CONTEST PAGE

The first meeting of the new season saw one in every four members that walked through the doors had a model to display on the model challenge tables. That was a great way to start the model challenge season off! Thank you to all who brought in their favorite Alco engine. There was a good display of both diesel and steam. The members voted for their favorite model and the results saw Joe Kurilec take first place with Dave Lawler's entry of an Alco locomotive coupled to a Lima tender taking second place. Third place in model favorites went to George Gelehrter. The dioramas had one entry by Joe Filipiak. The diorama section is kept available for those who bring in their model with extra surrounding work. To leave that in the model section would be unfair to all the other entries that are a stand alone model. The diorama is simply a model placed in a scene or think of it as a mini module. .

The challenge for the October meeting is a wooden passenger car. Let's see what you have. As I write this, it's a rainy, cool day so to all of us modelers, that gives us a great chance to go to our layout or workbench and enjoy some "railroad time". While you are there with your trains, dig around and find that wooden passenger car for the October model entry.