convention
A Word From Jerry's Corner
Hi everyone!
Things are happening and we're really excited about your 2009 LSR Convention, "The Trinity River Interchange".
Just check out the rest of this website and you'll see what I mean. Lot's going on with over 50 clinics being taught by the best in model railroading, 39 layout tours from Z to G scale, great prototype tours, and the gals in non-rail have planned a ton of fun stuff for all of the ladies! In fact... there's something fantastic happening everywhere you look...a wonderful FREE train ride, a very special guest speaker, great food, a Super Tour, and the list just keeps going and going and going!
AND THERE'S GOOD NEWS FOR THIS YEAR: Be sure to check out the new "on-line" registration with Pay-Pal, making it easier then ever for you and your family to join in on all of the fun in Dallas/Ft. Worth this June.
And speaking of registration, you'll note that the "Facilities Usage" fee has been reduced to $25 instead of the $50 that was on the original registration form. Hopefully you understand what the charge is for. If not, see the explanation on the bottom of the registration form. Anyway, between most of you who have already registered making reservations with rooms included and some new sponsorship participation, your 2009 Convention Committee has decided to reduce the fee back to "what it has always been" for the past several years, $25.
So check out the easy to use on-line shopping cart with Pay-Pal and don't miss out... register today for your 2009 LSR Convention, The Trinity River Interchange !
Layout Super Tours Finalized!
The Ft Worth Tour will be Friday with the first section leaving at 8 AM
We will be visiting the following layouts and doing "Drive By Railfanning". Only "Camera Shooting" allowed.
1) Stan Pirzchalski
2) Jim Packer
3) Texas Western
Railfanning of Centennial Yard, Tower 55, Downtown Ft Worth
4) Locheed Martan Railroad Club
5) Jack Kilbee
The Dallas Tour will be Saturday with the first section leaving at 7:30 AM
We will be visiting the following layouts
1) Jerry Hoverson
2) Kurt Umlauf
3) Chip Romig
4) Allan Gartner - 2 layouts
5) Lloyd Keyser
Online Registration Form and Company Store are Live
This year we are offering online registration and secure credit card payment through Paypal. Now that the schedule is locked in, and a final registration form has been published, I have brought the online registration form and company store live at http://trinityriverrails.com . Note that this is a separate website from the main Trinity River Interchange website you are on now.
Everything on the registration form is available at the company store: registration, shirts, caps, patches, decals and extra fare clinics.
We still have the old form available online for you to print out and send in with a check if you'd rather. Also, the latest form is included with the most recent Markerlamp.
Banquet
Banquet Host - Jerry Hoverson , MMR
We’ve got a great evening of fun and socializing planned for the Saturday night Banquet. The highlight will be our guest speaker, none other than Hal Carstens, president and former publisher of Carstens Publishing. Want to know more about Hal, check out his bio below.
The Sheraton’s banquet area is well laid out and there won’t be a bad seat in the house. This should be a fantastic night, here is the agenda:
6 PM – Doors open for “Happy Hour”. A cash bar will be located in the banquet room and a slide show will be in progress documenting all the great activities of the convention. Make sure to look for yourself on screen!
7 PM – Seating and opening remarks followed by the Invocation.
7:15 PM – Dinner is served, see the menu below.
8 PM - Ballroom lights flash letting everyone know to return to their seats because the program is about to begin.
President’s remarks
Acknowledgments
Guest Speaker - Hal Carstens takes the podium and entertains us with tales and anecdotes of his years as the publisher of one of the top model railroad magazines in the nation.
Pop Loeffler/Gil Freitag Award
Achievement Awards
Contest Awards
Tribute to Jack Leming
Presentation on the 2010 “Alamo Rails” San Antonio convention
Raffle Drawings
Adjourn
| Convention Banquet: Cash Bar at 6 PM with Dinner at 7 PM Saturday Tossed Garden Salad with choice of 2 dressings Both: Chicken Chardonnay & London Broil w/ Demi Sauce Fresh Seasonal Vegetables Roasted New Potatoes Fresh Baked Rolls with Butter Alternating Seats Chef's choice of Pie and Cake Fresh Cofee, Decaf, and Iced Tea |
| Railroad Breakfast Buffet: 8 AM Sunday Orange Juice Fresh Scrambled Eggs Breakfast Potatoes Grilled Sausage Basket of Homemade Biscuits & Gravy Fresh Coffee, Decaf, and Hot Tea |
Speaker Host - Marc LaChey
We’ve got a special guest speaker lined up for the Trinity River Interchange Banquet, Harold Carsten.
That’s right Harold Carsten of Carstens Publishing, the ones who publish Railroad Model Craftsman magazine. Harold has agreed to entertain us with highlights and antidotes that have happened along the years as the Editor of one of the best model railroading magazines around.
This promises to be a great night filled with food, drink, friends, trains, and fun!
Marc LaChey
| Carstens Publications, Inc. Serving the model and collecting hobbies since 1933 108 Phil Hardin Road, P. O. Box 700, Newton, New Jersey 07860 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For additional info contact Harold H. Carstens Phone: 973-383-3355. FAX: 973-383-4064. E-Mail: hal@carstens-publications.com HAROLD H. CARSTENS Biographical Information Born in Fort. Lee, N. J., June 20, 1925. Life long resident of Bergen County, N. J. until moving to Sussex County, N. J. in 1973. President & former Publisher, Carstens Publications Inc., 108 Phil Hardin Road, P. O. Box 700, Newton, New Jersey, USA. The firm publishes three internationally distributed monthly magazines:Railroad Model Crafstman, Flying Models, and Railfan and Railroad. The firm also publishes soft and hard cover books primarily in the model hobby and railroad fields. Founded in 1933 by Emanuele Stieri, ownership passed in 1934 to Charles A. Penn, formerly with Bernarr MacFadden’s publishing empire. In 1940 the company moved from New York City to Ramsey, N. J. In 1973 the company bought a ten acre site in Fredon Township, Sussex County, N. J., and built its present custom tailored editorial building. Carstens joined the publishing firm in 1952 as associate editor of Railroad Model Craftsman and Toy Trains magazines while attending Fairleigh Dickinson University at night. He studied journalism and art at the Philippine Institute for the Armed Forces in Manila. . He was appointed managing editor of the two magazines in 1954, becoming Editor and Vice President in 1957 and President in 1962 following retirement of founder Charles A. Penn. He had his first article published in Railroad Model Craftsman while a student at Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood, N. J. Carstens attended Wagner College, receiving his B. S. in Business Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1952. He is a member of the Magazine Publishers of America. Carstens enjoys his British Morgan sports car and holds membership in the Morgan 3/4 Morgan Motor Car Club. He is a member of the Photographic Society of America and is a former associate editor of their PSA Journal. He is a past president of the Newton Rotary Club 1986-1987 and is a Paul Harris Fellow. A Lutheran, he is active in church affairs and has served on several church councils. He graduated from the Army School of Roentgenology in Memphis, and served in the Philippines with the 103rd Medical Service Company, U. S. Army Medical Department, during World War II. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Carstens is listed in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. Carstens is a past president and secretary of the Hobby Industries of America, Inc., 2000 member trade association with headquarters in Elmwood Park, N. J., 1971-1972, and served 11 years on the HIAA Board of Directors. He served as chairman of the Public Relations, Management Review, Education and Awards committees. He was chairman of the Publishers Section and the Model Railroad Division, and was vice president of the Educational Foundation of the Hobby Industry Association. He is a past president of the Train Collectors Association, Inc., as well as TCA's Metropolitan Division. Life member. He is also a past president of the Model Railroad Industry Association, a manufacturer's trade association, now the Model Railroad Division of the Hobby Manufacturer’s Association. He is a past chairman and secretary of the Eastern Model Railroad Manufacturer's Association. Carstens served eleven years on the Wagner College Board of Trustees, two years as Secretary of the Wagner College Board of Trustees: 1986-87. He served three terms as President of the Friends of the New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Museum, Inc., working to establish a railroad and transportation museum in New Jersey. AWARDS & HONORS: WAGNER COLLEGE: Alumni Achievement Award, 1976. HOBBY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: Meritorious Award of Honor, 1979. HIA Model Railroad Division Big Wheel Award, Anaheim, California, 1987. NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOCIATION, INC.: Distinguished Service Award, Montreal, PQ, 1952. Life member. NMRA MODEL RAILROAD INDUSTRY Man of the Year Award, 1989 MODEL RAILROAD INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION Model Railroad Hall of Fame, 1996 NMRA PIONEERS OF MODEL RAILROADING, 2003 ROTARY PAUL HARRIS FELLOW NMRA HOWELL DAY MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM, July 6, 2006, for many years of dedicated service, Philadelphia, PA NEW JERSEY GENERAL ASSEMBLY Resolution to Harold H. and Henry Carstens, March 31, 2007 , at Drew University, Friends of the RR Museum Symposeum. He is the author of many articles on model railroading, railroads, photography, lumber industry, and motor cars. Among publications in which his articles and photographs have appeared are Railroad Model Craftsman, Toy Trains, Railroad Magazine, Railfan & Railroad, Creative Crafts & Miniatures, Flying Models, PSA Journal, The Lutheran, Ladies Home Journal, New York Lumber Trade Journal, Book of Knowledge encyclopdia, The Morganeer, Hobby Merchandiser, and others. He has edited many books on model railroading, railroads, crafts, miniatures and model aviation. His 150 Years of Train Models published in 1999 covers the history of the model railroad hobby and industry Carstens has presented many seminars and programs on model railroad and railroad subjects at conventions and meetings in the United States, Canada and England. He has addressed hobby manufacturers and industry buyers in the USA, England and Germany. Carstens and his wife, Phyllis, reside in Fredon Township, Newton, New Jersey. They have four children: Rebecca Collis, of Raleigh, North Carolina; Heidi Lynch, Jacksonville, Florida; Henry; and Harold G. Son Henry continues in the publishing business, becoming publisher in August 2006. MORE INFO: 973-383-3355. Revised 4/3/07 |
Prototype Tours - Les Brandt, chairman
Prototype Tours- Les Brandt
You may have already heard the news about Prototype Tours – You got to have a say in what tours we present! There are so many great prototype things to see in the area we just wanted you to have a say in which ones we go after.
Well, here are the three that made the grade!
Prototype Tour #1 - Friday Morning
BNSF Network Operations Center <click here>
Ever wonder how BNSF dispatches its nationwide rail system? Join us on a tour of the BNSF Network Operations Center in Fort Worth and see how they do it.
BNSF dispatches nearly the entire railroad from one room in the corporate headquarters in Fort Worth. BNSF conducts a tour starting at the main corporate entrance where a museum and four business cars are on display. The business cars are used for BNSF business meetings.
Prototype Tour#2 - Thursday Morning
McKinney Avenue Transit Authority <click here>
Ride back into history on the only transit line in North Texas that operates lovingly restored antique electric streetcars running on some of Dallas's oldest original streetcar tracks. A ride on any of our cars — Rosie (1909), The Green Dragon (1913), Petunia (1920), Matilda (1925) or air-conditioned Winnie (1945) — is an experience to treasure. Our tour will include a special tour of the shops where the streetcars are maintained and restored.
Prototype Tour#3 - Saturday Morning
Trinity Rail Express Maintenance Center <click here>
Trinity Railway Express (TRE) provides local commuter service between downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas on the former Rock Island main line, which was also used by the Fort Worth &Denver and the Frisco. TRE operates the largest fleet of RDCs in the world—they were built in 1954 and owe their long lives partly to the completely stainless steel construction of the car bodies. TRE maintains these cars and the bilevel cars and locomotives at the shop in Irving, halfway between Fort Worth and Dallas. Our tour will show us how TRE maintains it RDCs and bilevel commuter cars and motive power.
The Trinity Railway Express is a cooperative service provided by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The T) and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).The TRE links downtown Fort Worth, downtown Dallas and DFW Airport. Scheduled train service is provided Monday through Saturday. No service is available on Sunday.
LSR Event
Wow, have we got a great special event lined up; “The Great Trinity River Interchange Train Ride” on the Grapevine Vintage Railroad.
It will be an adventure back into the glory days of early Texas, riding in 1920’ and 30’s Victorian style coaches behind an 1896 steam engine, old “Puffy”, the oldest continuous operating steam engine in the south.
