Coast Winter Meet was Great!
The Coast Winter Meet was held at the Golden State Railroad Model Railroad Museum in Richmond on Saturday, February 15th, 2025. It was a great event attended by about 30 members. Many thanks to the GSMRM team, Ed Slintak, our clinicians, Jere Ingram, Earl Girbovan, and Richard Brennan, and the four layout owners that were open, Jack Burgess, Jim Dias, Don McKenney, and Steve Van Meter. They all made it a great event. We are trying to do a South Bay event in the Fall and a North Bay event in the Winter at the SBRHS and the GSRMR facilities respectively. These are great venues. If you attended and have any comments, please reply to this email. The clinics were great and the space was outstanding. We had room for a few more. Getting more modeling at the event would be good.
We had four great layouts open to visit in the afternoon. Many thanks to our layout owners who open their layouts and homes.
| Both at the GSMRM and during the layout tour there were many opportunities to greet old friends and meet new ones. And there was a range of great topics. Having the layouts essentially in a row meant most of us saw each at multiple stops. |
