Article compiled by the
MRH Staff
See how one club overcame challenges
to become a group that’s really going
somewhere in the hobby ...
1: EMD road and switching power waits for service on
the engine tracks in Irvinville, just west of the Columbia,
Cascade and Western yard at Lebanon. A regional,
the CC&W mixes up-to-date locomotives with engines
acquired second-hand from bigger companies.
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Columbia Cascade and Western - 2
2: Rick Andrews, left, and David Biedermann, center, tell Jeff
Shultz of MRH how the Willamette Model Railroad Club formed,
and how it is building a large HO layout designed for operations.
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MRH:
“Hi. This is Jeff Shultz of
Model Railroad Hobbyist maga-
zine.
We’re here in Clackamas, Oregon, with David Biedermann,
the president of the club; and Rick Andrews, who has the honor
of being the one remaining active charter member. Rick, give us a
little bit of the history of the club.”
Rick:
“We were formed in late 1984, and we got a clubhouse,
which was an old garage. We designed a layout, and were get-
ting ready to build it until we realized that the lease was month
by month and it was a possibility that the building was going to be
sold. So we decided, let’s find another place.
M
RH recently visited the Clackamas club in Portland,
Oregon, known formally as the Willamette Model
Railroad Club This group has faced some real chal-
lenges in building its Columbia Cascade and Western, yet is
overcoming them to become one of the more operationally
focused clubs we’ve encountered lately.
MRH-Feb 2013
