Visit and Operating Session in Litchfield, Illinois
December 12, 2009
by Ron
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Special Announcement To All Members Of The Gateway
Division NMRA And The St. Louis Chapter NRHS:
December 12, 2009, Saturday – A Joint Group Visit To
See And Operate Trains On The Litchfield Train Group Great
HO Layout!
Arrangements have been made with members of the
Litchfield, Illinois, Train Group to come visit, take
pictures and run trains on their great HO layout on
Saturday, December 12, 2009.
Plans are for Gateway Division members and St. Louis
Chapter members on the Missouri side wanting to go to leave
by 8:00 AM by carpool from the parking lot of Trinity
Lutheran Church, 14088 Clayton Road, at Woods Mill Road (Hwy
141), Ballwin, Missouri. Members on the Illinois side should
contact each other for a time and location.
We plan on arriving in Litchfield, Illinois, at 9:30 AM.
(Directions to the Litchfield Train Group will be sent to
you on Monday, December 7, 2009.)
From 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM we will run trains. At 12:30 PM
the layout will be opened to the public as the Litchfield
Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a “Holiday Walk Day” along
with a parade and other events. There are many fine
restaurants in Litchfield for members to go to lunch before
going home.
The Litchfield Train Group HO layout uses Digitrax DCC.
We can use their locomotives or we can bring our own DCC
equipped locomotives; please make sure they run well before
you bring them. Also, we can bring our own Digitrax
throttles if we wish. The Litchfield Train Group uses plug
in or radio throttles only.
If you are interested in going then please sign up at the
next Gateway Division meeting on Monday, November 16, 2009.
If you can’t make it to the meeting but still want to go to
Litchfield then call Ron Gawedzinski at 314-846-5559 or send
him an email at
rwgawed@yahoo.com. If you have any questions let him
know. Hope you can make it!
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