From the Editor... Next Few Meetings. Division Seven Roles. Next Meeting. The Extra. Division Seven Newsleer. Volume 2, Issue 4 13 April 2013

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1 The Extra Division Seven Newsleer Volume 2, Issue 4 13 April 2013 From the Editor... Welcome to this edion of The Extra. This edion is a couple of weeks later than normal as our Div 7 Meeng this month is a week later and on a Sunday. The Extra is best viewed on the internet as web site and links may be embedded in some stories. Tradional paper copies will be distributed at Division Seven meengs for those without access to the internet. Any contribuons that you may wish to provide for The Extra can be passed to me at meengs or ed to me at: dohearn@internode.on.net As well as the report from March s Div 7 meeng, this issue has a report on a fantasc Narrow Gauge Convenon held over Easter in Melbourne. I hope you enjoy this issue of The Extra. -by David O Hearn Division Seven Roles Superintendent Gerry Hopkins MMR Treasurer Sam Mangion MMR Hospitality Manager John Dever Next Meeting The next meeng is on Sunday, 21 April 2013 at Edgeworth Live Steamers commencing at 11:00 am. Please note enclosed footwear must be worn for safety reasons to ride the trains. Next Few Meetings Our next few meengs for 2013 will be: Sunday, 21 April 2013 at Edgeworth Live Steamers commencing at 11:00 am. The Edgeworth Live Steamers are formally known as the Lake Macquarie Live Steam Locomove Society and their grounds are located off the end of Velinda Street, Edgeworth near Newcastle. There is a $6 per head entry fee. Please note enclosed footwear must be worn for safety reasons to ride the trains Sunday, 12 May 2013 at the Tram Museum at Lo=us commencing at 12 noon. The Museum is easily reached by travelling south from Sutherland on Rawson Avenue, formerly the Princes Highway. Be sure to travel along Rawson Avenue, not the Sutherland bypass. The Museum buildings can be seen on the right just before Rawson Avenue joins the bypass. There is limited parking in Pi@ Street; other parking is available along Rawson Avenue itself. Queens Birthday Long Weekend of 8, 9 and 10 June 2013 at the Epping Model Railway exhibion at the Brickpit at Thornleigh. Come along and support your Division by helping to man the kids scenery modelling clinic at the Exhibion. Sunday, 16 June 2013 at Gerry Hopkin s place at 15 Narara Crescent, Narara commencing at 12:00 noon. Gerry models the Great Northern Railroad in HO Scale & Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes in HOn30 Put the details in your diary or on your calendar so you don t forget.

2 Division Seven Meeting Reports Photos from the March Meeng March - Sam Mangion The March NMRA Division 7 meeng was held at Sam and Jan Mangion s place at Buff Point on Saturday 9 March There was a reasonable rollup of members despite the warm day and the need for Sydney-siders to cross the great Hawkesbury River! Driveway Conversaons Gerry Hopkins, our Div Super, presented the final three AP cerficates to Paul Morrant so that Paul has now met all of the requirements for award of the tle of Master Model Railroader (MMR). Some pictures from the a=ernoon follow below this report. - By David O Hearn More Driveway Conversaons Peter Burrows in the Layout room 2 Gerry making the announcements

3 11th Narrow Gauge Convention Report Over the Easter Break the NG Convenon was held at the Carwatha College in Noble Park, Melbourne. The weather was good bright with just a li@le rain shower occasionally. The contest room was well filled with about 100 entries all of a very high standard. The Best in Show was awarded to Richard Grinyer. Richard s model is shown above. The photo contest was well represented in three categories. The clinics catered for all NG persuasions and were all very well a@ended. Over 150 a@ended the dinner on Saturday evening and the a=er dinner speaker gave a very informave talk about tourist railways in Tasmania and Victory. The Monday was devoted to layout tours, there were four top quality layouts on offer. Over 180 people a@ended the 2 day program. There were layouts in the main hall and numerous commercial stands. From an NMRA viewpoint there were four Div Super and 2 ARC members and eight MMRs. Sll under construcon, The Hon3 layout of Peter Su@on. Check my Youtube channel for the video. 3 Although I did not get to the Stoney Creek Layout, the above photo shows one of the trains that run on the On30 layout.

4 Narrow Gauge Convention (cont d) will get you to the video I took last me. Delayed Uncoupling I was demonstrang some switching at Great Falls and used a twizzle sck to uncouple a pair of flatcars. I then pushed the flat car to a locaon set out on the waybill. I was asked why the car did not re-couple when being pushed to the spot. This is the Sn3 layout of Bill Black near Puffing Billy. Check my Youtube channel for the video soon. An on-board video can be seen at h@p://nyurl.com/ cqgy4jp Image One shows that the couplers have been separated. This can be done with twizzle sck as shown or with magnet. The forth home had a special treat two layouts to view. Rod is famous for his N scale layout that can be seen at h@p://nyurl.com/c6aqtaq For this trip the a@racon was his new On30 logging layout sll under construcon I took some video but not photos I will capture some frames from the video and put on the web. Although the name Narrow Gauge will put some modellers off the visit, many of the clinics would suit all types of modellers and were all well presented. The next NG Convenon will be during Easter 2015 and will be held in Bowral NSW. Gerry Hopkins MMR. Image Two shows the couplers being pushed together while spread. As you can see they do not couple and you can push the car to its locaon. Once you pull away, the couplers return to their correct posion ready to re-couple. Using Delayed Uncoupling means you can stand at the throat of a yard to uncouple and do not have to follow the train down each track. - Gerry Hopkins MMR 4

5 Our 2013 Programme In the coming year we have layout visits, prototype visits and pure fun days and some of the meengs are on a Sunday for those who work on Saturday. Prototype Activities in 2013 The Australian railway organizations conduct conferences and equipment exhibitions. There are some where the public is welcome to check out the trade exhibits. The following is advance notice for some of these events. Maitland Steamfest on 13 & 14 April 2013 with locos 3265, 3642 and 3830 (3016 may replace 3830) Richmond Vale Railway Museum Model Exhibition on 18 and 19 May 2013 from 9:00am to 4:30 pm both days AusRail 2013 Conference and Trade Exhibition at Darling Harbour Convention Centre on November 2013 The End 5