Title: Show us what you saw this summer!
Location: Church of Scotland, Robie St., Halifax
Description: Hello one and all -

Next Thursday, September 9th at 7 p.m. will be start of our season of slide (image!) shows in Halifax. Please bring some images to the Church of Scotland on Robie Street North to share with other railfans.

I’m looking forward to seeing all of you again and to another series of great programs on the second thursday of each month.

We’re gathering money for to assist the church in purchasing a new screen that we’ll be able to use for our events. They have already purchased a digital projector which I expect will be available to our group.

Word will follow about the locale for the informal, railfan breakfast at 8 a.m. on Saturday the 11th.

See you there….watch out for Earl.

Bill
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-09-09

The 2010 Jul/Aug issue of “The Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette” features an article by Peter Mesheau on his HOn30 mini layout, the Moose River Railroad. Four pages of colour photos by Colin Busby on Peter’s efforts. Peter is a “rubber gauger” from way back, as well as a narrow gauge modeler and lives in Sackville, N.B.

Title: Truro Model Railroaders Association 33rd Annual Fall Train Show
Location: Truro Campus – Nova Scotia Community College
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2010-10-16
End Time: 16:00

Title: 3rd Annual Fredericton Train Show
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2010-12-04
End Time: 16:00

The Saint John crew did a bang up job of hosting the 2010 MFMR Convention.  I’ve posted some photos of the events I attended in the Photo section of the site.  It was difficult to get to everything so I am relying on other folks to fill in the blanks with their own photos.  If you have any photos that you would like to share please send them to me.

The 2010 Convention photos can be found here…

Title: 26th Annual Model Train Show
Location: Saint John, NB
Link out: Click here
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2010-11-06
End Time: 16:00

Visit their web site for more information.

Marie Rouleau said she never wins anything, but she bought a ticket on the train set during Island Rails 2009 (the MFMR Convention held on PEI last May) because the proceeds were going to a good cause.  Lo and behold her name was drawn for the train set donated by Don’s HO!

When she picked it up she told me that it would be for her grandson who lives with his parents in Germany (his father is assigned to a NATO unit there).  But he would be home for a visit during the summer and they’d give it to him then.  I asked her to give me a call so I could get a picture to share with members of the MFMR.

About a week ago I received the call and made arrangements to meet their grandson, Brandon.  His grandfather, Gil, told me that Brandon was so excited to receive the train set that they immediately had to clear the dining room table to set it up and he’d been playing with it non-stop ever since!

Apparently Brandon is about as big a train fan as they come, and he’s only 5 years old!  Instead of dinky cars and action figures he has trains of all shapes and sizes from Thomas to the Polar Express (and that’s what he calls all steam locos).  He loves coming to visit his grandparents. Gill has a model railroad in his basement that he is allowed to play with from time to time.  He also loves where he lives in Germany too, since there is a small privately owned rail yard practically in his back yard.

I invited Brandon and Gill to visit the Bayside and Tidewater before Brandon returned to Germany.  I wish I had taken some photos because he was definitely in his glory (actually I was too busy keeping up with him to take pictures!).  He couldn’t decide what he wanted to look at or which train he would like to run.  I think he ran just about every loco in the room, for a foot or two at least!

It’s encouraging to see a young person this excited by trains, and to be supported by his family.  Hopefully Brandon  settles in the Maritimes when he moves back to Canada so he can participate in the MFMR!

Scott

I’ve updated the Executives page with email addresses for the Executive (at least everyone that has one). However, for future reference their email addresses are:

President @ MFMR . ca
Vice-President @ MFMR . ca
Secretary @ MFMR . ca
Membership @ MFMR . ca
Contests @ MFMR . ca
Branchline @ MFMR . ca
WebMaster @ MFMR . ca

These addresses are set to forward mail to the appropriate person so that when the position changes hands it will be easy to change where the email gets sent.

Scott

Jim Taylor had a three page article published in the March/April 2006 issue of N Scale Magazine about How to Build a DCC Decoder Tester/Trainer.

Jim also had a two page illustrated article in the March-April 2006 issue of Canadian Railway Modeller, on Adding a Decoder to an N Scale Track Cleaning Car.