The Railway Histc^ioal Society of San Diogo, Ino* will hold itA next meeting Monday, April 7?■ ectors for the Board of Directors* PROCEEDINGS OF THE LAST MEETING Business taken care of at the March meeting consisted of the membership acc® opting*the Articles of Incorporation and the By-laws* Reports were given on the progress of our railway exhibits* fey Miller reported on the prospects of having a picnic at Travel Toto in Griffith Bark in September* He had hoped to have it in the U0P* Diner but found it was reserved for the remainder of the year. It was re ported that at future meetings there would be a table set up for the members to dis play their collections, photographs and railroadiana in general* Movies for the evening consisted of BThe Rainrsjakers”, a Wheeler and vfcolsey comedy; and a Death Vallsy Days Tv series depicting Death Valley Scotty9 s famous train ride to Chicagoo DUES REMINDER!!J9! As provided'in the f>y~laws9 membership in the Society is now contingent with the payment of dues* The five classes of mem? o:?sh:Ip are? REGUIAR--$2*50 p^? (7’eay-'‘for the person (18 years of ge or over) who is active in the Society* JUNIOR—$1*50 per yoar—for th® person under 18 years of age (must have parent consent and be sponsored by a regular member), SUSTAINING—$2*50 per yoar minim® in money er service«~&r the person, film or corporation who does net p&; tioipate actively in the Society* FAMILY—$1.00 pa:? iu addition to Regslsu4 membership—for the family oi the regular members* HONORARY—memberf ? F’ha'll be granted to those persons who have gained ominenee in the Society®s esteem f*y the of the p)* fe dues required* EXCURSIONS Our eocnursion dir^otor, ?lte-* L*W* is at present working on several poss ibilities for excursions this year* NM-hlag dofinitG at this writing* APRIL, 1958 REQUEST FROM THE SECRETARY Tosi Matson, recording secretary, requests that all future reports by the var- e°mmittee chairmen be made up in triplicate and submitted to him at the com pletion of the report at the regular monthly meeting. Letters written in the name of the Society should be written on our new stat ionary and a carbon copy should be submitted to the corresponding secretary, Bar bara Thomson0 Also, all correspondence pertaining to the Society should be turned over to the corresponding secretary to be placed in the Society’s fileso Society stationary will be presented upon request by the corresponding secretary., NOTICES FROM THE DISPATCHER EDITOR-HISTORIAN Erits Sanders reports that issues 17 and 18 of the Dispatcher are being mimeo graphed am? will be mailed along with the Jtecific Railway Journals Fallbrook Lines issueo Eric would also like to have a meeting of all members interested in having a Society library and museum. Also a meeting of those interested in the future of the Dispatchero Call Eric Sanders, HO 9°1288 if you are interested in either of the above projects0 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING The next meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on Thursday, April 3 at 7?30 P.M. at ths offices of Gorby and Gogby, 1816 Lincoln St. interested p®?Sons may attend but only Board members may vote, RECENT HAPPENINGS OF THE SOCIETY The turnout of members for the moving of old 54 was gratifying. Despite the rain there were many a loyal Society member there to oversee the moving operation. She is resting peacefully at the frog farm at the present where she will be comp letely renovated, under the capable guidance of our Traction Committee boss“Dave De Mo On the evening of March 20 the following brave souls ventured out in the storm to attend a meeting of the Mt. Rubid^m? Chapter, Pacific Railroad Society in San Bernardinos Presy and Mrs. Seeth L. '“Corky53 Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. LOW<, McCleary (©ur famous Excursion Director) and Dave DeVol (head of our Traction Committee) and his fiance Kay T5:<.utman. We were served a delicious dinner provided by the wives of the Mto Rubidoux boyso Despite the terrible weather a good time was had by all. The purpose of this excursion was to find out more details about the plans for the operating rail museum in Perris (where POCOCO 508 is at home for the present) o De tails of this meeting will be given at the April meeting. Must say we were warmly welcomed. Our esteemed Beesident, Corky Thomson, 1st V.P. Jack Stodelle and 2nd V.P, Tom Mann accompanied Jim Reading, City Traffic Engineer, on a tour of San Diego Sat urday, IMrch 23, in search of a possible location for a future Railroad museum sim ilar to Travel Town in L.AO inf© on this later. ige 3 PAST Al® WiiHE E8jK : ...IPS Oir Gii'IEER ORArilZATIOI'Ki APRIL, 1958 ' i$U "jiuld presented an interesting program for the Etesele^ ..^^riageef &;,?0 •Jxide/ evening, March 28 da National City. An “ eresue-:.; va,...,. tne past, p.-es&vfa and future of our Society was given by ©aIT by Lwiies $'£ th® P0E0 fan trip and the rawing of the ?0UoC. 5 o o© w.c< rasjrgrx>u&fe ©nd ths^mwisig ®f ©Id 54 o There were app^dLm&to'^ 150 peo- p.:^ preset u^u. s-aE* present ■•? _• past presy were wll accepted© Mro Judu la al-.< a member < Carriage C»o Osher members representing MA of SODO present Ktro and fe-:0 LP^O ■<<$ls’a^y0 Judd and i&s0 :-?hoia;j<>u<. 0& Syy?itv\> M-cvk 400 ’loyal fans left !*r Oji.; behind a V<> 9 diesels Despite the snails pace up San Fernando Valley all were 1ei spirits© The was ran backward' with the horse car at the cb1. of the traiii and coupled’ directly ’io the first coach.. This \.as brought about because there was no way of turning the train at Ojai so all ;he engine had to do was run around and couple on to the opposite endy Altho it was a rather slow trip everyone seemed to enjoy it a great deal© (Corky vzas particularly happy be cause he latched on ‘fee a ‘brand new record entitled Memories of Steam). This trip was ran by XA 0:j. Sunday April 20 there will bs an excursion on the Santa Maria Valley rail road e This will be pulled by STEAM (Baldwin locomotive #21) o This trip will leave Santa IfeMa station at ll§30 AOMO and return at 4°30 PoM. The faro is $5«>25O A chartered bus will take passengers x^;om 6th and Main Stso L^Ao (l®a-?e 7si5 awmo) directly trai^side and return for $5o00o (I already knovz of four RoHoSo of SODO members m&k?xg this eKcursion--th® McCleary® s and the Thomson® s).. A'11 ardors for tickets? be in by Monday<> Ap^il 110 This trip is being run by Southern Calif. Chapterp Ro^G.MoSo OOPS forgot t© mention that the SMi<»Sa 2f SeD)o was well represented? at th® 9th annual and installation of officers dinner of the Pacific Beach Model Rai£r©ad$rs Club at Michaels in Lemon Gsw® Friday evening5 March 14- Th® foll owing members and their wives astendsd’s W. & Mrso Jack Stodellep Mr. & Mrs. Lyle Judd?9 Mro & Mrso LOWO McClearyp Frei Reifp Dick Dedge (who presented a few of his beautiful slides)Tom Lfets^<, Mro & Mrs. Dick Main, Mr. & Mrs. Corky Thomson, and Mr© & >so Tern Mann. (CoxJky, Barbara and Tom Mann are also officers of the P0B. club and Dick bfein is a student member). APFRECIATiOU I wuld life te sEEprsss th® appreciation of the R.H.S, of SODO t© the San Diego Trepical Fish Society (espaci&lly Bob 0°fifeal and Jo© Geisler) without whose help and use” of their Multilith machine this N^alettor would have never been published. This Newsletter ws hastily thrown together with the help of Tom Matson, C&rky ^nd Barbara Themseft© We promise t® d« better next time. SEE YOU AT THE MEETING MONDAY, AIRIL 7«-7g30 P.M. HE THERE8.® J ’! J

RHSSD #012 1958 April

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Pacific Southwest Railway Museum

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