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Sunday December 9, 2007
Jeff & Kim Young’s
Menomenee Falls, WI

Attendance:

G. Bruck, A. Doty, G. Children,  C. Hartert, D. Kloes, C. Krasonya, S. Lunde, J. Madden, 
R. Meissner, M. Moskoph, J. Nugent, K. Pilon, C. Porter, R. Schlicht, F. Vergenz,
R. Wade, J. Young, K. Young. (18)

Treasurer’s Report

Fall S Fest Table Fee $10.00
Swap Meet Hall Rental $350.00
Swap Meet Journal Ad $65.92
BSG Children Stickers $10.00
Toys For Tots $100.00
Food For Families $100.00
Salvation Army $100.00

Steve Lunde opened the BSG October general meeting wishing everyone a Happy Holidays.

Steve received the first sample of the 2008 Fall S Fest car from S-Helper Service. It really looked great. There will be a couple modifications made prior to the full run, which will be made shortly. We are ordering fewer cars than our last two Fall S Fests. So the demand could exceed the cars ordered.

The cars will be manufactured in three car numbers: 2008, 3301 & 3302. The number 2008 is self-explanatory and it will be the 33^rd annual Fall S Fest, thus the 01 & 02 cars.

The cars will be sold at a discounted rate to club members at the price of $37.50 per car until March 1^st 2008. After that date the cars will be $40.00 to club members.

The Fall S Fest car price has not been establish yet. We will encourage our members to make their purchase early in order to have seed money for the final car requisition.

Make your checks payable to the Badgerland S Gaugers and send it to our Treasurer Jeff Young. Specify the car or car numbers that you want. Note on the check "2008 S Fest Car". Order now at the reduced rate or end up paying the full freight.

Many of the members at the meeting, including yours truly, placed their order and put their money down. The car already has a planned location on my layout. I’ll only need two more local breweries for a six pack train.

Steve also showed a sample of a planned BSG coffee mug. We will investigate interest in this project prior to placing an order. I’d buy one, but then I buy anything with our logo on it.

Chic Hartert has lined up some individuals for S Fest clinics. If any of our members have any suggestions for clinics and have an individual in mind, please contact one of the club officers. We can never have too many clinic presenters.

Jim Starosta has lined up, what will be a very interesting and entertaining speaker for Fall S Fest 2008.

The car, the patch, our speaker and a many other items have been determined and more are in the works. We have a good start on S Fest 2008. We will still require a lot of help from our membership. Look for good ideas for door prizes and check out your sources, we will need a lot of them. We will have a posting of some of the duties that we will need to get assistance with. Get you "S" in gear and VOLUNTEER.

Ron Schlicht gave a brief report on upcoming model railroading shows that our club will be attending in one fashion or another. February is a three straight weekender for me. Check your BSG calendar of events in this newsletter.

Modular Layout Report Steve Lunde has secured a place near Barker Road and I-94 where we would be able to set up the modular layout and work on it. The only cost would be for heat and electricity, which he estimated to be around $30.00 per month. The approximate floor space is 50 feet by 60 feet and will be available after January 1^st. This facility would be a relatively centralized location for our membership.

We will be scheduling a board of directors meeting along with a modular committee meeting in the near future. This meeting will be open to all members.

It is imperative that the layout gets a major facelift. It is one of the tools that we use for promoting S gauge. At this time our image needs a bit of improvement. I’m sure that we will get "the usual crew" to make physical enhancements to the layout. What is still one of the key predicaments with our layout is transportation. This means that in most instances we will just need individuals to get the modules to and from the shows. I store, transport, upgrade and maintain "10" four-foot modules for the Hi-rail layout "by myself". If there is not enough interest in the modular layout, perhaps we should forget the modular layout. If that happens and our members show that little interest, perhaps this editor should be looking for another organization to join.

Dick Kloes gave a report on the Winter Jamboree in Waukesha. In conjunction with this event there is a model railroad show that is sponsored and organized by the Waukesha Gandy-Dancers model railroad club. In the past Dave & Sandy Smukowski took the small layout to this event. The event runs from January 18^th thru the 20^th. The small layout will be setup on Saturday Jan. 19^th. The doors will be open to the public from 10:00am to 5:00pm, setup will be around 8:00am. Dick Kloes, Gary Children, Fred Vergenz and Kathy Pilon have volunteered to help out. If you wish to assist them contact Dick.

Speaking of Dick, since he ran unopposed for the office of director, we had one of our usual "railroading" elections, which amounted to all in favor of Dick as our new director say "aye" all opposed? Unanimous again.

Art Doty gave a report on one of the new S Gauge cars that are for sale. He passed around some ordering literature. This marks one of the shortest reports he has ever given.

Greenfield News & Hobby

6815 W. Layton Ave.

Greenfield, WI

(414) 281-1800

The store hours are from noon to 5:00 pm. The meeting will be in the large classroom in the back of the store. Ask at the information desk. The store has been a steady contributor of door prizes for our swap meets and S Fests.

January Meeting – Ron Schlicht
February Meeting – Brad Nelson February 16^th & 17^th 

Mad-City Model Railroad Show & Sale

Feb. 23^rd & 24^th Mitchell Park Domes

Model Railroad Show March 1^st & 2^nd MSOE Traintime 08 Model Railroad Show

March Meeting – No Host Found

March MSOE Traintime 08 Model Railroad Show

April Meeting – Roy Meissner

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

Trainfest November 8^th and 9^th, 2008

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.

2008 January 27

February 24

March 30

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2008 January 20

February 24

March 16

April 27

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

2008 February 3

March 2

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2008 January 20

February 17

April 20

For more details visit website at:

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2008 February 10

March 9

April 13

May 11

June 8

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2008 January 18

February 15

March 14

April 18

May 9

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". General Public Welcome. The programs are subject to change without notice.

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First of all I hope that you all had a relaxing, healthy and enjoyable Holiday season. I hope that Santa brought you what you wanted. Actually for a model railroader a bag of coal is not a bad thing as long as it is to scale. Let’s hope that 2008 will be great. With our club hosting Fall S Fest in November it will certainly be a busy year for us.

Kim & Jeff Young hosted the BSG December general meeting & Holiday party. There was plenty to eat and drink, the meeting was extremely short and we had a great time.

In keeping with the theme of not offending anyone who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus or the word Christmas, we now have a Holiday party. However Santa did visit us again this year. BSG member, John Nugent, who makes an extraordinary looking Santa, stopped in for a visit. John annually goes to various nursing homes and churches to visit and bring joy to others. Every year he lets his white beard grown a bit longer for the season. We all got our candy canes and were reminded how it is to be a child again.

It was BSG Showtime. Jeff Madden gave an entertaining slide presentation on the past NASG convention held in Baltimore, MD. Not only did we see a lot of great railroad pictures but some really fabulous model railroad layouts. We actually had a double feature at this meeting. Chuck Porter also had a slide show, which highlighted his trip to the Jamaica, the Panama Canal and Costa Rica. We got to see some trains and the beauty of those countries.

All in all these members made this one of our more entertaining meetings. If any of our members wish to make any type of presentations at our meetings feel free to do so. The only criteria are that they are not triple X rated, no matter what Cal Krasonya suggests. This year, even though it will be one of our busiest, has to be more fun than we have had in the past. That’s what the club is supposed to be about.

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Mad-City show February 17^th & 18^th held at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI.

For more information on the show, go our website and click on Public Shows Events, then click on the poster.

Many of us will be staying at the AmericInn 101 W Broadway Monona, WI (608) 222-8601 If you reserve a room, indicate that you are part of the Badgerland S Gaugers group.

Dick Kloes and Ron Schlicht are planning a playtime night at their homes. The dates have not been set yet.

I don’t remember if anyone has ever submitted anything to this column. This only means that you will have to read some more of my nonsense.

I now have Lionel three-rail track on my layout, ........well kind of. I purchased the Lionel #6-24105 Animated Track Gang and repainted the base and the working figures. I preceded the accessory with a five-inch section of Lionel Fas Track. I removed two rails and added a piece of American Flyer tinplate track lining it up at S gauge spacing. Using a soldering iron to stipple and melt the plastic, makes it look like the rest of the ballast. I filled in the tie gap and repainted the ties. I used squadron putty to fill in and taper each section one to another. It now lines up with the Flyer track on one of my sidings. With an American Flyer Brown hoist raising the unused third rail over to a junk pile, it's entertaining. You might say that it is "getting it right" or just we Flyers boys sticking it to the Lionel guys. The animation is neat and it added eight more people to the layout. The original idea is not mine, but my execution of it is unique. Jim Starosta also made a similar one and displayed it at the November swap meet.

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Nothing to report at this time.

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On the last page of your newsletters the BSG officers are always listed. Please note that three of them have had Email address changes.

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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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.

Fall S Fest Patches for the following years: 9^th -1984, 15^th –1990, 21^st – 1996.

Contact: Jim Starosta (414) 282-7692

You can also e-mail me at:

rschlicht2@wi.rr.com

0-8-0 American Flyer Steam Engine.

Any condition even a basket case.

Contact: Harold Immekus

108 High Forrest Drive

Cedarburg, WI 53012

(262) 375-3775

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.

For Sale:

THE PACIFIC RAIL CARS ARE IN KIT FORM WITH TRUCKS, IN ORIGINAL BOX.

THE ONLY ONE BUILT IS THE GN

[RED COLOR]

ALL PACIFIC RAILS CARS $10.00 EACH

PACIFIC RAIL SHOPS

ACF 4650 SERIES CENTER FLOW HOPPERS

SANTE FE # 305105

SANTE FE # 305117

MILW # 99996

GN # 1700047

GN # 1700046

GN # 1700033

40' AAR 1946-1948 VERSION SINGLE DOOR

SOUTHERN RAILWAY # 147500

CN # 485480

50' SINGLE DOOR

GN # 35283 RED COLOR AND IS BUILT

GN # 39830 GLACIER BROWN

GN # 39189 BROWN

GN # 39176 BROWN

GN # 39181 BROWN

CNW # 90547 YELLOW

CB&Q # 21046 BROWN

C&S # 905 [DENVER CONVENTION CAR 1991] I THINK

NYC # 76467 GLACIER GREEN COLOR

GAEX # 100104 DARK GREEN COLOR

NP # 31062 BROWN

NP # 47589 BROWN

SP # 170492 BROWN

SP # 170563 BROWN

SP # 171489 BROWN

SP # 171270 BROWN

UNDEC BROWN

40' DBL DOOR HERITAGE #7 TEXAS & RGW

ALL S HELPER CARS $15.00 EACH

GN # 71971 PS2 3 BAY HOPPER BLUE COLOR [RTR NO KADEES]

CMSP&P # 99631 PS2 2 BAY HOPPER GREY COLOR [RTR W/ KADEES]

DESPLANES HOBBIES CAR $15.00

MILW # 3710008 3 BAY HOPPER [RTR NO KADEES]

Contact:

Wayne Dunbar

1301 College Ave #6B

South Milwaukee, WI 53172

Phone No. (414) 570-0551

Email: c415wrd@hotmail.com

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We have a limited of the 2004 Fall S Fest Cars left and will not be holding them back for club purposes.

Milwaukee Road "Blue Ice" Reefer. Manufactured by S Helper Service

$45.00 each.

*The BSG Club member discount price is $35.00 each.

Four car sets $160.00.

BSG members four car set $130.00

For details and car availability contact:

Ron Schlicht

5274 S. 49^th St.

Greenfield, WI 53220

Phone: (414) 421-8512

Email: rschlicht2@wi.rr.com

All dues are due January 1.

Any member who fails to pay their dues by January 31st shall be dropped from membership and receive no further correspondences from BSG.

1. Receives club newsletter.

2. Receives club membership discount card.

3. Has complete voting rights on all issues

4. May be in attendance at "all" general meetings

5. May attend all swap meets at "no charge".

6 Eligible for participation at club

sponsored model railroad shows.

7. Receives BSG patch and membership badge.

**First Year Membership Requires An Additional $10.00 To Cover Cost Of Badge And Patch.

1. Receives club newsletter.

2. Has no voting rights on any issues.

3. May attend "one" general meeting per year.

4. Must pay admission to all club sponsored events.

1. Receives all of the rights of a full

Participating member.

*Must be accompanied or sponsored by a Full Participating Member. Junior members do not have voting rights.

Family membership Criteria

Participating membership $20.00

Spouse membership $10.00

Family membership $35.00 *

*Family rate regardless of number of immediate family members. Immediate family member definition is: spouse and children under the age of 18.

All family members have full membership rights.

All family members will receive a club patch.

All family members will receive a membership badge. (Blue Pin)

All family members will receive a club membership card, which entitles them to full member privileges.

W150 N8329 Saxony Dr.

Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 

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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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Steve Lunde (08) Richard Wade (08) Jeffrey Young (08) Ron Schlicht (08)

2601 Aberdeen Ct 3920 18th Ave. W150 N8329 Saxony Dr. 5274 So. 49th St.

Waukesha, WI 53188 Kenosha, WI 53140 Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 Greenfield, WI 53220

Phone: (262) 574-1086 Phone: (262) 652-9549 Phone: (262) 250-0618 Phone: (414) 421-8512

ace5348@att.net rwade1977@sbcglobal.net youngsjk4@wi.rr.com rschlicht2@wi.rr.com

www.trainweb.org/bsg

Directors: Dick Kloes (07) – Art Doty (08) – Ray Puls (09) – Trumann Garrett

Modular Layout Committee: Dick Kloes, Steve Lunde, Ray Puls, Dave Smukowski and Don Goeke.

Small Layout Coordinator: Dave Smukowski, Ron Schlicht.

Hi-Rail AF Layout Coordinator: Ron Schlicht.

Badgerland Display Booth Committee: Gary Children and Jeff Young.

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