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2008 Chapter Meetings Thursday, December 11, 2008 Note: This meeting was canceled due to bad weather. It was rescheduled for March 19, 2009 Thursday, November 13, 2008 Member Herbert Landow presented the topic "Railway Braking and Train Capacity Expansion through the Northeast Corridor to Penn Station." This part technical/part historical program described development and advances in operating, handling and protecting the traffic of trains through that highly active and multi-tracked rail corridor. Thursday, October 9, 2008 Via our Central New York Correspondent Richard Palmer, we were loaned representative slides which we titled "Early Generation Diesels From Around the Country." Dick has traveled extensively over the years, and along the way he was able to "lense" a wide sampling of motive power in numerous places and in various types of train service. Thursday, September 11, 2008 "Potpourri of Slides from the Collection of William S. Young" was the title of another fine program given by chapter member Bill Young, whose library of vintage views contained not only thousands of scenes from the yesteryears of regional railroading, but also included hundreds from trips he has taken to places afar, going back into the 1940s. The program swung widely to include steam and early diesel era shots in the far west, as well as many in European countries. A little "trollyana" was sprinkled in, and attendees got to see samples of vintage color as well as black & white. Thursday, June 12, 2008 Chapter President John Goodnough carried us to the verge of Summer with a nostalgic slide program "Lamp Oil and Old Varnish." This show "spotlighted" railroad workers, equipment, structures, stations and landmarks and bits of "lore" from over 150 years of railroading history in our region. Thursday, May 8, 2008 Guest speaker Steve Stewart presented a slide show "Railroads Along the Lehigh River Valley" featuring slides from the 1940's to 1977 in and around the Bethlehem, Easton, Phillipsburg, and Allentown areas. Thursday, April 10, 2008 The main focus of the meeting was on coal mining. Member Bob Gongleski showed a DVD and a VHS tape. "The Big Little Railroad" (DVD): To commemorate their Centennial in 1948, The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey produced a 26-minute color and sound promotional film depicting many of the operations and services provided to their customers and riders. Seen in this classic film were the mining and processing of anthracite in the Wyoming Valley coalfields near Wilkes-Barre, PA, then a trip to the terminal at tidewater in Jersey City, NJ. Highlights included many long gone Jersey Central facilities such as the Ashley Planes, the Lehigh and Susquehanna main line, the Newark Bay Bridge and the huge terminal complex at Jersey City. Motive power included steam, Baldwin and EMD first generation diesels in the orange and blue scheme, and the marine fleet of tugboats, ferries and lighters. "Tea Kettles to Giants" (VHS): We stepped back in time when steam ruled the rails. We opened with the mighty little 0-4-0’s of the Wanamie Coal Mine (PA) operation. Then it was back to 1929 for a brief look at the Lehigh Valley and Central Railroad of New Jersey in Allentown. We then took a look at Pennsylvania Railroad steam in action on the Horseshoe Curve and other locations. The mighty steam power of the Norfolk and Western Railway was presented in the locations of Bluefield, Radford and Roanoke, VA. Finally, we looked at a Shay in operation on the Brimstone Railroad. Thursday, March 13, 2008 Member Bob Gongleski showed a video titled "Lionel OO & HO in Action." Lionel is known mostly for their O and Standard gauge trains. But they also made fine models in two smaller gauges – OO and HO. See these trains as you’ve never seen them before - in action! Lionel’s HO line-up included both scale and whimsy. We took a look at the Postwar and Modern eras, including FM C-liners, 0864-series boxcars, the Southern Pacific Daylight and the RailScope FA-2. Saw HO versions of O-gauge classics like the Milk Car and Satellite Launching Car. There were several Lionel HO cars on exhibit, along with books and catalogs of the Lionel HO products. Thursday, February 14, 2008 The program was Member Slide Night. Member Bob Gongleski showed slides of past HO and N scale Christmas layouts at his house and his brother Ed's O scale Christmas layouts. (This program was originally scheduled for December 2007, hence the Christmas theme.) Many Plasticville buildings were featured on the layouts. Member Bob Pastorkey took us down memory lane with several slides of past local railroading. Thursday, January 10, 2008 This was our Annual Meeting of the Membership to close out administrative matters for calendar year 2007 and lay the foundation for operations and programs in 2008. View past Chapter meetings in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, and 2005.

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