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Art Shean is taking his mobile layout to the model rail and hobby show in Phillips, Maine on September 30 th . It runs from 9am-3pm and is jointly sponsored by the Phillips Area Community Center and the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad. He will be running G-Scale SR&RL trains. Narrow gauge trains will be running all day, with a special run for vendors after show take down. Art invites members to help with and visit this event. He can be reached at (207)-373-1608 or via email at agshean@comcast.net . 

A group from the Inn at the Village will be visiting the Overlook Garden Railway in Buxton this coming Friday, July 28th, at 11AM. We need 2 or 3 volunteers to help with this group. Please call Carl at 712-7218 if you can help.

On Saturday July 15th the club held its Outing, Annual Meeting and Picnic at the Overlook Garden Railway in Buxton. The weather started off cloudy, but cleared off later with only one brief shower. It all starts at Check-In, where you can pay your dues, get a ballot for the Annual Meeting, a Door Prize Ticket, and Raffles Tickets for the Railroad Quilt and 50/50 Raffle. And everyone received a set of directions to this summer's Layout Visits. Terry Norton and Scott Gould with the Railroad Quilt And the new trailer was open to visitors Terry (with coffee), Ernie, Walter and Hunk Then folks moved on to coffee and visiting with friends Jerry & Judy Booth, Doug Johnson & Carl with Hunk and Terry at the tables There was a combined train and circus display courtesy of Art Shean and Norman Waycott. Frank Howard, Mary Garland ,  Art & Dahlia Handman, and Philip Lentz Frank Howard running his Volkswagen Bus Norman setting up the Sideshow Lunch was hamburgers, hot dogs, and potlu...

You can run your trains at the Outing on Saturday. There will be an 8' wide x 16' long layout table with two loops to run on..

Future dates for the Greenberg's Great Train and Toy Show in Massachusetts are Wilmington      Nov 18-19, 2017 Hanover           Jan 6-7, 2018 Wilmington     Mar 17-18, 2018 For details please visit  Greenberg 2017-2017 Train and Toy Show Schedule

On July 8 we had a chance to run G, O and Z Scale trains at the Moxie Festival in Lisbon Falls. The main layout was on an 8’wide x 12’ long modular table built by Art Shean. It uses folding sawhorses, 2 x 4’s and plywood sections that lock together. It goes up and down in about 15 minutes. This table held the G and O scale trains. Modular Table The other layout was Z Scale by Ron Czaja of the Great Falls Model Railroad Club. He brought an operating “layout in a case”, and displayed a variety of engines, rolling stock, and accessories. Also included were a scale comparison of HO, N, and Z locomotives along with a Maine Rail Group map of railroad routes. Many of the visitors asked about the tiny trains and even tinier accessories. G Scale from the Maine Garden Railway Society included a freight train loop and a trolley on a reversing line. Engines: Boston and Maine A-B units with caboose and Santa Fe A-B units from Jim Jenkins along with SRR&RL and another steam locomotive fro...