March 21, 2023 - Meeting Summary

The San Diego S-Gaugers held the March club meeting at our clubhouse and on Zoom. Attendees were: Mike Forys, Ken Sadlock, Robert Graves, Scott Lewis, Raulf Polichar, Dale Minard, Don Briggs, Alex Sibbald, Al Kiel, Paul DeLaurell and Les Smith.

Introduction of New Faces / Show and Tell:

Mike Forys presented four old railroad themed items obtained at a white elephant sale in Oakland. One item was a Union Pacific pamphlet, another item depicted Danville Depot, the third was a Lionel advertisement and the last item was a photograph of a 1929 Northern steam locomotive taken on March 6th, 1946 in Salt Lake City. 

Treasurer's Report:

Bob Graves reported that the club received visitor cash donations totaling $379.33 in February, the highest amount for February in the club history. We received $6.32 from the Amazon Smile program which has unfortunately ended. The club showed a profit of $983.68 in February.

Standards Report:

Raulf Polichar reported that the last 8 switch indicators have been installed. He plans to install current keepers on DCC locomotives to avoid stalling on the track. This will act like a time delay for shutoff and consists of several 1/3 farad size capacitors.

Publicity Report:

N/C

Library Report:

Dale Minard reported that he is working to obtain a set of Prototype Modeler Magazines and their predecessors for the library.

Website Update:

N/C

New Clinics:

N/C

SN3 Addition Status:

Dale Minard has reconstructed the log loader and installed it.

Window Layout Success and Visitor Attendance:

Mike Forys reported that we are averaging about 2900 button pushes a month.

Old Business:

Club Mural:

The Mural barn door is painted and is awaiting mounting hardware.

Powell Yard:

Mike Forys suggested that we should show the name of our yard and a suggestion was submitted that we put it on the coal tower.

Window Layouts:

Mike Forys is working on the Liberty Loop Mesa and adjacent street.

New Business:

Lego Days:

The next Lego Build Day will be on April 29, 2023.

Future Events:

The next meetings will be on Tuesdays, April 18th 2023 and May 16th 2023 and will be held at our clubhouse and on Zoom.

Jurassic Park:

The park is complete and has been well received by visitors.

Covid Sign:

The sign suggesting wearing masks are suggested is restricting visitors. The members voted to remove the sign.

Scavenger Hunt:

The mall is having a scavenger hunt on Saturday, April 8th. We will open at 11AM to support this event.

Streeterville:

After the next meeting we will be moving out the Easter display out and moving Streeterville into the window layout space..

The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 AM.