Where is the First Division?

East Boundary: East borders of Crook and Deschutes counties and the Eastern border of Kalamath county.
North Boundary: North borders of Lincoln, Benton, Linn, Deschutes and Crook counties
South Boundary: South borders of Crook and Deschutes counties and the Oregon/California border.
West Boundary: Pacific Ocean

What Do We Do?

The First Division supports model railroading in the Pacific Northwest. We are dedicated to all scales of model railroading and promoting the hobby.

First Division
Officers

First Division
Board Members

Committee Chairs

Achievement Program Chair
Glenn Edmison - GEdmison@aol.com

Membership Chairman
Open

Education Chair
Rich Pitter - richpitter@aol.com

Favorite Model Contest Chair
Christopher Jones - LLLand CIJ@aol.com

Audio/Visual Support Chair
Ed Schaenzer - eschaenzer2@charter.net

Brakeman's Rag Editor
Glenn Edmison - GEdmison@aol.com

Web Master
Bill Howell - pbnrr@yahoo.com

Superintendent
Dirk Kruysman
dutchdirk@charter.net

Paymaster
Dirk Kruysman
dutchdirk@charter.net

Chief Clerk
Nick Lehrbach
lehrbach@rosenet.net

Dirk Kruysman
dutchdirk@charter.net

Nick Lehrbach
lehrbach@rosenet.net

Glenn Edmison
GEdmison@aol.com

Bill Howell
pbnrr@centurytel.net

James Dougall

Gene Neville
geneneville@earthlink.net

Contact an AP Judge

Division 1 Business

Brakeman's Rag Archive

Model Railroad Clubs In The Division

Events Around
The Division

NMRA Links

Up Coming Mini Meets

Fall Mini Meet September 15, 2012

The spring mini-meet will be in Eugene on Saturday, 23 March 2013. The schedule includes a full slate of clinics in the morning, favorite model contest and much, much more. The Lane Society of MRR layout in Junction City should be available for viewing and there is a possibility that an N-Scale modular layout will also be available. The Board of Directors will meet after the clinics. The club house is at 2555 Lansdown Road and it has parking on three sides. Additional parking is available on the streets.

Directions to the mini-meet
The mini-meet will be held in the Gainsborough Club House, 2555 Lansdown Road, Eugene, OR.
Gainsborough is a gated 55-plus community. The gate will be open for our event. Parking is available along three sides of the club house.

From I-5 points North or South:
Take exit 195B for OR 569/Randy Pape Beltline westbound
Take Northwest Expressway exit
Turn right onto Northwest Expressway
Take first right onto Irving Road
Take second right onto Lansdown Road
The club house will be two blocks on left

From Junction City:
Take OR 99 Southbound toward Eugene
Turn left onto Irving Road
After about 1 mile turn right onto Lansdown Road
The club house will be two blocks on the left

From Oregon Coast:
From US 101 go east on OR 126 toward Eugene
Turn left on OR 569/Randy Pape Beltline east bound
Take Northwest Expressway Exit
Turn right onto Northwest Expressway
At first signal take right onto Irving Road
Take second right onto Lansdown Road
The club house will be two blocks on the left

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See the January 2013 for pictures from our fall mini-meet in Bend, OR on September 15, 2012

Fall Mini-Meet 2013

To be announced.

A Call For Volunteers!

Currently Division 1 is looking for volunteers to fill some key positions in our organization.

We are in need of a person to fill the Membership chair position. We all know how important it is to recruit new members and to keep the members we already have. We need someone with innovative ideas to fill this position.

Your editor of The Brakeman’s Rag is wanting to retire from that position. After five plus years, Glenn Edmison is wanting to move on to other challenges. Consider this an invitation for you to volunteer to be of service to your fellow model railroaders.
The position requires computer expertise for creating the copy, and connection to the internet for electronic publication. Familiarity with a word processor program is vital. Acquaintance with MicroSoft Publisher or some other such formatting program would be an advantage.
Points are rewarded towards the Achievement Program Association Volunteer Certificate, and accumulate rather quickly at one point per month..For more information on this, see the NMRA webpage, under the Achievement Program.
The news letter has been published as a quarterly, (December, April, June, September) with special editions added, as needed. It is typically 8 or more pages, and is released as an electronic version to those with E-mail, and as hard copy to those without E-mail. Content usually includes a Superintendent’s Report, minutes of the meetings of the board of directors, information about coming Division wide mini-meets,
and other coming events in Division 1. PNR, and news from clubs of the Division. Winners of division modeling contests as well as in regional activities are a regular feature. An effort has been made to include other items of general interest to the membership., Past editions are archived on the Division 1 web page See http://pnr.nmra.org/1div/ Help in getting started is offered, so someone picking up the reins would not
have to “reinvent the wheel”
Persons interested in becoming editor should contact Division 1 Superintendent, Dirk Kruysman at thisaddress: dutchdirk@charter.net

Volunteering to help your division can be a rewarding experience and can earn you AP points. If you or any one you know are interested in either of these two positions or would like to help our division in other ways please contact one of the board members listed above.