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Oct 26
Another move
Well, just over two weeks ago, our Chairman, Colin TT, received a phone call from the centre management with bad news!!! and then some good news!!! Bad news was that we had to move out of the space we were occupying as soon as possible as they had secured a new tenant for the shop. …
Oct 08
Website downtime
Apologies for the website being out of action. There are some issues at the web hosting service provider. They are currently working on the fault. The web site is also very slow due to this. Please be patient and we are sorry for the inconveniance.
Oct 08
Club Layout Vist to Graham Guthrie
In September, the club members monthly outing was to Graham Guthrie’s home to look at his model railroad. To say Graham’s layout is amazing is an understatement. As each member walked in, there was a stunned silence as each of them took in what they saw. A complete, beautifully built and scenicked layout, in a room …
Aug 30
Emrig August 30th Swap Meet
Today, the 30th August 2014, Emrig again hosted a swap meet at its current club house at the Northmead mall. Again it was a fantastic event, and if you missed it, you not only missed a great Swap meet, but also a great social event. The committee met at the un-heavenly hour of 07h00 in …
Aug 11
Swop Meet: – August 30th 2014 – Great Friends and Great Trains
EMRIG will be hosting the regional August 2014 Swop Meet for Model Railroading Items on 30 August 2014. The Swop Meet will be held in the Northmead Mall in Benoni. Location: Pretoria Road (Off Snake Road). Main Address First St, Benoni Gauteng South Africa Also look at the Contacts page for a map and GPS …
Jul 02
Greenstone Mall Expo 5th – 6th July 2014
This weekend, the 5th and 6th of July, Emrig will be exhibiting at the Greenstone shopping mall in Edenvale, just off the N3 highway near Modderfontein. So if you say you are too far away from the clubhouse, you have no excuse now. The team will be moving the two exhibition layouts over on Friday …
Jun 29
Club Layout visit to Kevin Chamberlain
Written by Colin Tanner-Tremain Once again the members of EMRIG were invited to see a home layout, this one being heavily under construction at the home of Kevin and Charlene Chamberlain in Ebotse Golf and Country Estate. They have not been in the house for long so after some considerable thinking and planning the model …
Jun 02
Emrig May 31st Swap Meet
On the 31st May 2014, EMRIG hosted another Swap Meet on the East Rand. Wow, what an event! This was arguably the largest swap meet hosted by the club in its history with 39 tables of goodies for sale. This event also saw the Bloemfontein “Dream Trains” taking 10 tables alone. Also there were the …
Apr 14
Benoni Hobbytech report
There is something to having simple “exhibition layouts”. Over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of April, the gang moved both the n gauge and HO gauge exhibition layouts to the Benoni Hobbytech and back with the relative of ease. The n gauge layout was dismantled on the preceding Wednesday and the HO layout …
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