Hello UGRS
Its less than a week to the great UGRS road trip to Elko Nevada
to visit Ron and Holly Senek's extensive layout. The date is Saturday,
June 20th. We plan to meet at the Park & Ride located at 180 W. 1300
S.in Salt Lake City just north of the ball park at 7:45AM. There we
will divide up into car pool groups and get on the highway by 8:00 AM.
It's a 242 miles to Senek's in Spring Creek, NV. and 3-1/2 hours drive
time at the speed limit arriving at about 11:30AM. We plan to assemble
a lunch and cook some burgers on the grill, tour Ron and Holly's layout
with over 2000 feet of track and run some long trains. Departure time
back to SLC will be at 2:00PM with arrival on 1300 S. Park & Ride at
about 5:30.
Make sure if you plan to ride with someone that you pay your
fare share for gas. We need a volunteers to bring lunch items. If
your planning to go please respond to me by e-mail or Phone by Friday.
Let me know how many people will be with you for lunch purposes, weather
you will be driving privately, driving a carpool (number of additional
riders you can take), or riding in a carpool. We also need volunteers
to bring food (salads, veggies, chips, condiments etc.), the club will
furnish the burgers and buns. If you are in a position to help with
food let me know as soon as possible.
This is going to be a lot of fun I hope a good number of us can all
get together for this great activety.

Lynn Stringham

UGRS
We will be postponing our trip to Senek's near Elko, Nevada from
June 6th to Saturday June 20th. That will be on our normal club meeting
Saturday. I received more that 10 responses from member supporting the
change to the 20th of June. No body contacted me about preferring to go
this Saturday. If the 20th doesn't fit for you I'm sure Ron and Holly
Senek would love to have visitors any time, just be sure you give them
an advanced courtesy notice of your coming. As for our Club planned
visit on the 20th all of the plans listed below will still be in effect
except that I will also be going. I'll get out another email about a
week in advance to remind everyone.

Lynn Stringham

Hello UGRS
At last it appears that our endless winter is drawing to a close. We are finally warming up to spring and that means we can head out doors to run trains. This months meeting will be held at Bob Jensen's home at 368 W. LaSalle Dr. Midvale UT. The meeting will begin at 10:00 AM on Saturday May 16, 2009.

Lynn Nebeker just sent me the following message, UGRS members: I thought you might be interested in knowing about the Union Pacific 844 will be in Ogden over  this weekend . The link below is an article in the Standard Examiner about it.

Please see Steam engine rolls in for Golden Spike event on Page 4C of May 06, 2009 issue of Standard-Examiner Digital Edition
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I hope we can see you at Bobs he has a great out door layout and is continually adding to it and improving. Any club members living in the same area as Bob and have your layouts up and running, come to the meeting prepared to give us directions to your home so that when we can visit your layout after the meeting. 

 
Bob's Phone numbers are (Hm) 801-255-7833 (Cell) 801-918-3393

Please head over to our links page to find links to Ron Senek's personal webpage for his railroad and a link to his Youtube page. Ron has some very impressive videos..

Hey UGRS
The snows are melting, trees are budding, the daffodils and
tulips are up and the garden is starting to come back to life. Spring
is here and that means its time to get outdoors and start running
trains. Our April meeting is going to be hosted by Paul Smith in South
Ogden. Paul's home is located at 1987 E. 6225 S. in South Ogden Utah.
The meeting will convene on Saturday April 18th at 10:00 AM. Paul has
done extensive reinvasion to his outdoor layout since we met there last
year. Driving instruction to Paul's house are listed below. Its been a
while since we last met formally so we've got some catching up to do on
club business as well making some assignments and plans for the coming
months.
Just on a serious note, one of our founding members Bill Hegeman
has been in a real struggle at the University of Utah Cancer Clinic,
Bill has been a long time participant in model railroading and in recent
years the UGRS. Anyone that was around in the early days of the UGRS at
Thanksgiving Point will know that Bill was the master designer and
builder of the extensive bridge and tresselling systems used there.
Bill also constructed an extensive indoor G scale layout in his basement
that was highly detailed and a real joy to behold in operation. Our
thoughts and prayer go out to the Hegeman family during this trying
time.
I hope you can join us next Saturday in South Ogden at the
Smiths. If you have any suggestions of items of interest to share with
the rest of the club membership, we can all benefit from each other
experiences.


 
If you have any questions please contact me or Paul Smith.

Lynn Stringham
Hm (801) 732-2567 / lmstring@comcast.net
Wk (801) 525-3848 / lynn.w.stringham@boeing.com
Cell (801) 644-1817

Paul Smith
(801) 479-1339