Connecticut Electric Railway News

Volume 70 Issue 1 Incorporated 1940 Spring 2012

CABIN FEVER DAY HOSTED BY CTM THIS YEAR On February 18th, 2012, the Connecticut Trolley Museum hosted Cabin Fever Day. This day was supposed to be hosted by Shore Line Trolley Museum, but due to the damage that occurred during Hurricane Irene, they requested that we host it this year, which we were happy to do.

Cabin Fever Day is an event that is hosted by a different museum each year. It is attended by volunteers from various trolley museums east of the Mississippi River such as Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Pennsylvania

Trolley Museum, Rockhill Trolley Museum, and others.

Visitors began to arrive midday on Friday for the informal Car 355 Boarding for Another Trip on Cabin Fever Day Photo by Frank Rossano gathering. Tours were given of the grounds and the car shop. A On Saturday, visitors got the chance at the controls of our PCC expert from another museum was able to look at car cars, with a qualified CTM motorman alongside them. 451 (Illinois Terminal PCC car) with our shop personnel and explained how to fix it.

For lunch, we had sandwiches from Blimpie and for dinner, Sofia’s Restaurant catered for us.

After dinner, trips were made on car 4 under the Tunnel of Lights showing members of other museums a bit of our Winterfest event.

Everyone who visited enjoyed themselves. We all look forward to the Cabin Fever Event next year! Car 4 Returning to North Road on Cabin Fever Day Photo by Frank Rossano -Tim Lesniak, Corporate Secretary

SECOND BREAK-IN IN LESS THAN A YEAR

On February 18th, volunteers found three trolley cars Southern box motor 101. Now, all three will require dating back to 1905 stripped of their copper and brass extensive work before they can be returned to operation components. Discovered during Cabin Fever Day, for museum patrons to enjoy. Parts were also missing damage is estimated to be in the tens of thousands of from Chicago Elevated car 4436 which was already dollars. Thieves were able to peel back a section of the partially disassembled. metal siding on Woods Barn to gain access. Once inside, crowbars were used to pry brass pieces off of the In addition, the lock was cut on a track Section House to ceilings, windows, and exterior of these wooden cars gain access; however, it does not appear that any track doing extensive damage to the woodwork. Also, wiring materials were stolen. was cut and some of the control gear was stripped out of A fund has been set up for donations for costs associated the cars. The three cars that were stripped include with the break-in. Connecticut Company car 1326 (Birthday Car), Connecticut Company car 840, and Centerville Albia & -Tim Lesniak, Corporate Secretary

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WINE & BEER TASTING Board of Directors Everyone mark your calendars: Friday, May 11 5pm-

Term Expiration 8pm. We are in the early stages of planning a HUGE John Arel 2012 fundraiser to help with the money needed to repair the Mike Caputo 2012 damaged cars from the latest break in and to continue Justin Chasse 2012 with the upgrade to our security system. For the few Ted Coppola 2012 dollars they will net from a scrap dealer, they not only Xian Clere 2013 took original items that may never be able to be replaced James Milller 2013 Galen Semprebon 2013 but cost the museum hours and hours of work to try get these cars back in service. All the labor is done by Stephen Taylor 2013 Dorothy Allen 2014 volunteers who give their heart and soul to protect and Tim Lesniak 2014 restore every trolley on the grounds. Joe’s Fine Wine

Marilyn Rodriguez 2014 and Spirits of East Windsor is helping plan a huge Fred Stroiney 2014 Wine/Beer Tasting to take place right at the museum.

More details will be forthcoming and of course we will Officers need a lot of help to make this the success we hope for. Chairman of the Board Fred Stroiney Stay tuned! Vice Chairman James Miller President Galen Semprebon -Carol Zenczak, Manager Vice President Ted Coppola Corporate Secretary Tim Lesniak (Please contact the office if you wish to help out at this Treasurer Stephen Taylor event or for more information.)

Department Managers

Track Superintendent Xian Clere SC&ET Superintendent John Arel Chief Motorman Sheila Numrych Shop Foreman John Pelletier Safety and Security Bert Johanson Volunteer Coordinator Larry Lunden

Membership Secretary John Carter Event Coordinator Morgan von Eisengrein Newsletter Editor Tim Lesniak Webmaster Matt Cosgro Gift Shop & Office Manager Carol Zenczak

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Connecticut Electric Railway Thank You for Coming – Cabin Fever Day Association is to tell the story of electric railway (L-R) Jeff Hackner, President – Branford Electric Railway Assoc; technology and its impact on society, through the Scott Becker, Executive Director – Pennsylvania Trolley Museum; interpretation, preservation, restoration and operation of Galen Semprebon, President – Connecticut Electric Railway Assoc an electric railway. Photo by Frank Rossano

Contact Information

Connecticut Electric Railway Association 58 North Road, PO Box 360 East Windsor, CT 06088 Thank you to WGBY for supporting the museum in the Telephone: 860-627-6540 2011 Season. Find out how your business can help Email: [email protected] support the museum during the 2012 Season. Contact Website: www.ct-trolley.org [email protected].

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PRESIDENT’S CORNER 2012 has started as truly an interesting year. We truck removed. One motor has been rehabilitated and re- unfortunately have had a setback as many of you are installed, and work is progressing on the second motor. already aware of. A theft has occurred where brass and Once this truck is complete, we have one motor on the bronze fittings were stolen off a number of the trolley cars other truck to rehab. Work inside the car includes wiring stored in Woods Barn along with damage to electrical work on the heaters, floor work to address the buckling components on the cars. We luckily have already been floor issue, and other mechanical work to door motors able to scrounge and find replacements for many of the etc. to address air leaks and other issues. We look parts stolen, and there should be no long term impacts forward to both of these cars returning to service in 2012. from this most unfortunate situation. I am looking forward to making additional progress on a On the positive side, the outpouring of support from the number of fronts in 2012. community at large and the museum community has been very uplifting. We have been in contact with our In 2011, we reconstructed the front vestibule on the state representatives to try to garner some attention to Visitor Center, and did some work on the roof to make it the copper theft epidemic at large, and this has provided watertight. We are proceeding with discussions to get a a wake-up call to us as to the vulnerability of the contractor involved to make some additional collection and our need to expand our efforts to protect it. improvements to the building to address the bird problem and complete some other needed improvements to the The museum has made some significant progress during building. the winter close down season, including work inside the Visitor Center to increase our exhibits, and work in the We have been working behind the scenes on moving the shop on the cars. repair of the Isle of Safety forward. A lot of research and discussions with Contractors and Architects along with Winterfest was stored away with un-precedent speed this historical people from throughout the Hartford region has off-season, which allowed work to progress inside the occurred. We plan in the next few weeks of solidifying visitor center. Work inside the Visitor Center included the approach, so keep tuned for more information on this. cleaning of cars, painting the floor in 1201, additional paint striping on 2056, additional priming on 0309, One area that we want to continue to concentrate on is installation of lights in a number of cars for display, and the exhibits inside the Visitor Center. The more other work. Work has started on constructing a viewing information and interest that we can generate from the and access platform that will provide easy access to 10 exhibits, the better our visitor experience will be, and the and the single truck caboose, and allow viewing of the more visitors we will have coming to the museum. Both Tim Lesniak and I have some ideas on what we would inside of the Ponemah. Additional exhibits are planned for the Visitor Center also. This will provide new exhibits like to do for exhibits. If anyone has some time, either one of us can help get you working on the exhibits. for our returning guests to enjoy, and hopefully help attract even more visitors. As always, there are many projects that we would like to

Work in the shop included work on car 16 including see move forward in 2012. The main restraint to moving these projects forward is time. If you have some time to replacement of the vestibule floor on one end, repairs of roof on one end, and other work. Work on the type 5 give, and would like to get involved, please contact Carol Zenczak in the office. She can help get you in contact continues. The car at this time is jacked up with one with a Department head, or someone to help get you involved. Even a few hours a month can make a big

Xian Clere & Camilo difference in helping to move some of the projects Santiago Boarding forward. Car 836 During Winterfest I am looking forward to a great 2012 season, and look

forward to seeing you all at the museum. Photo by Frank Rossano -Galen Semprebon, President

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WINTERFEST 2012 ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY Business owners- advertising venue may be just the thing to get a bounce in sales and/or engender a tax deductable contribution The 2012 “Ride & Sing Along Winterfest Songbook” will (less the value of the advertisement). Our prices are have advertising slots available for purchase. incredibly low in relation to other available media. There will be limited space available for the advertisements This increasingly popular booklet was especially therefore; it will be first come - first spaces allotted. We successful this past season as it necessitated a second would like to hear from you or perhaps a friend or printing for the first time ever: the first printing being 1000 business acquaintance that is interested. We will be copies. With a distribution model of one copy per family, happy to answer any and all questions. it is estimated that over five thousand viewed the booklet in search of their favorite song, their booklets winning It is too early to determine the theme for this year’s number or played the trivia game. Unlike some of our booklet but in other years we have had; antique seasonal other attempts at booklet-advertising, these songbooks postcards and Currier & Ives winter prints. If you have a were removed from the premises and not returned to the suggestion for the 2012 Songbook theme let us hear from gift-shop or tossed in the nearest trash container. There you. If you are among the first to respond and your idea is a cost to their printing, as we are not able to do them is selected, we will send along a memento of in-house, and we would like to offset some of that appreciation. Please direct all responses to: expense with limited advertising and/or a full [email protected]. sponsorship. -J. Francis Smith, Volunteer Are you a small business or a home craftsperson selling your summer creations for the Christmas season? This CAR SHOP NEWS Springfield Terminal Railway Car 16 Cleveland Interurban Railroad Car 1201

John Pelletier is working on car 16. The floor in the Galen Semprebon repainted the floor and conductors passenger operator area has been replaced. The rotten stand in car 1201, which is on display in the Visitor roof boards over the baggage compartment were Center. More work is needed on the interior of the car, removed and new roof boards were installed. John is in but the car looks a lot better than before. the process of re-canvassing that section of the roof. He is also working on wiring golden glow headlights into the Ponemah Mills Locomotive 1386 car and eventually getting heaters working on the car. As part of preparing for the new exhibit in the main hall, the interior of the Ponemah Mills Locomotive has been Connecticut Company Car 154 cleaned out of the material stored within. The ceiling and More cleanup has been completed on car 154 in the inside walls of the locomotive have been painted. The Visitor Center. The aluminum covering on the clerestory locomotive bell has been located and placed back on the windows has been removed and the clerestory has been front of the locomotive. painted to match the rest of the car. Boston Elevated Railway Car 5645

Springfield Street Railway Car 575 One motor which was sent out to be checked out has Roger Pierson and Matt Januska have spent many been returned and reinstalled in the trucks of the Type 5. weekends this winter scraping paint on car 575 (currently The second motor armature for the west truck is at the painted as Montreal Tramways car 2056). Once the paint electrical repair shop at this time. When work is complete is scraped from the car, it will be repainted in Springfield, on the west truck, one motor needs work on the east

MA colors, where it originally ran. In addition, work has truck before the car can be returned to service. It is been done inside the car. hoped to have the car back in service by the end of this year.

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WINTERFEST & THE TUNNEL OF LIGHTS THANK YOU!!! That’s directed to Mother Nature for letting us get through Winterfest with no major storms. (L) Flutists Playing in We only had to close one night because of heavy rain. the Visitor Center during Winterfest The temperatures were mild most of the time, which made it enjoyable to ride Car 4 and we even broke 1000 Photo by Carol rider mark on one night. There were many first time Zenczak visitors and we hope they return again and again.

Entertainment was excellent thanks to Jeanne Murphy and this year we were fortunate to also have The New England Ukelele Ensemble, Erin Vivero and her (R) Main Layout in the group of flutists, and Stafford High School Magical Visitor Center for Winterfest Singers & Chorus. All were wonderful and we can’t thank them enough for taking time out of their busy Photo by Carol Zenczak schedules to come and entertain our guests. makes it so special. It’s a continuous work in progress, Our youngest visitors didn’t have to wait to see Santa, as none of us know how it will end up but it’s always soon as you walked into the Visitor Center from the beautiful. lobby, there he was. Every child was given a small gift and Santa left with a very long list reminding him what It’s amazing when you stop and think that it’s all done by each child hoped to find under their tree Christmas volunteers! From the trolley operator, to the person who morning. sold you that cup of hot chocolate, the young lady who directed your child in to see Santa, that gentleman with Our own model train buffs had everyone in awe at the the broom cleaning up, they are all volunteers. Did you displays they managed to set up in such a short period of notice how they were all smiling, they have a good time, time. No easy fete but they always pull it off. work hard? You bet, but enjoy every minute of it. Hope you can join us for Winterfest 2012 either to help set up, The refreshment booth was constantly busy selling to just come and enjoy it or better yet, do BOTH. popcorn, hot chocolate and cookies. How many cups of cocoa can one person make in one night? Lots and lots. Thank you everyone who helped make Winterfest 2011 the huge success it was. All the decorations, all those lights and all that garland! Everyone worked so hard to make the Visitor Center look -Carol Zenczak, Manager so festive. Each year it’s a little different and that’s what

THE SKY IS FALLING! Not really, but the front entrance of the Visitor’s Center work. Almost 1 year later, the work is just about was starting too due to the very heavy snow in the complete. Not only did we have to work around the fall 2010/2011 winter season. Thank goodness insurance events but convinced the electrician to have the entrance will cover all but $2,500 (our deductible) of the $30,000 interior lights functioning for Cabin Fever Weekend. bill for the reconstruction costs. After a discussion as to if the cause of the entrance pulling away from the main The lighting is about finished which leave the building was caused by the heavy snow or poor design, reinstallation of the sign over the door as the last step. the insurance company agreed with Galen Semprebon Thanks to Galen, Carol Zenczak, and the craftsmen that & me. did the work, the sky front entrance is now safe once again. We had to have the contractors work around the events this past fall and wait until after Winterfest to finish the -Fred Stroiney, Chairman of the Board

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LOOK BACK – CER HISTORY PART 11 At the end of 1958, a change was made in part of the job in a quarter of the time of using a hand tamper. management of the museum. Up to this point, the At the Annual Meeting on March 8, 1959, all Officers position of Treasurer and Membership Secretary had were reelected to their posts. Ed Kelly, Charles been one and the same. With the increase in business, Sherman, and Karl Hartman were reelected for three the Treasurer could not cover it all, and Don Snelgrove years as directors. A recommendation by the Board of asked for help. The Board of Directors appointed F Directors to place the three permanent directors (Henry Raymond Gale to the position of Membership Secretary, Steig, Roger Borrup, and Dick Whittier, the museum’s while Don Snelgrove continued as Treasurer. Dues for three founders) on elected status was voted down by the 1959 were set at $6.00 for CER Active Members, $3.00 membership. After the meeting, every member got to for CER Associate Members, and $12.00 for Combined operate a trolley car. CER & Connecticut Valley Chapter NRHS Members. The May 6, 1959 Board of Directors Meeting had a A “first” for the museum: we were invited to have a booth couple of interesting votes. at the Hartford Times Travel Show. The Times did not charge us for it. It was held for a week at the West 1. All appointed posts such as Superintendents, Hartford Armory, starting on January 11, 1959. Manned Station Agent, Membership Secretary, Chief each day by members, all in suits and ties, we spoke to Motorman, etc would be on a yearly basis with the visitors to acquaint them about the Association, our appointments expiring on April 30th. current projects, and future plans. We displayed pictures, 2. W Lincoln Harrison was appointed Chief small trolley items like Golden Glow headlights and Motorman of CER succeeding F Raymond Gale historic material about the trolley cars in Connecticut. As who held the post for the past three years. Gale we all had paying jobs, some of the daytime hours were found it necessary to resign due to the increased filled in by Ellery C Wood, William’s father. He was also workload as Membership Secretary. a member. We also had a new brochure handout to give out, which William Wood had just designed and rushed to 3. William E Wood was reappointed as CER Station get printed. Agent. He was originally appointed in 1958 to assist the Treasurer handling all the ticket sales and later gift shop income.

May 10th, 1959 would be the first charter on record. On a warm evening, Connecticut Company Open Car 840 (which had been cleaned out after Winter Storage) came out to carry the 75 men and wives of the Men’s Club of the Broad Brook Congregational Church on the occasion of their “Wives Night”.

The Museum’s Booth at the Hartford Times Travel Show – 1959 From the Collection of William E Wood The major rail project in Glastonbury that was started in the fall of 1958 was carried on as soon as the frost was out. All the material arrived at the museum grounds by April of 1959: some 56 tons of rail and more than 20 tons of switches and miscellaneous parts, all of which were hand dug or pried out of the ground by members In early Spring, ballast was brought in and the main line Connecticut Company Open Car 840 Boarding in North Road Station was leveled and tamped 1000 feet between Woods Barn From the Collection of William E Wood to Borrup Road. We had already obtained some air At this time, paint brushes became a familiar sight again tampers, but only now had we got the necessary auxiliary at the museum. Scheduled for work before June were components of hoses, connectors, etc. Using the gas Springfield Terminal Railway line car 8 & snow plow 12, engine air compressor on the Connecticut Company box Connecticut Company box motor 2023, and Bristol & motor 2023, we were able to do a much more satisfactory Plainville car 28. All were completed on time. The New

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LOOK BACK – CER HISTORY PART 11 Haven flat car and box car were painted by July. distance before he got us to stop. The driver remeasured the height – correct – so we just drove on getting to the Another project completed before public operation in July museum at 5:00pm. A ramp was ready for us. We put was the replacement of many ties in the section of track the pole up, pumped up her air compressor, and then built when the museum first started, some 19 years eased her onto her new home rails. She went into before. service the next Sunday much to everyone’s delight. July 13, 1959 was a very important date in the history of the Connecticut Electric Railway Association. After many months of work by Don Snelgrove (Treasurer) and several others, the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Treasury Department granted us an Income Tax Exemption Letter. This letter opened the door for donations to be deductible by the donors on their tax returns, for us to get a tax letter from the State of Connecticut so we did not have to pay Sales Tax, and placed us in line for future grants from many sources. July also saw the museum having its own Post Office Box, our first number was #436, Warehouse Point, CT, which would change to our present #360 (larger box), Boston Elevated Railway Car 5645 Soon After Arriving at the Museum East Windsor, CT (with the Post Office name changing). From the Collection of William E Wood This summer saw the coming of another streetcar for the Operation was planned to start on the fourth of July, but collection. A 1923 Laconia Car Company product public demand was such (people showing up by the ordered by the Boston Elevated Railway, car 5645 was dozens before Memorial Day), so we opened early with one of many Type 5 cars to operated right up to April our new closed car 5645 and Connecticut Company car 1959 in Boston. Purchased by William E Wood, the car 1326. The operating department also had some arrived at the end of her last public trip at Watertown, changes. First it was clear with two or more cars Mass Car House. Due to the bad feelings because I had operating, we needed order in the operation and a bought the car wanted by other groups, the writer met the timetable, plus someone to see the rules were followed. car at the car house along with an MTA operator, got So the position of Chief Dispatcher was created and right on, took her around the Watertown Car House Loop Clement L Manning was appointed. “Buddy”, as he and right back onto the street, heading for the subway. preferred to be called, was just the man for the job. For We laid up at the siding at North (Union) Station until many years as a young man he operated on the Shore after 10:00pm, at which time we headed out over the Line Electric and still worked for Conn Co as a bus single track line through Charlestown to the Everett operator. He was given charge of all movements on the Shops, where we rode the transfer table and parked her main line or sidings one half hour before the start to one in the main shop. My long suffering father picked me up half hour after the end of public operation for all for the trip back to Springfield at 1:00am. I traveled back streetcars, hand cars, steam locomotives and everything to Boston two days later with the Enfield Road in between. He could suspend any crew member Construction big tractor and low-boy trailer. At the shops, immediately for improper operation or breaking rules. our driver backed the tractor trailer on to the transfer The Board of Directors then would take up the matter at table, which took him to the correct bay, where he backed their next meeting. into the building. In the meantime, the shop crew had car 1959 was also the year that we had a new motorman join 5645 picked up by the shop crane all ready to set her us. F S LeFebevre made his living as a motorman of the down on the rails on the trailer. After binding her down, Hartford & Springfield Street Railway as a young man. we rode out onto the transfer table for a 600’ ride to the Now 30 years later, he became a motorman on the point where the truck could drive off the table. Leaving “Piney Ridge Line”. He was quite an interesting man with behind four cases of beer for the shop crew, we headed west. All went well until we were in Marlborough on Old many stories to tell to the visitors about late night rides US Route 20 (No Mass Pike back then). Even though we with crowds from the “park” and telling children about the had been over the route before and we had the correct “crocodiles” in our swamp. highway permit height, there were six telephone lines With the new switch installed at North Road for track out across a street which were sagging and the front pole of into the field (North Road Track 2), about 400’ of track 5645 caught them all; pulling them down along with was laid south during the heat of the summer. The house shingles, etc! We did not know it on the tractor, tamping was done by the “two men and the monster” but my father following saw it. We kept going for some (George Reitze, Roger Steele, and Car 2023’s gas air

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LOOK BACK – CER HISTORY PART 11 compressor). Station, the starting point of the new connection to the ex- Boston & Albany Highland Branch, now the MTA’s Memorial Day weekend gave Roger Steele, Fred Riverside Line. The trip covered nine miles of double Bennett, and Don Snelgrove the opportunity to track, through wooded landscape, past lakes and golf investigate the equipment and spare parts situation in courses through towns of Brookline and the Newtons. Montreal, Canada (much more on this saga in the next The camera enthusiasts had a field day at the new chapter of “Look Back”). Riverside Terminal with new yards, moving trains, and In May, Karl Hartman contracted to buy Central Vermont many passengers. On the return trip, we left the new Railroad’s Caboose. In July, the railroad contacted us: line on a connection to the existing Reservoir Car House pay up or the car would be scrapped! After much talk for lunch and photos before the trip back to Watertown. and heal dragging, Hartman admitted that he did not The trip was arraigned by William E Wood who was the have the money. So in late September, Ellery and ticket taker on the trip in CER Uniform. This was the last William Wood stepped up to buy and move the caboose trolley fan trip by the chapter. to the museum. -William Wood One last item of this time period was a Connecticut Valley Chapter NRHS fan trip. They operated the first fan trip North Road on the USA’s newest trolley line on Sunday, July 19, Station with 1959, over the Riverside Line of Boston’s MTA. ConnCo car 25 Operated with two ex-Dallas, TX double end PCC Cars (car 0206) & (3322 & 3329), 65 people from 7 states, including as far Brooklyn Rapid Transit car 169 as Ohio, rode the four hour trip. Starting at the Watertown Car House, the first part of the trip was through the subway to Leachmere for a photo stop before From the Collection of returning to the subway for a quick trip to Kenmore William E Wood

THIS AND THAT

Congrats to our Webmaster newsletter paperless very soon. Paperless newsletters will not only help the environment, but it will also help Congratulations to our webmaster, Matt Cosgro in save money for the museum in printing and postage receiving New Hampshire’s Young Preservationist costs. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter via Award. email as a PDF document, please contact the museum, From Seashore Trolley Museum’s Newsletter: "Matt [email protected]. We will continue to offer the received the New Hampshire's Young Preservationist newsletter in hard copy for everyone who wishes, as Award. To celebrate the 25th anniversary, the New many of our members do not have access to a computer. Hampshire Preservation Alliance created the award to National Train Day recognize NH residents 25 years of age or younger. National Train Day is coming up on May 12th! At the The selection committee was impressed by the variety of museum, we will participate in this national event with Matt's work at Seashore - the Nashua Street Railway open cabs of our locomotives, tours of the museum exhibit in the Orientation Room, his work in Operations grounds, in addition to our normally scheduled trolley and on special events. Additionally, the committee was rides. Some unique equipment will be pulled out for impressed by the willingness of the society to elect such viewing for the day. a young person to its Board of Trustees." Admission Price Increase In addition to his work at Seashore Trolley Museum, while Matt was attending college in the greater The Board of Directors voted to increase all regular Springfield area, he volunteered at our museum, most season admission by 50 cents. The admission prices will notably in Operations. When we needed a new be as follows: webmaster last year, Matt stepped up to the plate and put Adult - $8.50 together a terrific website for us. Senior - $7.50 Great job Matt! Children 2-12 - $5.50 Paperless Newsletter Membership dues will not be increasing at this time. For those who are interested, we will be offering the

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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM Between November 30th, 2011 and March 10th, 2012, the 2012 Break In Repair Fund: $1,748.00 following contributions were made to the museum: Anonymous Matthew Nemerson Five Mile Beach Electric Railway Car 36 Fund: $16.00 Polly Chamberlian Steve Oehmsen Irene Watson/Norman Dupuis Alex Osowski Walter Rothaug Cindi & Greg Frey Susan Marks Roberts Lois Gamer Irene Scheibner Connecticut Company Car 65 Fund: $16.00 Margaret Gilbert John & Ellen Sieminski Walter Rothaug Roberta Gowing Sean Stearley David Kelly Nick Suraci Brooklyn Rapid Transit Car 169 Fund: $16.00 Doug MacGillvary Josh Wilmes Wayne & Barbara Morrison CT Valley Chapter NRHS Walter Rothaug Car Shop Building Repair Fund: $3,050.00 New Orleans Public Service Inc Car 836 Fund: $100.00 Anonymous Larry Lunden Clients & Associates of Paul Payton Electricity for Cabin Fever Event: $20.00 Connecticut Company Car 840 Fund: $10.00 Henry Adamcik (Pennsylvania Trolley Museum) Allan Kabrick Endowment Fund: $130.00 Connecticut Company Car 1326 Fund: $315.00 In Memory of Dot Lyman Michael Lennon Anonymous Roger Pierson James K Heeren Raymond Yirga Library Fund: $1,050.00 Michael Krejsa Stan Duro J.F. Smith Boston Elevated Railway Car 3100 Fund: $2,292.60 Robert Mahar

Fred Maloney General Fund: $1,282.92

Boston Elevated Railway Car 5645 Fund: $590.00 Amherst Rail Show Fare Box Ken Holloway Anonymous Richard Kounetis Anonymous (3) Ernest Ross Richard Cardozo Edward Lukaszewski Richard Cosgro Grace Wood Paul A Cook John Moran Richard Cosgro Christi Morrow Bangor & Aroostook Caboose Fund: $12.00 Randy Dumas Andrew Mitchell Walter Rothaug Joyce & Richard Ferrari Ernest Ross Marc Glickman William & Sue Sample Car Acquisition Fund: $1505.00 Kinsley Goodrich Bill Searle Barbara Gorman Kathryn Semprebon Tim Lesniak Ben Wallace Margaret Griffin Fred Stroiney Fred Hanzalek James A Vaitkunas Dining Car Fund: $1,396.50 H Kevin Harkins Paul G Yurko Anonymous Stanley Moskowitz James K Heeren ING (Corporate)

Michelle Burnham Walter Rothaug William Heim Horace Crockett Donald Smith Thank you to all of our generous donors. All of your Robert D Hafner Sr Marilyn Steele donations help meet our goals in preserving the era. Robert C Howe Raymond Yirga Remember, no donation is too small! Paul & Duanne Gallo William Wood

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2012 EVENTS

Opening Day – April 6th Easter Bunny Fun Day – April 7th School Vacation Week – April 16th thru 20th (Open Everyday EXCEPT Tuesday!) New York & New England Interregional Meet of the Cadillac & LaSalle Club – April 28th Annual Meeting – May 5th Wine & Beer Tasting (In Support of the 2012 Break In Repair Fund) – May 11th National Train Day – May 12th Pumpkin Patch – October 5th-28th (Open Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays) Rails to the Darkside – October 5th-27th (Open Friday & Saturday Evenings) Winterfest – November 23rd-December 23rd (Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays; Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Open Every Day December 26th-30th) -- Summer Newsletter Deadline – May 31st