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Feb 27
Tribute and Appreciation Award for Colin Tanner-Tremaine
Editor’s Note: Here, verbatim, is the tribute speech that Glynn made at the AGM, to honour Colin’s sterling work as club chairman and numerous other contributions to EMRIG over the past years. Afternoon folks, I hope you are all well. I will hopefully not take much of your time before the festivities start… I was …
Jan 29
2017 AGM Report
Written by Brian Dawson I arrived at ColinTT’s home about five minutes before the AGM was due to start. But I had one of the braais and a required gazebo (to shade the food table), so things were delayed a bit while many hands made light work of offloading and successfully erecting the gazebo, despite …
Oct 01
The Great Model Train Expo
Emrig will again be attending this wonderful event. To see info and photos from the last time we did this in 2014, go to this post: – The Great Model Train Expo 2014 We look forward to seeing you there!
Sep 07
EMRIG Swap Meet: – 24th September 2016 – Great Friends and Great Trains
September 2016 Swop Meet GREAT SWOP MEET AND GREAT TRAINS EMRIG will be hosting their third regional Swop Meet for the year on Saturday 24 September 2016. The Swop Meet will be held in the Northmead Mall in Benoni, same place as last February and May. Location: Pretoria Road (Off Snake Road). Main Address, …
Aug 28
Layout Visit To Kevin Chamberlains’ Home Layout
Did you know that the Burlington Northern Railroad has expanded into the Ebotse Golf and Country Estate? Well it has in N gauge model form. On Sunday 28th August, yes that long ago a bunch of guys from EMRIG, plus a couple of young ladies went to see the progress on this Burlington Northern layout. …
Feb 12
Club Visit – Sci-Bono Discovery Centre
On Sunday the 31st January, seven club members and their families travelled to the Sci-Bono Science and Discovery Centre in Newtown, Johannesburg to see the resurrected layout that once belonged to Jim McLuskie. Jim opened his home to the club members in early 2014 where the same layout had been built in a dedicated room. …
Jan 28
2016 AGM feedback
AGM feedback By John Henry EMRIG AGM Sunday 17 January 2016 Folks if you are still waiting for this year’s AGM then you have missed it. So let me brief you on some of the details. The weather was very kind to us. Indeed no El Nino hot weather patterns as we experienced recently in …
Dec 21
Letter from the Chairman, 16 December 2015.
By Colin Tanner-Tremaine This time last month we had just been given notice to vacate our “Paddington Station” which we did so. Since then not much has happened on our model railway front. Although we had been offered another “box” there was much to do in planning our new layout and more importantly to get …
Dec 17
Club Visit to Danie Wentzel
On Sunday 29th November, Eight members of Emrig were again treated to another spectacular layout visit, this time the one belonging to Danie Wentzel whose home is situated on the extreme North of Pretoria. The invitation was sent out to all the members of Emrig but only the first eight members who responded to the …
Nov 17
Club Visit to Hans Bac’s Amsterdam Trams.
On Sunday 18th October, nine EMRIG members went to another home layout visit. This was following the invitation offered to the club by Hans Bac. The theme of the layout was Trams in Little Amsterdam . Hans has built the layout in the upstairs room in his house adjacent to a small, well kitted and …
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