Happy New Year!!  Welcome 2023.

Hope everyone had a great Holiday Season.  2022 was a year to remember for me - highlight was getting to present Master Model Railroader Certificates to Mike May, MMR #713 and to Paul Brennecke , MMR#715.   Congratulations to both of you!  I hope to be able to present a few more this year, as there are a few members of the Region that are only 1 or 2 certificates away.  

The AP program may seem like a difficult project to attain, but taken one at a time, not so - it's all fun.

Congrats to the Northern Utah Division, especially Blaine Holbrook, for being invited by the NMRA to present their Pizza Box Program for getting youth ages 5-95 interested in model trains.  They are heading to an Amherst, Mass. train show to present how they do it - a VERY SUCCESSFUL program!!

Like a lot of you, I have been working on projects relating to my model railroad.  Aside from just a couple of college football games on TV, it has been time well spent on my hobby.  I have even started scenery on an 18" x 36" area, the very first on this layout.  Helped a friend find a dead short on his layout - never did that before,  hopefully never again (unless asked).  Our hobby has no bounds and has so much integration of other hobbies that no wonder why it's the Worlds Greatest Hobby.  I mean, we have carpentry, model building, electronics, painting, 3D printing, architecture, drafting, and so many more, with the bottom line being PLAYING WITH TRAINS! 

I am getting ready to go to a train show.  I will visit with friends there, look at displays, see new ideas that I can incorporate into my layout, spend more than I did for Christmas, but enjoy being around others doing the same thing as me.  Enjoy the hobby with friends and family, it's time well spent.

'Til next time, 

Lowell