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Oct 19
Club Visit To Johan Leeflangs Little Switzerland.
On Sunday the 13th September, the EMRIG members visited Johan Leeflang’s “Little Switzerland”. As Helgard Meyers layout was unique in being historically themed, so was Johan’s, however, pictorially themed. Johan’s model is based on Switzerland where he has visited before and photographed. To totally understand Johan’s vision, one needs to have visited the country and …
Sep 28
Emrig Workshop / Clinic
By Kevin Chamberlain On Sunday 27th September, the club held the first of hopefully many model railroad clinics in one of the vacant rooms upstairs at the Northmead Mall. To say the least, the turnout was fantastic with approximately twenty or more members in attendance. The topics covered were wide and varied with Colin starting …
Sep 14
Club Visit To Helgard Meyer’s Fine SAR Layout
The EMRIG members set out on Sunday the 30th of August 2015 to visit Helgard Meyer’s HO scale SAR layout. As is normal, one is uncertain as to what to expect. We have seen a good number of layouts recently, all different and simply amazing. Surely those could not be beaten. Well this one arguably …
Sep 14
Swap Meet: – 29th August 2015 – Great Friends and Great Trains
At the end of August, EMRIG had another of our Swap Meets. The attendance was outstanding and another fantastic success. It was very noticeable that there were many more buyers this time round with all of them crowding around the tables. There were also a couple of new comers. The tables remained around the 40 …
Aug 17
Swap Meet: – 29th August 2015 – Great Friends and Great Trains
Calling all model train fanatics. On Saturday the 29th August 2015, EMRIG will again be hosting a regional Swap Meet on the East Rand. The Swap Meet will be held in the Northmead Mall in Benoni. Click here to see a map. However, the mall is next to Pretoria Road just off the Snake Road …
Jul 29
Club Layout Visit to “Gauteng Freemo Group of South Africa”.
On Sunday the 19th July 2015, the club members were invited to the operations based modular “Gauteng Freemo Group”. As with many modular layouts, the club normally sets up during the school holidays at a school that will host them. This time it was the Panorama Primary school in Roodeport. Wow, the layout was amazing. …
Jun 29
Club Layout Visit To Ron Gill
On Sunday 29th June 2015, the club outing this month was to see Ron Gill’s N gauge layout. Ron is the current chairman of the Saturday Afternoon Group and more commonly known as SAG. One enters Ron’s home and turns right proceeding down some steps before entering his train room and one simply goes wow!!! …
Jun 17
Church Visit to EMRIG
On Sunday the 24th May, EMRIG was asked by member Noel Stoddart, if a church group could visit and see what model trains was all about. The group that visited EMRIG’s were the Pathfinders from the Atlasville, 7th Day Adventist Church. The Pathfinders normally meet every 2nd Saturday after Church at about 2 o’clock. During …
Jun 17
Emrig May 30th Swap Meet
EMRIG again hosted the regional Swap Meet in the shopping mall where the club layout is situated. The turnout was again out of this world. Every time one hears the comments about the hobby dying, events like this go to dispelling that myth. All the usual traders were there from Dream Trains, Marks trains, Natures …
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