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Kennesaw, Georgia, April
22nd - 25th, 2010
The Southern Railway Historical Association, along with
the Atlantic Coast Line & Seaboard Air Line Railroads Historical Society,
Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society, Georgia Southern & Florida
Railway Historical Society, and the Tennessee, Alabama, & Georgia Railroad
Historical Society are inviting all their members and anyone that is
interested in the history and modeling of railroads in the southeastern
United States, to come to the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive
History for four days of historical, modeling, and prototype
presentations, local home layout tours, modular layouts at the museum, and
a tour of some local railroad facilities in the Atlanta area on April
22-25, 2010.
These societies are sponsoring this multi-group event but
members of all railroad historical groups, modelers, and railfans in
general are invited to come since we have something in our presentations
for everyone.
Planned
activities include:
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Presentations by a
number of presenters over 3 days on prototype and modeling subject matter
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BBQ Mixer at the
museum
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Model exhibits
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Tours of local home
layouts
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Company stores for
all groups
Preliminary
List of Presentations:
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Appalachian Coal
Tipples, John Wilkes
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Asheville – Prototype
and Modeling, George Eichelberger
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ATCS, A New Way to
Railfan, Don Woodard
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Archives Efforts at
the Museum, Sallie Loy
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Early Southern
Railway Intermodal, George Eichelberger
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Central of Georgia
Steel Hoppers and Gondolas, Todd Horton
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History of RRs in
Atlanta, Pre- & Post-Civil War, Joe Nichols
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Learning about the
Macon & Birmingham RR, Mark Mosely
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Learning about the
GS&F at Camp Blanding - WW II, Mosely
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Modeling Small
Midwestern Grain Elevators, Jared Harper
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Roundtable Discussion
on the SRHA Archives, Dan Sparks
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Modeling Prototype
Track, Pete Silcox
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Modeling Southern
Railway 50ft Box Cars, Fenton Wells
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Modeling Turpentine
Stills, Revis Butler
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Railfanning Atlanta
1965-1970, Larry Goolsby
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Seaboard Passenger
Service in Atlanta, Larry Goolsby
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Sound as a New
Dimension to Model Railroading, Rick Bell
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Southern Railway
Advertising in the 1920s, Craig Myers
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Southern's 50-foot
Boxcars, George Eichelberger
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Tenn., Ala. & Ga.
Movies and History, Warren Stephens
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They Switch Passenger
Trains, Don't They?, Joe Oates
Click here for a complete itinerary
Online
registration is closed. If you want to attend, sign up and pay at
the registration desk during the event.
Lodging:
The Embassy Suites
Atlanta-Kennesaw Town Center
820 Chastain Rd.
Kennesaw, GA 38144
phone: 770-420-2505
Rooms are $94.00 per night. Tell them as you register
that you are with the SERR 2010 for our room rate. Cutoff date is
4/1/2010. Questions?
Contact Gregory Soots by e-mail at:
memberservices@srha.net.
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