Every year, O Scale Central has elections to fill leadership positions in the organization. As a member, you have the responsibility to vote for your OSC leadership. This year, the Vice President, Treasurer, and three Director positions are up for election. Each candidate for this election will be elected to a term starting on January 1, 2026, and ending on December 31, 2027. Directions for voting are listed under each position.
All ballots are due back by December 1st via electronic submission. If you have any questions, email secretary@oscalecentral.com
Ken Nesper
Secretary, O Scale Central
Below are the candidates and their short biographies.
PRESIDENT
Nick Bulgarino
Nick Bulgarino has been a train enthusiast since the age of 3. Like all good Millennials, Nick began his interest in trains with Thomas the Tank Engine. This developed into an interest in British prototypes, where he followed the Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway. Nick became familiar with American prototypes through the B&O Railroad Museum, where he began learning about the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
In 2003, after the Nor’easter dropped 7 feet of snow in the Baltimore area and collapsed the roof on the Museum’s roundhouse, Nick and his 1st Grade class took their first steps into the world of Railroad Preservation by creating a project called “Help Restore the Rails.” The project raised over $2,000 for the rebuilding of the roof.
As Nick grew older, he developed other interests, such as sports and music. Nick attended DeMatha Catholic High School, where he played varsity golf and played in their Wind Ensemble. Nick received his Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance from the Eastman School of Music in 2018 and proceeded to get his Master of Music in Trombone from the Peabody Conservatory in 2020. He is an active freelance musician.
While at Peabody, Nick joined the Baltimore Society of Model Engineers. There, he started getting involved in the O Scale 2-Rail (OS2R) community and attended his first OS2R show: the April 2019 Strasburg Show. There, he purchased his first OS2R engine: a Westside B&O Q4b with water bottle. He proceeded to burn its coal load and unsolder the tank from the tender frame (yes, quite literally both!) due to not understanding insulated trucks. Since that experience, Nick has become an avid supporter and proponent of Dead Rail (Power Onboard) train control.
Nick is a member of O Scale Central, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Historical Society, and the National Model Railroad Association.
Nick models the Baltimore and Ohio’s Baltimore Division in 1948. He enjoys doing extensive research on the prototype in addition to enjoying the model building side of the hobby. He is building the Pratt Street Line, and intends to build a layout modeling the Old Main Line from Baltimore City to Brunswick, MD via his hometown of Ellicott City, MD, the original 1830 terminus of the B&O.
Secretary
In addition to being a charter member of O Scale Central (#9), I am a life member of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), Mid-Eastern Region (MER) and Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum (Society of the Iron Horse) and an annual member of the B&O Railroad Historical Society, the National Railway Historical Society and the Friends of the Ohio River & Western.
I principally model an operations-oriented urban industrial railroad loosely based on the B&O’s Alexandria Subdivision in the late 1950s. The OS2R layout is point-to-point built along the walls of a 16 x 20 foot space with nod-under. There is an 8 foot extension for staging.
For a complete change of pace, in the last few years, I have added an On30 layout inspired by the Ohio River & Western in the early 1910s. This is a loop-to-loop layout built 18 inches under the OS2R layout. More information about my adventures in model railroading is available at https://2inoscaledc.potomac-nmra.org/index.html.
I retired from the U.S. Postal Service (Information Technology Department) in 2009. My wife and I have resided in the Brookland neighborhood of NE DC for more than 35 years. In addition to all things railroading, I like to read, garden, tent camp, and attend Washington Nationals’ baseball games.
DIRECTORS
Joe Congemi
NEED PIX AND BIO
Scott Kurzawski
NEED PIX
Scott Kurzawski has been an O Scale 2-Rail modeler since 2012 after moving from Houston, Tx to Austin, TX. He is currently handling the O Scale Central website development and hopes to enhance the websites capabilities in attracting new O scale modelers and potentially new O Scale Central members.
Prior to 2012, Scott was an avid HO Scale modeler and belonged to the All Points North Model Railroad Club in Conroe, TX. Scott enjoys model railroad electronics/software, 3D printing, hand-laying track, and custom painting rolling stock. He also has a small home machine shop and an investment casting foundry where he fabricates and casts various model railroad items.
Scott models the modern ATSF prior to the BNSF merger.
Scott is graduated college as a Mechanical Engineer and currently works as a firmware developer for Advanced Micro Devices.