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The March 20 program
will be presented by Central Coast member and Director Jim Maurer. It will be
titled “Moldy Oldies” and will cover slides from the past including photos of
Southern Pacific, Western Pacific and Santa Clara Light Rail Vehicles. Regular monthly
membership meetings are both in person and on Zoom, while Board meetings are
now online-only. April 17, 2026
Meeting The April 17 program
will be presented by Central Coast member Doug Scott. It is titled,
“Travelling the Mid-Atlantic States”. It will cover the Woodstown Central
Photo Day in New Jersey; Amtrak at Newark New Jersey and Wilmington Delaware;
Amtrak and CSX in VA, NC, and SC; depots in North Carolina South Carolina;
and a Merci boxcar. Regular monthly
membership meetings are both in person and on Zoom, while Board meetings are
now online-only. May 15, 2026
Meeting The May 15 program
will be presented by Central Coast member Chris Skow. It will be a video
program that is called: South American
Rail Adventure filmed in 1991. It is a 1 ˝ hour video that was produced by a
professional railroad video company called "Berkshire Productions".
Their filming crew went on one of Chris’ tours to the country of Chile in
1991. This program covers steam, diesel, railcar and electric operations on 3
different gauges. There will be
American and Canadian motive power covered on this video and will include
Baldwin, Alco, Alco Montreal, General Motors, EMD, and Baldwin/Westinghouse.
The railroads covered on this program are:
Ferrocarriles Del Estado Red Sur, Ferrocarril Antofagasta to Bolivia, Ferrocarril
Del Norte, FCC Tocopilla - El Toco, and the Transandino
Railway. Regular monthly
membership meetings are both in person and on Zoom, while Board meetings are
now online-only. June 19, 2026
Meeting The June 19 program
will be presented by Central Coast member Ken Rattenne. The first part of the
program will cover Central Coast RR Club’s 2013 Explorer trip. It will
feature the three ex-California Zephyr cars that member Chris Skow provided
that many Chapter members used which were attached to the rear of Amtrak
Zephyr trains number 5 and 6. It will also cover the visit to the Nevada
State Railroad Museum. The second part
would be of the 2016 charter of the steam locomotive hauled Virginia and
Truckee Railroad in Virginia. Regular monthly
membership meetings are both in person and on Zoom, while Board meetings are
now online-only. To join a Zoom
meeting, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86214899971.
Please keep your
microphone muted unless you have a question or comment during the meeting.
Try to call in by 7:30pm and please be patient for the host to admit you.
Central Coast received
a donation of many railroad-related books from longtime member Conrad
Gleason. The collection includes about 1000 hardcover books, and another 1000
in soft bindings. We will offer these for sale at the next several Chapter
meetings. Since it is not practical to transport all of the books to the
meetings, we will bring a small, random subset about 100 to each meeting. Many of the books are
listed online with prices at http://members.trainorders.com/clem.
We will update the list as time permits. If you wish to purchase any of these
titles please send an email expressing the title or titles you wish to buy
and the date you will be attending a meeting to: central_coast_chapter@yahoo.com.
Email
the Webmaster at kenrattenne@gmail.com. |
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