| Upcoming Club Events | | Westminster Mall Open Hour Hours |  |
 | May 8th-9th
11:00am -5:00pm | | May 8th - 9th
11:00am -5:00pm | | May 30th
11:00am -5:00pm |
|
| | Club Meeting
May 8th 11:00am |
|
| Train Show Schedule | | 2010 Shows | | Sherman Hill Model Train Show
May 22-23, 2010
Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| Santa Fe Modelers National Convention
July 23-24, 2010
Denver, Colorado |
|
|
| | Club Headlines - May 2010 |
|  The Sherman Hill Annual Model Railroad The Club will do its first show in the state of Wyoming the weekend of May 22-23. The 2010 event hosted by the Sherman Hill club will be in held at the Taco John Event Center. Along with event and all the vendors the club will have a tour of the UP steam team's roundhouse. | Taco John Event Center
1530 West Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY. 80216
Saturday & Sunday, May 22-23, 2010
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Saturday
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Sunday |
|  UP Steam Crew Engineer Engineer Passes Lynn Nystrom long-time crew member of the Union Pacific Steam Program passed away at his home on May 5th. Lynn was a member of Sherman Hill train club and a friend to all model railroaders. Lynn hosted a tour of the Cheyenne shop and all the heritage equipment for the club last summer. final arrangements are pending.
The club send our hopes, our thoughts, and our prayers to his family and friends. Just remember Lynn, just keep steaming down the main, highball it through High greens, the route is lined for you all the way. |
|  National Train Day National Train Day celebrates America‘s love for trains with events across the country. This year marks the third annual celebration with large-scale, family-friendly events that provide opportunities to explore interactive, educational exhibits that bring to life the rich narrative of how trains have transformed America and will continue to do so in the future. National Train Day marks 141 years of connecting travelers coast to coast and commemorates the day the first transcontinental railroad was created. On May 10, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, the ―golden spike‖ was driven into the final tie that joined 1,776 miles of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways, transforming America by creating the nation‘s first transcontinental railroad. In addition to events in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles communities across the country will be hosting their own National Train Day celebrations. Locally The Colorado Railroad Museum will be hosting an event. |
|  Georgetown Loop Outing planned for Club The Club is planning a field trip up to ride the Georgetown loop on June 12, 2010.
The Georgetown Loop Railroad was one of Colorado’s first visitor attractions. This spectacular stretch of narrow gauge railroad was completed in 1884 and considered an engineering marvel for its time. The thriving mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume lie 2 miles (3.2 km) apart in steep, narrow Clear Creek west of Denver. Engineers designed a corkscrew route that traveled nearly twice that distance to connect them, slowly gaining more than 600 feet (183 m) in elevation. It included horseshoe curves, grades of up to 4 %, and 4 bridges across Clear Creek, including the massive Devil’s Gate High Bridge. In 1881, the Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railroad was formed under the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1893, the Colorado and Southern Railway took over the line and operated it for passengers and freight until 1938. Originally part of the larger line of Colorado Central Railroad constructed in the 1870s and 1880s, it was later dismantled, but was restored in the 1980s to operate during summer months as a tourist railroad, carrying passengers using historic narrow-gauge steam locomotives.In 1959, the centennial year of the discovery of gold in Georgetown, the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park was formed by the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society’s chairman negotiated a donation of mining claims and mills, and nearly 100 acres (40 ha) of land. Rail line construction began in 1973 with track and ties donated by the Union Pacific Railroad.The 3-mile (4.8 km) segment opened on March 10, 1984 and is a restored segment at the upper end of the historic Colorado Central main line up Clear Creek Canyon west of Golden. It climbs approximately 640 feet (195 m) between the 2 towns. The longer main line up the canyon was constructed in the wake of the Colorado Gold Rush and was used extensively during the silver boom of the 1880s to haul silver ore from the mines at Silver Plume. The Loop portion of the line was the crowning segment of the line at the top of the gorge and features a 95-foot (29 m) high trestle. The entire line, including the Loop, was dismantled in 1939, but interest in restoration of the Loop segment as a tourist attraction in the 1970s led to the construction of a new high bridge and the refurbishment of the segment, which reopened in 1984.The train ride includes an optional walking tour of the Lebanon Silver Mine, located at the halfway point on the railroad. Visitors walk 500 feet (152 m) into a mine tunnel bored in the 1870s while guides point out the rich veins of silver and relate the history of the mine. Passengers board the train at depots located in Silver Plume and Georgetown | |
|
 
| FEATURED
CLUB MEMBER
PROFILE | |
CGWRR Members-Only |
