!At The Throttle!
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!At The Throttle! “The close relationship between railroad expansion and the general development of the prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pa- cific railroads. Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one an- other, were separately owned and sepa- rately managed.” John Moody – American Financial Analyst As we get closer to the anniversary of the famous event about which John Moody mused (can you guess?) the more the antici- pation grows about how we will recognize and salute all those who a part of the connec- tion were. I’m looking forward to the next meeting when we get to express in unique ways how we relate to the event. Over the decades of “moving” pictures, the history of trains has been documented much to the en- tertainment of all – from drama to comedy and everything between. One of my favorite films is “Blazing Saddles”. It’s a bit outra- geous (Okay, okay, it’s out right cheeky!). Bring your gear and trappings that will identi- fy how you relate to the occasion. Our fea- ture presentation will be a little more refined, but equally entertaining. See you then. Keep ‘em running Madison Parker Cell: 630-542-9062 Volume 22, Number 4 April 2019 CAGRS Treasurer’s Report by Bill Schwartz March 2019 Starting Balance 35,675.78 INCOME 2019 Memberships 190.00 Meeting 0.00 Pot Luck 100.00 TOTAL 290.00 EXPENSES Administration 56.87 Annual Report 10.00 Newsletter 188.40 Meeting 0.00 TOTAL 255.27 Ending balance 35,710.51
Transcript of !At The Throttle!
!At The Throttle!
“The close relationship between railroad expansion and the general development of the prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pa-cific railroads. Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one an-other, were separately owned and sepa-rately managed.” John Moody – American Financial Analyst As we get closer to the anniversary of the famous event about which John Moody mused (can you guess?) the more the antici-pation grows about how we will recognize and salute all those who a part of the connec-tion were. I’m looking forward to the next meeting when we get to express in unique ways how we relate to the event. Over the decades of “moving” pictures, the history of trains has been documented much to the en-tertainment of all – from drama to comedy and everything between. One of my favorite films is “Blazing Saddles”. It’s a bit outra-geous (Okay, okay, it’s out right cheeky!). Bring your gear and trappings that will identi-fy how you relate to the occasion. Our fea-ture presentation will be a little more refined, but equally entertaining. See you then. Keep ‘em running Madison Parker Cell: 630-542-9062
Volume 22, Number 4 April 2019
CAGRS Treasurer’s
Report
by Bill Schwartz
March 2019
Starting Balance 35,675.78
INCOME
2019 Memberships 190.00 Meeting 0.00
Pot Luck 100.00 TOTAL 290.00
EXPENSES
Administration 56.87
Annual Report 10.00
Newsletter 188.40
Meeting 0.00
TOTAL 255.27
Ending balance 35,710.51
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CHCAGO AREA GARDEN RAILWAY SOCIETY
http://cagrs.com
Officers President, Madison Parker
630-851-4056 [email protected]
Vice President, Joe Lienau
Treasurer, Bill Schwartz
Secretary, Judy Rustemeyer
Chairpersons Membership, Jim FioRito
1204 Sunnybrook Drive Naperville, IL 60540
630-219-4567 [email protected]
Open Houses, Beth and Steve March
847-367-5175 [email protected]
WebMaster, Ray Sargent 630-766-5738
Newsletter Editor, John Peart 773-973-0217
Caring and Sharing, Mary FioRito 630-219-4567
Newsletter PRINTER, Pete Costanza
The Ink Well (847) 923-8060
BIRTHDAYS: MARCH
APRIL
ANNIVERSARIES:
Caring & Sharing Corner
Mary FioRito [email protected]
630-219-4567
MARCH MARLENE & JOEL MILLER 47 YRS
APRIL MONICA & JIM LEWANDOWSKI 35 YRS
DOLORES & BERNIE RICH 56 YRS
BETH MARCH GERI GARSTECKI
BONNIE FRELS JUDY BERGHAUS
CINDY STARZYK MONICA LEWANDOWSKI
CONNIE SMITH ROBERT RUSTEMEYER
FRANCES MC TAGUE STEVEN MARCH
FRED KOSS TERRY FRIEDMAN
BEN JONES KATHLEEN EBERL
BERNIE RODELIUS NICK JACOB
GARY BRUCH SUSAN DAVOUST
GAYLE ALTHARDT BERNIE RICH
JANIER KOSS MIKE KELLNER
JOE VAVRA PAUL VANDEMYDE
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The CAGRS membership renewal period end-ed on February 28th. We have 125 member-ships. There are still a few folks who have not renewed for 2019. Jim FioRito,
It is that time of the year that 2 offices of our board come up for election. Elected offic-ers term runs for 2 years. By alternating the elections every year new officers can easily adjust into their office with help from the other current officers. This year the offices up for election are Vice President and Treasurer. If anyone is in-terested in running for either of these offices please let Penny or Dolores know. The biggest benefit you can realize from volunteering is meeting people and developing new friendships. If you have attended any of our monthly meetings you can see no-one is left by themselves. The more you mingle, the more friends you will make. If you are interested please call: Penny Haberkamp 847-913-0096 OR Dolores Rich 630-894-8548
First you have to decide that you are will-ing to host an open house. Do you have trains and a track to run them on? Do you have enough space to lay down your track outside? Do you own or can you buy a small book to register the people who will be coming to ad-mire your handiwork? Congratulations! You have enough equipment to allow you to sched-ule an open house. We have members who are only thinking about starting their layouts. Your display and experiences will be helpful in getting them started. Remember, some of our oldest members have had open houses showing only partially completed layouts. Some would say that layouts are never com-pleted. Second you need to send me an e-mail with a short description of your layout and driving directions from the nearest interstate exit to your house. All this should be in my hands two weeks be-fore the next CAGRS meeting so that I can get it to the editor of our newsletter in time for publication before your scheduled open house. Steve March [email protected]; 847-436-0079
CLUB MEMBERSHIP
by Jim FioRito
Membership Chair
2019 Elections
Fred Haberkamp
Getting Yourself on the 2019 Summer Open Houses Cal-endar
by Steve March
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The monthly meeting was held on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at the Holiday Inn, Itasca, IL. Check in for dinner started at 4:45 pm. Meet-ing was called to order at 6:35 pm by President Parker. Attendees: Ron & Gayle Althardt, Ed Aus-trauski, Ed Biesiadecki, Bob & Laurie Defoe, Jim & Mary Fiorito, Joe Genc, Fred & Penny Haberkamp, Paul Hough, Grant Law, Joe & Mary Lou Lienau, Steve & Beth March, Mike McTague, Don & Dora Mecko, Ron & Mar-tha Messner, Fred & Leiona Neitzke, Madison & Gayle Parker, John & Lorrie Rocky, Wil-liam & Shirley Rustemeyer, Don Rustemeyer, Bob Rustemeyer, Judy Rustemeyer, Bill & Pat Schwartz, Kris & Chris Scotella, Jim & Donna Snorek, Jonathan & Jill Treubig, Brian Val-leau, Bob & Mary Walsh, Wayne Zoeteman (45). Word of the day – Brabble – Argue over petty things Reports Vice-President Lienau – No Report Treasurer Bill Schwartz said starting balance was $35408.91, Income (memberships, pot-luck, meeting) was $1,760.00, $1,458.40, Ex-penses (newsletter & Meeting) with a new bal-ance in the bank of $35,710.51 Membership Chair Jim FioRito –115 Mem-bers which is 210 people Caring and Sharing – Mary FioRito – Many Birthday’s & Anniversaries for April Open House Steve March – If you know when you are going to have your open house
please get your information into Steve & Beth March. Newsletter Editor – No Report Election – April 27 – Fred & Penny Haber-kamp – Vice-President and Treasurer are up for re-election. Interested in running please contact Fred & Penny. Elections will be at our April meeting. Announcements – Movie and Pot Luck Din-ner will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Vernon Hills Community Township. This is being called the Golden Spike Pot Luck. Doors will open at 5 pm and this is $10.00 per person per Mary Fiorito. More information can be found in the newsletter. Presentation Our Open Mic meeting was done by Brian Valleau and Madison Parker with Q&AS’s on the Golden Spike. Also at the end of the meeting Bob Walsh spoke about the pieces of wood he picked up that was left over from Walter Radtke’s items that were given away and he put them together and made a beautiful hotel with them. Next meeting will be Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Vernon Hills Community Township.
CAGRS
Meeting Minutes March 24, 2019
by Judy Rustemeyer Secretary
LGB News
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By Bill Schwartz NEW 2019 LGB MODELS LGB has released its new items for 2019 and among them are trains in a Coca Cola livery, yellow cars with red lettering. There is a Dav-enport diesel engine (LGB 27631), a boxcar (40672), a tank car (40810) and a combine (40757). The entire set measures 64 ½ inches (164 cm) between the couplers.
Another interesting new model is a White Pass & Yukon flatcar with a red Volkswagen Bus as cargo.
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The movie for our Pot Luck Dinner was selected for an event that will be celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. The movie will be Cecil B. DeMille’s 1939 epic “Union Pacific”, the story of America building its first transcon-tinental railroad, right up to the driving of the final gold spike to complete the road. Like everything DeMille did, “Union Pa-cific” was made on an epic scale. The movie features hundreds of extras and plenty of rip-roaring action. There is a saloon brawl, Indian attacks on trains, and several exciting locomo-tive derailments, all done with that over-the-top DeMille flare. Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea star. Stanwyck plays Mollie Monahan, the very Irish daughter of a very Irish train engi-neer. McCrea plays Jeff Butler, the man hired to maintain law and order among the hundreds of men toiling to build the railroad. He goes up against some bad men hired by a wealthy banker, Asa M. Barrows, to sabotage the work being done. The plot details don’t really matter. The movie is all about the actions that center on the love triangle between Stanwyck, McCrea, and a very young Robert Preston, playing Dick Al-len. Preston and McCrea were comrades in arms during the recent “War Between the States,” who now find themselves competing against each other over the railroad and Mol-lie. The story culminates in typical melodra-matic DeMille fashion. Also, I should mention some of the sup-porting cast. Brian Donlevy, as Sid Campeau, is the leader of the bad guys. A young Antho-ny Quinn and Lon Chaney Jr. show up briefly as henchmen of Donlevy.
This is an exciting movie. I hope you will enjoy it. Brian
2019 Potluck Movie
By Brian Valleau
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Celebrate The Transcontinental Railroad Golden Spike 150th Anniversary…
With A Golden Spike Potluck Dinner and A Hell On Wheels Movie-Night
Come As A Person, Place, Thing, Song, Date That Helped Build/Fund/Create The
Transcontinental Railroad Experience Wear a Costume, a Hat, Pin a Picture on your shirt, Carry an Object, Sing a Song.... whatever helps you Tell your Story to your Golden-Spike-Mates, so that everyone will enjoy the Transcontinental Railroad History through your Per-spective!
FOR EXAMPLE BE:
Promontory Point - A Bison - A Saloon Girl - The Jupiter - The Golden Spike - A Credit Mobilier Certificate - A Hell On Wheels Hotel Car - Tea - An Irish Worker - A Sioux Indian - Abraham Lincoln - A Chinese Worker -The Up 119 - A Gambler - A Railroad Tie - Theodore Judah - A Dish Swabber - A Cheyenne Indian - A Rob-ber Baron - A Surveyor/Map -“Clear The Way” Song By Stephen Massett & Dedi-cated To Great Pacific Rr - Nitro-Glycerin (Pictures Only) — Leland Stanford - Jane Stanford- Charles Crocker - Mary Crocker - Arabella & Collis Huntington - Mark Hopkins - James Hill - Mary Mehegan Hill - May 10, 1869 - Etc..Etc..Etc
LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD...MOST OF ALL... COME AND HAVE FUN!!!!
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CAGRS SHIRTS Ron Messner is our Shirt Man. The shirts come in Denim long and short sleeved and short sleeved only polo shirts. ALL shirts are selling for just $15 each. You can contact Ron by phone, email, or at a CAGRS monthly meeting Ron Messner 4936 Berenice Chicago, IL 60641 [email protected] PH 773-520-1779 As of Jan 31st, Ron has the following shirts available.
OFFICIAL CAGRS CLUB LOGO SHIRTS AVAILABLE
Polo Denim Short Sleeve
Denim Long Sleeved
Small 2 1 2
Medium 5 0 2
Large 0 4 0
XL 0 5 1
2X 0 1 1
3X 0 0 3
4X 1 0 4
Coming Up this Month April 14 Great Midwest Train Show, DuPage County Fairgrounds www.greatmidwesttrainshow.com April 27 CAGRS Annual Potluck and Movie and Elections 2900 N Main Street, Buffalo Grove
Coming Up Later
May 5 Great Midwest Train Show, DuPage County Fairgrounds www.greatmidwesttrainshow.com May 19 May Meeting, Holiday Inn, Itasca, 5:30 Dinner www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/itasca/chiib/hoteldetail June 2 CAGRS Spring Board Meeting June 6-9 Franklin Park Fest 2019, Tower Park, Franklin Park, IL www.villageoffranklinpark.com/events/franklin_park_fest_2019 Aug 27-31 35th National Garden Railway Convention, Portland, Oregon www.2019ngrc.wildapricot.org
