September 22, 2012

The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's 2012 Great Canadian Train Show and Flea Market

The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club presents

The Great Canadian Train Show and Flea Market 

at the Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute, 190 Riverton Avenue
October 13 (10:00 am – 5:00 pm)  
October 14 (11:00 am – 4:00 pm)  

Admission is $3 per person or $6 per family.
There will be refreshments on sale!

There'll also be:
Displays!
Working Layouts!!
How-to Sessions!!!

Kids, have your parent take a picture of you with the Man with the Giraffe Cars!
He'll also let you unload the operating cars!


On October 13 North American Railcar Corporation will be displaying current and future production items!


Barbara Lange, editor of Through the Window of a Train: A Railway Anthology will also be at the train show! 

Through the Window of a Train: A Railway Anthology collects stories from thirty Canadian authors (including Sheldon Oberman). These stories retell the significance of the railway - or a single journey taken - in the lives of Canadians. 

Dotted with junction and siding names, engine numbers, and routes, this book is a must for rail enthusiasts.

Barbara grew up in England. Her father worked for the London North Eastern Railway. Barbara travelled daily from her home in Brentwood by diesel-electric train and Tube to her office in London. 

She immigrated to Canada in 1978. Since then she has travelled on VIA's The Canadian between Vancouver and Toronto, on The Ocean to Halifax, and to Churchill on The Hudson Bay Line. Barbara lives in Winnipeg with her husband, Larry (Smiley) Lange, a retired CNR carman from Transcona.  


For more information contact Gino Kost, 204-334-5925

Proceeds to the Autism Society Manitoba.
A great way to have fun, help others and find some Christmas gifts!


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If you wish a sales table (train related merchandise only) please send 
a cheque ($20 per table) payable to The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club to  
Gino Kost 
67 Rupertsland Blvd 
Winnipeg, MB  
R2V 0E7

The deadline for payment is Tuesday, October 9.  Table space can not be held without payment. 


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Usually on the second Friday of each month at 7:30 pm, from September to April, 
The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club (WMRC) holds monthly meetings. 
Want to join the club? 
Wonderful!! 
The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club will be taking memberships. 
The annual fee for a regular member is $30.
The annual fee for a junior member (under 18) is $10.

This will entitle you to a year's subscription to their publication, 
The Lantern, in which you'll learn about upcoming events, and library privileges. 

Or an additional membership can be bought for someone in the same household
as a regular member (no Lantern) for $1.

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The #1 Northern Division of the Thousand Lakes Region of the NMRA will have 
a display table where they will be taking new memberships. 

Membership is required to attend their upcoming division meet at 
Whyte Ridge Baptist Church on November 3. 

You can get a full year's membership for $30.
Or you can get a temporary "rail pass" for only $10, which entitles you to 
all the benefits and privileges of NMRA membership for 6 months, 
including a 6 month subscription to the NMRA magazine, The Fusee.

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