The Manitoba Train and Hobby Expo is just a week away

 The Manitoba Train and Hobby Expo is just a week away! Many of your old model railroad favourites will be exhibiting this year, including WinNtrak, The NMRA No.1 Northern Division Free-Mo Group, Manitoba T-Trak and the Giraffe Car Man. There will be 15 layouts, 11 hobby displays and 60 vendors selling all sorts of model railroad equipment in every gauge.

The show also includes a wide variety of hobby groups such as the Manitoba Doll Club and the Manitoba Lego Users Group. There will be interactive slot car racing and a hot wheels display. Get a chance to fly a simulator model plane! Join the Lego building competition for a chance to win a prize, and put your name in for the Thomas the Tank Engine HO train set door prize!

It all takes place at Red River Exhibition Place, 3977 Portage Avenue, on Saturday, September 27 between nine and five and on Sunday, September 28 between nine and four. Admission is 12 bucks, youths 4-12 get in for six bucks, and kids under three get in for free. This is a once in a year event! You've got to be there!!

WinNtrak returns to the Manitoba Train and Hobby Expo

Those friendly folks over at WinNtrak, operators of Manitoba's largest N gauge modular railway, will be returning to the Manitoba Train and Hobby Expo. The group has long been a staple of the show, exhibiting since the start of the Manitoba Mega Train Show. The group exhibits regularly at the Garden City Shopping Centre, Kildonan Place, Grant Park Shopping Centre, the Clearspring Centre in Steinbach and the German Christmas Market at Fort Garry Place.

Come see them, and the 12 other layouts, the 60 vendors and the 11 hobby displays at the Manitoba Train and Hobby Expo on September 27 between 9 and 5, and on September 28 between 9 and 4 at Red River Exhibition Place, 3977 Portage Avenue. General admission is $12. Youths ages four to 12 get in for six bucks. Kids three years old and under get in for free!

MMR Fred Headon makes a special presentation at WMRC's September meeting

At our September meeting MMR Fred Headon will make a presentation titled “My Passion for Trains."  He will go over how his interest in trains evolved, beginning with when he was a youngster living just a bike ride away to the railways. It will be followed through to his modelling interests, his involvement with the NMRA and his writing about railways. 

Fred is an honorary life member of the NMRA, and has been an MMR since 2003. He has been an NMRA board member and  has served many positions in the NMRA, including the international committee and the EduTrain committee and Canadian Director of the NMRA. He is a published author of several books about railroading and has served as a mentor to many local model railroaders. He has also been a contest judge, clinician and Secretary of the TLR division.

The fun begins on Friday, September 12 at 7:30PM at the Charleswood Legion, 6003 Roblin Boulevard. The canteen will be open and we will have our usual model and photo displays and a 50-50 draw.