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May 2010 News.Pub WCRA NEWS MAY 2010 THOMAS TICKETS ON SALE RUSS GRYCAN JOINS WCRA as CHIEF MECH. OFFICER WCRA News, Page 2 GENERAL MEETING NOTICE The April General Meeting of the WCRA will be held at 1930 hours on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 1930k at Rainbow Creek Station in Burnaby, corner of Willingdon at Penzance. Entertainment will be either City Reflections 1907 or Steam in Ontario. ON THE COVER All Aboard the Wild West Express! The on board crew / attendants from the Young Professionals Nanaimo organization are ready to go at Nanaimo, BC on Saturday, March 27. WCRA’s excursion train carried more then 220 happy passengers on a Nanaimo—Duncan round tip as a special fundraiser for the restoration of the historic Nanaimo station, in conjunction with Southern Railway Vancouver Island and the Island Corridor Foundation. See full story on page 17. (Dave Emmington photo) MAY CALENDAR • West Coast Railway Heritage Park open daily 1000 through 1700k • Saturday, May 1—Collection Committee meets, WCRA Hastings Office, 1300 hours • Thursday, May 6—WCRT’s Sunshine Coast Nostalgia tour departs • Saturday, May 8—Deadline for items to be included in the May 2010 WCRA News • Saturday, May 8—Giant Garage Sale in the CN Roundhouse & Conference Centre in partnership with Squamish Lions Club—0930—1600. • Tuesday, May 18—Tours Committee meets, Hastings Office, 1930 hours • Tuesday May 18—WCRT’s Totems of Haida Gwaii tour departs • Saturday, May 22 / Sunday, May 23—Chamber of Commerce Trade Show, Roundhouse • Sunday, May 23—CPR 374 123rd Anniversary of Arrival, Locomotive 374 Pavilion • Tuesday, May 25—WCRA General Meeting, Rainbow Creek Station, 1930k The West Coast Railway Association is an historical group dedicated to the preservation of British Columbia railway history. Membership is open to all people with an interest in railways past and present. We are a non-profit British Columbia society, registered as a Canadian charity. Membership prices (incl. GST) are $50.00 individual, family membership is $60.00. E Members (electronic newsletter, $15 savings) are $35 individual and $45 family. (Outside Canada, please remit US $) Other categories are: - Junior Member (age 18 and under ) $ 25 - Sustaining Member $100 (tax receipt) plus membership type regular fee - Life Member (one time fee) $700 individual life / $1,200 family life All memberships include the monthly newsletter, Heritage Park admission (except Special Events), mini rail rides and discounts on food and merchandise. The Association holds a monthly meeting on the last Tuesday of the month at 1930 hours in Burnaby at Rainbow Creek Station in Confederation Park. Apply through www.wcra.org or mail to WCRA, PO Box 2790 Stn. Term., Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3X2. WCRA News, Page 3 EDITORIAL GETTING CLOSE! After almost five years of work, we are getting close to the grand opening of the biggest development at our West Coast Railway Heritage Park. The new CN Roundhouse & Conference Centre is rapidly taking its final shape at the site, and will transform the property as it brings with it the clean up of the entire centre section of our 12 acres site. As we go to press, the new turntable steel structure is nearing completion at Canron, and the work to construct the track that will connect the new facility to our mainline tracks is under way. All this is set to come together around the end of May, so that we will be able to move the first of the heritage rolling stock into the building in June. What a day that will be! For now, we encourage members to come and watch these final phases of the project take shape. Installing a turntable and opening a roundhouse is not something you can see everyday in 2010. It’s well worth a watch as once again, we create the past in the present. CORRECTION It is with apologies that we correct a photo credit run last issue—the photo on page 21/22 of our April issue showing the Royal Hudson beside the BNSF 6422 was from Lisa Flatla. Sorry for the error Lisa. Don ASSOCIATION NEWS FROM THE MARCH GENERAL MEETING 46 members and guests were present, the AGM was chaired by Bill Johnston: • Pres. & CEO Don Evans: -Announced new appointments—Russ Grycan as Chief Mechanical Officer and Mattias Christianson as Tours Manager -Wild West Express on Vancouver Island a success -Roundhouse debenture offer closes March 31, 2010 -Royal Hudson at VIA Mtce. to drop center axle and replace hub liners, estimate $50k, Hudson Preservation Fund active, need donations. • Finance Jim Brown: -First donation to reactivated Hudson Fund received, thank you Colin Dathan -Financials close to December target, January on target, to Audit Committee -Thomas sales going well, ahead of last year -374 Pavilion clean up in progress, artifacts and displays return next week. WCRA News, Page 4 - Dorethea Matewish presented $50 from her Continuous Garage Sale. • Heritage Park, Susan Steen: -Park has 97 Facebook fans, 103 on Twitter, and much on YouTube. Electronic media is the communications media of the future. - Networking reaches 250,000 contacts -Cloverdale paint has helped with undercoat paint for Roundhouse and General Paint has donated the finish interior paint for Roundhouse -Bookings for Roundhouse in progress, lots of takers -Garage Sale coming May 8, partner with Lions Club of Squamish -Thomas Volunteer Sign up sheets circulated • Roundhouse Update, Don Evans: -Turnover essentially complete with some outstanding contractor details -Servery, air handling and elevator to be completed later. -Track work to turntable in progress, contracted to Ueli Lechti and Bob Dhensaw. -Turntable contract in progress at Canron -Major booking with Molson's for June 26th -Martin Jergens coordinating turntable components. Parts returned from US -Roundhouse tours available on April 5, 14, 15, 21. • Dave Emmington gave Western Rails show report as well as a report on the Wild West Express tour on Vancouver Island • Michael Batten provided a Collection Committee report noting work being considered for PGE Steam Loco #2 and CN Bunk car 65940 • Matt gave a tours update report • Trackside reports were by Dave Emmington and Ryan Cruickshank • Visitors were welcomed, the draw was held • Entertainment was slide show by Bob Hunter of the building of the Tumbler Ridge rail line by British Columbia Railway WCRA TRIVIA # 256 - by Ryan D. Cruickshank Who is Helen Holmes? (for answer see Credit Lines, page 35) MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS Please renew your membership now for 2010. Memberships dated 03/31/2010 have now expired, and if your membership expired 01/31/2010, this will be your last issue. Please check the label on your newsletter and renew today. Remember that renewals are being accepted for memberships with the E–Newsletter—check page 2 for current membership rates. Is your email address current???? It is particularly important that those of you who have registered for access to the Members Only area keep your email address current in the Server. WCRA News, Page 5 Each time a new issue is posted the Server sends a notice to the email address you supplied when you requested access. If you have changed your email address, or think the one we have is out of date because you do not receive notices, please send your current email address to Jeremy at [email protected] and the server will be updated as required. (J.D.) NEW MEMBERS The WCRA welcomes new members Henrik Hansen & family of Squamish, Michael Hill & family of Squamish, Jennifer King & family of Vancouver, Florence Paradis & family of Garibaldi Highlands, Darren and Alexis Pelling & family of Garibaldi Highlands, Russell Rowland & family of Garibaldi Highlands, and Richard Walton & family of North Vancouver. We welcome back Steve Harbin & family of Squamish and Rick and Beryl Taylor & family of Squamish. A special welcome to new Life Member Keith Magee. WCRA ANNOUNCES CHIEF MECHANICAL OFFICER AND TOURS MANAGER Please welcome Russ Grycan as WCRA’s new Chief Mechanical Officer. In this role, Russ will assume staff responsibility for all of WCRA’s railway operations, railway regulation, collection management and facilities management functions. He will be based at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park in Squamish, and will report through Susan Steen. He will start with us on April 19, 2010. Russ brings us a wealth of both skills and experience that are ideal for this important role. He will relocate from Calgary, where he was recently Vice President - Corporate Assets for Cordy Oilfield Services. Prior to that he had a long career with Finning Canada, as well as several years early in his life with CN. He has been active in railway preservation for many years with the Rocky Mountain Rail Society (recently their Treasurer), the group that maintains and operates steam locomotive CN 6060, and is qualified as a steam fireman. He will become the active interface between our Squamish operations and our Collection Committee. We are looking forward to having Russ with WCRA. WCRA also announces the appointment of Mattias Christianson as WCRA’s Tours Manager. Matt is no stranger to us, having worked with us a few years ago as a tourism graduate in our tours area before he returned to his native Sweden. He will operate our West Coast Rail Tours business, chair our Tours Committee, as well as assist with office operations. Matt replaces Aileen de la Torre who left this role back in January; he has been filling in with us since then. Matt will be based at our Hastings office in Burnaby and reports through Jim Brown. Bill Johnston, a board member and our past Tours Manager of many years, will act in an advisory role to Matt as he settles into his role with WCRA. Please make both Russ and Matt welcome as they come on board with us.
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