.
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