The monthly meeting of the South Mountain Division (SMD) will be held on Sunday, January 8th at the home of division member Steve King.
As we continue our revitalized home layout tour program I hope you will take advantage of the opportunity to see Steve’s reconstructed Virginia Midland. This layout was originally located in Germantown, MD but was disassembled and moved to Pennsylvania several years ago. The original Virginia Midland, which is modeled in N-scale, was a very nice operational line but Steve feels that the rebuilt version is even better.
Steve has provided the following description of his layout for your edification.
The Virginia Midland is a fully operational N-scale railroad located in the Virginia and West Virginia area and set during the 1969 period. The layout is about 10 scale miles long and operates between two staging areas representing Marion, VA and Welch, WV. One passenger train, four freight trains, plenty of coal trains, and several daily mine runs keep the layout busy.
Steve’s house is located in Fayetteville, PA (two houses down the street from Don Florwick). Please email the SMD at southmountaindiv@gmail.com for the street address.
As always, the meeting will start at 2:00 PM. Following the business meeting Steve will present a slide program focusing on Chinese external combustion (read steam) locomotives as they existed in mainland
China around the year 2000.
The usual admonition is still in effect — If you are ill, have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been recently exposed, we would ask you not to attend. Otherwise, everyone is welcome.
Turnout for the SMD year to date has been very good — Let’s keep up the trend and have an even better turnout as we start the new calendar year.
Please find and review last months meeting minutes on the previous SMDNMRA.org post.
Bob Johnson
2022-2023 SMD Superintendent
