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Willimantic Special Arrives Night Photo Shoot Lights up the Night
Connecticut Eastern Chapter, NRHS, Inc.
Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum
PO Box 665
Willimantic, CT 06226
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
11/3/2013 - Monthly Business Meeting – 7:00PM – Windham Memorial Hospital
11/3/2013 – Fall Train Show – Details Coming
11/17/2003 – Monthly Membership Meeting – 7:00PM Windham Memorial Hospital – Vote on 2014 Officer’s Slate
12/01/2013 – Monthly Business Meeting – 7:00PM Windham Memorial Hospital
12/15/2013 – Monthly Membership Meeting – 7:00PM – Windham Memorial Hospital
The Mass Bay RRE ‘Willimantic Special’ crosses
Bridge St. on its timely arrival. Numerous people
opted to take our train for a museum tour.
(Pieter Roos Photo)
Paul Shamonis II guards the West Crossing as SPV 2000
number 293 heads towards Columbia Jct.’s Chaplin
Station. Robert A. LaMay Photo
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Around the Museum
Chapter Leadership President Mark Granville
860-456-3956
Vice President Duke York
860-423-1878
Treasurer Jeff Laverty
860-429-7961
Asst-Treasurer Jean Lambert
860- 455-0268
Secretary Bill Robinson
860-456-4903
National Director Ray Axelrod
860-228-3197
Newsletter Editor – Bob LaMay
860-530-1278
Museum Website - www.cteastrrmuseum.org.
Vol. 38 Number 10– October 2013
Monthly Membership meeting of the
Connecticut Eastern Chapter, National
Railway Historical Society is
scheduled
Sunday, November 17, 2013 @
7:00 PM Windham Memorial Hospital –
Please join us at this meeting.
Please note! If you have photos,
short articles, or just want to make a
comment – please forward them to:
Robert A. LaMay - Editor
Jeff Laverty on the left along with Bob Hassett are
shown setting up the displays that people visiting the
Hebron Harvest Fair can purchase.
(Jean Lambert Photo)
For the past number of months Andy
Fischer has been rebuilding one of the
museum’s semaphore signals. Here he
is testing the electrical hookups for
the lighting and looks like all is
working well.
(Robert A. LaMay Photo) Bob LaMay along with Adrian Atkins
(out of photo) mixes up a batch of
concrete for a section of the roundhouse
floor. (Adrian Atkins Photo)
A never ending job. Jean-Paul Violette
continues clearing and cutting brush and
trimming trees along the fence-line at the
museum. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
Cliff Lund rewires the Alco S4 and refers to
the official guide – Wiring 101.
(Robert A. LaMay Photo)
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Ray Axelrod in the bright shirt to the right poses with his group during Walktober
2013 weekends. Ray does a number of walks each year explaining the history
along numerous rail lines and rail trails in the local area. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
Shown here members Paul Shamonis II (front) along with Tom Schubert show to
operate the ‘Armstrong’ turntable with the 44 ton number 0800. This was in
preparation of the 10th
Annual Night Photo Shoot. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
Here is an interesting and different angle that
Rich Cizik took during the 10th
Annual Night
Photo Shoot. (Rich Cizik Photo)
Taken from the Gallows Signal during the
10th
Annual Night Photo Shoot – CV Alco
S4. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
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Fall Train Show – Sunday
November 3, 2013 – Windham High
School – Many vendors, layouts and
good food & beverage. 10AM – 3PM
Duke York on left along with Mark Granville waiting for
passengers to board our train for a trip and tour of our
museum. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
Rolf Johnson , our trustworthy engineer
carefully takes train to Columbia Jct.
(Robert A. LaMay Photo)
The 1
st trip of Willimantic Special arrives at the museum. This
photo taken from ground level by Pieter Roos.
From the train I took this photo as we arrived. If you look
real close Pieter can be seen just left of track taking our
photo. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
Numerous people board train for trip and tour of Columbia Jct.
We operated five trips that day. (Robert A. LaMay Photo)
