Upcoming Shows and Meetings

Our next meeting will be our August monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday August 14th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

This August our meeting will consist of our Annual Joe Wollner Members’ Night. Our Members’ Night is dedicated in memory of late member Joe Wollner who passed away suddenly in December 1997. Joe had won five consecutive members’ nights for his outstanding night photography. Each year, on member’s night - every member is encouraged to contribute to Members’ Night. Members bring their best images that they took themselves. See the submission guidelines below for more info.

Following the members’ night portion of our show there will be a slide show; the presenter/subject will be announced at the beginning of the meeting.

There will be prizes awarded so any and all media/slides you show must have been created/taken by you! You cannot win a prize for someone else’s photography. You must be a current member in good standing to be eligible for the prizes; however you can join at the meeting. 1st Prize is a free 2011 membership. Additional prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the officers. Officers may show their slides but are NOT eligible to win prizes. As always - current event slides are welcome. The club will have a digital projector available but we cannot guarantee that any audio equipment/speakers will be available.

                Our members’ night always includes great variety so make sure to attend – and be sure to bring a submission! The varied interests of our members always provides good variety and interesting content, SO BE THERE!!!

Recent meetings:
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Our next meeting will be our July monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday July 10th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

Our July show will feature All-Color Super-8 Movies by Mr. Gary Grahl, including his very informative narration. The subjects to be covered include (but are not limited to):

• New York City Transit:
  Subway service in the Rockaways (1970s-today).

• New York City Transit:
  Bus service in Baychester, The Bronx (includes Bee-Line).

• Philadelphia:
  SEPTA PCC trolleys on routes 53 and 56.

• Seattle:
  Light rail and street cars.

A long-time Bronx Resident and prolific fan of Transit plus a good eye for capturing the scenes that are now history, Gary's show will undoubtedly be worth attending. As laid out above, there will be a nice variety of topics covered, so BE THERE!!!

Our next meeting will be our June monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday June 12th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

Our June presentation will be a slide show by Railroad.net’s Creative Director Mr. Otto Vondrak. Otto hails from Katonah, NY; and since an early age was exposed to the fast pace of Metro-North commuter operations at an early age. As an avid photographer since the age of eight, he’s captured trains and transit action of all sorts. His travels have taken him around the Northeast documenting everything from Class 1’s to obscure shortlines, as well on visits to many other parts of the country.

Otto’s show will include a look at the last ten years of service of the FL-9’s and F-10’s on Metro-North. We’ll also see a number of Alco’s in action around the Northeast. Lastly but certainly not least, we will get a look at Iowa Traction.

Also included will be various miscellaneous  subjects to round out his show. Otto’s last show at our club was a huge success before a standing-room-only crowd, so make sure to arrive on time, and DON’T MISS IT!!!

Our next meeting will be our May monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday May 8th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

Our May presentation will be the showing of NYC Subway slides from the 1960s to the present from the collection of Mr. Manny Campo. Slides will be shown of the entire system with emphasis on the abandoned lines Including:

    ·    the Bronx portion of the Third Ave el.
·    the northern portion of Jamaica el.
·    the Franklin Ave Shuttle prior to restoration.
·    and as we approach the 35th aniversary of its closing: The Culver Shuttle!

Our next meeting will be our April monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday April 10th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

Our next meeting will be our March monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday March 13th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

Our March show will be presented by our chairman, Mr. Josh Weis. Josh will show us an expanded version of a show he gave for the Boston Street Railway Association back in November entitled “The New Haven: Then and Now”.

The show will have two primary features:

• Vintage New Haven Railroad slides will be augmented by more recent views up to current day giving us an overview tour of the shore Line route from New York to Boston.

• We will then return west with a slightly more abbreviated then and now tour of the Long Island Rail Road.

• Josh will also include a brief updates on some NYC area happenings including the last days of Westchester Bee Line’s  400-series Orion 5’s, as well as some NYCT subway content, and as always, some Metro North scenes for good measure.

Josh’s show offers a good variety in both locations and properties visited, as well as time periods covered, so BE THERE for this show!

Our next meeting will be our February monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday February 13th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

Our February show will be by Mr. John Urbanski. John’s will once again give a themed show, similar to his show from last year. This will be John’s first attempt at doing a 'digital' show, including slides, digital photos and videos. Some slide/photo sections will be joined by musical accompaniment. Cities shown will include Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. Bus, subway, trolley, railroad, and monorail subjects will be covered.

John is a life-long transit photographer, who includes a lot of a variety in his shows, so come on in out of the cold and DON’T MISS IT!

Our next meeting will be our January monthly meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday January 9th, 2010. Our meetings are held at the Masonic Hall, located at 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, usually in Room 2 Central. The Masonic Hall is centrally located, in midtown Manhattan, right at the 23rd Street station of PATH and the NYC Transit F train. The 6, N, R, 1, C & E subway lines, as well as many bus lines are nearby. For your convenience there are soft drinks and snacks available for purchase at the concession stand at the back of our meeting room at most meetings. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:15 PM.

To welcome in the New Year we will be treated to another show by Mr. Jack May. Following the theme ‘Out with the old, in with the new!’, Jack will be showing us scenes of some new systems. This will include new light rail and streetcar systems in the U.S., as well as new lines on some other systems. Among the places to be visited will be Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Tucson, Austin, Charlotte and, if time permits, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston.

Just as in the past, all of Jack’s shows cover the interesting subjects he points his camera at very well, so DON’T MISS IT!