WHEN: Saturday, November 21, 2009.

WHERE: Whistle Stop Restaurant (former IC freighthouse), 701 Main Street, Mendota, Illinois (just south of Amtrak station and Mendota Union Depot Museum)

PRICING: $25 per person for entire event. Includes entrance to swap session, dinner, and evening show.
$2 for those attending only the swap
$5 table fee for vendors

SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO: ICRHA 2009 Annual Meeting, c/o Mike Hogan, 15408 Pine Drive, Oak Forest, IL 60452-1623

PROGRAM: Double-header! Former ICG employee Jerry Pyfer will present a sound/slide presentation assembled exclusively for the ICRHA 2009 Annual meeting.  Jerry, who is also currently president of the North Western Illinois Chapter-NRHS, is well-known for his clever, entertaining, and popular slide presentations (his program at the Milwaukee Road Historical Association meet in Terre Haute last year drew a standing ovation).

His show for the ICRHA will focus on the 1970s-era Illinois Central Gulf. For our second program, Rory and Cedric Peterson present a program featuring the work of their late father, Roy Peterson. We will see STEAM and early-diesel-era Illinois Central scenes in the Rockford/Freeport/southern Wisconsin area. (Picture if you would, a steam-powered IC Hawkeye flying over The Milwaukee Road at Genoa, Illinois, in the 1930s, or bucolic scenes of the Dodgeville, Wis., branch.)

Roy photographed much of northern Illinois from 1930 into the 1960s, and you will also see some Milwaukee Road, Chicago & North Western, and Burlington thrown into the mix. This will largely be unpublished material that has only been seen by a few people to date.

-submitted by Chuck Hinrichs