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John's Park freight terminal. New York City, at 1 p. m. Special over West Side Freight Line to Harmon for guided inspection tour ol eiectric diesel and steam shops.

4 John's Park freight terminal. New York City, at 1 p. m. Special over West Side Freight Line to Harmon for guided inspection tour ol eiectric diesel and steam shops. Trip will last 4 Via hours; return direct to Grand Central Terminal. Fare, $2.50 in advance. Write Donald O. Eisele, Chairman Trip Committee, New York Division, Electric Raihoadeis' Association, Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N. J. August 6; Philadelphia trolley tour. Trip will cover soon-to-be-abandoned lines of the Philadelphia Transportation Company. Car to be used will be a 2100 California Zephyr, a brand-new 16-mm.P.C.C. car. For tare and departure time, write Henry Dickinson Jr., 109 W. Ashland Ave., Glenolden, Pa, sound movie, is now being circulated for August 13: Midwest Chapter oi the National Railloan without charge by the Western Paway Historical Society will operate a trip on the Wheeling & Lake Erie from Cleveland, O., to Zanescific's Public Relations Department, 526 ville, O., and return. Only passenger train to operate Mission Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. The over this road in the past two decades. Leave Clevefilm covers the entire journey of the new land at 9 a, m. and pick up passengers at Mogadore (Akron), Canton and Brewster. At Brewster an inwestern streamliner with footage of both spection will be made of W & L E roundhouse and Rocky Mountain and Feather River Canyards. Train will consist of open air observation gonyon scenery actually shot from a vista dola car and lunch car, in addition to regular equipment. Round trip fare from Cleveland, $5.50; from dome. Churches, railroad clubs, schools Mogadore, $5; from Canton and Brewster. $4.50. Half and similar groups are eligible to borrow fares for children 5 to 12 years. For tickets and inthe film. formation, write Publicity Department, Midwest Chapter, N.R.H.S.. 38 S. High St.. Akron 8, O, September 2: Milwaukee Speedrail trip. 15th Anniversary National Convention of N.M.R.A, in Milwaukee, Wis., over Labor Day weekend. Fan trip will depart for 2-hour ride over Milwaukee-Waukesha Speedrail line at 9 a. m., and cover last span of old[although every possible precaution Is taken to Insure time interurban trackage in Wisconsin. For fare and accuracy. TRAINS assumes no responsibility for errors reservations, contact Jim Grace, 1027 N, 7th St., MilIn listing fan trip schedules, which are subject to waukee, Wis. change without notice. Send copy for the October September 2: Milwaukee Road excursion. For 15th issue by August 15; for the November issue by SepAnniversary National Convention, N.M.R.A. will optember 15. No charge is made for these insertions.] erate a trip over Milwaukee Road's Superior Division July 16: Los Angeles Transit Lines tour. Large to North Milwaukee; return via the "beer line," over part of system mileage covered in P.C.C. car and which there has been no regular passenger service ex-funeral car. Write Lazear Israel, Southern Calisince Trip begins at 11:30 a. m. and will include fornia Division, Electric Railroaders' Association, a conducted tour of Milwaukee Road's roundhouse 4653'2 Pickford St.. Los Angeles 6, Calif. and carbuilding shops. Lunch will be served on train. July 23: Rio Grande circle tour. Round trip out Streamlined equipment. Return 4:30 p. m. Contact of Denver via Moffat Tunnel, Gore Canyon, Dotsero Jim Grace, 1027 N. 7th St.. Milwaukee, Wis., for fare Cutoff, Eagle Canyon. Tennessee Pass. Salida, Royal and reservations. Gorge. Steam power all the way. Fare. $10. Lunch September 3: Reading Railfan Society is sponsoring on train extra. One-day trip. Mail reservations to a Crusader trip from Reading, Pa., to Jersey City, I. E. August. Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 2645 N J,, and back, via the West Side Freight Line and Steele St., Denver. Colo. Philadelphia. For complete information, write Irwin July 30: Electric Railroaders' Association. Leave St. L. Kissinger. Secretary, Reading Railfan Society, 102 Cecil Ave., West Lawn, Pa. September 17: East Broad Top ramble. Special train over narrow-gauge lines of EBT, with frequent 6toi>s for benefit of photographers and railfans. Leave Mount Union. Pa. at 9 a.m. (EST), or 15 minutes Freestone, later Chesapeake & Ohio. The feature is written by University of Kentucky's Elmer G. Sulzer, and it includes a map, profile and timetable of the K&F. Copies are available for 50 cents each from The Kentucky Engineer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. * * * Running extra after arrival of P R R No. 13. Run to and beyond Robertsdale; return to Mount Union not later than 5 p. m. Lunch at Robertsdale. Round trip, $3 on train; advance payment before September 4, $2.50. For lurther data, write J. M. Alexander, 134 Pleasant St., Bradford, Pa. September 23-24: Northern California excursion. Sponsored by Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in conjunction with California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society. Leave San Francisco 7;20 a. m. by special train via Southern Pacific to Klamath Falls, Ore., to view Shasta Wonderland Country. Spend the night in Klamath Falls; return following day via Great Northern-Western Pacific line through Bieber, Westwood and Feather River Canyon. W P engine 204, which participated in gold-spike driving which connected Bieber line, from Bieber to Oroville. Possible equipment: vista dome coach, lounge car, diner, news-agent car, reclining seat coaches. Fare tentatively $ Tickets on sale at SP or W P offices September 1. For information, write Arthur Lloyd Jr., President, California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society, 270 Valdez Ave., San Francisco 12, Calif. Photo contributors for this issue: Gene Baxter. 643 Fifth Ave., Troy, N. Y. Truman Blasingame. Box 917, Augusta, Ga. J. L. Bradley: please forward your address. Charles A. Elston, 106 Downing Ave., Downlngtown, Pa. H. R. Griffiths, Box 1162, Boise, Ida. Donald M. Gunn, 304 Foothill Blvd., Oakland 6, Calif. Harpel's, Cumberland St., Lebanon, Pa. Dick Moore and Pat Flannery, 1402 Riverside Dr., Salisbury. Md. Saburo Motojima, 91 Nakamachi, 5-chome, Urawa, Saitama, Japan. Donald Sims, Box 548, Main Station, Los Angeles 53, Calif. Don Smith Harrison, Kansas City 4. Mo. Richard Steinheimer, 733 Dale Ave., Glendale. Caltf. Jack Thill, Pioneer Hall, University of Minnesota, H A N G E OF ADDRESS Minneapolis, C Minn. Before you move, be sure to send your new address to TRAINS SO you won't miss a single issue of your subscription. Send both new and old addresses, at least one month before date of first issue to be affected. 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OBSERVERS. We shall not be moved NAACP. national Convention. advance registration form. 104 th ANNUAL CONVENTION

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