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for information on our endowment and State: __ Country: ______Zip:______brick donation programs. Since its opening in 1912, Tampa Union Station Tele: ______has stood the test of time. It has served Tampa travelers in a changing world— through 18 U.S. E-mail: ______Presidents, two World Wars, and the Great Depression. Millions of train passengers have Enclose check with form, and mail to: passed though Tampa Union Station, in good times Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, and bad, and still do (150,000 in 2012, up from 42,000 ten years ago!). Tampa Union Station Preservation Fund Sponsored By 550 N. Reo Street, Suite 301 Now it’s our turn to stand by her. The station is on the National Register of Historic Tampa, FL 33609 Places and is a City of Tampa designated Landmark. Once endangered, it was restored in The Community Foundation of Tampa
1998. It is now owned by the citizens of Tampa Bay is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for- Tampa Downtown Partnership through their municipal government. profit with the IRS. NorthStar Bank A permanent endowment fund for Tampa Union All donations to the Foundation are tax The Madeira Group at Morgan Stanley Station is now being built at the Community deductible. Foundation of Tampa Bay. Proceeds from this Smith Barney endowment fund will help care for and enhance McCloud Transportation + Associates Tampa Union Station for the future. Veolia Transportation Join us! Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers Friends of Tampa Union Station Friends of Tampa Union Station Tindale-Oliver & Associates Ackerman Jewelers www.tampaunionstation.com www.tampaunionstation.com Jason Ackerman Foundation For information on open positions or to submit your resume, please visit our Web site at: www.lucernepublishing.com
EVENT TIMETABLE EVENT FEATURES – OUTSIDE EVENT FEATURES - MAIN HALL * Entertainers outside on tracks 5 & 6 Interactive Displays: Front Yard: Telegraph display - “tweeting 19th Century style” 10:00 AM – Event Opens “Little Mac” from Tampa Firefighters Museum by Florida Chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club (in vending area) 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM – At Tracks 5&6 - Official Rail Yard (back of TUS): Locomotive simulators by Welcome – Bob Stewart, Chairman, National Track 3: Amtrak Equipment Display – Open Florida Rail Experience, Association of Railroad Passengers from10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Come aboard and cool CSX Introduction – by Jackson McQuigg, President off on an Amtrak Amfleet II coach, lounge and Suncoast Model Railroad Club Friends of Tampa Union Station Viewliner I sleeper. Souvenirs plus an Amtrak HO Scale hands on model train by Suncoast Model Special Presentation by Jim Langston, director P42 GE 4200 HP, 110 MPH diesel-electric Railroad Club Friends of Tampa Union Station – Thank you to locomotive on display (sorry, no cab tours, Wally Houston of CSX for preserving and returning Federal Law). Other displays: the original plans of TUS 101 Years of Tampa Union Station – A visual slide show by Friends of Tampa Union Station 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM – * Busted Blues Amtrak – timetables, service & tour information Atlantic Coast Line & Seaboard Air Line Historical 12:34 PM – Silver Star #91 arrives from New York Society – Souvenirs, Books etc. City of Tampa Historic Preservation and Urban 12:45 PM – Silver Star #91 departs for Miami Design – Display Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers and National Association of Railroad Passengers – Information 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – * Ray Chiaramonte Track 4: CSX Hi-Rail Equipment Display Florida Operation Lifesaver – Safety brochures, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – * Rebekah Pulley free engineer hats, activity/coloring books Henry B. Plant Museum – Permanent Display 5:00 PM – Event Closes Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections – Register to vote Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Foundation – O Scale 5:05 PM – Silver Star #92 arrives from Miami Passenger Equipment Display, permanent display, augmented with temporary Amtrak display in G and 5:17 PM – Silver Star #92 departs for New York Portico: HO scales Largo Central Railway - display 6:15 PM – Station closes or after #92 departs. Planning Commission / MPO – Community Info Florida Railway Museum – display, souvenirs Robert West – Noted Railway Artist – Prints Tampa Union Station was built in 1912 by the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and Tampa Northern. In 2012 150,000 Available Amtrak passengers boarded or detrained from Silver Star in Track 5&6: Seaboard Air Line Railway–WW II Memorial Tampa, 413 per day, making TUS the third busiest station in Entertainment by Three local acts! Popular band permanent display Florida after Sanford – Amtrak Auto Train (260,000) and Busted Blues, singer Ray Chiaramonte, and Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library- Orlando (170,000). Silver Star serves many cities from New York to Miami and connects with the national network at Rebekah Pulley! Tables and chairs, Friends of Burgert Brothers Photograph Collection - Photo several points. Amtrak bus service also connects to Silver Tampa Union Station (please donate, help TUS) Display Meteor in Orlando. Track 7: Refreshments and food by Tampa Bay History Center – Display
Web sites: Burger Culture and Nate Paul’s Q4U Tampa Downtown Partnership–Information www.tampaunionstation.com Tampa Firefighters Museum - Display Baggage Building: Veolia Transportation - information www.facebook.com/TampaUnionStation www.twitter.com/FriendsofTUS Four Operating Model Railways by: Note: Attendee and display list is subject to www.nationaltrainday.com Gulfcoast Garden Railroaders G Scale Railway change. Things happen, and in many cases are www.fcrprail.org HB Plant Railroad Historical Society N Scale beyond our control. All displays, except Amtrak, Check next year for May 2014 7th Annual and HO Railways, from Plant City are presented by volunteers Greater Florida LEGO Users Group Railway National Train Day and Tampa Union Station Many thanks to all our volunteers and supporters! th Celebration (should be May 10 )