Great day for MGRS Spring Luncheon/Meeting!

Is was an excellent choice!  The private meeting room was perfect. We had 6 large tables that nicely fit the size of our group with over 30 members. The food and the deserts were excellent and it was very nice to meet new members and old friends again.  Thank you Board of Directors  for choosing such a good spot. Thank you Terry Norton, MGRS Secertary for leading the meeting shown underway below.

We had two very good speakers.   First was Scott Gould who gave an excellent talk and demonstration of LED lighting.   He explained in professor like fashion why we want things like capacitors,  regulators,  resistors and rectifiers.  But, in much more understandable terms like, how to make your LED's work in either direction, not flicker, or not blow out from being over powered.  A very good follow up to the last Newsletter.  Seeing the actual lighting capability of LED being demonstrated in the coaches was very impressive.  The low cost, long life and reduced power consumption is very attractive and  hard to resist trying on our own layouts.

Next Art Handman gave another very interesting presentation.  Art is a meteorologist as well as transportation consultant and described advantages of weather gathering sensors  on locomotives feeding data  into systems that can help manage by milepost accuracy issues pertaining to safety, maintenance, departures, hazardous materials handling, and other weather dependent decisions.  Advance warning  of  fog,  frost, slippery rails, washouts, lightning and many other weather related factors can contribute to improved rail safety, better cost performance and  increased market for rail transportation. 

Both Scott and Art did a terrific job and were very much enjoyed and appreciated by all.  Well Done and THANK YOU!