February 3 meeting at Highland Baptist Church Activity Center, 7:30pm. John Lott will show a 16mm film, "Days of Steam in Sound and Color".
The January meeting program was by Patrick Pritchett. He showed us slides and examples about detailing deisel locomotives.
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The HO modules were set up Saturday, January 25, 8am to 5pm at Grand Port, (previously called Lubbock Village). Thanks to Bob Batson for coordinating this event.
There will be no show in February this year. It will be held sometime later in the year.
Amarillo will have the Tri-State Show and swap meet, Sat. and Sun., March 15 and 16. Amarillo will also host the Great American Train Show, Sat. and Sun., May 3 and 4.
The Abeline show will be Fri., Sat., and Sun., April 4, 5, and 6.
The Lubbock Arts Festival will be in April at the fairgrounds.
Rock Island slides were shown, Thursday, Jan. 23, at Patrick Prichett's house. Those slides showed some heavily weathered equipment.
The next Slide SIG will also be at Patrick Prichett's house, (4702-16th St.), Thur., April 10. We will be seeing F Units.
The next Executive Committee Meeting will be Tue., Feb. 18th, at Jan Kutch's house, 3611 Chicago (on a cul-de-sac).
[This is from an e-mail message containing a document from the Dept. of Transportation.] SUMMARY: The Board exempts from prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903 the abandonment by South Plains Lamesa Railroad, Ltd., of 49.06 miles of rail line between milepost 5.00 near Slaton and milepost 54.06 near Lamesa, in Dawson and Lynn Counties, TX, subject to standard labor protective conditions....effective on February 3, 1997...
To promote their Railroading Merit Badge at the 1997 Jamboree, Charles Anderson (Jamboree Chairman) has asked clubs to build HO and N scale modules for a re-usable, interactive, learning pavilion. The pavilion will be a 45' trailer converted to look like a G.E. Deisel locomotive. The National Jamboree will be July 28 through Aug. 6 at Ft. A.P. Hill, VA. We can model anything we want, as long as it looks like West Texas. The module will be HO, 18" X 8', double-track front and elevated double-track in back. All materials will be provided, and they will pick up the completed module late March. Trains Magazine will cover building the modules, starting in Feb. From the letter: "Our goal is to provide the opportunity for over fifty thousand Scouts, Scouters, and visitors to be introduced to the railroad hobby during the 1997 Jamboree, as well as "train" several thousand Scouts for the Merit program and will be featured in BOY'S LIFE and SCOUTING magazine; the pavilion will also be covered in RAILWAY AGE, TRAINS, MODEL RAILROADER, and PROGRESSIVE RAILROADING."