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Merry Christmas Model Railroad Hobbyist!!
Merry Christmas fellow model railroaders!! Did Santa bring you anything this year?
Merry Christmas! STS version 4 released (Shipper-driven Traffic Simulator)
Just in time for Christmas, I've posted Version 4 of the Shipper-driven Traffic Simulator to the 'net. Here's a link to the folder that contains the STS software and documentation:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FBQzxxBRhtz0rK5plvw2pim55jO0Njiz...
Cornhill and Atherton - an apology
To celebrate the (near) half million reads and 10 years of build on the C&A, I posted a slide show video a couple of days ago. The post has been removed without explanation, but if you want to see it go to YouTube and search for "CandASlideshow".
Merry Christmas all 
Reminder
Just a reminder for everybody to plan on completing any pending electrical or wiring projects in January.
You don't want to work on electrical in February, its a "short" month.
Kato - Vote for the new HO scale model
Kato has released a poll to see which new HO model they should produce. The link is here: http://www.katousa.com/webpoll.html
Choices (HO scale) are for:
EMD E5
Pioneer Zephyr
EMD SD38-2 (retooled)
EMD SD70MAC (retooled)
GE AC4400CW (retooled)
GE ES44AC
EMD SD70ACe
Siemens ALC-44 Charger (on order for Amtrak)
Avelia Liberty (on delivery to Amtrak)
The end of voting is on December 31, 2020.
SD Museum data
Today's San Diego Union contained a 2021 Guide to non-profit organizations in the area. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is one of those organizations. The guide printed 7 data points that show how far our hobby has come in the nation's 8th largest city:
Founded -- 1980
Non-profit status -- 1982
Total revenue -- $852,652
Total expenses -- $761,400
Total assets -- $1,227,432
Total annual employees -- 39
Total annual volunteers -- 372
What's on Your Workbench - December 2020
Wow, it's December! I'll bet many of you started projects last month. Let’s see your workbench and layout progress as we kick off another month.
Eric
Eric Hansmann
Editor-at-Large, Model Railroad Hobbyist
Follow along with my railroad modeling:
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/
A good place to watch and listen on YouTube.
Here’s a familiar place to go that you’re seen on TMTV. Bob Fallowfield hosts an interesting discussion with a CN train controller. It’s an interesting interview! Enjoy!
New Tracks Virtual Train Show
Got a taste of what I was missing yesterday. A train show! It’s not like being there but it was interesting, informative and a lot of fun. Lots of vendors, familiar faces and some new ideas! I enjoy being an attendee as well as being a vendor. Both of the enjoyments were there! New Tracks Virtual Train Show is the brainchild of Jim Kellow, a Master Model Railroader. The vendors were some of the smaller vendors mixed in with major railroad media producers.
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