Steve Boyko asks Morgan Turney ten questions (and he gets them all right!)

Our own Morgan Turney, sporting one of his endless supply of pink hats, poses at his Canadian Railway Modeller booth at a convention.

Steve Boyko is one of our favourite bloggers. His blog, "Confessions of a Train Geek" has a wide readership, and he gave us an excellent presentation about Manitoba's grain elevators at one of our meetings.

One of the features of his blog is his "10 questions" series, modelled after the "Interesting Railfan" series in Railroad magazine. He asks each railfan 10 questions, some standard and some customized for the particular person. He's interviewed many prominent rail fans and model railroaders, including our own John Longhurst. 

Last week,  Steve interviewed WMRC Program Director Morgan Turney for this series, and it's an interesting read! Who knew that Morgan also builds bird houses? You can read Steve's interview with Morgan by going to http://blog.traingeek.ca/2016/02/10-questions-for-morgan-turney.html.

Winnipeg Model Railroad monthly photo contest deadline is drawing near

Send in a spiffy photo like this to our monthly photo contest and you may win a cash prize, and have your image published on the cover of The Lantern!

The deadline for the WMRC's monthly photo contest is only days away! You only have until midnight, March 1st to enter. This month's theme is a photograph of a model in any scale from their layout (or from anyone else's layout). 

In past contests, almost all of our submissions have been of prototypes. After all, we are the Winnipeg MODEL Railroad Club, so it's refreshing to have one of our monthly photo contests concentrate solely on the model aspect of our hobby. 

The winner will receive a cash prize and have their photo published on the cover of the March issue of The Lantern, the official publication of the WMRC. It would help the editor out a lot of the photo you submit is in a vertical format (NOT like the image used in this post). Send all entries to Robert Weaver at weaverflowers@gmail.com.

Soldering clinic to be held at Warehouse Hobbies on February 29

Warehouse Hobbies will be holding a soldering clinic on Monday, February 29 from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. They'll be covering a wide range of topics, such as safety, tools, and several techniques for connecting wire to wire, feeder wire to bus wire, feeder wire to trail, and wire to decoder.

This will be an excellent clinic for beginners and experienced hobbyists alike. If you're all thumbs when it comes to soldering, of if you don't know one end of a soldering iron from another, then this clinic is for you! If you're a veteran solderer but need help with more sophisticated techniques such as soldering wiring to decoders, then this clinic will be a great asset for you as well.

The cost of the clinic is $10.00, and that includes a $5.00 voucher for any product sold at Warehouse Hobbies. You can register at Warehouse Hobbies, 265 Rouge Road in Winnipeg, phone them at 204-837-7887, or send an email to fheadon@shaw.ca