I hope that everyone is enjoying the beautiful spring weather. The program last month that Jim Pearson put together was well received and quite interesting. It is nice to see some train watching spots that actually had real trains on them instead of what happens to me sometimes with empty rails to show for my efforts at train watching.

The steam schedule for the Kentucky Railway Museum has been announced for this year.

May: 23, 24, 25, & 30, and 31

June: 20, 21

July: 25, 26

August: 22, 23

September: 5, 6, 7

October: 3, 4, & 24, 25

As always, this is a great organization to belong to. Members get free train rides and admittance to the museum proper, the layouts, bookstore, and grounds. They have done a fine job over the years of preserving and presenting rail history and have made the museum a very family friendly, clean, and interesting environment.  For those of you who may want to join, they can be contacted at: Kentucky Railway Museum, P.O. Box 240, New Haven, KY 40051 or call them at 1-800-272-0152, or see their website at www.kyrail.org.  They even allow for volunteers to help restore, repair, and improve the equipment.

The program for April will be in the Blue Mountains of Oregon and the Mt. Rainer area so I hope to see all of your smiling faces at the next meeting on April 27th, at 7pm at the Center in beautiful downtown Madisonville.