With the new year here, it is time to mark your calendars for Homewood, Illinois and our 7th Annual Rail Heritage Weekend, coming to you this year on May 15th/16th, 2010.  As always, we will have our popular Saturday night multi-media/slide show starting at 7PM, and on Sunday hosted railfanning at our busy train-watching platform starting at 6AM and the big Train Show (operating layouts, vendors, historical societies, antiques, etc) at the Village Hall municipal complex from 9AM to 3 PM.

CN will have prototype equipment on display adjacent to the Train Show venue.  This year we will also have our Rail Equipment Park caboose, IC 9426, open for touring–we finished interior restoration since last year’s event.  If luck is with us, we might have GP10 IC 8408 open also, although that is a very big maybe and depends on how the Spring work days go.  More detailed info in a couple of months–meanwhile, get us on your schedule and we will see you in Homewood in May!

Homewood is located in the south suburbs of Chicago and is accessible via both Metra commuter and Amtrak long-distance train service. More info available at www.homesweethomewood.com.