Two CIGRS Meetings
Sunday, September 19
The September meeting of the Central Iowa Garden
Railroad Society was at the home of Richard Jones
and Marshall Young in Iowa City. Their garden railroad
is called the "Lake George & Boulder
Division of the Birds, GardeNs, & A Terrified Squirrel Fleeing RR". If
you look carefully, you'll find initials in there for toy manufacturer LGB
and prototype railroads BN and ATSF. Richard's well-populated layout includes numerous buildings
and accessories, and is under computer control.
Those areas not visible from the control location are monitored by
closed-circuit TV. After our meeting, we were treated to a very tasty
catered luncheon. While we were in town, Susan and I stopped by the
IAIS line near the Coral Ridge Mall to check out the ski train, being used to ferry football fans to
Iowa games.
Sunday, October 17
This month's meet was at the Leaky Creek railroad, north of Perry at the
home of Denny and Sandy Glick. The railroad got its name from the water feature that runs diagonally through the
layout. For a while, the Glicks had some problems keeping the water
in the creek! We had a fairly cool and breezy afternoon which, together
with a scarcity of rolling stock and frequent derailments, kept most of us indoors. Fortunately,
the club meeting fit well in the Glick's three-car garage. Club president
Joe Godfroy promoted his latest fund-raising project (buying a trailer) and
awarded a seemingly endless supply of silly "door prizes".
That's It!