CTTC July Meeting – July 29, 2026
July 28, 2026
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The July CTTC Meeting will be Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 7:00 PM.
Doors open around 6:45 PM.
Show and Tell Theme:
Doors open around 6:45 PM.
Show and Tell Theme:
- Member’s Choice
- Show and Tell presentations should be 5–7 minutes in length
- Please take side conversations away from the train table as a courtesy to others.
- Feel free to help fold chairs at the end of the meeting.
- The member questionnaire will be sent again. An email will be sent soon because the form does not work for non-Gmail users.
- Volunteer docents are needed. The museum is open every Saturday, 10:00–1:00
- Talk to Kal if you’re interested.
- Volunteer hours at the museum can count toward high school service requirements.
- Docents
- Ticket Agents
- Research for the self-guided tour.
- Treasurer: Art Boosé
- Irwin Nathanson fired up his OO-scale LNER A4 No. 4468 live steam locomotive at the June meeting.
- The Gold Coast Layout Open House was held Saturday, June 27, at Cade’s home. Both G-scale and HO-scale layouts were featured.
- Fred Duerner reported that ten Ford Model A automobiles participated in the Stow House Old-Fashioned Fourth of July celebration.
- Fred also invited club members to his home at 610 Glen Annie Road for an afternoon gathering. Members were asked to bring meat and a side dish and to drive carefully so as not to spook the horses.
- TMCC Command Hub — Kal Quinkert. Kal explained the need to automate computer operations at the Bossé Toy Train Museum so “Junior Engineers” can run trains effectively through radio signals to each locomotive. He is developing a program to avoid speed problems when the “Boost Button” is used and car separation when bringing trains to a stop.
- Asher performed Junior Engineer duties during the presentation.
- Leo — O gauge Lackawanna Railroad Train-master, Lionel, vintage 1954
- Christopher LoMonaco — HO scale New York Central and Canadian Northern locomotives and tenders (Mohada)
- Asher — HO scale SP Blackwood front-cab diesel freight train
- Christopher Russo — HO scale Amtrak Charger #309 and Amtrak freight diesel engines (Bachmann)
- Bob Burtness — O gauge “Toonerville Trolley,” a 1920s design manufactured in the 1980s and created by Ward Kimball at Walt Disney; the wheels are offset to produce a “wobble.” Bob also showed a matching Toonerville Depot
- Aiden — O gauge Lionel 2-4-2 locomotive and tender, which arrived on his birthday!
- Irwin — HO scale German “tank” 2-4-2 locomotive with 28 functions (smoke from both the stack and the cylinders, but not at the same time), and an attractive box car
- Christmas party: Dec. 20 was discussed and determined okay.
- December Club Dinner venue discussion:
- Possible venues: Timbers or Andersen’s.
- The club received a favorable price from Timbers last year because of a scheduling error; that rate is not expected this year.
- Andersen’s was suggested last year.
- If Andersen’s is selected, members could visit the Bossé Toy Train Museum afterward. No food or drinks would be available at the museum.
- Volunteers are needed to get pricing from Timbers and Andersen’s for approximately 25–30 people.
- The Maritime Museum was considered for a Christmas train show. Dave Halbeisen voiced concern about security.
- Carl Haeberle shared a memorable experience from three weeks ago with his six-year-old granddaughter, on a day too hot to go outside. His remedy for avoiding boredom was setting up his train set. She was excited by the smoke and whistle coming from a Lionel 2005 steamer.
- Scenery — Al Soenke