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        Potomac Division Challenge 4 - A Tour of favorite non-water landscape features seen in the Potomac Division (click caption to see write up)
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John Paganoni's Tunnel and Mountain
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Ernie Little's Town Park and Intermodal Yard
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Mat Thompson's Forested Mountains
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Alex Belida's Abandoned Mines
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Martin Brechbiel's Codgers Cows and Deer
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Robert Reid's Viaduct Bridge
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Lee Stoermer's Pennsylvania Amish Countryside
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Brian Sheron's Flatbush Avenue
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Dale Latham's Countryside
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Bernie Kempinski's Rural Vistas
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Nick Kalis's Tropical Plantings
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Gary Eame's Rock Walls

The Division's email Yahoo group is PD2NERBNRA@groups.io. If you have not joined and wish to do so please contact the Superintendent.

POTOMAC DIVISION HOLDS "Build and Take" Clinics

PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED
The Potomac Division has "live" build and take clinics which take place at Jerry Stanley's Hobby Barn. The next clinic is set for Saturday, June 11th, starting a 9:00 A.M. Martin Brechbiel, MMR and Ernie Little, MMR and others will be there to assist members working on their projects. Please preregister for this event. For more information or to preregister contact Jerry at paymaster@potomac-nmra.org .

DATE
 TOPIC
 CLINICIAN
June 11, 2022*** "Division Car Workshop" Martin Brechbiel, MMR and others
July 16, 2002 *** "Layout Problem Solving"
 John Swanson
August 20, 2022 ***
 "Division Car Workshop"
 Martin Brechbiel, MMR and others

*** The June 11 and August 20 workshops will be held at the Knights of Columbus located at 3700 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia, which is a new venue for holding clinics. The clinic will start at 9 AM and go until 12 PM. Click here for more information.
** The July 16 clinic will be held at John Swanson's home using his layout.

Click here to see ALL OF the upcoming Hobby Barn events. 

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO WITH ALL THE TIME YOU HAVE AVAILABLE?

The Potomac Division brings to your attention that the PD website provides access to past Potomac Flyer issues, past clinics, and railroad trivia in form of a crossword puzzle challenge. The crossword puzzle will be a PDF file you can download that provides the puzzle, clues, AND the solution.

Layout Tours:

It has been a year since our  first Virtual Layout tour held on Saturday, December 12, 2020. Todd Hermann and his camera person Molly took forty two of us on a tour of the Lehigh & New England Catasauqua Branch. Click here for more details of the railroad.

This and future virtual layout tours will be recorded and posted to our You Tube Channel. Click here to access the virtual layout tour area on the prior layout tour page.

If you are interested in providing a virtual layout tour please let the BOD know so it can be scheduled.
Layout tours have been suspended due to the coronavirus and we hope to continue as them soon as the coronovirus guidelines permit and hosts allow visitation of their homes.


POTOMAC DIVISION NEWS

MAY  BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

The Board of Directors meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 7:30 P.M. using the Zoom Virtual meeting platform. To register to attend the meeting click on the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqceCtpj8uG9KBOweoxjJyNTPi1AkI-8we

After registering you will receive an email with the link to the BOD meeting. The agenda will be available before the meeting date.

MARSHALL ABRAMS AWARD RECIPIENT ANNOUNCED.

The Division's ANNUAL MEETING took place on Sunday, May 1st. Please join the Board of Directors in congratulating Mat Thompson as the recipient for 2021-2022.

         

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE

The Division is seeking donations of HO scale rolling stock, locomotives, track, or structures to be used with a previously donated layout kit that the Division donated to a local church group to allow the children to learn about model railroading. If you have something you can donate please contact Jerry Stanley.

POTOMAC DIVISION MEMBERS IN ACTION

Eleven Potomac Division members were at the Great Scale Model Train Show (GSMTS) the weekend of February 5th and 6th staffing the Potomac Division booth. The Board of Directors thanks all involved and appreciates their time spent and also thanks the GSMTS organization for their donation of the table space for our booth. This kind of activity is important to the recruitment of members and supporting the model railroad hobby. The following members participated:

Bob Yetter Nick Kalis Gary Eames Ken Wilson
Doug Hess Thomas Washburn William Mosteller Mike Powers
Tim Tilson Mike Fleming Paul Hutchins

2022 ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED

The 2022 election process has been completed. Jerry Stanley was re-elected as the Paymaster and Ernie Little was re-elected as Assistant Superintendent. 

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION -

Please join the Board of Directors in welcoming new members to the Potomac Division by reaching out to them and helping them settle in to their new Division.
NOVEMBER
Charles Hall - Waldorf, MD Keith Jordan - Germantown, MD
Kipp Martin - Washington, DC Diego Procacci - Manassas, VA
DECEMBER
Kimball Carpentier - Poolesville, MD
 Chris Pigott - Clifton, VA
Michael Zazzero - Clifton, VA
JANUARY - 2022
Jack Riegel - Alexandria, VA
FEBRUARY, 2022
Dave Smith - Springfield, VA
 Kestutis Pauliukoni - McLean, VA
Ralph Hix - Manassas, VA
 David Legal - Pomfret, MD
Gregg Cassidy - Silver Spring, MD John Berg - Fairfax, VA
Edward Mason - Falls Church, VA
MARCH - 2022
Phil Bell - Vienna, VA
 Roger Blocker - Forestville, MD
APRIL - 2022
William Broadus - Cheverly, MD
 Charles Kaltwasser - Solomons, MD
David Strohmeyer - Gainesville, VA

    POTOMAC DIVISION VIRTUAL CLINICS-

 
The Potomac Division Virtual Clinics are normally held on the the third Sunday of each month and are presented using the Zoom video platform. This allows attendees to have video and audio, video only, or just listen access. Click here for Information on how to use Zoom. An email containing information on how to register and gain access the on-line clinic is sent to the PD membership email list prior to the clinic. Here is the what is on tap for the next three months:

DATE
 TOPIC
 CLINICIAN
June 19, 2022
 "Prototype Track Planning" Bob Sprague
July 17, 2022
 "TBD"
 TBD
August 21, 2022
 "Deconstructing a Track Plan"
 Bob Sprague

If you have a topic you would like to present contact Martin Brechbiel, our Superintendent.

If you want to see a list of ALL Potomac Division clinics, both virtual and "Build and Take" click here.

Past Virtual clinic videos  are posted on the Potomac Division's YouTube Channel, "Potomac Division Mid Eastern Region NMRA". Click here to access the Virtual Clinic area of the clinic page. 

NATIONAL VIRTUAL MODEL RAILROAD EVENTS

The next NMRAx event has not been advertised. When it is we will post the link here.

The NMRA has posted videos from the clinics and layout visits that took place at the NMRAx events. Click on the following link to go to their NMRA You Tube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHw-7-1FWB5zQgTM0ZVY-Yw/videos


    POTOMAC FLYER MOTIVE POWER CHALLENGE

The staff of the Potomac Flyer thanks everyone who submitted an entry for the Landscape Feature (non-water) and (water). Check them out in the next issue when it comes out.

THE NEXT POTOMAC FLYER FAVORITE CHALLENGES - LANDSCAPE FEATURE-  (water) June -July issue

The staff of the Potomac Flyer announces the next Potomac Division Challenges for the June - July issue. To participate send a submission with photos and a description of your favorite LANDSCAPE FEATURE (WATER) to the Potomac Flyer staff by clicking here. The deadline for submissions was May 10th, 2022. This contest is only open to Potomac Division members. This contest is only open to Potomac Division members.

PRIOR POTOMAC DIVISION CHALLENGES

To see the prior Potomac Division Challenges  Click here to see the submissions.


  ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM NEWS:

The Potomac Division has several Master Model Railroaders (MMRs). To see a list of the PD MMRs click here.

There are several members working on Achievement Program Certificates and getting closer to becoming Master Model Railroaders. To see a list of the AP certificate members click here.

Congratulations to Bill Mosteller on his achievement of the Author AP certificate.

Congratulations to Jerry Stanley on his achievement of the Author AP certificate.

Congratulations to Bill Mosteller on his achievement of the Chief Dispatcher AP certificate.

Congratulations to Rich Steinmann on his achievement of the Structures AP certificates.

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