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St. Paul's United Church of Christ
5729 Dunham Road
Downers Grove, IL 60516
(All Meetings start at 1:30)
| Date | Program or Activity | Contest |
| September 12, 2015 | Railroad Forensics – By Patrick Golden A presentation on finding and locating former railroad structures and facilities. |
Locomotives – built for and normally assigned to switching duties. |
| October 4, 2015 | Weathering Models by John Drozdak |
Billboard refrigerator cars– sort of a colorful and “cool” beauty pageant. |
| November 1, 2015 | A Fireman’s Story – Jack Wheelihan (fireman on SP GS4 and UP Heritage Steam Program) |
National Model Railroad Month – Bring something from a favorite MR category to celebrate National Model Railroad Month. Start of the Kitbash a Kit Contest – see February 2016. Be sure to pick up your building for $10 (your Division has subsidized this cost) |
| December 6, 2015 | Annual Division Christmas Party - Presentation TBA | Holiday Season Photo Spectacular - Model or Prototype in any color or B&W print, slide, or digital formats |
| January 3, 2016 | Tips on kitbash building for the February Model Contest | Maintenance of Way – any equipment used to keep the railroad operational and safe every day. |
February 7, 2016 |
Show & Tell results of our kit bash contest - Results of the Division wide Kitbashing Contest Note: Be sure to pick up your building at one of the meetings for a reduced price of $10. | Results of the Kitbash a Kit Division Contest - To be announced at the November 2015 meeting |
| March 6, 2016 | DCC Talk by Bill Drzal and friends | Annual All Categories Model Contest – open to any NMRA model category |
| March 19, 2016 | All American Railroad Show at Lyons Township High School Field house – 35th Annual! Contact Patrick Golden if your group has a layout, model train display or railroad display that you want to share with others. | 9am to 5pm Admission $5 (under age 5 are free) Located at the corner of Brainard and Cossitt in LaGrange IL. A short walk from the BNSF West Lines Stone Avenue Metra Station |
| April 10, 2016 | Division Layout Tours Contact Alan or Ray if you are interested in showing your layout. We’ll be focusing on the southeast area of our Division this year. Contact Alan Busic if you would like to present your layout to the Divisio |
No contest this month due to the tour |
| May 1, 2016 | Railroading and Circus Models by Ray Gerlich; Techniques for building and scenery on HO modules by Andrew Bobis Note: This is a joint meeting with the Venture Crew 57 model railroad group. | Thumbz – bringing back an oldie but goody (based on a popular model railroading cartoon). Bring something that will provide some "pun" ishment… |
| June 2016 | To be announced railroad or model railroad activity |
No contest this month. |
| July 3-10, 2016 |
The Central Indiana Division is hosting the 2016 National Convention and Train Show in Indianapolis, IN. See the NMRA website for details when they are available. Also view the CID web site at http://www.nmra2016.org/ |
There will be no 2016 Midwest Region convention due to the the national convention activities in the region. |
For more information on these meets, contact:
Tim Schubert,
(630) 690-9757
DuPage Division Officers (2811)
| DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT |
ALAN BUSIC mabusic@msn.com Term expires 5/31/2017 |
630-789-3628 |
| ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT | Ray Gerlich |
630-543-0495 |
| CHIEF CLERK |
ALEX SCHNEIDER |
630- 833-6269 |
| PAYMASTER |
RICHARD STREBENDT |
630-682-3936 |
Trainmaster Positions Terms expire 5/31/2016 |
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| Division Membership & promotions Chairman |
RoN Scharping sue_ron_scharping@comcast.net |
630-968-0157 |
| All American Train Show Chairman |
Patrick Golden Pggolden@aol.com |
708-482-8225 |
| Crossbuck EDITOR |
TIM SCHUBERT twschubs@gmail.com |
630-690-9757 |
| Division Achievement Chairman |
Rob Schiavone robert_s_60188@yahoo.com |
630-690-3262 |
| Division Contests Chairman |
CHARLIE LEWIS |
630-325-0636 |
| Trainmaster Past Superintendent |
KIETH LIPSKE |
630-989-0915 |
| Trainmaster | KYM SCHLYTTER |
630-961-0044 |
| Trainmaster | Dave Angus dpangus@att.net |
630-837-2090 |
| Trainmaster | Fred Henize fchenize@att.net |
815-467-2705 |
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Includes the following counties in the State of Illinois: Cook not otherwise included in the Fox Valley Division, DuPage, Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kane (south of the westward extension of the Cook-DuPage county line), Kendall, and Will. |
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| MEETING LOCATION | ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST |
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