CONTEST PAGE

The November Contest rail yard was pretty full with all the entries for the model section. There were fifteen entries which ran the range from standard combine cars to those that challenged what we thought a combine car should look like. There were cars pretty much straight from the box all the way to customized cars like Craig Butler's B&O combine that had over thirty hours of work put into it. We had four members who submitted their first entry of the season in this contest. Thank you to all who entered a model or diorama in the November contest. The models that got the most attention were entered by Joe Kurilec with a first place, Bram Bailey with second place, and Brian Haas with a third place. The diorama entries found John Puch in first place with his Pennsy combine parked by an industrial building. Joe Filipiak's lumber company came in second place with Dave Lawler's entry coming in third place.

We have something different this year. We will have a December contest because our dinner has been moved to January. The December contest is to bring in a rail car that advertises a product or its manufacturer. Examples are cars lettered for Pillsbury, Ford, Swift, Coors and many more that are or have been on the rails. Let us see what you can come up with and to make it even more interesting, try to find cars with the not so familiar names like, Georgia Kaolin. Georgia Kaolin is something that most of us have consumed at one time or another. I will give you the answer at the next meeting. January has no contest so I will see you at dinner. February's contest is "Project 20" which is a small passenger station not to exceed a 20 square inch foot print. That is HO size. Twice that, 40 square inches, if you are building in O scale or 10 square inches for N. You S scalers can figure it out on your own.

I would like to take this time to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving and remember fellows, when your wife gives you the bird, you're supposed to take it to the table and carve it up, don't forget to pass the gravy.