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Sunday, July 19:
I am up early to attend the GNRHS Board Meeting from 8am to noon.
 
#1 & #2: GNRHS Managing Editor Ed Stankard gives his report to the Board.
Sunday afternoon saw the opening of "Railfair", our mostly-GN swap meet.
   
#1: Craig Neros has an eclectic assortment for sale; #2: So many things to
buy....; #3: brass, brass and more brass; #4: John Langlot and Ed Stankard talk it
over with Ernie about the upcoming 2016 GNRHS Spokane convention and
"after-convention tour".
In another room was the model railroad contest.
   
#1: Overall view including heavyweight and streamlined Empire Builder consists;
#2: beautiful model of the "bridge within a bridge" that spans the Columbia
River at Rock Island, WA; #3: super-detailed A-B-A set of F units by Duane Buck;
#4: Memorabilia from the GN days.
After getting our fill of Railfair, Jon and I were invited out to Lake
Minnetonka for a ride on the 1906 steamboat, "Minnehaha" by Steve Eckman, our
GNRHS Legal Counsel. Steve volunteers on Minnehaha and was operating the steam
engine. When we arrived, Bill Sornsin was already there and joined us for the
ride.
   
#1: Steve tells us how all this stuff works; #2: Bill takes a turn standing at
the Engineer's station; #3: close up of the engine; #4: Bell Signals that
Engineer responds to from the Captain.
   
#5 & #6: Two more shots of Steve with his steam engine; #7: Yours truly topside
with my flaming-red convention shirt; #8: Saying "farewell" to the Minnehaha at
her berth.
GNRHS Business Meeting and Presentations
   
#1: President Don McGlothlin addresses the membership during the Business
Meeting; #2: Crowd shot during a presentation; #3: Three boys from Pennsylvania
- Ron Sherry, Joseph Nemeth and Bob Keim; #4: Ray Schouviller and Dave Evans.
 
Father Dale Peterka gives his presentation on "How Steam Works".
 
 
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