Hi all,
Please excuse the cross-list posting on this and the possible encroachment into the dreaded "off-topic zone" but I know there are many who would be interested in the following news:
Apparently the TP&W Historical Society has risen from the ashes. Last week in the mail I received the Society's newsletter, The Prarie Marksman, along with a color photograph of two of the road's GP-20's #'s2016 & 2052 taken in November of 1999 at the Hoosier Lift Intermodal Facility near Remington, IN.
Jerry Reinmann is heading up the group and Mark Lagomarcino is the newsletter editor. Following are some excerpts from Jerry's editorial in the Marksman. [used with permission]:
"As you know the TP&W RR HS has had very little activity in the last few years...Since Rail America bought the property [June, 1999]...I have talked to the Rail America vice president in charge of the TP&W and the superintendent...We are now permitted to enter the property if we stay in the parking area. For now do not cross any tracks into the operating area....
...most important is the Society news. On April 22, a group met and a reorganization committee was formed. All officers and board members have been asked to continue until the next regular meeting. Many members have paid annual dues and in effect, they have gotten nothing in return and this will be solved by carrying on until caught up....
...Persons wishing to join the Society for the year 2000 will pay dues equal to the amount of newsletters they receive. If they receive one newsletter, they pay one fourth of the annual dues amount, two newsletters would be one half and so forth...
...We are ready to roll again."
The TP&W HS now has a Home Page at:
and can be reached via email at:
tpwrrhs@...
Editor Mark Lagomarcino states, "Let us know what your email address is and we will keep you up to date on society news between newsletters. We have a strict privacy policy, your email address will not be given out. You may contact us on matters of Society business or write to see if we are really paying attention! Just write."
The Society's snail mail (fmail!) address is:
615 Bullock Street
Eureka, IL
and the phone contact given is:
309-467-3372.
I'm sure many of us are glad to be reading the above and wish the Society the best as they get rolling again. Call, email, or fmail and offer your encouragement, support, and appreciation. I have.
Paul Kossart - Peru, Illinois, USA
BRHS, TP&WHS, La Salle & Bureau County Model Railroad Club
Proto-Freelancing The CB&Q Illiniwek River Branch in HO in the 1960's...
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