CLEVELAND
RAILROAD CLUB BULLETIN
MEETING ON THE THIRD FRIDAY OF
EACH MONTH IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DOLLAR BANK,
15509 MADISON AVENUE, LAKEWOOD, OHIO
Meeting Room Opens at 7:30PM and meeting begins
at 8:00 PM
----------VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME!-----------
President: Robert Weisenberger: Vice President: Charles
Christian: Treasurer: Ronald
Leitch; Secretary: Mark Adamcik: Trustees: Gary Dillon, Chris
Vlisides, Richard Novak
-SEPTEMBER-
PROGRAM;
Friday, September 15th: Bill Kubis will come all the way
from Cuyahoga Falls to present a showing of railroad slides. The
program will be varied, and I will bet there will be CSX trains
from his backyard!
MINUTES OF THE MEETING FOR AUGUST 18, 2000:
Meeting called to order by President Wiesenberger at 8:33 PM.
Minutes of the meeting of July 21st were approved as published in
the bulletin. Treasurers Report as follows; (Given by Dick Novak)
Beginning balance - $828.55; Income - none; Expenses - $6.50;
Ending Balance - $822.05. There were no guests present. No
applications for membership. Under Old Business it was noted that
the club picnic was scheduled for tomorrow, August 19th at
Victory Park in Vermillion Ohio from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. S.
McMullen has reserved our space "under construction"
for our Webb site. A copy of our Newsletter will be required.
Under New Business it was mentioned that the RTA Breda cars were
to be rebuilt at $450,000 each with the goal of eventual
replacement of all cars with one common car. December bus service
change ; Route #32 (?) to be combined with Route No. 8 on
weekdays. Circulator bus routes to see service frequency
reductions in some cases. Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM.
Respectfully submitted, Mark J. Adamcik, Secretary.
RAILNEWZ BY MARK A:
Flats Industrial Railroad now has Cuyahoga Vally Ry #423, EMD SW
1001 on lease. RTA staff made recommendations concerning future
equipment fleet for its rail division. One scenario is to give
the Breda LRV cars a life extension overhaul and to purchase a
new replacement fleet of cars serving both high and low platform
stations. The ATWV local representing RTA's agreement ratified a
new three year contract. AMTRAK: As of Sunday. Amtrak's Cleveland
station will be open 24 hours, seven days a week. July ridership
exceeded 2,000,000 (maybe people are tired of those cancelled
flights?). The Pennsylvanians ridership was 10800 for the month
of July. NORTHERN OHIO RAILWAY MUSEUM; The construction of the
vehicle maintenance building was started on August 9th.
PITTSBURG; PAT has signed a contract with CAF for 28 new LRVs and
the rebuilding of the 55 existing Siemens-Duwag cars. CAF has
taken over the former ABB-Adtranz facility in Elmira, NY.
CLUB PICNIC A HUGE SUCCESS; (Reported by Dick Novak)
Excellent weather, excellent food, excellent trains and excellent
fellowship. That was the CRC picnic on August 19th at Victory
Park in Vermillion, Ohio. It was a great place for our picnic and
watching the closeby trains. About a dozen went by during the
afternoon. We want to thank Bruce Young for bringing hamburgers
and hotdogs and all the fixings. Bruce did his usual great job of
grilling. Other members brought snacks and goodies. Everyone had
a great time. (Dick brought his little grandchild and his wife,
and later drove home back the old way on Route 6, through Lorain
and the towns to Cleveland.)
HERE AND THERE;
AMTRAK opened a new joint shipping facility in Detroit some
months ago to serve its growing mail and express business. It is
located in the former Michigan Central Railroad terminal site. It
was built in partnership with the Canadian National Railway, CP
Rail and the Michigan Department of Transportation. The facility
will connect Amtraks shipping operations in Detroit to Amtraks
national rail network with daily departures and second and third
morning deliver of time sensitive goods anywhere in the United
States. The 200,000 square foot facility will provide space for
shipping operations as well as railcar maintenance. Amtraks
Detroit passenger station will still be located at 11 West
Baltimore in New Center. This facility will also house CP Rail's
Expressway intermodial services. In fiscal year 2000 Amtrak's
Mail and Express business has achieved revenues of more than 82
million through May, an increase of 31 percent from the same
period last year. Amtrak also has an excellent record of serving
the United States Postal Service with this business increasing an
average of over 12 percent annually over the past five years.
Amtrak operates a 22,000 mile intercity passenger rail system
serving more than 500 cities in 40 states. ALSO, Dick Novak
reported that some eighteen members showed up for the club
picnic, which is a very good turnout! ***** If you would like
some free entertainment, be sure and send for a copy of the
"2001 Railroad Tours" booklet. This is a large 32 page
brochure which shows in detail and beautiful color photos, the
full lineup of their presentations for 2001. To get a copy write
to : Trains Unlimited Tours, PO Box 1997, Portola, California,
96122. All tours are presented in day by day basis with full
details and photos. The Great Central American Rail Adventure
will run from February 17 to 25, 2001 and covers Guatemala and El
Salvador. It features cab rides, Baldwin steam, workshop visits,
five different rail lines, rare freight only trackage,
doubleheaded steam and open observation cars. Total cost from
Miami, Florida is $2995. There is a China Steam Spectacular from
March 10-25, 2001 with plenty of the last of Chinese steam,
Industrial steam and mainline action. $3295 from San Francisco. A
great Mexican Rail Adventure from March 31 to April 8, 2001 which
features six different lines and freight only trackage and a loop
charter around Mexico covering most of Ferromex. Yours for $2995!
Also some great ones here in North America over New England and
Canada. The Canadian ones cover the British Columbia railway
lines all the way North and back using a charterd RDC. And, there
some one and two day ones on the Rio Grand narrow guage, for
$348, Wisconsin fall colors rail cruise for $199. Just reading
this booklet is like reading Trains magazine. Be sure and send
for a free copy!!
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Copyright 2001, The Cleveland Railroad
Club
