It's worth the trip to the Dunnottar Station Museum

Our good friends at the Dunnottar Station Museum are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, so why not drive over there and help them celebrate? If you're heading to Winnipeg Beach, Gimli or Hecla it's close by and on the way. It's located at Central Avenue and Railway Street in Ponemah, within the village of Dunnottar. 

 

They're open on weekends from 10AM to 4PM. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. You can even help them out by buying a T-shirt! Come see all of their railway artifacts, historic tools, vintage photographs, their velocipede and "Big Stan", their motorized track speeder.

 

The Manitoba Hobby Expo is coming soon! Please note that the date has been changed to the first weekend of October. The WMRC will be there in full force! We've rented a record number of tables to sell donated model railroad equipment, with proceeds going to St.Amant. It'll also be a great time to join or renew your membership while you're there. 

Come join all the fun on Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4 between 9 and 5 at the Red River Exhibition Place, 3977 Portage Avenue. Admission is just twelve bucks, youths between the ages of four and twelve get in for six bucks, and kids under three get in for free!

Rod Foell wins WMRC's Tyro award

Congratulations to Rod Foell, one of our newest members, who won the club's Tyro award for his model of a steam engine with a carriage at a station. Rod is seen being presented the award by WMRC model contest chair Murray Brown. 

The Tyro award is a special presentation given to a member not only for their extraordinary modelling skills, but also because the modeller is a first time recipient of any WMRC modelling award. Given his skills as a modeller we're sure so see many more awards given to him in the future!