by DSMRadmin
February 2, 2012 in General
The DSMR monthly open house will be on Friday the 24th of February.
The trains starting rolling at 7:00!
Stop in and see us.
Be sure to take note the changes in parking at Denver Union Station.
by DSMRadmin
January 20, 2012 in General
On October 22nd the membership of the DSMR was invited to a guest operation of the HO scale Rocky Mountain Line; also a feature layout in Great Model Railroads 2012.
The membership of the DSMR had a great time operating this fabulous world class model railroad owned by Don Meeker.
The crew of the DSMR and The Rocky Mountain Line prepare for the evening operations session. Normally up to 27 member crew can operate the railroad.
Hugh Blaney was put in charge of the Joint Line Terminal.
Leo Lamanuzi hostels cars in the yards building trains.
The Dispatch Center
High bridges, steep grades and deep mountain canyons are everywhere!
A scratch-built masterpiece of the Denver Union Station stands in Centennial City.
Every detail in operations is thoroughly carried out in exacting precision. Car cards line the slots in 9th Street Yard, ready for building trains.
Beautiful scenery graces the entire Rocky Mountain Line.
Beautiful detailing in every location on the railroad.
Full dispatch controlled functioning signals make the experience of operations on the Rocky Mountain Line as real as it gets.
Roger Clark operates in Buffalo Rock.
Don Meeker stands next to his beautiful Denver Union Station.
Thank you Don, we had a GREAT time and what a BEAUTIFUL Railroad!
To learn more about the Rocky Mountain Line pick up a copy of the current Great Model Railroads 2012.
by DSMRadmin
January 18, 2012 in General
Recently Denver Union Station’s parking lots have closed permanently.
We encourage everyone to come down and see our model railroad and enjoy the trains that run during our Friday open houses. Please be aware that only limited parking is now available in the vicinity of the station due to on-going construction around the station. We suggest carpooling or taking RTD light rail to downtown or to the Union Station RTD stop. In either case, you can take the free 16th street shuttle to the bus stop across from the Tattered Cover and walk to the pedestrian lanes leading to the station doors that are now open.
The Map below shows the access to the station. Once inside the usual access is the same. You can either use the elevator in the south wing of the station or the stairs. The security guards will also direct you to our location if asked.
Hugh Blaney President
by DSMRadmin
January 17, 2012 in General
John P. O’Donnell
In Memoriam
Board member and master modeler of our organization has passed.
John was 52, died Friday, January 6th at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, following a brief illness.
He will be greatly missed.
John was an avid model railroader and master model builder. He was a board member of the Denver Society of Model Railroaders and treasurer of the Boulder Model Railroad Club. John was an expert model builder and won many awards both locally and nationally for his modeling of trains and railroad structures. His Best of Show awards are well known from the National Narrow Gauge Conventions. He was BMRC Modeler of the Year for 2011. A number of his models are part of the Colorado Midland layout.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thurs., January 19th, Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, 2312 14th Street, Boulder, CO. Father Terrence Ryan will officiate. A reception will follow at the church. A private family burial will be held.
Some of John’s exquisite modeling
Boulder Farm House
Completely scratch built using an old photograph found in a Boulder Historical Publication.
Winner: Best of Event, Boulder Model Railroad Club 2010
Narrow Gauge Work Train
29th Annual National Narrow Gauge Convention winning models
We will miss you John. May your signals be all green.
by DSMRadmin
by DSMRadmin
March 1, 2011 in General
Saturday February 12th, Skip Waugh and I powered up the Grays/No Name DCC power district on the narrow gauge for its initial start up and programmed all the stationary switch machine decoders for Grays. Once we finished with the stationary decoder programming we started to test the track with RGS 455 with a short string of cars in tow. As usual we had a few missing track drop leads which is common when doing a conversion like we are doing and are fixing them as we find them.
What causes missing drops when converting from DC to DCC? Mostly it is you missed noticing a rail gap that was part of a DC block, our rail gaps are filled with styrene and once the rail is weathered sometimes you miss one or two.
So we will continue to test for the next few weeks looking for trouble spots such as proper switch throw, no engine stalls, and track infrastructure before we connect the command bus to the Junction DCC power district so we can run between the 2 districts.
Why independently test each DCC power district prior to connecting them? It’s a basic troubleshooting statement which is divide and conquer. We will know any issue we see is related to the DCC power district we are testing in and not being caused by something going on in another DCC power district. Also when you connect the command bus from on district to another if you have a issue you also know it is just related to the command bus cable connection.
I will cover our locomotive testing practices for a DCC power district in my next update.
Eric Bacchi Narrow Gauge Operations Team
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by DSMRadmin
November 9, 2010 in General
Welcome to the Denver Society of Model Railroaders web site. Since our Club’s first debut online on October 18th, 2004 we’ve always tried to make our web experience almost as enjoyable as a visit to our location. We realize that not everyone is able to visit us in person therefore our photo and video galleries help bring some of the model railroading excitement into your home.
With our latest site the plan is to expand upon the offerings of our first site while adding additional features. We’ll be outlining many of the new web site features here in the near future as we continue with our build. For now, we encourage you to register for a user ID and password as they will be your ticket to some of the member only areas of the site in the future.
We thank you for visiting us and hope you’ll visit us often as we continue to expand our online presence via this new web site.
The Denver Society of Model Railroaders is not affiliated with the Platte Valley and Western Model Railroad. If you need information regarding the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad, please visit their website: http://www.pvwrr.org/
“On track for 80 years!”
Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress – Trailer from Havey Productions on Vimeo.
