Felix Lesiuk and Louis Lenz go winter rail fanning

Long time WMRC member Louis Lenz is seen capturing the image of a CP freight train.

Who says that rail fanning is only a summer pursuit? Not Felix Lesiuk and Louis Lenz! These intrepid long time club members ventured out for the first time in the New Year last week. The weather was quite nice, especially for January, as it was well above zero. 

There was a lot of snow around so it limited parking locations. They got as far west as Moffat. They missed a few trains, but CN didn't disappoint them! CN is running quite a few new units lately. They even caught VIA's Canadian heading west! 

Presenting the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's revised logo

Coming to a T-shirt near you: WMRC blog editor and Social media Executive Paul Ullrich was asked by the club's executive to revamp his original design of the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's 60th anniversary (which was two years ago) by creating another logo for the club's HO layout, the Gateway Western Railway, and incorporating it into the existing logo.

The revised logo will be printed on T-shirts, which will be available for sale to members and non-members alike.

Buy this entire HO layout

Darcy Braun wants to sell his late father’s HO layout. His father,  Abe "Charlie" Braun, started building his layout in 1971, when he received an HO train set as a Christmas present. As you can see from the images, it has grown! Darcy’s mother doesn't have room for it any longer. 

Darcy and his mom would love to sell this to someone who would like to continue working on this project. There are many engines, cars and buildings, trees, street lights and much, much more. There’s hundreds of feet of track, and lots of spare parts.

They’re hoping get to get around $2000 for everything. Considering how much equipment there is, that sounds like quite the deal!

You can contact Darcy Braun by phone at 204-823-2849 or email him at 2849@gmail.com.