Gerry Leone

If your Region or Division gives adult or family classes on model railroading, Fred Bock, the NMRA’s Education Department Assistant Manager, is looking for ideas. Whether your program is a one-day seminar or multi-week course, Fred wants to know what it’s about and your lesson plans and other materials. Please email Fred at fbockLSRDiv6@aol.com with “Adult Education” in the Subject line.

The dust has barely settled from the Sacramento convention, and the folks in Grand Rapids are revving up for next year’s get-together. In fact, registration for Grand Rails 2012 is well underway. Members can visit www.gr2012.org and register online or download a mail-in form. Non-members may also sign up. Note that currently registration only covers the costs of attending the convention. Furniture City Flyers Club members will receive the complete list of tours, activities, and merchandise in December, followed by advance registrants, then all other members.

The Howell Day Museum is planning a new release of its extremely popular Commemorative Car #3, the Gorre and Daphetid bobber caboose — except this run will feature two new road numbers, #3 and #5. As you may know, John Allen was very fond of these cabooses and ran a fleet of them on his G&D railroad. Pricing will be $19.95 for one car, or $34.95 for the set of two. Watch for their availability at www.nmra.org or the ad in NMRA Magazine.

Again, many clinicians at the Sacramento convention have uploaded their handouts or full presentations to the x2011 website at www.x2011west.org. Anyone can download them. Click the Clinics tab and then Clinic Handouts.

In case you missed it last month, the Board of Directors selected Portland, Oregon as the site of the 2015 National Convention. More details will be announced soon.

For a complete summary of the Board of Directors meeting, visit www.nmra.org or watch NMRA Magazine in the near future.