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Central Oklahoma Chapterof the National Railway Historical

SocietyOklahoma Railway Museum Ltd,

Volume 45, Issue 2February 2010

Christmas Trains OKC Train Show

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Story and photos by Gary GithensCaptions and photos by Eric Berger

Kevin Huffman addresses the crowd at one of the Great Train Set Give Away drawings.

Mike Morgan and David Elliott discuss the train show.

Passengers waiting to board the next train.

The Christmas Train event was a great success thanks to a tremondous amout of work by volunteers.

by Steve Davis

Special ORM Thanks to Crest Foods & Santiago’s McDonalds

Cookies were donated to us by Santiago's McDonalds restaurants. Caroline Savage is the offi ce manager there. Her e-mail is caroline@sbmcd.net. It would be nice if we could get the word out and have several of our members e-mail them a nice thank you for the cookies and partici-pating in our event. Our gift certifi cates were donated thanks to Paula at Crest Foods. We gave some away on the Christmas Train as door prizes, and selected a couple of our hard working volunteers as well.

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Mark Your Calendar Earlyto attend or volunteer

2010 OKC Train Show December 4th and 5th

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Oklahoma Railway Museum, Ltd.

Board of DirectorsStan Hall, President

Larry Dodd, Vice President

and Program Chair

Drake Rice, Secretary

Charles Price, Treasurer

John Ansell, NRHS Director

Bob Cossairt, Director of

Museum Grounds & Facilities

Bob Hussey, Director of

Track Maintenance

Jim Murray, Director of

Mechanical Operations

Harry Currie, Director at Large

Greg Hall, Director of

Museum Activities

Kenneth Kozak, Director of

Museum Displays

Ed Birch Jr., Train Show Chair

Gary Moore, Membership

Chair

Gary Githens, Dispatcher

Editor

Surf the Web...The ORM Website address

oklahomarailwaymuseum.org

Articles and/or photos are due by the 15th of each month. Email to “Editor” at: ormnews@cox.net

ORM telephone number: 405/424–8222

ORM FAX number405/424-0504

2010 McMillan calendars now available to ORM Membership!

The 2010 McMillan calendars will be or-dered son. These full color quality cal-endars make an excellent Christmas Gift for the hard to buy for person. One size fi ts all and each day has room to write appointments etc. AT&SF, BNSF, CSX, UP, NS and DRGW available.

Contact Larry Dodd at 405 315 6125 to order yours today.

$10 per copy, saving you nearly $4.00 over Internet pricing.

We need the use of a Beta tape player to transfer some railroad videos.

If you have one please con-tact me at ormnews@cox.net. Someone could pick it up and return it.

Editor

Needed

It is Monday after the Museum Annual Meeting and I want

to thank all of you who got out in the bitt er cold for att end-

ing. We had a good time and had time to relax and visit with

each other. I tried to get around the room and speak to each

of you. Hope I did not miss anyone. Membership cards were

passed out for those who had paid their 2010 dues. If you

have paid and were not there, then we will be gett ing your

card to you soon. If you have not paid your dues then please

renew and volunteer some of your time. We can always use

help.

Four members received awards for 2009; Jim Pasby received one for spending the

most time working at the museum in 2009. He far exceeded the rest of us. Harry

Currie received an award for his brick laying eff orts on the new platform and the

platform at 50th street. He is very good at this if you need some help on your patio.

Gary Githens received an award for his work on the Dispatcher. He has done an

outstanding job putt ing this out each month on a timely basis and with some great

content. The last award was to Gary Moore for his assistance in the acquisition of

the property to the north. He took care of looking after our interests in a timely and

professional manner.

We are in a winter time mode at the museum. Work is continuing on projects that can

be done inside. If you have some time, give Jim Murray a call and see if you can help

him.

The Annual Planning Meeting will be complete in the next week and I will see that all of

you hear what the plans are for 2010 and the next fi ve years.

Stan Hall

A planning meeting was held on Thursday, January 14 at the museum. Approximately 20 members were pres-ent to review, comment on the budget for 2010 and pri-oritize projects for 2010 in addition to development of a new fi ve year plan for the museum. Several sugges-tions were made that led to changes in some area of the budget and operations. It was noted that museum op-erations continue to grow and utility cost are going up especially since we are open at least 20 hours a month and we are doing more work at the museum. The mu-seum annual operating budget is nearing $90,000 on an annual basis with insurance, fuel, mowing, minor repairs.

As with all museums, the needs for funds are greater that what is available. President Hall pointed out that the need for board members overseeing their assigned areas and will need to work with the purchase order sys-tem being put into place to ensure funds are available to cover the expenditures when purchases are made. The goal is to improve the fi nancial information so that next year’s budget will be easier to develop since there will be a clear picture on what areas need additional funds. Projects that the museum will focus on will be the ATSF Caboose, fi nish the primer of one of the Conoco Box Cars, putting the RS3 into operations, completing the repair on the side of the CNW 7721 (Blue Car), re-pair of roof and repaint if funds are available, repaint-ing of structures on the museum grounds, signal instal-lation at NE 36st Street and track work. Of course the normal operations of mowing, clean up and pick up on the grounds, work with the displays and a model train layout at the museum will be on going activities. At the planning meeting it was noted that we had picked up a new docent and there was addition-

al room for more. As always, it’s great to have members out on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to show and answer questions our many guest have.

This year we are hopeful that we will have schools partic-ipate in our school trains, but with the budget issues hit-ting schools, we are not sure we will do as well this year as we did last year. That activity was a big help to our 2009 budget. In addition to our school trains, our normal trains on the fi rst and third Saturdays start in April and run to the fi rst weekend in September, then the Thomas trains on the last weekend in September and fi rst weekend in October. A new train this year will be the moving of the third week-end in October train to the last weekend and naming it the Halloween Train will be tried to see how that will work in drawing folks to the museum, since the last Saturday will be Halloween. And the last two events of the year will be the Train Show on the fi rst weekend in December and the Christmas Trains on the third Saturday. Those two De-cember events continue to be strong fund raisers for our museum and help get us fi nancially through the winter. As always, the museum enjoys having members come out and volunteer some time. We hope to see each of you our at the museum during 2010. We are planning on this to be another great year for the Oklahoma Railway Museum. For additional information, contact Stan Hall, President or to work on a project, Jim Murray.

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Museum Update by Drake Rice

Operating rules training class on February 20th start-ing at 9:00 A.M. This is a must attend training ses-sion for train crew members and maintenace depart-ment staff.

Anyone considering train crew operations should feel welcome to attend.

Jim Pasby needs to know who will be attending. Please advise Jim by email jimpasby@att.net by Feb-ruary 17th.

Attention Train Crews &

Maintenance StaffOperating Rules Training Class

Please visit Youtube.com. Do a search for Oklahoma Railway Museum. There are several ORM presentations. Would like for the number of visits to be substantial. When you have the time visit the sites frequently during the next sev-eral months. Additionally, if you want to rate the sites (5 star I hope) that will be great.

ORM on YouTube

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Victor Guess and his G scale layout are multiple year exibitors at the Oklahoma City Train Show.

Action on the G scale railraod has the attention of Steve Isaacson and Damon Morris.

Daniel Toneges considers a purchase from Ed Birch, Jr.

Oklahoma City Train Show Captions and photos by Eric Bergercontinued from page 1

Angela Krows explains equipment to Ga-briel Robinson.

Lorena Phillip Foster and Ricky Custa consider a train show pur-chase.

Zachary Armour (wearing engineer cap) watches the action on Santa Dave Fields’ layout.

Mark Your Calendar Early2010 OKC Train Show December 4th and 5th

by Steve Davis

Railroad Industry News

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Special Thanks to Sponsor’s

source: National Public Radio

Our recipients were hand picked by longtime member, Willis Bottger, as follows: Amil Gollahalli, of Norman; Christina Smith, of Duncan; John Jackson, of Edmond; Melanie Hollingsworth, also of Edmond; and Lisa Oakes, Oklahoma City.

ORM volunteers receiving the $10 gift certifi cates were Larry Dodd and Jim Murray.

We look forward to having Crest Foods and Santiago’s McDonalds participating with us in the future.

Stan Hall and Greg Hall inspecting a lantern.

On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to op-erate and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, reportedly a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines."

Orient Express Takes Final Trip

Great Plains Minority Supplier Development Council Names Union Pacifi c 2009 Corpora-tion of the Year

Omaha, Neb., December 22, 2009 – The Great Plains Mi-nority Supplier Development Council has named Union Pacifi c as its 2009 Corporation of the Year.

The award recognizes Union Pacifi c for its many efforts to increase and improve its minority supplier business re-lations as well as assist other companies and their key suppliers to recognize the value of supplier diversity.

Union Pacifi c provides fi nancial support for many of the Great Plains Minority Supplier Development Council (GPMSDC) events and functions, and dedicated employ-ees demonstrate the railroad's commitment to minority business development. In the past year, Union Pacifi c hosted the GPMSDC's second quarter meeting and an interactive business fair at Union Pacifi c Center that at-tracted more than 45 area minority-owned businesses.

LP Custodial LLC was named GPMSDC's Minority Business of the Year for growing its business by 75 per-cent in 2009, which it attributed largely to Union Pacifi c's support. Union Pacifi c co-sponsored Joe Delgado's attendance at the Kellogg School of Management's Advanced Man-agement Education Program in Evanston, Ill. Delgado is president of TCW Construction Inc., as well as Husker Ready Mixed Concrete LLC.

source: UP Press release

Oklahoma City Train Showphotos by Eric Bergercontinued from page 1

Guy Lynn’s motor car is always a big hit with Train Show visitors

Attention Train Crews &

Maintenance StaffOperating Rules Training Class

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Larry Dodd was our “hot chocolate” chef.

Pizza was served to the volun-teer staff.

Larry Dodd and Phillip Ford delivering hot chocolate. Keeping the coaches supplied for each train run was a major undertaking.

Christmas train retuning to Oakwood station

Dispite cold weather the moon bounce and playground equipment were popular

Christmas Trains

Think “This is my year to volun-teer.”

Staff members Greg Hall, Jim Murray, Truman Hefner and Terry Birchett

Line 4

Line 3

Line 2

Line 1

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Order Form – Engraved Platform BricksCost is $50.00 per brick.

Up to a maximum of 4 lines with 16 letters and spaces per line

Purchaser’s Name ________________________________ Phone No. (______) ________________

Engraved Platform BricksMore than one platform

brick can be donated to the Museum and you can make copies of the attached form. Mail completed forms with checks or money orders to: Jim Murray, ORM, 3400 NE Grand Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111. If you have any questions, you can e–mail Murray at:

jtmurray@cox.net.

The Oklahoma Railway Museum, Ltd. (ORM) has items available for both chil-dren and adults at the Depot Store. These include baseball caps, polo shirts, t–shirts, lapel pins, and coasters. Funds raised by donations for these items support the Museum projects.

The Depot Store, located inside the Oakwood Depot on the Museum grounds, is open during regular Museum hours – 9 am to 4 pm on the fi rst and third Saturday opera-tion days of each month April through October. The store is also open for special events.

Crosstie Donations Friends and families of ORM continue to make dona-tions for crossties, equipment and facilities on the Museum property and on the leased track.

If you want to make a do-nation to purchase a crosstie, a donation of $42.50 will help purchase a new crosstie. You can donate a crosstie in recog-nition or in memory of someone. All donations should be made out to the Oklahoma Railway Museum Ltd.

Please note on the check what the donation is for, mail to: ORM Ltd., 3400 NE Grand Bou-levard, Oklahoma City, 73111

Become an ORM Member

ORM Depot Store

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2010 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION: $30.00 per year – Individual Membership in the Oklahoma Railway Museum, Ltd. (spouse included)

$25.00 per year – Individual Senior (age 65 and up) (spouse included) and Individual Student (full–time student) Membership in ORM $36.00 per year – To add Railway Historical Society (NRHS) Membership (add $5.00 for spouse) (Student Memberships: $16 per year) SEND NRHS DUES TO ORM ADDRESS BELOW, NOT DIRECTLY TO NRHS $500.00 - Lifetime Membership

Send your application and dues to: Oklahoma Railway Museum , Ltd. 3400 NE Grand Boulevard Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111

Name _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________

City ____________________________________________________________________________________

Phone ________________________ Fax ______________________ Cell Phone_____________________

E–Mail __________________________________________________________________________________

March Issue:2010 Membership meeting ORM tracks have tie to “gangster” era

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Oklahoma Railway Museum, Ltd.3400 NE Grand BoulevardOklahoma City, OK 73111

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ORM on YouTube

Christmas train passes through Lincoln Park golf course

Car host Herb Reeve stated he was having a great time

Train Ride DaysApril 3 and 17May 1 and 15June 5 and 19July 3 and 17Aug 7 and 21Sep 4Oct 30

Membership Picnic June 12

DOWT:Sept 24, 25 & 26Oct 1, 2 & 3

Christmas TrainDec 18

2010 At A GlanceORM members are appreciated. Thank you for your support.

Editor Gary

Thank youEditor Gary

Please visit Youtube.com. Do a search for Oklahoma Railway Mu-seum. There are sev-eral ORM presentations. Would like for the num-ber of visits to be sub-stantial. When you have the time visit the sites frequently during the next several months. Ad-ditionally, if you want to rate that will be great.

Attention

Train Crews &

Maintenance Staff

Operating Rules Training Class

February 20th