January 2017 Pickin’ the Points by Bill Thomas

Opinions and Stories by Bill Thomas, Editor

I WAS enthusiastically looking forward to our modular railroad layout display at Madisonville Square Mall AND I was not disappointed! Thanks to our president Bill Farrell, Rick Bivins, Rich Hane, Jim Kemp, Wally, and others who helped set up, maintain, and take down the displays. I am of the opinion that this was a fantastic “touch point” for us with our community.

Thanks also to those who purchased and prepared modules for our display. You can see pictures in the following pages of the newsletter.

If room permits, I’ll include some photographs I took on our family Christmas trip to New York City, December 26-31. We were fortunate to visit a small RR museum in Huntington, WV (pictured with museum volunteer Jim Pickett, insert), as well as the Transit Museum of NY, and The Railway Museum of Pennsylvania, in Strasburg, PA. I can thank my wife Angela for scheduling those stops for me along with the visits to Gettysburg, Central Park NYC, and the Independence Hall area of Philadelphia. I finally saw the Liberty Bell!