Winner of the draw at the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's 2023 annual open house announced

Three year old John Conci was the winner of the draw at the WMRC's  2023 open house, held last weekend at the Charleswood Legion. John was accompanied by his father and his grandfather to the show.  Newly elected WMRC president John Bate personally delivered the set to John's home.

250 entry slips were given out during the weekend, 141 from Saturday and 109 from Sunday. John Bate's wife Karen drew the winning ticket from a large pot. As you can see, young John is clearly enjoying his prize of a Thomas the Tank Engine HO train set. Congratulations, John! 

 

Winnipeg Model Railroad Club to hold their annual open house and train show on April 22 and 23

Spring has finally sprung, and that means it's time for the WMRC's annual open house and train show! it's happening on Saturday, April 22 from 10AM to 5PM and on Sunday, April 23 from 10AM to 4PM in the Tank Room at the Charleswood Legion, 6003 Roblin Boulevard. There will be model and photo displays, demonstrations, several operating layouts and trains, trains and more trains! The canteen will be open, serving coffee, pop, chips, donuts and air fried hot dogs. Admission is by donation. You've got to be there!
 

Larry Leavens shows how to model an unusual prototype scene at the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's April meeting

 

 

Larry Leavens will show us how to model this prototype scene at our next meeting.

At our April meeting WMRC past president Larry Leavens shows us his modelling efforts in recreating an unusual scene on the CN mainline west of Rivers, Manitoba, where a new bridge was built over the Oak River. 

It is suspected that the bridge was built as part of the plan to double track the mainline, which never happened. When the old bridge was torn down, the mainline was shifted to the new bridge, then back to its original route, creating what looks like an elongated letter N on an otherwise straight mainline, but makes for a great modelling project. 

Larry has a very long straight track from one siding to the next on his layout. This is very typical for CN to have dead straight track but Larry thought that it was a little boring. Installing this scene would add more interest to the scene. Like most modelling, some sort of selective compression was needed.

The fun starts at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 14, in the Tank Room at the Charleswood Legion, 6003 Roblin Boulevard. The canteen will be open, and we will have our usual model and photo displays and our 50/50 draw. 

 This is an image of the bridge over the Oak River outside of Rivers, Manitoba. Larry will show us how he modelled it at our April meeting.
 

You can get a free digital copy of Model Railroader magazine from the Winnipeg Public Library

This is no April Fool's joke. If you live in Winnipeg and have a library card, you can get a free digital copy of Model Railroader magazine. But you can't keep it forever. After three weeks it vanishes. We don't know why, it just happens. But you can read a copy of  Model Railroader magazine in three weeks, can't you? It's  a pretty good deal, and that's the usual time you're allowed to take out almost anything else from the library.

Here's what you have to do to get your free copy: 

Open your account, then log out.
The window for “Winnipeg Public Library’s Search Catalogue” shows up.
Click on Digital Library guide
Scroll down to quick links
Click on DIY and Learning guides  
Scroll down to hobbies and crafts, click to open.
Click on “more hobbies”
Scroll down to “books and eMagazines for Hobbies”
Scroll down to find Model Railroader magazine
Click on image or where it says  Overdrive - Model Railroader - eMagazine
Click on borrow.
A window will show up that says success. Click on “Read now in Browser” and it will show up. It’s yours for three weeks.
Click on the hand on the window to turn the pages.
When you’re finished reading, just close it. If you want to read it again, go to “My account” and click on “Loans” . It will show up again. Just click on “read now on browser”.
When you log out, you can just log in again, go to checkouts, click on digital checkouts and it will be there.

In the “More hobbies” window you can also scroll down to “Hobbies in our collections”.
There will be a link for “Model Trains”.

You’’ll find a list of 31 books (real books, no digital ones) about model railroading that you can place on hold. You can request that they be sent to your local library and you will be notified by phone or email when they arrive. Here's the link:

https://guides.wpl.winnipeg.ca/DIY