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March 2011 March 2011 the Next Meeting of LIST Will Be on Friday, March 18Th at 8:00Pm at the Christ Episcopal Church, South Carll Avenue and Prospect Street March 2011 March 2011 The next meeting of LIST will be on Friday, March 18th at 8:00pm at the Christ Episcopal Church, South Carll Avenue and Prospect Street, Babylon, New York. LAST MONTH: Last month, Ed Koehler presented a fantastic show on the NYO&W. Ed has prepared a fifty-five page illustrated handout on the New York, Ontario and Western. In order to get your copy please E-Mail him at [email protected]. THIS MONTH: Mark Sullivan will be doing the presentation. At press time we do not have the topic but we can assure you that the presentation will be a good one! IN THIS ISSUE: Page 2 LIST Order Form Page 3 LIST Happenings Page 4, 5 & 6 Stack Talk Page 7 Trip to Meadowlands Maintenance Complex Page 8 & 9 LIRR Modeler Pages 10 & 11 OBRM & RMLI Updates For regular updates and other important information, visit the Chapter website at: http://www.nrhs-list.org The Chapter mailing address is: LIST—NRHS P O Box 507 Babylon, New York 11702-0507 Page 2 March 2011 LIST Merchandise The following price list is for LIST Members ONLY! #_________ 2011 LIRR calendar @$8 each Total_________ #_________ 2010 Penn Station 100th Anniv. Calendar @$5 each Total_________ #_________ LIRR 175th Anniversary 60 page book @$10 each Total_________ #_________NY Connecting RR Book by Robert Sturm @$27 each Total_________ and William Thom #_________Babylon RR pins [Trolley drawing] @$3 each Total_________ #_________The Long Island Rail Road, In Color @$48 each Total_________ Volume 1 1949-1966 by Art Erdman #_________The Long Island Rail Road, In Color @$48 each Total_________ Volume 2 1966-1990 by Art Erdman #_________Penn Tech Society, “The Keystone” @$15 each Total_________ With the Ron Ziel Penn Sta. article Shipping for 1 calendar or 1 of the books, $2.50 Shipping for 2 to 4 calendars, please add a total of $5.00 For more than 4 calendars, please call or e mail for the shipping cost. Each additional book, add $2.50. Shipping for 1 to 3 pins, $1.50 [NY State Residents, please add 8.625% tax to the total of the merchandise PLUS the shipping. For example, 1 calendar shipped to an address in NY State would be a total of $11.40] The Long Island Sunrise Trail Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society is a non-profit 501c3 Educational Organization. The Chapter was founded in 1966 to serve the Long Island area. The SEMAPHORE is the official publication of the Chapter. Articles appearing herein do not necessarily express the attitude of the Chapter or the NRHS. Please address all correspondence and membership inquiries to: LIST-NRHS, PO Box 507, Babylon, New York 11702-0507 Stephen F. Quigley, President Steven R. Torborg, Editor March 2011 Page 3 List Happenings by Steve Quigley Last Call for dues renewal! If you have not paid your annual membership dues by 4/1, we will be unable to continue to send you the Semaphore. Our costs which include printing and postage have risen to the point that we cannot continue to send you the Semaphore if you have not renewed your membership. We want you as a member, so please send in your dues renewal as soon as possible if you have not already renewed. If you are not sure or need assistance, please contact me and I will gladly help you. If you have already renewed, thank you for your continued support. Don’t forget; bring in 3 new members in 1 year and your entire dues of $46 for 1 year will be paid by the Chapter. The Chapter has purchased copies of Art Erdman’s “The Long Island Rail Road,” In Color, VOLUME 2, 1966 to 1990. This second volume continues the history of the LIRR where volume 1 left off. The price is $48 plus S + H for members only. Please see the order form in this edition of the Sem- aphore. We still have some copies of The Keystone with Ron Ziel’s article on Penn Station. This is an excellent article. Please see the enclosed order form for additional information. I and several other Chapter members attended the grand opening of the NY Transit Museum’s exhibition on Penn Station titled “The Once and Future Pennsylvania Station.” This is an excellent presentation of information about the construction, use and demise of this once magnificent structure. The exhibition will continue until 10/30/2011. Congratulations to Gabrielle Shubert of the Museum and all those involved with the design and implementation of this wonderful presentation. Although the occasion may be 2 years in the future, we are already gathering ideas for the commemoration of the anniversary of Jamaica Station. Jamaica Station opened in 1913 and we wish to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this structure through which thousands of people [including myself] pass through each day. Some of the ideas that we have will be a special edition of The Sem- aphore, artwork by Chapter artists, possible model kits, etc. If you have ideas or wish to help imple- ment some of these ideas, please let me know. The last couple of editions of the Semaphore appear to have arrived at their destination in an acceptable manner due to 3 sides being taped. If your copy did not arrive in acceptable condition, please let me know and I will send a replacement copy. E mailing the Semaphore is a viable option and we are in the early stages of working on this idea. If you do not receive e mail or wish a printed copy, your copy of the Semaphore will continue to be mailed. We still have a few sets of special commemorative stamps that were produced for the 100th anniversary of Penn Station. 2 scenes were produced and they come in sheets of 20 of each scene of 44 cent stamps for $20 each sheet. Shipping is $1.50 additional. Our trip chairman, Elliot Courtney, is planning on tours as well as trips for this spring through fall. Please see the Semaphore for additional information. These tours and trips will be open to the public at a higher cost and later date. Please make your reservation as early as possible as the space will be limited. Please e mail me at [email protected] or call me at 631-487-4766 if you have any questions or ideas regarding the various items noted above. Thank you for being a member of LIST! We hope you enjoy your membership and if you have ideas on how we can be a better and stronger Chapter, please let me know. Page 4 March 2011 Review of SeptemberStack Talk Chapter by Neil MeetingMoran by Al Castelli This has definitely been the winter of our discontent. I'm sure you all have been suffering from cabin fever, and you are yearning to see some decent weather so you can get out and do some rail faning. You are not alone. CHINA – JING PENG PASS: Two months ago there was a Jitong Steam Festival run by an individual named Gaolai Jun who had arranged the event. The railway wanted 150 to attend this event, and charged 1850 yuan. Unfortunately only 40 people showed up which which meant the railway ran the event at a financial loss. Which made them very unhappy in fact they told Gaolai Jun that was the last rail fan event they would run. While the steam festival ran, the railroad used two Q J's (2-10-2s). They had fired up these locomotives two days before. The weather did not cooperate as heavy snows fell throughout the two days. The rail fans had a real difficult time reaching special locations as the roads were impassable at times due to drifting. Plus the temperature dropped to 10 degrees, and lower at times with an unrelenting wind. The steam locomotives also had a rough time under these conditions, but made every effort to give the hearty rail fans their monies worth. I understand that many of the fans became very sick due to the severe cold and snow. The two Q Js ran both passenger, and freight trains, and even switched the terminals. In addition, corners were cut by using surplus retired China rail signaling equipment. So a lot of the stations used sempore signals instead of colored lights. Like the steam engines, semaphores have slowly disappeared. Braving all these events, the forty heroic souls certainly earned “Their Right of Passage”. BRR!! UNITED KINGDOM – YORK: Some devastating news has reached me only a few days after my last column was sent out. The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust announced that Tornado's winter overhaul was to be extended to April of 2011. Upon inspection of the locomotive crews found additional problems such as the need to replace hundreds of fixed stay bolts, plus cracks in the two back corners of the foundation ring, and evidence of possible cracks in the front corners. While disappointing, all these issues are know problems, some with fire boxes on the original peppercorn Class A1s and others of the Bullied Pacifics, which had all steel welded fireboxes. This heavy work done now will prevent further unplanned work in the future, the trust is working with boiler inspector DB Meiningen, the boiler and firebox manufacture, to determine the most appropriate way forward. Further news will be made in due course. Matt Allast Chairman of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust said “Although problems with Tornado's firebox are part of the learning about the locomotive in today's environment, they are a source of great disappointment to all Tornado's supporters and customers.
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