That’s a good idea too, Johnnie.
@JohnnieWalker posted:One more suggestion
How about The 48 Club. < = > Division?
just a few simple mathematical symbols. Covers those who have smaller layouts, or 4x8s and those who run on 5x9.
OOOHHH- I can math too! 
THE 48 CLUB
INFINITY DIVISION
Gonna go with Division 59, sounds like a secret organization that operates just outside the acceptable boundarys and in the shadows.
Here's the two logos I worked up, I know which one is my favorite:
Guess where I got the idea?
(hint)
Jerry
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Oh Boy - this means once you are IN - you can NEVER get out - a prisoner in a model railroad.
My vote is for the 1st one perhaps a little smaller font to make it "mysterious"
Great Work!!!
The first one is the best as it is consistent with the rest of the logos.
@ScoutingDad posted:Oh Boy - this means once you are IN - you can NEVER get out - a prisoner in a model railroad.
My vote is for the 1st one perhaps a little smaller font to make it "mysterious"
Too bad I can't make it so you can only see the Division 59 with special glasses.
Jerry
Being a fully contented Villager I’m happy with the second option. Your choice in any case as Number One.
Be Seeing You.
@John SW posted:Being a fully contented Villager I’m happy with the second option. Your choice in any case as Number One.
Be Seeing You.
You know the series ended with 6 as 1, I have to watch it sometime to see how it ended. As a kid I never could follow it, i just liked the Rover even tho I didn't know what it was.
Jerry
My vote.
I still like Whiff Waff, but this is your baby.
@baltimoretrainworks posted:
Jerry
Eggswaftly.
I like this one one also.
@Mark Boyce posted:Bob, Thanks! I just measured the Ceiling Central Railroad. 43 square feet! It was pretty easy since the shelves are all 1 foot deep.
@Mark Boyce posted:Gracious sakes!! When the lift bridges are up, the Blackwater Canyon Line measures 45 square feet!! All of mine are under 48 square feet!! I know how to hack up plywood into little pieces!!
Going back to Page 3, and my erroneous calculation that Bob so graciously pointed out to me. Both my Ceiling Central Railroad and my Blackwater Canyon Line are 45 square feet and under. I qualify for Division 59 and as a Charter Member of The Prestigious 48 Club!!! 
Most impressive!! 
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@Mark Boyce posted:...The Prestigious 48 Club!!!
Buddy, you’ve got a lot to learn about this club!
@Coca Cola guy posted:Buddy, you’ve got a lot to learn about this club!
LOL I called it 'Prestigious' with tongue in cheek! It is really like the Crappy Basement Layout Club!!
@Mark Boyce posted:LOL I called it 'Prestigious' with tongue in cheek! It is really like the Crappy Basement Layout Club!!
I knew you did! All in good fun, my friend!
@Coca Cola guy posted:I knew you did! All in good fun, my friend!
LOL
I love the spirit of this club. Welcome Division 59.
So the next question is how do we create a virtual secret handshake?
What fun!
Mitch, the average guy here looks to be like me. One handshake, and we will be seeing our chiropractor and orthopedic for weeks. 😆😆😆
@Mark Boyce posted:Mitch, the average guy here looks to be like me. One handshake, and we will be seeing our chiropractor and orthopedic for weeks. 😆😆😆
Sweet and pure truth...
Mitch
@baltimoretrainworks posted:I just want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, it's been a long hard week but we laid my dad to rest on Friday. Being a former Marine there was a Marine Honor Guard there and they played Taps. It was eerie, when they sounded Taps everyone in the cemetery stopped what they were doing and just stood there, even the utility crew that was working on a pole outside the cemetery waited for it to finish, it was dead silence. I guess there is hope for the us all that we're not that jaded yet.
Anyways, I'm going to be getting back to posting a little more, still got a long road ahead for the family, the Grim Reaper cut a pretty wide swath thru the clan this past year, my mom and dad, my aunt (my dads sister), my uncle (moms brother), my brother-in-laws dad, my sister-in-laws grandmother and father, I think the rest of us have earned a bit of a breather and a chance to get back to some sort of normalcy.
I guess the first real Club business I want to attend to is to amend the size requirements a bit, if someone wants to join but their layout is no more than 45sq' (the area of a 5x9) I'm open to allowing them in as an Honorary Member, in fact when I told my dad he was an Honorary Member he asked a bit tongue in cheek what if the layout was 5x9 and not 4x8, so in his memory I'd like to make that the "Jerry Clause"
"So amended, anyone possessing a layout of more than 32 square feet but no more than 45 square feet shall be admitted to The 48 Club as an Honorary Member"
The requirements for inclusion.
A. The layout can be no larger than a 4x8 sheet of plywood or what can configured from a single sheet
1. Hollow core door slab layouts are definitely allowed
B. It can be permanent or seasonal since many 4x8s are set up during the Christmas season
C. In keeping with its seasonal origins the main focus will be S and O gauge, however if yours is one of the other gauges you are still welcome to join.
D. Anyone possessing a layout of more than 32 square feet but no more than 45 square feet shall be admitted to The 48 Club as an Honorary Member
Welcome aboard Dave!
Honorary Members
1. Harry Miller ... My grandfather
2. Jerry Makowiecki ... My dad
3. Thor Sheil
4. Alan Arnold
5. Allen Miller
6. Rich Melvin
7. Ed Boyle
8. Jim Barrett
9. Putnam Division
10. DavePAnd it's good to be back!
Jerry
Thanks Jerry - Sorry to that about your dad. It's been crazy with my son's Lacrosse games, work and ramping up to go back into the office full time, I apologize for not acknowledging sooner.
@DaveP posted:Thanks Jerry - Sorry to that about your dad. It's been crazy with my son's Lacrosse games, work and ramping up to go back into the office full time, I apologize for not acknowledging sooner.
Thanks Dave, it's been a sucko year all way round hopefully we're seeing the end of this. We have instituted a new membership level that includes members in the same boat as you who missed it by that much. It's being called Division 59 after the legendary ping pong table layouts of 5'x9' fame. So we will be moving you from the Honorary roll to the Division 59 per the provisions of the Jerry Clause.
Division 59
1. DaveP
Anyone else who just missed it let me know so I can add you to the rolls.
Jerry
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Hello everyone, I haven't been on in a bit but rest assured I'm doing fine. Been going thru dads stuff the past few weeks and I landed a new job. It's kind of out of my wheelhouse, been doing optical work for 40 years but the days of local labs are going the way of the dodo unless you want to work retail so for the next 6 years I've decided to suck it up and switch fields. The work I'm going to be doing is... wait for it.... making plywood at a local lumber mill (actually in the plywood department making veneered panels for a guitar company to start). It's 10 minutes from my house M-F 7 to 3:30 so I can't beat the hours or location, no more hour, hour and a half drives in on a good day to Baltimore. Hopefully once I get settled in and comfortable with the new job I can get back to the 48 Club.
I do have one question, did something change on the forum? I have no alerts listed for me and a couple weeks ago it showed at least a couple months worth.
Just curious, it made it easier for me to check out posts I was following or had replied to.
Jerry
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@baltimoretrainworks posted:Hello everyone, I haven't been on in a bit but rest assured I'm doing fine. Been going thru dads stuff the past few weeks and I landed a new job. It's kind of out of my wheelhouse, been doing optical work for 40 years but the days of local labs are going the way of the dodo unless you want to work retail so for the next 6 years I've decided to suck it up and switch fields. The work I'm going to be doing is... wait for it.... making plywood at a local lumber mill (actually in the plywood department making veneered panels for a guitar company to start). It's 10 minutes from my house M-F 7 to 3:30 so I can't beat the hours or location, no more hour, hour and a half drives in on a good day to Baltimore. Hopefully once I get settled in and comfortable with the new job I can get back to the 48 Club.
I do have one question, did something change on the forum? I have no alerts listed for me and a couple weeks ago it showed at least a couple months worth.
Just curious, it made it easier for me to check out posts I was following or had replied to.
Jerry
Glad to hear you are doing well and landed a good job with a more humane commute. I don't think anything changed. I am still getting the usual alerts. Let's see if you get an alert for this reply.
I think the alerts age out after awhile. I’ve noticed this after stepping away for a few weeks.
I had alerts up until last week and some where several weeks old now the only one is from Will. Weird.
jerry
Welcome back and glad to hear that you are doing well. I am from Crabtown and visit friend there once in a while. I may be up there next month for a day or two just to hear the cicadas! The last time they were out (2004) was the first time that I experienced them as the previous times I was either gone on Navy duty or living in Florida.
I have good friends who just moved to Baltimore and my Aunt and Uncle lived there and I visited it often years ago. But it sounds like you are an hour and a half from Baltimore now. Is that your home town, or did you like commuting there so much that you put it in your moniker?
Jerry, with regards to alerts, I've had that happen on several occasions, and never did ask why. I attributed it to either aging out as already stated or signing out for an extended period. It happened again recently, maybe a week or two ago, I had 20 alerts for about a week without checking them and then one day it was only 15.
Jerry- I think the alerts max out at 100 and then are cleared automatically. I just checked mine, I was at 50 going back to 5/22.
Good luck with the new job. A shorter commute is worth the price of admission. I live 10 minutes from my job of 24 years and counting. Wouldn't trade it for anything, especially after years of hour-long ones.
Bob
Jerry, good luck with the new job! I’ll stick with the original 48 Club with my little Area 51/Christmas layout, since my 5x9’ will be increasing to 5x18’ in the near future! (I hope!).
@Will posted:Is that your home town, or did you like commuting there so much that you put it in your moniker?
Born in Baltimore, moved up to New Freedom Pa. 20 years ago so the commute came with the move, my wife retires this September from Hopkins so it all works out. I started my last job about 4 years ago figuring it would be my last stop before I retire in 6 years but apparently the bean counters at the company used Covid as an excuse to cut some of the more expensive branches from their tree but considering they had an HR department on steroids there and you had to walk on eggshells all the time it's probably a good thing that I'm not there anymore, I tend to speak my mind and have locked horns with various HR departments a number of times over the years.
Jerry
@baltimoretrainworks posted:. We don't even have a FB page mostly because it's a boring pain in the butt to deal with something like that unless there is a lively and robust membership and a back and forth of ideas. For now we're just a small group here on the Forum.Jerry
There is a Facebook page for 4x8 layouts ...
@dPrasse posted:5x8 Fairbanks Morse display table/ layout ... not quite 59 ... I'll lay another10" ... 59 almost Club?
Greater than 32SQ' but not over 45SQ' puts you in Division 59...WELCOME ABOARD!
We have just 1 simple rule in here...
KEEP MOVING AND DON'T MAKE EYE CONTACT !
Jerry
