Rich,
Thanks for this summary of the meeting. It was a great meeting! I
really enjoyed Jim, Jerry, & Mike's slide show coverage of Kewanee &
Bureau County (Neponset, Buda, Wyananet, Princeton, etc) and Mike's
coverage of western Illinois (Beardstown, Astoria, Jacksonville,
Macomb). Leo's hand signal clinic was great and the round table
discussions were fascinating (I did not attend the AMB clinic). I now
have better understandingof last year's BRHSlist post about "What's
the difference between a railroad story and a fairy tale?". I also
enjoyed talking with other members. Thanks again.
Bill
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Subject: [BRHSlist] Spring Meet in Rochelle
Author: BRHSlist@egroups.com (rgortowski@a...) at BAXTER
Date: 5/1/00 9:02 PM
Guys and gals,
Just a few random thoughts on the Spring Meet in Rochelle. We had about 185
people attend the meet. There was the ever-present swap meet with 30 tables
of CB&Q related items. There were three interesting clinics, the first was
Leo Phillipps (of BRHSList fame) doing his hand signals program. The second
was Dave Lotz (Q-Connection) and John Lee (of AMB and Badger) with a hands-on
clinic about building and painting laser kits. The final one was a
roundtable discussion with former CB&Q employees John Schmid, Jim Shaffer,
and Bob Campbell.
Some people took advantage of the proximity to the UP/BNSF diamonds to do a
little railfanning. A lot of people stayed and caught up on old
friendships.
We had a buffet diner and then were treated to two programs, one by Jim
Singer and Jerry Hamsmith, following a Galesburg to Mendota local. The
second featured Mike Spoor showing a slide show of photos under
consideration for his next book.
We had a raffle for a painted Aurora Shops CB&Q heavyweight diner and a
Badger airbrush (the airbrush was donated by John Lee).
I think we had a good time and I would strongly recommend that any who can
should plan to attend next year's Spring Meet which will be held in Mendota,
IL on April 28th 2001.
Rich Gortowski
Meet Chairman
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