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T T O S T T O S T T O S

C A N A D I A N F L Y EC A N A D I A N F L Y EC A N A D I A N F L Y E RRR

O f f i ci al Pu b l i ca t i on of t h e T T O S Ca n a di a n Di v i si on Volume 8, Issue 1

JANUARY 2010

W e have made i nto 201 0!

I w onder if Mi ster s

Li onel , Marx and Gilbert ever

thought that men w oul d be

pl aying with their toy s seventy –

five to a hundr ed y ear s after

they fir st i ntr oduced them to

the w orl d. W ell , her e we ar e, a

gr oup of full gr ow n men pl ay -

ing with our electric tr ains. I

am sure I speak for all of us

w hen I say , “W e w oul dn’t have

it any other w ay !”

Looking back at 2009 the one

item that made all of us sit up

and tak e notice w as the fact

that the Canadi an Divisi on

member s di d not receive their

i ssue of the December Bulletin.

T hat i s su e , i nci de ntal ly ,

contained the ball ot for our

2009 N ati onal Electi on. Gail

and I received our copies a few

day s before Chri stmas. I hope

ev ery other Canadi an Divisi on

member has r eceived theirs now

as w ell .

If I hadn’t spoken up and br ought

thi s matter to the attenti on of the

N ati onal Boar d, it w oul d have

gone by the w ay si de and w e, as

TTOS member s, w oul d not have

been able to exerci se our fr anchise

to v ote. Someti mes I really w on-

der w ho the devil is i n charge

dow n there i n LA LA LAN D

(Califor nia).

To mak e a l ong story short, I

convinced the Nati onal Boar d to

ex tend the cut off date for v oting

f r om December 1 5/200 9 to

Janua ry 30/201 0.

One change that I am happy to see

and must menti on i s that the

v otes will not be counted by any -

one i n TTOS. Appar ently , one of

the Rotary Clubs ar e goi ng to

count the ballots.

Thi s i s one change I feel w as

needed to put to rest any feeling

that perhaps a per ceived mi sdeed

w oul d occur . I hope ev eryone in the

Canadian Divi si on v oted and those

w ho di d v ote made sure they put

their name and TTOS number on

the top l eft of the envel ope. Thi s i s

necessary to make sur e no one v otes

twice. If y ou haven’t already v oted,

pl ease do so befor e the end of the

month.

The Isl and conti ngent of the

C a n a di a n Di v i si o n h el d a

second meet i n Nanai mo l ast month. Continued on page 3

2010 TTOS Canadian Division Meets2010 TTOS Canadian Division Meets2010 TTOS Canadian Division Meets

All meetings take place All meetings take place All meetings take place

at at at Charles Rummel Charles Rummel Charles Rummel Community Centre Community Centre Community Centre

3630 Lozells Ave 3630 Lozells Ave 3630 Lozells Ave Burnaby, BC Burnaby, BC Burnaby, BC

Doors Open 11:00 Doors Open 11:00 Doors Open 11:00 Meeting 12:30Meeting 12:30Meeting 12:30

Door Prizes, Door Prizes, Door Prizes, Sale Tables, Sale Tables, Sale Tables,

Lots of Toys, & Lots of Toys, & Lots of Toys, & Great Great Great Opportunities to Opportunities to Opportunities to

meet fellow toy train meet fellow toy train meet fellow toy train enthusiasts!enthusiasts!enthusiasts!

Auction!Auction!Auction!

••• January 31January 31January 31

••• February 28February 28February 28

••• March 28March 28March 28

••• April 25April 25April 25

••• May 30May 30May 30

• June 27 June 27 June 27 ——— BBQ BBQ BBQ

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 2009 / 20102009 / 20102009 / 2010 TTOS Canadi an TTOS Canadi an TTOS Canadi an

Division ExecutiveDivision ExecutiveDivision Executive

PresidentPresident

David Cook 604 931 4056

[email protected]

ViceVice--PresidentPresident

Mark Horne 604 987-8817

[email protected]

SecretarySecretary

Charles Reif 604 731 3674

crei [email protected]

TreasurerTreasurer

Neil MacKenzie 604 263 4429

[email protected] Members At LargeMembers At Large

James Cook 604 948 1 443

jhcook @telus.net

John Warlimont 604 864 2175

[email protected]

Tom Modica

360 7 38 3842

[email protected]

Gary Zabenskie

604 463 1 006

zabenskie@shaw .ca

MAL Isl andMAL Isl and

Ken Bowman

250 592 61 94

Past President

Neil Whitehead

The Gal s Who Do Lunch! Kaitlin Zabenskie; Olivia Ball;

Gail Ferrier; President David

Co o k ; Ja nic e Cro w dy &

Doreen Palm. Many Thanks!

MORE FUN IN NANAIMMORE FUN IN NANAIMMORE FUN IN NANAIMOOO

TTOS Canadian Flyer January 2010 page 2

Here are some pictures fr om our January 1 0th Tr ain Meet over

here in Nanai mo. We had nearly 40 people in

attendance. The main attr acti on w as the sale of part of the l ate

Harry Wright 's tr ain collecti on. Our vi sitor s came fr om Campbell

River to Victoria, and Port Alberni to Vancouver .

Submitted by : Robin Dodson

Bet you all recognize most of these faces…. Now there

are even mo re venues fo r Toy Train Enthusiasts to

search fo r the ultimate toy train” from their youth.

Ken Lo ckley invited 4 toy and scale rail retired guys to hi s home for a

"HOBO LUNCH" at High noon in December 2009. Ken's home made, self

made, Hobo Soup , for which he found 1 0 recipes on the internet was deli -

ci ous and was filled with very

healthy stuff no real HOBO

would have ever tasted ar ound the campfire in the bush.

Then, show and tell - note the model in front of Dave on the table - Ken built it as a

model of a water tower for steam locomotives built by carpenter s -

square tower , not r ound. I forgot to ask Ken - w hat were the guy s

called who built the more com-

mon r ound w ater tower s? N ote:

the HOBO cookies on the tray on the table.........

N o - the cookies from Mar garet 's

kitchen are not palm trees - but railway cr ossing

signs with a big H for HOBO in the center . I asked for

black on white printing — Thi s is what I got ! N ow ,

can you spot it?

Then, into Ken's w orkshop - for a clinic on how to cut G gauge track to fit into a short

space.

This i s eventually going to be the locati on of the Lake Louise CPR stati on - 1 :24 scale

(appr ox ) 1 /2" - foot. We'll see about that - as ti me goes on. 1 6 x 40" i s Ken's rough esti -

mate. Mi ght have to be scaled down a bit to fit - but thi s is not going to be a scale railway,

mor e a toy railway , so a little deviation fr om scale will be ok .

Story & Photos submi tted by: Mi ke Woodley, Victoria, BC Present for the “first annual Action Packed Hobos Lunch” were Ken Lockl ey, Ron Hilsden, Dave Teece, Russ Etherington, Mike Woodley

HHHO B O SO B O SO B O S I NI NI N A C T I O NA C T I O NA C T I O N. .. .. . ...

2010 Western Rails Sunday March 14, 2010

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Camer on Rec. Center

9523 Camer on Street.

Burnaby , B.C

Wes tern Rails 2010 is a

WEST COAST RAILWAY AS-

SOCIATION Event

F U N E V E NT SF U N E V E NT SF U N E V E NT S ——— NOT JUST FOR KIDS! NOT JUST FOR KIDS! NOT JUST FOR KIDS!

Finding it difficult to take that big ride on the BC

Ferries each month but miss the social

connection of sharing y our hobby with others?

Want to attend a TTOS Meeting in Nanaimo?

DO YOU LIVE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND?

For complete details contact: Robin Dodson

250 758 8970 [email protected] Shuswap Rails 2010 PNR 7th Division Spring Meet April 2-3 Easter Weekend 2010 Pr estige Habourfr ont Resort &b Conventi on Centre

Sal mon Ar m, B.C.

Sponsored by the Sal mon Ar m Model railroad Associati on,

Details as they are announced

26th Annual Vancouver Island Spring Model Railroad Show Sunday, April 11, 2010 1 0:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Beban Park Rec Center

2300 Bow en Road

N anai mo, B.C.

Operating Lay outs, Swap & Shop Tables, Retail Sales

Model Contests (Popular Vote)

Victoria Train Show 2010 20th Year Sunday September 26, 2010

Cedar Hill Recreati on Centre

3220 Cedar Hill Road Victoria, B.C.

Mt Cheam Lions Club

Model Railroad and Hobby

Show

Saturday October, ?? and Sunday October >??, 2010

Saturday, October ??, 2010 - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Sunday, October ??, 2010 - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Mt Pleasant Lions Club

Model Railroad Show

Sunday February 1 4, 201 0 1 0 AM to 3 PM

Mt Pl easant El ementary School ,

Have Fun with the TTOS Canadian Division

& YOUR Club Layout at the 2010

UNW / Snohomish County 4-H Foundation Show -

Monroe, WA

United N orthw est Model Railroad Club i s proud to announce its

1 9th annual model railroad show and swap meet to benefit Snoho-

mi sh County 4-H Foundati on

Sat February 6th, 10AM - 5PM

Sun February 7 th, 10AM - 4PM

Evergreen State Fairgrounds 14405 179th Ave-

nue SE

Monroe, WA 98272 www.evergreenfair.org

Li st y our event… send i nfo to: gailferrier @shaw .ca

TTOS Canadian Flyer January 2010

Micro-Mark is now selling Williams Trains at cut rate prices.... gp-9 or a gp-38 for $129.95 Check out the web site at www.micro-mark.com

President’s Message continued from front page...

Looking at the photos fr om Robin Dodson I see that

quite a few mainland member s attended as well .

The highlight w as the fir st instal ment of selling off Harry

Wright’s collecti on. About 40 people attended the meet

and of cour se they all had a good ti me.

A r eminder that the Train Show in Monr oe thi s year will be

on February 6 & 7 . I check ed the w ebsite for the show and

they ar e fully booked. It l ook s as if thi s year will be much

bi gger than l ast years show . Neil Wilson and Company

will be taking the Canadi an Divisi on l ayout to the show and

with the help of our American member s, we will have

tr ains running. This i s a show y ou will not want to mi ss;

every one who went dow n last year i s still talking about the

bargains they got.

I hope to see everyone at this month’s meeting. It has been

tw o months since we have been together and I am sure that

there will be some interesting items to add to y our collec-

ti on.

While it may seem early to pay fo r some,

you s hould be aware that the hig h Canadian Dollar

at the moment makes it truly a

“BEST DEAL” to ORDER & PAY NOW!

ODDS & ENDS — EVENTS ETC. . .

TTOS CANADIAN FLYER January 201 0 page 4

NEWS TO SHARE — LAY OUT TIP TO SUGGEST

— or new s of an event or special deal ? Let us k now for the next edition

of the TTOS Canadian Divisi on Canadi an Flyer.

Send details on or before the 10th of each month to: gailfer-

[email protected] o r [email protected]

Go t to the club website www.ttoscanada.o rg fo r many more

pages of FUN CLUB PHOTOS & EVENTS

This month there is a “fictional” s tory from new member

Brian Nelson — Photos & b rief look at Russ Ethering ton’s

Train Room - Mo re Pho tos from Puyallup & Chillilwack

w w w . t t o s c a n a d a . o r g

The Royal Hudson Steam Train

Special run to White Rock, BC

Monday, February 8, 2010

Vancouver to White Rock

Tuesday, February 9

White Rock to Vancouver

Part of the White Rock Winter Festival

& Bite of the Rock Event

Tickets av ailable through West Coast Rail Tours http://wcr a.or g/tour s/pdf/W RBROCHU RE201 0.pdf

One W ay Far e $1 25. +gst

Chil dren 2-1 2 $99.

Chil dren under 2 on parent’s lap FREE

Life is too short not to play with your toys!

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Photos by: Peter Toefield

World’s Greatest Hobby Show World’s Greatest Hobby Show World’s Greatest Hobby Show & Your Club Layout& Your Club Layout& Your Club Layout

Above: Davi d Cook , James Cook & Mark Horne

Above Right: Si d & Olivia Ball admiring an engine…

Bel ow : Fr ank Teoli

Bel ow Ri ght: Thi s one’s a beauty !

Right: Jim

Barrett & Ian

Kennett

Left: — It’s all

about the next

Toy Train

generation!

These boys love to play with their toys !



DECEMBER TTOS MEETINDECEMBER TTOS MEETINDECEMBER TTOS MEETINGGG

President David still believes in Santa

(played here by Ed Stephens)

— David Scott has the perfect

Christmas Tree — its decorated

with TTOS Canadian Division

Patches —— have you go t yours

yet? Check them out at the

January Meet.

Do reen Palm always has smile…

and happy thoughts

Frank Teoli gives Santa his Chris tmas

Toy Train Wish List...

Neil Whitehead & Sid Ball

Looking for a set of CPR Stream-liners to go with my Williams Alcos, and some BC Rail motive power.

Robin Dodson 250 758 8970 [email protected]

"Real" Rocky Mountaineer Railtours Adhesive Vinyl Transfer

The one they put on the r eal tr ain cars. It i s mounted on a piece of har dboar d about 6 ft X 4 ft . It i s quite

i mpressive.

I am open to offers. If anyone i s interested I can email a photo and bring it

with me to the meeting at the end of January .

Ken Kl ein 250-828-2976 [email protected]

Draw Prize Winners :

Above Right:

Jim Barrett

Above: Ian Kennett

Left: Martin Howbold

TTOS CANADIAN FLYER January 201 0 page 1 0

O n the evening of Saturday, December 5, 2009 members of the Island group of the Canadian TTOS division were invited to the home of Barb and Russ Etherington for a potluck supper and then a visit to Russ' fantastic

train room that he as been building for the past few years.

He has built three levels and has two re-versing dog

bone mainlines on each of the first two levels and a large ir-regular oval on the upper level.

Last night he was running 5 large freight trains at the same time, each with 12 - 14 cars of all descriptions.

On the first two levels he had 4 of his biggest and most spectacu-lar locomotives in action and on the upper level he had dual turbines pulling

the train. It was quite a show of rolling stock.

As the pictures show - the layout is a work still in pro-gress - but all the bench work and tracks are in place now.

He said he just finished laying the tracks this week on the brand new scratch built trestle on the upper line to complete that route.

Some of my photos are not very clear as I only have a very inexpensive digital camera but they still give you an idea of the scope of what Russ has created in his train room. Submitted by: Mike Woodley in Victoria

Toy Train Guys Have More Fun !Toy Train Guys Have More Fun !Toy Train Guys Have More Fun !

Dr. Clinker's Seasonal Blinkers . . . Dr. Clinker's Seasonal Blinkers . . . Dr. Clinker's Seasonal Blinkers . . .

...blingjing blingjing blingjing jinglejangle...ding-dong, whoo-OOH and a mighty contemporary "What up, Doc?" is the word I'v e heard from large-eared lov ers of toytrain fun, in here'n out there; and I do mean out there...

R eader, c'mon now, fess up, didn't you, too, just like I did when I was a large- eared lad brimming silly in hopefulness, forever stick your warm tongu e onto the frozen

center rail of this hobby thanks to some aspect of Christmas? Bu t- hey, did you know-Did Y ou Know that Senor el Kringle, et al , held the toy train in-du stry - heck, friends, the Christmas industry, period - hostage for most of the twentieth century? N ow, isn 't that a bunion peeler! 'N I've got your proof! Hm. Be forewarned: the good doctor's willingness to share info this exciting with readers might cause a few large-eared investors to rush right out to dump their shares in <kringleya.com>. Hope not, but emotionality over reason is as first-generation now as i t was when the devil 's own dandy, Roy Cohn, first taught young fourteen year-old gopher /understu dy Donnie Trump the meaning of the phrase, "Y ou 're fired!" To start, Santa wasn't always a greedy senior with one hand in the till of America's bur-geoning economy and the other firmly gripping his N orth Pole. Why, your good doctor has proof of a time in the last century when Santa (the Mexican alias Senor el Kringle adopted after close calls with Central American credit collection agencies) was gaining notoriety for the peculiar type of philanthropy he displayed in late De-cembers. This annual distribution of small and inexpensive goods, a.k.a. Xmas, was originally a make-work project in the San Diego area directed toward shut-ins and feeble-minded children otherwise encouraged to earn their way out of orphanages or debtors' prisons and back into public favor. We were surely and indeed a nation of softies way back when. At that point in time, an Ellis Island immigration and citizenship Head Bailiff named Stanislav Bumholt discovered that the man calling himself Santa, alleged to be a mixed-blood descendent of a Mayan warrior-king, was in the country illegally, successfully running fledgling corporations somewhere in Jersey under an assumed name. Bumholt alleged that automation, plus vast numbers of underemployed but energetic crescent-eared micro-morphs, the raw materiel now aggressively managed by "Santa, Inc.", was already dominating a seasonal cadre of pre-legal , low-revenu e markets. ...Story goes that, once Bumholt's suicide was ou t of the way, Senor el Kringle's industries were granted exclusive international seasonal goods markets as well as unlimited representation and access to what was to become Canada - on the proviso that el Kringle would move his operations to the far north , thus automatically shrinking his access to established markets. Kringle, recognizing the brilliance in moving his base as far north as possible, now set u p shop far from the taxman. Herr Kringle also had friends in high northern places with far-reaching links to the "Antlers and Bones" society of skulld uggery. These early globalists exclusively owned and promoted Santa, Inc., lock, stock and barrel. The lynchpin of their success was getting the early CIA to seed media and retail strands with more favorable representations of "Santa", the seedy mulatto toy industry cutthroat-turned-Euro-jollyfat-ubermensch: history 's most su ccessful makeover! By mid-century, el Kringle's new progressive image spanked of magical grandfatherly generosity and became touted amongst Cocaine-Cola (Coke)-swilling tweakers of the Treasury as the device needed to add abou t 25% annual growth to the USA 's early economic engine. Well , there you have i t, thanks to the large ears of Art Bell and the gang at Coast to Coast A .M., who dug u p the facts for the good doctor. And that's what good doctors do, they gather facts and make good decisions for their clients; so I, your good doctor, prescribe continuing to take this column for the big picture, the one that's so true, soding-dongedly near tru e...


Editors Note: This is a short s tory by: by Eli Bryan Nelson (604)377-6263 or messages :(604)632-9374

If you enjoy it and would like to see m ore… let us know … Seems that Bryan has a creative & quirky mind and a talent for w riting…

Let us know what you think ….

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Above: Kaitlin &

Gail enjoyed a

surprise visit with

Santa. (aka Ed

Stephens )

Right: Geo rge Plant—

who has retired from

his long -time

position as Club

Treasurer receives a

Certificate of

Appreciation.

Right: Frank Teoli

was honoured with

the President’s

Award. Frank is the

man who is always

there—at every meet

— at every show — &

he loves to play with

his Toy Trains .

Above: Neil Wilson—who sto res &

tows the Club ’s Layout Caboose to

functions throughout the Pacific

No rth Wes t was presented with a

Certificate of Appreciation from the

Wo rld’s Greatest Hobby Show.

Below: Ted Diakow — who has

retired from his long held position as

a BOD Member at Large received a

certificate of Appreciation

Photos of our members at the World’s

Greatest Hobby Show & Chilliwack are

featured in the online edition of the

TTOS Canadian Flyer at:

www.ttoscanada.org

Photos: Peter Toefield

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