(rshsdepot) 8th MICHIGAN RAILROAD HISTORY CONFERENCE

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8th MICHIGAN RAILROAD HISTORY CONFERENCE 
 
                                St. Ignace, Michigan
 
                            Saturday, October 2, 2004
 
 
Location: Glen Memorial Baptist Church, 219 Truckey Street, St. Ignace, MI 49781.
Co-Hosts: Bluewater Michigan Chapter, NRHS,  and the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Division, SLHTS.
 
(1) Saturday, October 2, 2004: CONFERENCE SCHEDULE ($37.00 prepaid each early, $44.00 on/after September 1):
 
     8:00 am..... Registration: Pick up your prepaid conference packets and enjoy coffee and conversation.
     8:45 am..... Introductions.
     9:00 am..... "The Railroad Race for the Straits"--Graydon Meints.
     9:40 am..... "Railroad Car Ferries"--Charlie Conn.
   10:20 am..... Break.
   10:30 am..... "Railroad Depots and Other Rail-related Structures of the UP and Northern Lower Peninsula
                            of Michigan--Their History and Architecture"--Mark Camp.
   11:10 am..... "The Mackinaw Division of the Michigan Central/ New York Central"--Charlie Conn.
   11:50 am..... "The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad from the Lumbering Era to the Resort Era"--Carl Bajema.
   12:30 am..... Buffet Lunch
     1:10 pm..... "Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad: The Haywire Line"--Hugh Hornstein.
     1:40 pm..... "Iron Mines and Iron Ore Railroads"--Mark Worrall.
     2:20 pm..... "Northern Michigan Logging Railroads"--Bruce Gathman & Carl Bajema.
     3:00 pm..... Break
     3:10 pm..... "The Last Decade of the South Shore: 1950-1960"--Robert Oom.
     3:40 pm..... "Soo Line Mixed Trains and Railroad Post Office Service"--Thomas Post.
     4:20 pm..... "Somewhere in Time: A Backward Look (to the 1950's) at the Railroads that Entered the Straits
                            of Mackinac Area"--Ron Cady & Neil Plagen.
     5:00 pm..... End of the formal conference program.
 
(2)  Saturday, October 2, 2004: CONFERENCE AFTERGLOW RECEPTION ($15.00 prepaid):
    5:30-7:00 pm..... at Michigan Central Railroad depot/Mackinaw Crossings Depot Restuarant in Mackinaw City.
 
(3)  Saturday, October 2, 2004:  CONFERENCE DAY SLIDE SHOW:
    8:00 pm.....Slides, etc. at Quality Inn, off US-2 west of St. Ignace.
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(4) Friday, October 1, 2004:  PRE-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP:
   8:30 am..... Registration at the Quality Inn, 913 Boulevard Dr., (south side of US-2 just west of I-75 interchange).
   9:00 am..... Depart Quality Inn parking lot for a guided auto tour of numerous railroads past and present in the
                         eastern upper peninsula of Michigan (St. Ignace, Trout Lake, Soo Junction, Sault Ste. Marie, etc.).
 
(5) Friday, October 1, 2004:   PRE-CONFERENCE BANQUET ( Members only.  Use DSS&A Registration Form):
                      The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Division, SLHTS, will have their annual banquet and business
                      at the Village Inn Restuarant in St. Ignace.
  
(6) Friday, October 1, 2004:   PRE-CONFERENCE SLIDE SHOW:
   8:00 pm..... Slide show and conversation at Quality Inn and/or Econo Lodge Inn & Suites.
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(7) Sunday, October 3, 2004:   POST-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP:
   9:00 am..... Depart Quality Inn parking lot for guided auto tour of northern lower peninsula railroad sites (Mackinaw 
                      City, Cheboygan, Pellston, Petoskey, Cadillac and ending at the Haring & Lake City Railroad where
                      we can ride behind two different Shay locomotives on a full scale (1:1) replica railroad on Shay's logging
                      railroad right-of-way at Haring.
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Conference updates will be posted in the News Briefs of www.MichiganRailroads.com and on www.geocities.com/gjdegowski .  For more information and registration forms, contact Carl Bajema at bajemacarl_@_comcast.net , at 940 Shawmut Court NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 or at 616-791-9010.  Feel free to bring appropriate organization information brochures, etc., to share with other attendees. 
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For a REGISTRATION FORM email Greg Degowski at gjdegowski_@_comcast.net for an email copy. 

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