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CLEVELAND RAILROAD CLUB BULLETINMEETING ON THE THIRD FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DOLLAR BANK,

CLEVELAND RAILROAD CLUB BULLETIN
MEETING ON THE THIRD FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH IN THE BASEMENT OF THE DOLLAR BANK,
15509 MADISON AVENUE, LAKEWOOD, OHIO


Meeting Room Opens at 7:30PM and meeting begins at 8:00 PM
----------VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME!-----------
President: Robert Weisenberger: Vice President: Charles Christian: Treasurer: Ronald
Leitch; Secretary: Mark Adamcik: Trustees: Gary Dillon, Chris Vlisides, Richard Novak


-SEPTEMBER-


PROGRAM;
Friday, September 15th: Bill Kubis will come all the way from Cuyahoga Falls to present a showing of railroad slides. The program will be varied, and I will bet there will be CSX trains from his backyard!


MINUTES OF THE MEETING FOR AUGUST 18, 2000:
Meeting called to order by President Wiesenberger at 8:33 PM. Minutes of the meeting of July 21st were approved as published in the bulletin. Treasurers Report as follows; (Given by Dick Novak) Beginning balance - $828.55; Income - none; Expenses - $6.50; Ending Balance - $822.05. There were no guests present. No applications for membership. Under Old Business it was noted that the club picnic was scheduled for tomorrow, August 19th at Victory Park in Vermillion Ohio from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. S. McMullen has reserved our space "under construction" for our Webb site. A copy of our Newsletter will be required. Under New Business it was mentioned that the RTA Breda cars were to be rebuilt at $450,000 each with the goal of eventual replacement of all cars with one common car. December bus service change ; Route #32 (?) to be combined with Route No. 8 on weekdays. Circulator bus routes to see service frequency reductions in some cases. Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM. Respectfully submitted, Mark J. Adamcik, Secretary.


RAILNEWZ BY MARK A:
Flats Industrial Railroad now has Cuyahoga Vally Ry #423, EMD SW 1001 on lease. RTA staff made recommendations concerning future equipment fleet for its rail division. One scenario is to give the Breda LRV cars a life extension overhaul and to purchase a new replacement fleet of cars serving both high and low platform stations. The ATWV local representing RTA's agreement ratified a new three year contract. AMTRAK: As of Sunday. Amtrak's Cleveland station will be open 24 hours, seven days a week. July ridership exceeded 2,000,000 (maybe people are tired of those cancelled flights?). The Pennsylvanians ridership was 10800 for the month of July. NORTHERN OHIO RAILWAY MUSEUM; The construction of the vehicle maintenance building was started on August 9th. PITTSBURG; PAT has signed a contract with CAF for 28 new LRVs and the rebuilding of the 55 existing Siemens-Duwag cars. CAF has taken over the former ABB-Adtranz facility in Elmira, NY.


CLUB PICNIC A HUGE SUCCESS; (Reported by Dick Novak)
Excellent weather, excellent food, excellent trains and excellent fellowship. That was the CRC picnic on August 19th at Victory Park in Vermillion, Ohio. It was a great place for our picnic and watching the closeby trains. About a dozen went by during the afternoon. We want to thank Bruce Young for bringing hamburgers and hotdogs and all the fixings. Bruce did his usual great job of grilling. Other members brought snacks and goodies. Everyone had a great time. (Dick brought his little grandchild and his wife, and later drove home back the old way on Route 6, through Lorain and the towns to Cleveland.)


HERE AND THERE;
AMTRAK opened a new joint shipping facility in Detroit some months ago to serve its growing mail and express business. It is located in the former Michigan Central Railroad terminal site. It was built in partnership with the Canadian National Railway, CP Rail and the Michigan Department of Transportation. The facility will connect Amtraks shipping operations in Detroit to Amtraks national rail network with daily departures and second and third morning deliver of time sensitive goods anywhere in the United States. The 200,000 square foot facility will provide space for shipping operations as well as railcar maintenance. Amtraks Detroit passenger station will still be located at 11 West Baltimore in New Center. This facility will also house CP Rail's Expressway intermodial services. In fiscal year 2000 Amtrak's Mail and Express business has achieved revenues of more than 82 million through May, an increase of 31 percent from the same period last year. Amtrak also has an excellent record of serving the United States Postal Service with this business increasing an average of over 12 percent annually over the past five years. Amtrak operates a 22,000 mile intercity passenger rail system serving more than 500 cities in 40 states. ALSO, Dick Novak reported that some eighteen members showed up for the club picnic, which is a very good turnout! ***** If you would like some free entertainment, be sure and send for a copy of the "2001 Railroad Tours" booklet. This is a large 32 page brochure which shows in detail and beautiful color photos, the full lineup of their presentations for 2001. To get a copy write to : Trains Unlimited Tours, PO Box 1997, Portola, California, 96122. All tours are presented in day by day basis with full details and photos. The Great Central American Rail Adventure will run from February 17 to 25, 2001 and covers Guatemala and El Salvador. It features cab rides, Baldwin steam, workshop visits, five different rail lines, rare freight only trackage, doubleheaded steam and open observation cars. Total cost from Miami, Florida is $2995. There is a China Steam Spectacular from March 10-25, 2001 with plenty of the last of Chinese steam, Industrial steam and mainline action. $3295 from San Francisco. A great Mexican Rail Adventure from March 31 to April 8, 2001 which features six different lines and freight only trackage and a loop charter around Mexico covering most of Ferromex. Yours for $2995! Also some great ones here in North America over New England and Canada. The Canadian ones cover the British Columbia railway lines all the way North and back using a charterd RDC. And, there some one and two day ones on the Rio Grand narrow guage, for $348, Wisconsin fall colors rail cruise for $199. Just reading this booklet is like reading Trains magazine. Be sure and send for a free copy!!

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