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2010 O Scale National Overviewby Rod MillerThe 2010 O Scale National Convention will beSanta Clara, California (San Francisco Bay Area)held June 30 - July 3 in Santa Clara, California (nearSan Hyatt Francisco). Regency Santa Your Clara. Room convention rate: $109 plus host tax for is 1 - O 4 occupancy Scale West.Twenty-years old this year. O Scale West has the reputationof being fun and well managed. Please see30" x 72" tables are$45, $50 after May 31. Electrical hook-ups are freethe ad elsewhere in this issue for more information.www.2010oscalenational.comClinics will start on Wednesday and will beinfo@2010oscalenational.comoffered 650-329-0424, twice. please Contests call between include 9AM and 8PM favorite Pacific time model,favorite photo, and a juried model contest. We willhave movies by Don Olsen of Catenary Productions.It is always entertaining to hear Don’s commentaryduring the movies; he was a railroader and has interviewedmany other railroaders to aid the accuracy ofhis products.The banquet offers four choices of entree, includingvegetarian, for $50 a plate including tax andtip (equivalent to a $40 meal not including tax andtip). The speaker will be Mr. Art Lloyd, a long timerailroader and active consultant in today’s railroadingenvironment. We are offering a tour of theworld-class California State Railroad Museum. Thetour includes a round trip ride on Amtrak’s CapitolLimited, a tour of the museum with possible accessto the ”back lot”, and some time to enjoy nearby OldSacramento. The tour takes the entire day of June 30.At the time I write this, we have 56 local andremote layouts that will be open for you to visit. Weare in the process of recruiting more remote layouts(see Grand Tour below), and expect a total of 60+layouts to be open for visiting before, during, andafter the convention! (Local layouts are open duringthe convention. Remote layouts are open beforeor after the convention because their distance fromSanta Clara.)Gary Schrader’s layout, shown in the photos, isone of the many local layouts that will be open duringthe convention. Gary models the AT&SF and SPin the 1947-1951 timeframe. The layout’s size is 20’x 40’. There is a double track mainline, a large yard,Union Station, and a 14-stall roundhouse. All track ishandlaid. About 50% of the scenery is done includinga large curved timber trestle. All engines and carsare super-detailed. DCC control is by NCE radio control.Some engines now have Soundtraxx’s Tsunamistunning sound in O Scale. Things to look for are thecomplete, accurate 14-car Daylight and 11-car SuperChief with lighted drumheads, and several nicelydone scratchbuilt and kitbashed bridges.With so many local layouts open, it is a challengeto see them all. We are asking the owners to be openmore times and to be open before the conventionstarts. We expect to have them open as early as June27, the Sunday before the convention. Up-to-dateschedules for all layout visits will be maintained onthe convention’s web site.Some of the layouts are S and HO scale. S becausethe O Scale West meets for the last four years have60 • O Scale Trains - May/June ’10Why Attend? Up to 300 trading tables, clinics, tour of the California State Railroad Museum, videos, convention car, contests, six O modular layoutson site, about 40 home and club layouts open for visiting ,fly into/out of a major western city and drive a Grand Tour between there to and/or from theconvention and visit dozens model and real railroads, national parks, and other attractions. Convention sponsored and managed by O Scale West.Where:When: June 30 - July 3, 2010Location:Registration: $35, $40 after May 31, registration includes spouse and children under 18Table Rental:Banquet: Fri. July 2, $50 per plate including gratuity and tax, sign up by June 20Tour: Wed. June 30, California State Railroad Museum, Sacto., $60 per person, incl train to/from Sacto. and admission, sign up by June 1Web Site:E-mail:Telephone:A free newsletter with registration information will be available on the website for download after February 1, 2010. To receive a hardcopy, send anLSSAE with 2oz. of postage to: 2010 O Scale National, 876 Boyce Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301-3003.2010 O ScaleNationalsuccessfullyConventionincluded S Scalers. Their part of the event is called SWest. We include HO layouts such as Jack Burgess’s and Jim Vail’sbecause they are stunning examples of the evolution in layout designand construction that has taken place. Two live steam layouts, onelocal, one remote, will be open.The other layouts are on the Grand Tour, which is a do-it-yourselftour of layouts, railroads, museums, national parks, and other majorattractions of the West Coast. The area of the Grand Tour layoutsis bounded by a line from Durango, CO to Seattle, another linefrom Durango, CO to Los Angeles, and the Pacific Coast (none inHawaii...) Much more information about the Tour is on the web site,[www.2010oscalenational.com] The site is frequently updated andyou can get complete up-to-date information about the convention,so re-visit often for the latest info. If you don’t have Internet access,call Rod Miller at 650-329-0424 between 9AM and 8PM Pacific Timeto get your questions answered.I know for some of you the West Coast is a long way to come. Iencourage you to make your convention experience part of a largerfamily trip that includes the many attractions of the Western U.S. Ilook forward to seeing you at the convention.Photo 1: ATSF Prairie 1875 leads Northern 3758 across a totally scratch built doubletrack curved timber trestle. There are thousands of Grandt Line NBW castings in thetrestle. The 1875, a PRB import, was the subject of a super-detailing article in OST. Itis now sound equipped. The 3758 is a much modified Sunset ATSF 3751 brass model.Photo 2: The ATSF&SP engine terminal features a 14 stall 132’ roundhouse scratchbuilt from ATSF plans, 18 garden tracks, a scratch built sandhouse, PRB ATSFwater and oil tanks, a PSC SP water tank, and lots of extremely super-detailed brassengines. The turntable is a super-detailed Diamond Scale. The string of tank cars arePRB ATSF brass cars with Santa Fe’s colorful banding denoting contents. All track ishand laid steel rail on real wood ties.
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