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Lynchburg and Amtrak 2017

In a scene that could be repeated in the next ten days, but not likely, three Amtrak trains are lined up at Kemper Street. Left to right: Qualifying train rests on a stub track awaiting its crew to arrive. The Regional is on its storage track boarding passengers, and 90-minute-late Crescent is occupying Main Track 1. OH! Note the Smartway bus in front of the station, too, bringing passengers from Roanoke and Bedford to connect with the Regional. Amtrak #20's performance the past month or two has been nothing to boast about. Late nearly every day. :( Very often #20 has gotten into town well after the Regional has departed. Had this day's #20 been a few minutes later, it would have been held a few minutes at Durmid, the first control point south of Kemper Street, to wait for the Regional to leave.

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August Meeting

Wednesday, August 9. 6:00pm Charley's Restaurant. 707 Graves Mill Rd. Lynchburg, VA

     6:00 PM Dinner
     7:00 PM Chapter Meeting
     7:30 PM Program

Program Jim King Shares pictures of Lynchburg in the 80's.

The August meeting of the Blue Ridge Chapter, NRHS, consists of 80 action/scenic slides depicting primarily the Lynchburg area. 76 of the slides were shot by me; the remaining 4 slides are “vintage”, meaning, I didn’t shoot them but thought their inclusion provides a valuable perspective on a couple spots often frequented by railfans. Slides are in chronological order starting in August 1981 and ending in October 1987, just before I moved back to North Carolina, and were selected to depict the rapidly changing rail scene caused by the two mega-mergers of the era (NS and CSX). None of the images you’ll see can be repeated today. To many of us, “the 80s decade” doesn’t seem so long ago … but it’s been 30 years since I shot my last slide around Lynchburg. Let’s take a trip together in the Way-back Machine to an age before cell phones and the Internet. If you spent even a little time trackside during this transitional period, you will undoubtedly have more than one “I remember that” moment. . - Jim King

DO NOT FORGET: Lynchburg Train Show, Saturday, August 12

Make plans to attend!

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Lynchburg Rail Day 2017

Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society 39^th Annual

LYNCHBURG RAIL DAY 2017

Saturday, August 12, 2017

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

BOONSBORO RURITAN CLUB

1065 Coffee Road Lynchburg, Va. 24503

Admission: $6/person, Family admission: $10. Children 12 & under free w/paying adult

Your ticket purchase helps towards paying for area railroad preservation projects!

OPERATING MODEL TRAIN LAYOUTS ON DISPLAY IN AIR CONDITIONED HALL HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE - FREE PARKING - FRESHLY PREPARED FOOD/BEVERAGES SOLD

* * * * * * * *BARGAIN MART * * * * * * * *

Model Train Items and Railroad Memorabilia “For Sale” from vendors from around our area

Sales tables available to the general public, advance registration/payment required

8 foot sales tables: $33.00 each with no charge for two attendees per table

* * * * * * “WHITE ELEPHANT” TABLE * * * * * *

“MAKE MONEY WHILE YOU BROWSE THE TRAIN SHOW!”

Available to train show attendees, the Blue Ridge Chapter N.R.H.S. will sell your model trains and Railroad Memorabilia for a 20% commission. If your consignment items don’t sell then it costs you nothing! “White Elephant Table Guidelines” forms are available on our website.

For additional LRD 2017 train show information and to rent Vendor/Sales Tables contact: LRD 2017 Vendor Table Registrar: John Tanner - Mobile (434}841-6669 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,LRD 2017 Chairman: Barry Moorefield – Home {434}821-2174 Before 9 p.m. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., LRD 2017 Train Show Coordinator: Norris Deyerle – Mobile (434}851-0151 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Blue Ridge Chapter, N.R.H.S., P.O. Box 11731, Lynchburg, Va. 24506-1731

Vendor Registration Form, 2017

White Elephant Guidelines, 2017

Website: www.blueridgenrhs.org

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Welcome

Blue Ridge Chapter NRHS Overview

Our chapter was established in 1958 with a handful of members. Today we have more than 75 members from all over the central Virginia region, representing a variety of railroad related interests: history, preservation, modeling, and photography. What we all share in common is a love of railroading!
We are a local chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, the nation's largest railroad historical society with over 17,000 members in 170 chapters. Read more about the NRHS here.
We hold official chapter meetings once a month and "fun" meetings every other month. Our members present a wide variety of programs highlighting their personal railroad interests. Special guests offer lectures and presentations on interesting historical and regional aspects of railroading. Many additional special events happen throughout the year. See the Train Departure Board.
We publish a monthly newsletter, the Blue Ridge Dispatcher. Each edition features timely information about upcoming meetings, communications from our officers, railroad news, articles by chapter members, recent prototype sightings in the region, and much more! Our newsletter is a great benefit of being a BRC member. Download recentDispatcher issues here.
The Blue Ridge Chapter is also a Rail Heritage Region Partner. These partners are concerned with promoting interest and awareness of the role railroads have had on our region of the Virginia Commonwealth. It also inlcudes Virginia Museum of Transportation , the O. Winston Link Museum, and the Roanoke Chapter of the National Raiway Historical Society, all of Roanoke. Also the C&O Historical Society and its C&O Railway Heritage Center in Clifton Forge is a partner.
For more information on becoming a member of the Blue Ridge Chapter NRHS, see our New Membership page and contact a chapter officer with your questions.