2013 Meetings

  • Dec. 2013 –
  • Nov. 2013 – This was our annual Modelers Night meeting. Member Vin Berkovitz gave us a show about freight cars from 1965 to the present (w/ roadnames from M to N).
  • Oct. 2013 -Mark Sullivan returned along with his program highlighting New Jersey Transit’s Dual Power Locomotives, withh a look back at predecessor locos including AMTRAK’s Turbo-liners and FL-9’s and others.
  • Sept 2013 – Ed Koehler took us out to Colorado for Pt. 1 of an inside look at the Colorado Narrow Gauge Circle.
  • Jun. 2013 – Noted rail historian, Richard Taylor was invited back to do a presentation on the Lehigh & Hudson River RR.  Along with his own photographic work dating back to the 60s and ’70s, he included pics from a few other photographers from the steam era.
  • Apr 2013 -“Trackside Along The Bridge Line”- John Kilbride put on a slide show on the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, from the early 1980’s into Canadian Pacific ownership.
  • Mar 2013 – Ed Koehler visited each of the electrified branches using a series of black and white images from the late 1940’s to early 1950’s. All of the current electrified lines that were in service by 1955 were discussed including the Whitestone, Central Branch Extension, and Bay Ridge branches.
  • Feb 2013 – Gene Collora delighted everyone with his LIRR freight presentation.
  • Jan 2013