Regular meetings are held from 1:30 PM until 4:30 PM, at the Gary Morava Recreation Center, 110 W. Camp McDonald Road, Prospect Heights, IL 60070. All activities and dates are subject to change, so please check meeting listings regularly for any change in activity, location or time. Click HERE to display a map to the Gary Morava Recreation Center. Unless otherwise noted, meetings are free and guests are always welcome. Click on a meeting date below for additional details of that event.
Clinic Presentation: Keep Your Railroad in Focus by Jim Osborn
Jim will demonstrate how to create completely focused photographs using your camera or smart phone along with inexpensive (or even free) digital imaging software. “It’s easier than you think.”
Contest: Humorous Open Load
Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
The Spring MWR BOD meeting will be held Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 10:30 am (breakfast at 10 am) at the VFW Hall 9759, 2018 Windsor Road, Loves Park, Illinois, 61111.
May 17 - 19, 2019
The 2019 Midwest Region convention, will be hosted by the Thousand Lakes Region and held in partnership with the Midwest Region.
The convention facility will be the Days Inn, LaCrosse, WI.
A tentative schedule is: Thursday: Registration, Contest Room, Clinic, Operating Sessions & Layout tours.
Friday: Morning clinics, tours of Pearl Street Brewery, Dahl Auto Museum & Copeland Park Railroad display plus evening Operating Sessions
Saturday: Clinics, Non-rail tours, Operating Sessions, 5 pm Happy Hour & 6 pm Banquet with a Chinese Auction.
Project Linus will be featured as a non-rail activity. For those interested, please bring your sewing machine, fabrics and materials to make blankets and quilts for this important activity.
For more information and a registration form please see pages 4 - 6 of the TLR Fusee:
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/6e8a39_05d755cd18414ed690bc12c7bbc3904f.pdf
Additional information may be seen at the TLR website when it becomes available:
https://www.thousandlakesregion.org/events
Questions? Email the convention staff at: 2019mwrtlrconvention@gmail.com
Clinic Presentation: Modular Construction of User Objects in AnyRail by Carl Wagus
Contest: Vehicles — limit 3
Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
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Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.
Clinic Presentation: TBA
Contest: TBA
Contest awards & refreshments at the meeting.