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+ Katherine Hey Geno, Good call today!  Ezra Klein with Oren Cass here . Here's a pic of 2 sections of Kato N scale track - 62 mm Feeder Track (20-041) and a #6 Left Turnout (186 mm, 20-202). The rails are spaced 9 mm. The Feeder Track comes with wires terminating in a standard Mini Tamiya connector Here's the underside. I have installed a Digitrax DS51K1 decoder per this link . I have also wired the turnout for non-power routing. I secure the decoder with a piece of painter's tape, which I may "upgrade" to a dab of Aileen's Tacky Glue.  The primary goal in installing these small decoders directly to the track is to have flexible track pieces that one can move and reconfigure at will without needing to disconnect wiring from beneath "benchwork" (the term used to describe traditional plywood surfaces and wood support framing). I have no benchwork; instead my layout is on an Ikea 30 x 60 desk, which can be elevated up and down.  Here's a pic of ...

Hi Steve, Thanks for reaching out. I have quite a few docs and albums I can share with you, which I'll do below. And I'll send a few pics annotated with names to faces. But I don't have time at the moment to write an "article" that might be more suitable for the newsletter. But let's start with what I have and see where that gets us. The Class of '75 Stanford Crew Reunion, Seattle, May 2025 This is the third "event" where some number of Stanford Crew alums from the mid 70's have convened in Seattle. I moved to Seattle in 1990. By 2011 I was ready to dip my toe back in the water and I've been rowing at Pocock in Seattle ever since. The rowing in Seattle is excellent. And Pocock is a good place to host alumni events.  The first of these alumni events commemorated a teammate who had died from cancer, Mark Grosenbaugh, '75. Mark, Sam Francis, '75, Dick Bailey, '76, and I, '75, spent the summer of '75 trying out for the US...