RMR ELECTION 2015

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2015 CANDIDATES

Candidate Information & Statements

DIRECTOR: Don Bailey

MEMBER SINCE: 

1982

PROFESSION:

General contractor

MODEL RAILROADING & RR INTERESTS:

HON3 Narrow Gauge.

Model The D&RGW Chili Line.

Also hike abandoned railroad grades.

Fishing in the mountains

NMRA OFFICE INTERESTS:

OTHER RR GROUP AFFILIATIONS (if applicable):  

Slimrail 100% NMRA Group

AP CERTIFICATES COMPLETED (if applicable):

Official, Volunteer, Cars, Structures

DIRECTOR: Jeff Cahill

MEMBER SINCE: 

2012

PROFESSION:

Unemployed / retired Navy (i.e. rehearsing retirement)

MODEL RAILROADING & RR INTERESTS:

N Scale / Operations / RR History

Likely unusual, I was interested in “model railroading” long before I was interested in “trains.” My dad got me involved in HO model railroading while I was in junior high school in Janesville, WI, and by high school I had transitioned into N scale. Much more railroad fit on a sheet of plywood in the basement. I enlisted in the Navy at 18 and after 24 years retired in 2006 while serving in San Diego. I’ve had two layouts over the last ten years, including working on my most recent N scale Gunnison Division for almost three years (after moving to Colorado Springs for a change of scenery).

NMRA OFFICE INTERESTS:

Region Director – involvement at the region level is to me yet another extension of the pastime, much like operations to many is an extension (not to be neglected) beyond construction of an actual layout, and allows one to dive deeper into the hobby beyond the nuts and bolts model railroading. 

OTHER RR GROUP AFFILIATIONS (if applicable):  

Member of Denver, South Park & Pacific RR Historical Society;

Organizer for PP Division annual layout tour (last three years); Layout Tour/Operating Session Coordinator for 2016 RMR Convention; recently started authoring regular column for PP Division newsletter (Milepost); regular participant in RockyRail operating sessions.       

AP CERTIFICATES COMPLETED (if applicable):

Paperwork complete for Golden Spike (soon to be submitted)

DIRECTOR: Duncan Harvey

MEMBER SINCE: 

I have been an NMRA, RMR member since 1976. I have served as the South Suburban Division treasurer, assistant superintendent and superintendent. I am the sole remaining founding member of the Division which was formed right after the 1977 NMRA National convention held here in Denver. I also served on the Region Advisory Council back in about the 1990's and am currently on the Region BOD.

PROFESSION:

I am a retired middle school social studies teacher and was the department coordinator for my last eleven years before retirement. The school was, at that time, the largest middle school in the state.

MODEL RAILROADING & RR INTERESTS:

I began model railroading in the rather traditional way of receiving a Lionel set when I was about five. By age nine, or ten, I saw a scale model train set in the window of a hobby shop and asked for such a set for either my birthday, or Christmas. Then, somewhere around age twelve, or thirteen, a friend had a brass HO 2-8-0 and I decided that was the way I wanted to go. So, I began building my loco fleet and acquiring cars to go with it. When in college I decided to find out more about this "narrow gauge" I kept hearing and reading about. Bought a LaBelle combine, built it and liked what I saw. My girl friend at the time, now wife, bought me a copy of Narrow Gauge in the Rockies. That was all it took and I was off into narrow gauge land, where I have been ever since. I model the C&S and its related roads - DSP&P, CC, Gilpin, Argentine Central and so on, in HOn3. I am primarily interested in the earlier years, the mining, milling, early towns, historical characters and so forth.

NMRA OFFICE INTERESTS:

My interest in serving on the BOD for the region has to do with helping the NMRA become the great organization it is capable of. I see several things at the National level that need some adjustment and there are occasionally things at the Region level that can be improved also. I am the one who began the discussion with National about the problems I see in the contest policy at the National level.

I would like to continue to work with the Region board and officers to see how we can make, or continue to make, the Rocky Mountain Region the best in the organization and a leader in Model Railroading.

OTHER RR GROUP AFFILIATIONS (if applicable): 

I am also a member of a local round robin/modular group known as the Near Sighted Narrow Gaugers. We've had several articles about the club included in the HOn3 Annuals. We take our modular layout to many of the local shows and last year had it in Kansas City for the National Narrow Gauge Convention.

In addition, I belong to the DSP&P Historical Society and served on their Board of Directors. I belonged to the C&S HS and the Gilpin HS until they both folded. I was co-chair of the 2004 RMR convention and helped with the '85 convention as well.

AP CERTIFICATES COMPLETED (if applicable):

I started in the AP program back in the 1980's and earned four and a half of the AP certificates (Volunteer, Official, Author, Rolling stock and half of Structures) necessary for MMR before I dropped out of the program for various reasons.

DIRECTOR: Stan Jennings

MEMBER SINCE: 

I joined the Wasatch Division (now the Northern Utah Division, NMRA) in 1992 after being talked into running for Division Treasurer.  I was elected.

PROFESSION:

I retired from GE OEC Medical Systems (a specialized medical X-ray company) several years ago and I am thoroughly enjoying the extremely busy retirement lifestyle.

MODEL RAILROADING & RR INTERESTS:

I have been interested in railroads for a very long time.  We would watch the Colorado & Southern from our house in Longmont, Colorado, the Colorado & Southern ran down the street in front of the grade school I attended in Longmont and one of my earliest photographs was of a Great Western locomotive.  Unlike others, my first model train was American Flyer S-scale, a couple of years later my parents gave me an HO Athearn set (it was a kit, even the truck springs needed assembled!  I still have the locomotive and cars).  My serious interest in model railroading started in 1970, seven years after coming to Utah, when my mother-in-law gave me an AHM Genoa (she and her ex-husband were model railroaders in the late 40s early 50s and, with their family, chased Big Boys up Weber Canyon) -- model railroading went a bit crazy from there. 

My primary model railroading interest is HO standard gauge with a strong collection of HOn3 and quite a bit of HOn30.

NMRA OFFICE INTERESTS:

I served as Division treasurer for six years, Division Assistant Superintendent, then Division Superintendent for two years.  I was elected Division treasurer again in 2012, a position I still hold.  I am also the clinic coordinator and have been the show chairman for three years.  Remember what I said about a busy retirement?

Why am I running for the Rocky Mountain Region Board of Directors?  The Wasatch Region/Northern Utah Division has been through a lot in the last few years, especially the last two years, and is becoming the strong Division it should be.  I feel the Northern Utah Division now has a lot to contribute to the Rocky Mountain Region and should be represented.

OTHER RR GROUP AFFILIATIONS (if applicable):  

I worked for the Heber Creeper tourist railroad as a part time fireman/conductor 1975-1980 then part time in the Heber Valley Railroad gift shop from 2008 though 2010.

My first model railroad club was Train Traction in the very early 1970s.  I was a member of the Salt Lake Trackers Model Railroad Club since it's founding in 1988 until the club moved to Tooele, Utah and have been a member of the Hostlers Model Railroad Club since 1994.  I have been outdoor exhibit coordinator for the Hostlers Model Railroad Festival; the last few years my wife, Janet, and I have been in charge of the photo contest for the Festival. 

In 1970 I joined the Promontory Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, took the job as newsletter editor a couple of years later then, after twenty years, became the historian.  Now I am the program coordinator.

AP CERTIFICATES COMPLETED (if applicable):

DIRECTOR: Dick Putney

MEMBER SINCE: 

1970?

PROFESSION:

University teacher/counselor; Management Consultant; now National Park Service Ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park.

MODEL RAILROADING & RR INTERESTS:

HO since being a teenager.

Third layout and current one: Centennial Valley RR (an article about the layout has been accepted by NMRA magazine.), based on the Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific, 1954, when it was the Coalmont Branch of the UP.

NMRA OFFICE INTERESTS:

Wherever I can help the hobby.

OTHER RR GROUP AFFILIATIONS (if applicable):  

Member of Estes Park Model RR Club since it's founding in 1977

AP CERTIFICATES COMPLETED (if applicable):