[CBQ] Trainfest in review

["Bill Jelinek via CBQ" <BJelinek808=outlook.com@groups.io>]

The BRHS had a great time at Trainfest last weekend. Let me first thank everyone who helped set-up, man the booth, and tear-down. If my list is complete, we had Greg Koon, Dan Hollis, Bill Hayward, Jeff Spoden, Burt Armbrust and Ken Thompson. If I missed anyone, I apologize. Just add your name in the comments.

 

I was impressed that after we unloaded, and by the time I found a garage to park my truck, the guys had everything set-up when I returned to the exhibition hall! These guys have done this before, and Burt even had a chart showing where the Bulletins were to be placed in the racks.

 

This year in addition to our usual lineup of Burlington Bulletins, project cars, calendars and items donated from members’ collections for sale, Tangent Scale Models donated 144 of the General American 4500 Covered Hoppers with an assortment of CB&Q road numbers as a fundraiser for our Building Fund at the Illinois Railway Museum. We had a number of customers purchase a car even though the 1965 build date was outside their era. They stated they just wanted to support the building project. Our star customer was John Zientek of Zientek’s Model Trains in Chicago. He purchased one of each of the twelve road numbers that were available. One of the guys has a photo of him receiving his case of cars. I suspect he will post it on this group. Look for details to come on the BRHS website and in the next Zephyr.

 

Once again, a big thank you to all the BRHS volunteers. Without members stepping up, we would not be able pull off big events like Trainfest.

 

-Bill Jelinek 

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