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Subject: [CBQ] Oregon Meet
From: "gaedgar66" <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:09:36 -0000
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  Hat's off to Bob Rees, Rich Grotowski, the Depot Museum volunteers 
and various BRHS mbrs for a super meet!  The Oregon Coliseum was full 
of tables of Q models and RRiana for sale, the 3 clinics were great & 
although I had to lv early for our daughter's last Prom night, I'm 
sure the dinner & programs were top quality considering the providers.
It was a privilege to meet Rupert Gamlen, New Zealand's #1 Q fan as 
well as other BRHS mbrs, some of which I had heretofore only 'met' 
via this Yahoo group. (and yes, there were some interesting Q models 
on display in various scales).  The depot was super with homemade 
goodies provided by the local volunteers and the obligatory visit to 
the nearby Black Hawk statue was a must to evoke the spirit of the 
Q's overnight Chi-Twin Cities train.
  Given conversations with Galesburg meet organizers the Sept 17-19 
annual meet there will be another "winner" so circle that w/e on your 
calendars.
  Also w/e of the 2005 Annual Meet in Dubuque has been narrowed down 
to the 3rd or 4th w/e - anyone aware of any other major RR events 
that would conflict with either w/e?
  See you @ Galesburg!   Gerald

PS - the Zephyr should be in many mbr's hands now - a wide variety of 
info whether you model, collect, railfan or are LE, LW, Steam, diesel 
or any other Q interest.  We need more authors though for both the 
Zephyr & the Bulletin - whether a paragraph of 'news', photo to be 
added to a work in progress (see list in that new Zephyr) or an in-
depth article of any length or something in-between, put it on paper, 
send to Box 456 and let staff work with you to get more Burlington 
info in print & into everyone else's hands!  Danke shoen....   

And my apologies to anyone @ Oregon I did not get to visit with long 
enough (Brad, Bob, Rob, Tom, etc etc) - between my table of Q items, 
my clinic, etc - there were NOT enough hours in the day!  BRHS or any 
entity for that matter only survives if 'x' number of members show an 
interest in each other's welfare; i.e. give of your time, talent, 
dues, etc to share information and comaraderie.  The Burlington 
remains as the 1st name of the 1 of the surviving Big 4 RR's with all 
its principle lines intact largely because the "we're the best and 
will work to prove it" attitude exceeded that of all its friendly 
competitors. (thank goodness!).  We owe nothing less to our efforts 
to collect, preserve & disseminate Burlington info, large & small.



 
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