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Sunday April 22, 2007
Dick Kloes’s
Milwaukee, WI

Attendance:
A. Doty, D. Goeke, D. Goeke, D. Goeke, J. Goeke, D. Kloes, S. Lunde, J. Madden, B. Mosher,
M. Moskopf, B. Nelson, K. Pilon, C. Porter, R. Puls, R. Schlicht, J. Starosta, D. Stoll, F. Vergenz,
R. Wade, J. Young. (20)

Treasurer’s Report

1. Train Storage Boxes
   188.00

2. Swap Meet Hall Rental
   $300.00

3. Swap Meet Journal Ad Jan.
   $74.92

4. Dues Refunds
   $25.00

5. Meeting Host 
   $20.00

6. Newsletter Printing & Stamps 
   $39.41

Steve Lunde opened the April general meeting of BSG. This was the last general meeting of the season.

Dick Kloes gave a brief report on this past year swap meets. The revenue was down from the previous year. A contributing factor was that we had a cancellation due to bad weather.

A short discussion followed on the swap meets.

Ron Schlicht suggested that we follow the lead taken by the St. Louis club and prepare a promotional 2008 Fall S Fest flyer that could be passed out this year in St. Louis. We might also follow-up with this at the Spring S Spree.

We were supposed to have the Fall S Fest patch design project resolved. Only one person entered. We are extending the contest duration period. If your designs are not completed and submitted to Ron Schlicht prior to the first meeting of the year, "no exceptions", I win "AGAIN". In case you are unaware of this, the winner of the patch "contest" gets nothing, no prize, no trophy, no blue ribbon, no frequent flyer miles, not even a free patch.

The 2008 Fall S-Fest car design is in the works but all of the details were not worked out at the meeting. Once again we will offer a reduced rate to BSG members only on a prepay basis, in order that we can get seed money for the down payment on the car order. We took an unofficial count at the meeting to get an idea of how many present would be ordering the car. The amount of cars that we will be ordering was not made at this time.

(At the writing of this newsletter, the design has been finalized with Don Thompson. An order for a sample has been made and it is our hope that we have a sample of the car in St. Louis. We are planning to offer three car numbers #2008, #3301 and #3302.)

Ron Schlicht came up with a design for a BSG club business card. Doug Stoll had made the suggestion some time ago. The card design is relatively generic containing the badger logo, club name, year established, scale, letterhead motto and website. There is no other contact information. This avoids having to revise the card at any point in time. Any member can furnish a name and contact number on the back of the card if they wish to do so. When we get the cards made I will be putting my name and phone number on the cards that I carry with me to shows.

Doug Stoll gave a report on the progress being made on our website. There is a "members only" area that requires a password to gain access. Doug has also offered to photograph your layout if you are interested. Your layout can be added to our website and thereby give you an opportunity to share it with other S gaugers.

(If you have not visited the site recently, check it out.)

Chuck Porter passed out some free calendars and brought along a sample of an S-Helper, Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern boxcar. The car is being used as a fundraiser. Some members ordered one of the cars.

Westosha Community Center in Bristol.

There is a sign out front.

Take either US Rte. 45 or I-94 south.

On US 45, go south thru Franklin & North Cape. At Hwy 20, go left (East). Follow 45 1 mile to Colony Ave. 45 goes south thru Union Grove & crosses hwy 50 thru Bristol to county C (Kenosha county C). Turn left on Hwy C and go ½ mile to The Westosha Community Center, (It’s on the left side)  

From 94, go south and go to the Hwy C exit (from exit 1b to hwy 50 is about 33 miles, so, the hwy C exit is about another 8 miles or so). Take the hwy C exit and go about 6.5 miles to the center; it will be on the right side.

From the west, take 83 to hwy 50, and follow it to 45 and follow the directions above.

From the south, take either 45, 41 or 94 north to county C and follow above directions.

CAUTION: THERE IS A RACINE COUNTY C. DO NOT TAKE THAT EXIT.

If you have any questions:

Call Art Doty at (847) 395-1408 or Kathy Andrews at (262) 206-7648 or Truman Garrett at (262) 537-2965.

ATTENTION !!!!!

October Meeting- No Host Found

November 2-4 Fall S Fest, St. Louis

November 10^th & 11^th Trainfest

December Meeting- No Host Found January Meeting – No Host Found

February Meeting - No Host Found February 16^th & 17^th Mad-City Model Railroad Show & Sale

March Meeting – No Host Found

March MSOE Traintime 08 Model Railroad Show

April Meeting - No Host Found

April 26^th & 27^th Titletown Train Show Green Bay

Call Ron Schlicht, if you wish to host a General Meeting. There is no specific criterion for hosting a meeting. Weekday evenings, Saturdays or Sundays are acceptable. If you want to schedule for next year it’s not too early.

2007 September 23

October 28

November 25

December 16

2008 January 27

February 24

March 30

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2007 September 16

October 28

November 18

December 16

2008 January 20

February 24

March 16

April 27

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2007 December 9

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8:00 A.M. To 12:00 P.M.

2007 October 7

November 4

December 2

2008 January 6

February 3

March 2

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2007 Nothing posted at this time

For more details visit website at:

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2007 August 12

September 9

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2007 September 14

October 19

November 2

Programs are held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Student Center, 1025 North Broadway

Milwaukee, WI.

3^rd Floor Student Center

Doors open at 7:00 pm.

Programs start at 7:30 pm.

Programs are "Free" however subject to change without notice.

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St. Louis MO, Nov. 2 thru 4, 2007

Information available online at:

www.trainweb.org/afsgsla/

Many of you may be planning on going to this years upcoming Fall S-Fest in St. Louis. With skyrocketing gas prices, along with the opportunity to share a room, start your planning now. Car-pooling arrangements and the right room accommodations can put a little more money in your pocket to spend on "Stuff". Call the hotel for more information. If you go on our website there is a link to the 2008 S-Fest on which you can get a lot of information.

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Dick Kloes hosted the April general meeting of the Badgerland S Gaugers. As usual we all had a good time at Dicks. His layout is really something special.

Yet another honor was bestowed on a Badgerland S Gauger. The Root River & Southern Railroad, which is Dick Kloes’s layout was featured in the July 2007 issue of Classic Toy Trains magazine. For those of you who have been unable to make it to one of those meetings that were held at Dick’s house, now have a chance to at least see some of the layout. If you have a computer you can go to our website and click on S Scale layouts and you will see even more of his layout. If you have not been to a meeting at Dick’s home, don’t have a computer with Internet access and visited our site, not visited Dick on your own or are too cheap to buy the magazine, what are you doing in a model railroad club anyway?

The BSG Fall S Fest committee has been meeting on a regular basis. We hope to have the sample of the 33^rd Fall S Fest car ready for this years Fall S Fest in St. Louis. Everyone will have a different opinion on this car. Some will like it and others might not.

The theme for our Fall S Fest will be "Make Fall S-Fest Great In 2008". The idea is that everyone attending, the registrants, dealers, manufacturers, model contest entrants, clinic presenters and basically all of those that participate in this annual event, are what make Fall S-Fest great. The Badgerland S Gaugers are just the facilitators. Our job is to insure that all have a pleasant and memorable stay in our city.

Plan Ahead

This year we will need even more help at Trainfest and Mad-City than in the past. The club is not getting any younger. Please let me know what shows that you will be able to help out at. If we do not get enough help, we may have to start cutting back on some of our activities and that would be a shame. BSG is the major promoter of S gauge in the state of Wisconsin. Our club has been the most proactive of the various groups in this state. Contact Ron Schlicht for more information.

The following is an email that I received from Wil Holt. Give me your opinions on this event. We have to respond pretty soon. This is not a BSG executive decision, it is a BSG membership participation decision. Which layout might be taken is up in the air.

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I am sure you are familiar with the World's Greatest Hobby promotional effort, but may not be as up-to-date on the WGH On Tour shows.  These started in January 2005 as four shows rotating around each region of the U. S. with a special emphasis on bringing in families interested in getting started in model railroading and never having been to a train show before.

These shows have now expanded to 6 sites each year, with the plan be in each market area once every 7 years or so.

The first of the Winter 2008 shows will be held at the Schaumburg Convention Center this Thanksgiving weekend, November 24-25.  I would anticipate that the attendance will be more than 30,000 since they have consistently draw attendances in the range of 30,000 or more in markets much smaller than Chicago.  There are already plans in place for Chicagoland to have a booth with standard gauge and narrow gauge modular layouts there, along with a co-operative booth in the range of 10-by-30 to 10-by-50 between NASG, CASG and two or three manufacturers.  Hopefully this booth will also be across the aisle from Lionel.

Since they promote this show so heavily (very extensive TV and print advertising) they will draw attendees from southern Wisconsin.  BSG should consider signing up to bring down the modular layout, or perhaps your layout (R. Schlicht Hi-Rail).  It would be great to have 3-4 operating S gauge layouts in the layout area along with the booth space.  S can look very appealing at this show, since major manufacturers and distributors in other scales generally do not do more than an average booth, mostly 10-by10 or 10-by-20.

If you need to know more information, please call me at 630-969-1982 or go to their web site, www.wghshow.com.  The forms for signing up are on the web.

Since this is very likely a show that will fill up with layouts early, you all show talk this over very soon.

Kind regards,
Will Holt

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This was the third year in a row that we attended the train show in Green Bay. The attendance was just under 5,000 for the two-day event. Just like last year, there were a lot of events going on in Green Bay. Right next door in the coliseum was a large dog show. Again there was the National Football League Draft taking place that weekend and I have no clue how many thousand people were at Lambeau Field for that.

Ron Schlicht hauled the small layout to the show along with the AF operating accessories for an 8-foot table extension. The Badgerland S Gaugers "North Division", Chic Hartert, Ron Fadale and company brought their S scale layout to the show and were located in another area of the hall. The layout is still under construction but really looks good at this point in time.

Both layouts received a lot of attention, as did the accessory extension. Once again it was a really nice show and we will continue to setup at future Titletown train shows.

Gary Children and Jeff Young brought the BSG information booth to the show.

Once again I was accompanied by my lovely, high maintenance, casino loving wife. The Oneida gaming casino changes this event from another "dammed" train show to a very expensive trip for "us’.

None scheduled.

Nothing to report at this time. It’s summertime, who in the Heck looks for train stuff in 90-degree weather.

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Stay in the shade and drink a lot of fluids. Basements are a "COOL" place to be. Give your trains a hug.

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Changes, Corrections, Email Addresses, Etc.:

Florian Wolicki
6712 Sheffield Lane
Willowbrook, IL 60527
(608) 789-0581

Remember to send me your updated email addresses to insure that I change it on our group listing and put it in the newsletter. We like to give all of our members the opportunity to keep in touch with one another.

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Badgerland@yahoogroups.com,

Join this group you will receive periodic club updates, BSG news, tips and information on various S gauge websites that may be of interest to you.

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If you are interested in using the For Sale column give me a call. I would like to limit the amount of different items to a maximum four per member.

I will list items under "Wanted" for two or three newsletters. Please contact me if you want a listing continued or it will be dropped. The same applies

to the "For Sale" column. If you sell an item contact me so that I can remove it from subsequent newsletters.

American Flyer All Aboard Panels

Looking for right and left switch panels.

Contact:

Jeff Young

W 150 N8329 Saxony Drive

Menomenee Falls, WI 53051

(262) 250-0618

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If you have any items like old issues of Classic Toy magazines, S Gaugians or other model train related items that you no longer have need for, you might think about donating them to our club.

Contact Ron Schlicht or drop them off at a swap meet or his home.

American Flyer Erie Passenger Set

A-B-A Units

Baggage - Combine - (2) Coaches

(2) Vista Domes - Observation

Condition: Excellent Plus

Brad Nelson

S47 W24775

Waukesha, WI 53186

(262) 547-9425

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American Models, 46503hr Milwaukee Road USRA 4-6-2 Pacific steam passenger set DC High RAIL $600.00

Additional coach available   $60.00 

All Items Brand New Never out of the Original Box.

A.C. Gilbert FRONTIERSMAN Train Set

like new $450.00 Original Box.

Additional Overland Express Baggage Car $85.00

Contact David R. Smukowski

(262) 675-2664

dsmukowskli@sbcglobal.net or

dsmukowski@hotmail.com

The Badgerland S Gaugers have some past years Fall S Fest Cars For Sale, years one through year ten and a couple others.

In addition we have the complete set of the Fall S Fest heavyweight passenger car bodies painted in the Chicago Northwestern color scheme. The cars are as follows:

1991 - 16^th Fall S Fest - Observation Car

1992 - 17^th Fall S Fest - Pullman Car

1993 - 18^th Fall S Fest - Combo Car

1994 - 19^th Fall S Fest - RPO Car

1995 - 20^th Fall S Fest - Diner Car

1996 - 21^st Fall S Fest - Baggage Car

1997 - 22^nd Fall S Fest - Coach Car

Contact Ron Schlicht for pricing or information.

For any new members who are interested in club hats or shirts

Contact Jeff Young.

If you "have not" received a club patch or a membership card

Contact Ron Schlicht.

If you "have not" received a club badge Contact Dave Smukowski.

Until the next time. See Ya. Ron Schlicht

rschlicht2@wi.rr.com

The views and opinions expressed in the Badgerland S Gaugers newsletters are those of the editor, unless otherwise credited, and do not necessarily represent that of the club, it’s officers, directors, or the membership.

The Badgerland S Gaugers do not offer any warranties, guarantees, nor assume any liability from information contained in this publication.

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