Unless otherwise stated, RRVD meets are held in the Lakeview Room at the Midway Village Museum Center. Midway Village is located at 6799 Guilford Road, just west of Perryville road in Rockford, IL. The doors open at about 12:30 PM and the meets start at 1:00 PM.
If you wish to print out a "booklet" similar to the hard copies we have provided to our members, you can print it out here using this version. NOTE: You have to print it "double-sided," then you can fold it in half and have a booklet. You may have to re-order the pages depending on your printer settings.
Clinic: Hazardous Materials for Model Railroaders - Rich Mahaney.
Event: Train Show at Midway Village, Rockford Route will be there.
Event: District One Police Station Event, Rockford Route will be there.
members will pay 20% of their sales to the Division, RRVD members will only pay 10%.
Clinics: Andy Moniuszko will not only tell you all about the reinforced concrete structure and largest bridge of it's kind ever built when it went into service in 1915 on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, he will actually have a scale model of the bridge for you to see and touch and will move a model train across the bridge. The prototype bridge was 2375 feet long and 240 feet above Tunkhannock Creek. Andy's bridge isn't that long, but he will be putting his scale model of the bridge together before our meet begins. The real bridge is pretty impressive. The model of the bridge is almost as impressive. The bridge was part of the 2018 National Model Railroad Convention in Kansas City this past summer.
ALSO: Ron Atherton of Savanna, Illinois will talk about our division meeting with the Savanna, IL group towards the end of April 2019.
Special Membership Meeting (1:00PM): Membership meeting will be convened to discuss and vote on nonmember meet attendance policy.
RRVD Annual Holiday Dinner: Our annual holiday dinner will be at Lino's Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 6:00 PM. The cost for a six course dinner is $25.00 The reservations may be made on this form.
Layout Open House: Two O scale model railroads in Rockford will be open Sunday afternoon in conjunction with the Chicago O Scale meet. Area model railroaders are invited to visit even if they are not attending the Chicago O Scale Meet.
Event: 28th Annual Rock River Valley Division Train Show & Sale - Belvidere, IL.
Contest: A one square foot module which will be displayed at the regional convention in La Crosse Wisconsin on May 15th thru 19th. The module must contain a piece of track which touches two sides of the module. Bruce Giersch will supply foam blocks in a few months preceding this contest to give ample time to complete the project.
Layout Tours: Savanna Museum layout and home layout in Savanna area.
Details: Meet Near the Tesla Charging Station in the southwest corner parking lot of Cherryvale Mall at 9:45am. Leave at 10:00 sharing rides as you see fit. $5:00 will be collected when we leave as a head count for the pizza lunch.
Contest: A short video of your railroad or a friend’s. Remember that this meet will include members from the Madison Division. This is a new type of contest which we never held before. There are members of our group who have some video experience. Contact Ray Dyreson, raydyr@aol.com, 815-494-0205, for information on how to submit your video.
Midwest Region Convention: This is a joint convention between the Thousand Lakes Region and the Midwest Region of the NMRA. Come join us for an exciting 3 days of operation, clinics, tours, layouts and fellowship at the historic Grand Crossing in LaCrosse, WI. You must be a member of the NMRA to attend. Details and registration at https://www.thousandlakesregion.org/events.