Going to Volo Auto Museum has been 2 years since I last went, so I wouldnt mind going again. We did have an event planned this year, but due to circumstances beyond out contorl it was cancelled. Late Sept or early Oct date? Also Union Railway Museum is in Union IL and would be another rplace where you could blow a hole day. They offer rides and also have many may pieces in theor collection under massive buildings. Cool place to go if your a gearhead who likes things with really big gears and huge diesel engines. Again I would think a late sept early oct date. With gas prices they way they are, maybe the prices will drop a little between now and then and also, it sure seems it would be cheaper right now to have a location where we end up spending a day vs. having a rally and bunring thru tanks of gas at 45$ a tank like currently :-( Anyhow post your thoughts and comments and we can see if we can set something up. Nothing official and planned and sponsored, just a day where we can all converge and see some cars and have some fun later Jeremy

I am up for it like we discussed. It is key to have someplace we can hang for a while insteat of driving all over.

i definitly would be intrested in going... i missing the last one b/c of work..

name a time and a place guys...i'm there with or without my car

sure......

man I havent been to the unoin railway museum in ages

Wow

Thats it?

Figured people would be more up for something where u only have to spend gas money to get there for the day.

Yeah, I love planes, trains ans automobiles :-)

Havent been to Union in prolly 10 yrs or so

later
Jeremy

I am up for it.

maybe.... i really wont know till closer to the date. I have alot of things going on right now.

Here is the link for the Volo Auto Museum:

http://volocars.com/visitor-info.html

As of right now, we are thinking early-mid october area, since it can be cooler out and its primarily indoors.

As far as the Union Railway Museum goes, we are attempting to plan for a later Sept. date, we are thinking that Sept 24th might be in the making.

http://www.irm.org/directions/index.html

Both of these links have directions and hours of operation.

Please let me know if we can get some folks out on these dates

later
Jeremy

man i want to go to the union railway...i haven't ever been there! i use to have a flyer back in the day ...
i was a big time train nut when i was a kid..had my own 8 by 5ft
HO layout...always enjoyed being near the bensenville Soo line system..take pictures etc. was good times...
we should do this instead of the volo...
make a plan people i'm all for this!

and I thought I was the only one with a train layout, but I moved up to G scale Is this still a go then?

Volo is right by mchenry isnt it? I bought my truck in mchenry and on the way im pretty sure I saw volo. Its a little out of my range unfortunately and every spare minute i have when im not busy has been going into the car.

http://www.irm.org/directions/index.html

Well after talking to about 8 emebers here over the weekend.

Saturday Sept 24th it is.

First club meet at Union Railway Museum in Union, IL

Figure on a 10am ish meet when we get there?

Sound good?

Whos in

later
Jeremy

Sounds good.

hehe... SOO line eh? those damn canadians suck! I go to the bensenville yard twice a week they are so dirty it is sickening to see that yard in Bensenville compared to BNSF yards. I dont know who they pay in the EPA but they must really take care of them How long ago did you live around there? They are Canadian Pacific now.

They were CP then too :-) Just still under its own banner :-)

later
Jeremy

oh well that was back in the early 80s...i was like 10...11 years old...i liked the old logo before they became that futuristic look of just red and white....
i lived in Franklin park at the time , and was really big into trains, the rail lines from the yards that went east ward went thur the heart of Franklin Park and then some...
the Bensenville yard at the time had their own Engine house and was paralle to the road really close!...and it was fun parking right next to the big engines..no gates or anything just a open dirt then road....i don't know if the engine house is still there anymore ..and I haven't been into trains in long while..still miss em though...

The engine house is long gone..... the turn table near by where the engine house used to be is still used sometimes tho.