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Regular meetings will be at one of TWO different locations - check the Timetable for location and time details on each meet.
Gary Morava Recreation Center 110 W. Camp McDonald Road, Prospect Heights, IL 60070, will run from 1:30 PM until 4:00 PM,
or the
Glenview Public Library 1930 Glenview Rd, Glenview, IL 60025, in the Multi-Purpose Room on the main floor near the east entrance, will run from 2:00 PM until 4:30 PM,
and also via the Zoom Video Conference application.
Click on a link to display a map locating the Gary Morava Recreation Center or the Glenview Public Library
All activities, locations and dates are subject to change, so please check meeting listings regularly for any change in activity, location or time.
Unless otherwise noted, meetings are free and guests are always welcome. Click on a meeting date below for additional details of that event.
All activities, dates and locations are subject to change, so please check meeting listings regularly for any change in activity, or time. Meetings are free and guests are always welcome. Non-member guests should contact the webmaster for meeting logon information. Click on a meeting date below for additional details of that event. Please download the first two reference PDFs in advance of the Zoom meeting:
• FVD Zoom Meeting Procedures to understand our virtual meeting process.
• FVD Zoom Meeting Quick guide for quick assistance with the Zoom screen and other FAQs.
If you need additional help, click on: Zoom Help Topics for general application assistance.
Note: Zoom now requires that its applications have the latest updates installed before it will connect you to a meeting. Just open the application and it will automatically update itself or open the app and click on the small account icon in the upper right corner. Scroll down the menu and click on "Check for Updates". This takes a few minutes so please do not wait until the last minutes to open the app.
Regular division members on our email list will receive video conference login credentials via our meeting notices emailed to you about ONE WEEK PRIOR to the meet. If you are not a FVD member and/or not on our email list, and would like to attend as a guest, please contact the FVD webmaster for details on how to participate.
Photographs of contest entries will be displayed on the CONTEST WEBPAGE as they are received. Please upload your photos of your entry using the NO LATER THAN Noon on the Friday before the meet. Please include, your name, category, entry title and scale. You may send up to 3 photos of each entry - but only one entry per member per monthly category. Photos will display the best if they are 1200 pixels wide at 72 px/inch minimum but any size will work.
Contest voting will be via on-line ballot available either here, on the contest photo web-page or the Zoom meeting notice. The voting window opens 2 days before the meet and closes at NOON the day of the meet.
Click here to VOTE
Model Display entries will be shown in-person at each meet until further notice.
Clinic Presentation: Car Routing on the C&NW Lakeshore Division
by Michael Hirvela
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: Any Freight Car
To enter the celebration, please follow the instructions above this notice.
Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: Pulpwood Cars
by John Drozdak
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: Any Structure
To enter the celebration, please follow the instructions above this notice.
Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: Using Sand with Pre-mixed Dry Powered Glue for Scenery and Ballast
by Eric Petersen, CID
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: One load spaning 2 or 3 cars
To enter the celebration, please follow the instructions above this notice.
Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: Grand Central Station
by Edward Koehler
East Side Access: A very brief view of the construction of the new station that will be the terminal of the East Side Access Project. The most expensive government project to date. This facility is designed to serve the Long Island Rail Road in the future but we have a train arriving in the station during our visit!
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A Tour of the Grand Central Madison Station: Approximately five months before it opened there were a limited number of tours of the ‘soon to open’ Long Island Rail Road facility adjacent to Grand Central Station. In this presentation we see the new facility before it opens to the public and get a very brief view of a behind the scenes area.
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: A Humorous Load
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Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: Other Live Stock Operations
by Steve Sandifer
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: Any Vehicle
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Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: Swiss Railfanning
by Mike Wood
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: A Train Photo of your choice
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Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: Modeling Urban Scenes
by Brian Sheron
Brian’s HO scale Long Island Rail Road primarily models many urban and suburban scenes found on Long Island, including Brooklyn, Queens, and Penn Station in Manhattan, and the town of Huntington further out in Suffolk County. His clinic focuses on how to plan an urban scene for your layout, identifying the key elements that make up urban scenes, and then explaining what the key modeling components are for each element, and how they all can be combined to produce realistic scale model urban scenes. Brian discusses how to create realistic backdrops for urban scenes. He also discusses using techniques such as “cutaways” to model underground stations, and also modeling overhead subways, or “Els”. His clinic presentation contains many photos that illustrate the techniques described.
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: An Unfinished Project
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Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: The CNJ Newark branch
by Jonathan Jones
Jonathan brings his architectural training and outlook to urban layout design. Jonathan models the Newark branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey in his Brooklyn, NY apartment. He will highlight aspects of the CNJ and the gritty dense industrial urban right-of-way that captured his interest. Next he will review how he incorporated selected elements into his design. Jonathan’s Jones modeling is a combination of traditional realistic representation and abstraction that is unusual of not unique. One of his takeaways is "if everything is important, nothing is important."
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: A Diorama
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Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item
Clinic Presentation: TBA
by TBA
Model Achievement Celebration Display Category: Anything Related to Trains
To enter the celebration, please follow the instructions above this notice.
Show and Tell: Display any category or train related item