Calendar of Club Meetings and Events
Consult the Members-Only page for directions to meetings.
To schedule a club meeting at your home
contact Ted Yarbrough, 706-695-2155,
tyarbrough@windstream.net.
The club pays a $100.00 honorarium to members who host a meeting
to help with the expenses for the main course for the shared meal.
August 21, 2010 4pm
Canton, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (ride on train and we
need to furnish food for their club as well as ours-SO BRING EXTRA).
September 11, 6:00 pm, GGRS Meeting
Dan and Deb Michel, Canton, Georgia
December 4, Three River's Rambler, Knoxville, TN
Members of the Georgia Garden Railway Society will experience
the magic of a holiday train ride through Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday,
December 4, 2010. Our group will be served Christmas cookies and refreshments,
and Santa Claus will board the train at the halfway point to visit and give
everyone a gift. During the ride, storytellers will read a holiday book, called
The Christmas Lantern. The train will depart the Neyland Drive boarding area
at 2 pm. for a 90 minute ride behind the Three Rivers Rambler steam loco.
After the ride, members will venture about 1 ½-2 blocks to Calhoun's
on the River for a meal (members order from the menu and pay their own check).
This restaurant was enjoyed by all on last year's trip. Members can rehash the
train ride as they enjoy their meal together. The restaurant is located right
on the river, as the name implies, and affords some nice river views.
http://www.calhouns.com/CalhOnTnRiver.shtml is the
web site with menu, directions, etc.
Finally, we will travel about two miles down Neyland Drive to
the UT Gardens to visit Mark Fuhrman's gigantic G-scale Christmas Train display.
You will recall that Mark was the guy with the gold fish tank cars at the Southeast
Garden Railway Show in Dalton. He does three displays a year, including the
Dalton show, the Knoxville's Home & Garden Show in February, and the UT
Gardens display at Christmas. There is a small admission charge for the garden
and hot drinks are available at a concession stand on the premises.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/nov/28/112908train/
will get you a few images from a couple years ago, but you will get the idea.
Because trains sell out, it is IMPORTANT to reserve space EARLY.
Tickets for the RIDE ONLY are $26.50 each and must be ordered by September 1,
2010 from Ted Yarbrough, 212 Love Drive, Chatsworth, GA 30705. Tickets are non-refundable,
but may be transferred (or sold) to other members if something comes up and
you are unable to attend. If you need to order tickets after September 1, you
may be able to get them directly from the railroad if seats are still available.
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