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.