Membership

Membership in HO Scale usually hovers around 45. The degree of member participation varies depending on an individual's time availability, but about half the membership takes part in weekly work sessions on Friday evenings that run from 7:30pm until around midnight. Some members, because of travel or other commitments, participate less frequently. Many participate more.

Associate membership status is available for those who belong to another club but would like to participate in our club on a limited basis.

Besides working on the layout, HO members enjoy railfanning and participating in the local NMRA meets and auctions.

No particular skills are required for membership. Our members have diverse interests and talents.

Drop by on a Friday evening and take a look around and see if HO scale is for you.

Member Participation Responsibilities

The club (EBMES) meets once a month - generally on the first Friday of each month - for a general session - with the Annual Meeting and elections for the Board in December. Golden State Museum Meetings are once a quarter, usually preceeding the EBMES meeting. These meetings start at 10 p.m.

HO scale meetings are every second month (on even numbered months) and start at 9:30 p.m. These are especially important to attend.

Full Members are expected to crew on Sundays at least once a month - Associates at least once per quarter. It takes a minimum of 5 crew members to run the layout for the Sunday public shows. But we can handle a max. of about 15 with all areas running ! There is also a Museum requirement that each member do door and docent duty once every six months (you automatically become a Museum Member when you join the scale).

Equipment Requirements

HO scale only provides specialized cars used for track cleaning purposes. Members provides all motive power and freight cars. We have a check-in procedure to ensure that equipment meets scale standards. The main ones are:

• Motive power is expected to run reliably during public run sessions. We have facilities to clean wheels but not for major repairs or tuning.
• Freight cars must be free rolling on a 3 degree slope, have metal wheels and weighted to NMRA standards (1 oz + 1/2 oz for each inch of length). 20K ohm "detection" axles every 5th car and on all rear-end cars are required for running on the Hill - Roseville to Truckee.
• All cars left on the layout must be labelled with the owner's unique number which is assigned once you become a member (Full or Associate).
• Since we have limited storage space, Full Members are limited to leaving no more than 2 yard-track consists on the layout - about 50 cars. We continue to add storage lockers for those wishing to leave additional equipment at the club. Associates generally bring their own equipment and take it home because they tend to run less frequently. Accomodations can be made for those Associates who consistently run more frequently.

Contacts

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