By Tom Johnson, Chapter President

Greetings, fellow chapter members!

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone Monday night, March 17, 2014 at the depot for our monthly meeting.

We had a real good February meeting with Steve Miller presenting a power point program on railroad signal interpretation.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the program and I think we all learned some things.  There were some good discussions during the presentation with people citing local examples of many of the signal situations included in the program.

We had good attendance.  I counted 18 but the sign-up sheet only showed 17; I guess someone forgot to sign-in.

The discussion segment of the meeting was on the subject of “foreign power” and several folks contributed good information.

It seems that lots of you like the idea of devoting a few minutes of our meetings to discussion on a particular topic.  Each and every one of you is encouraged to submit ideas for these discussions to Matt Gentry.  Matt will announce the topic in the newsletter so that members will have time to do a little research on the subject ahead of the meeting.  Subjects will be chosen on a first come, first served basis when more than one suggestion is submitted.  The “official” way to submit an idea is to Email it to Matt.  If you don’t “do” Emails, let me know your idea and I will Email Matt for you.

Remember, we are not trying to make this the main “entertainment” for the meetings, just a feature where we spend maybe 15 minutes on the topic that has been chosen.

Hope to see all of you Monday night!