Winnipeg Model Railroad Club to hold a combination in-person and virtual meeting on September 17

The WMRC will be holding its first in-person meeting in a year on September 17. The meeting will also be seen live on Zoom. As both of our presenters will be doing their clinics outside of the province via Zoom, it was a simple matter to hold an in-person and a virtual meeting simultaneously.

The date has been moved from the usual second Friday of the month to Friday, September 17 as Tank Room at the Charleswood Legion is being used as an advance polling station.

Our first clinic features Gerry Schaefer, an accomplished modeller who is writes about trains and model railroading under the name of Hunter Hughson. He has had several features published in Railroad Model Craftsman and publishes two blogs, Ontario in HO Scale and The Niagara Branch. He has produced ten virtual RPMs under the brand Hindsight 20/20. His modelling is focused on the Penn Central and Lehigh Valley in the early 1970s.

Gerry's clinic tracks the construction of a Cannon & Company laser cut styrene kit of a Great Northern plate C double door boxcar. It covers techniques for working with styrene and a layered approach to weathering that starts with custom mixed paint colours to achieve a faded look under the lettering and progresses through weathering to the finished model.

Capacity at the Tank Room at the Legion is limited to 50 persons. The Legion requires all visitors to the building to show proof of full vaccination before entry. As of this writing, the province has mandated that masks will be required at all indoor public places. The meeting starts at 7:30 PM in the Tank Room at the Charleswood Legion, 6003 Roblin Boulevard on September 17. Not a member? Not a problem! Guests are always warmly welcomed. If you wish to attend the Zoom meeting only, please contact us at wmrc.trainclub@gmail.com and we will send you a link.
 

Winnipeg Model Railroad club to hold its first in-person meeting in a year on September 17

The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club will hold its first in-person meeting in a year on September 17 in the tank room at the Charleswood Legion, 6003 Roblin Boulevard.  The meeting has been moved from its usual date on the second Friday of the month to Friday, September 17 because the Tank Room is being used for advance polling. Capacity at the Tank Room at the Legion is limited to 50 persons. The Legion requires all visitors to the building to show proof of full vaccination before entry. This is important as the Tank Room is also being used as a day care center. If you cannot show proof of vaccination, you will not be allowed to enter. As of August 25, the province has mandated that masks will be required in all public places. The meeting starts at 7:30 PM.

There will be a Manitoba Mega Train Show this year

The Manitoba Mega Train Show is going ahead this year. Capacity at Red River Exhibition Place is limited 50%, but the organizers of the show don’t anticipate any problems with that, as the show doesn’t normally have 500 people present at one time.

Social distancing is a provincial government requirement, which means that there will be larger aisles and a controlled crowd flow. As a result, the number of vendors have been cut in half. Some of the layouts will not be in their usual spots. The organizers are proposing that vendors will be placed along the outside walls and the layouts and displays will be in open areas. There will be no vendors or displays from outside of Manitoba. There just isn’t enough room this year.

 All vendors, exhibitors and attendees over the age of 12 must be double vaccinated to attend. The organizers will be asking all exhibitors and vendors for proof before the show,  as they had to limit the number of layouts and vendors due to these health regulations. Everyone must wear a mask at the show, except for children three years of age and under due to possible suffocation. 

As of August 25, the province has mandated that masks will be required at all indoor public places. Masks will still be required at the Manitoba Mega Train Show whether or not the province decides to lift these regulations.  

The Manitoba Mega Train Show will be held on Sept 25 & 26th this year at the Red River Exhibition Place. the hours are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on both days.

Metal railway signs for sale at Mulvey Flea Market

The Tin Man at the Mulvey Flea Market is offering railway themed metal signs at reduced prices. The signs are made by a local outfit called Tin Sign City. The Mulvey Flea Market is located at 421 Mulvey Avenue East in Winnipeg. They are open on weekends and holiday Mondays from 10 AM to 5 PM.