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The Redwood Empire Division of the Pacific Coast Region of the National Model Railroad Association includes the Counties of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte in the State of California.  Check Calendar of Events for other events and locations of meetings. For membership information check out the PCR and NMRA web sites listed under Links below.

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Division Officers

Superintendent
Steve Skold, 5306 Yerba Buena Road, Santa Rosa, CA  95405, 707-539-1782, SandCSkold@aol.com

Chief Clerk/Paymaster
Ed Merrin, 2115 E Foothill Dr., Santa Rosa, CA 95404, 707 542-3620, EdMerrin@earthlink.net

Division Director
Carol Alexander, 5307 Spain St., Santa Rosa, CA, 95409 carolnma@msn.com

Committees

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Calendar of Events

PCR Master Calendar Link.

August 9, 2008: Sierra Division Picnic Meet at Rio Vista, Contact Jim Long for information

August 16, 2008: RED Summer Picnic Meet, Westside Farms, Healdsburg.

Future NMRA Conventions - for Long Range Planning.

• 2009: Hartford, CT
  July 5 - 11, 2009
  

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• 2010: Milwaukee WI - (75 anniversary of the NMRA.)
  July 10 - 18, 2010
  

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• 2011: Sacramento, CA. 
  July 3 - 9, 2011
  

Other Model Railroad Conventions for Long Range Planning.

Check the Club Schedules page of the CALLBOARD for the Sponsors phone numbers when not listed above.

You may use the comments section to notify the webmaster of events you would like to see included here. All events subject to change, contact sponsor.

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Links -- You may use the comments section to notify the webmaster of links you would like to see included here.

Websites of Division Area Clubs :

• Coastal Valley Lines (CVL)
• Sonoma County Model Railroad Society (SCMRS )
• Eel River Valley Model Railroaders new web site is http://www.eelrivervalleyrr.org 
• Napa Valley Model Railroaders (NVN)
• Vallejo Model Railroad Club website
• Redwood Empire Live Steamers a new club forming. Information New link

Websites of Division Area Layouts:

• The San Francisco & Colorado Railroad of Bill Kaufman Site off-line
• Jim Povidenza's Santa Cruz Northern Railroad Site off-line
• Goldhill & Udell Southern RR a fallen flag railroad by Gus Campagna

Other Sites of Interest

• NMRA on the Web Best starting place for model railroading on the WEB
• NWP Historical Society Homepages
• PCR on the Web. Good information on our local NMRA Region.
• Gus and Mary take a train trip across Canada in August 1999. (OLD)
• SMART transit options for Marin and Sonoma Counties.
• The Petaluma Trolley Project, Living History Railway Museum.

Made in the Redwood Empire

• Railway Engineering Track and track products manufacturer in Ukiah.
• Rail Road Avenue HO and F (1-20.3) Structures and figures.
• THE P-B-L HOME PAGE an "S" Scale Manufacturer from right in our own backyard
• Foothill Model Works fine models made right here in the Redwood Empire.
• Glacier Park Models from Ukiah

Railroads and Museums in the Redwood Empire

• NCRA The North Coast Railroad Authority- Owners of the NWP line. A govt. agency.
• California Western Railroad The famous "Skunk Line" has a web site too.
• Napa Valley Wine Train Information on dining and riding this famous train.
• Sonoma Train Town A LARGE model railroad in the town of Sonoma.
• Roots of Motive Power -- Home page -- showing collection and location.
• Western Railway Museum, at Rio Vista Junction, the collection of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Assn.
• Timber Heritage Association a wonderful and active Logging Museum in Eureka Link
• Mount Tamalpias Interpretive Association Gravity cars from the "Crookedest Railroad in the World" Link

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CALLBOARD

The CALLBOARD is the official publication of the Redwood Empire Division of the PCR, NMRA. It is published 6 times a year, approximately 2 weeks before each Division meeting. You can E-mail the Editor, for a complementary copy of the CALLBOARD.

Bill Williams' series of articles, Think Small  

Please note Bill Williams' series continues in the 2002 PDF version of the Callboard

Hacksaw Bill Writes Again

Click below to see a .pdf version of the CALLBOARD

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Contact Information

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Comments and Suggestions

Please E-mail the Webmaster your comments and suggestions for this site. campgus@earthlink.net

I'd like to start a members e-mail address listing at this site. If you would like to list your e-mail address for other members to contact you, send me mail with your OK and I'll list them here.

REDWOOD EMPIRE DIVISION MEMBERS

Web page designed with Microsoft Front Page by Gus Campagna. My Home page (more pictures)

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