Showing posts with label Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
All aboard for the 2015 TLR convention in Thunder Bay!
Registration starts Thursday, May 21, from 5:00PM to 9:00 PM at the hotel. A slide show is scheduled from 6:00PM to 9:00PM. Registration continues on Friday from 8:00AM to 5:00PM. Friday's clinics are scheduled from 9:00AM to 12:00PM. Friday's non-rail tours start at 1:00PM. There's a self guided non-rail tour of the Thunder Oak Cheese Farm and Kakabeka Falls (depending on weather) from 1:00PM to 4:00PM. From 2:30PM to 4:00PM there's an industrial tour of Resolute Forest Products. Please note that this tour is limited to the first 40 registrants, so be sure to get you registration form in early! More clinics are scheduled from 1:00PM to 2:00PM at the hotel.
Layout tours are scheduled from 2:30PM to 4:00PM. A Friday night social is being held at the Thunder Bay Museum starting at 9:00PM. There will be a board meeting starting at 8:00PM at the hotel. Registration continues on Saturday at the hotel from 8:00 to noon. More industrial tours are scheduled from 9:00AM to 4:00PM. Lunch will be provided. Another self guided non-rail tour of the Thunder Oak Cheese Farm and Kakabeka Falls is scheduled from 1:00PM to 4:00PM
At 6:00PM the banquet begins, followed by the awards presentation and the famous TLR silent auction, hoisted by the ever popular B-Team! Sunday starts off with the AGM at 8:30AM, followed by more layout tours, starting at 9:00AM.
Attached below is the registration form. Early bird deadline is April 11, but why wait until then?
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Canadian Association of Railway Modellers holds annual convention in Thunder Bay
The convention wil be held at the historic Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel, one of the classic railway hotel in Canada. Activities include clinics, prototype tours, rail fanning and a banquet with a guest speaker. Please note the the banquet is an additional cost.
The list of confirmed clinics is as follows:
Bill Skrepichuk: "An Overview of CPR Construction 1883-85 along the North Shore of Lake Superior"
Ed Freeman: "Port Arthur�s iron mining past"
Gerald Harper: "Thunder Bay area railway bridges - something for everyone"
William Waithe: "The CN Weston Subdivision : Modelling freight operations of an urban industrial area"
Mike Walton:"Prototypical British Operation on the Lostock Junction Railway."
Dave Battistel: "Rails into the Wilderness-The Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway"
Andy Malette:"Painting and Lettering CNR Steam Locomotives"
Layout tours include Craig Symington's Rio Grande Southern Railroad. This HOn3 layout is based on the first district of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. The layout itself consumes around 650 sq ft of basement and takes upwards of nine people to operate. This layout has been featured in the several issues the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette.
Three prototype tours are also offered at an additional cost: Bombardier Transportation, Thunder Bay Terminals, and the Richardson International Grain Elevator Complex. The prototype tours are proving very popular and are filling up fast! Virtually all of the early registrants have signed up for them. These tours are limited in the number of people attending, so if you're interested, please register as soon as possible.
CARM will also have available a booklet describing a self-guied tour and road logs for trains coming from the east and the west. The road logs will be up on the CARM website shortly.
To commemorate the event, a men's button down long sleeve shirt with a pocket is being offered at $45 ($48 for XXL). Shirts must be ordered postmarked before August 1.
Early bird registration (postmarked before August 1) is $60, additional registrants $15 (immediate family and same address only). After that date, the registration fee is $80, Additional registrants $20. All registrations must be postmarked not later than September 15. After that, registrations will only be accepted at the convention.
Rooms at the convention rate of $90.00 Cdn. per night will be available until Monday, 15 September 2014. For information on the hotel see the website. To book rooms, call the hotel (Toll Free : 1-800-267-2675, Local : 807-345-5411) and cite code number 184141 and CARM to obtain the convention rate.
For a PDF of the registration form, click on this link.
Friday, 21 February 2014
The CARM convention in Thunder Bay needs you!
Their looking for clinicians, and when they heard about our most recent Klinic Karnival, they contacted the Powers That Be to see if anyone was interested in conducting clinics there. Being a veteran of any past Klinic Karnival is not a requirement! Past experience in conducting a clinic is always helpful, but the desire to conduct a clinic is much more important.
The convention is being held at the historic Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel (which used to be a CN hotel). If you're interested, contact Wiiliam Waithe at wwsd40@hotmail.com. For more information about CARM and their upcoming convention, go to: http://www.caorm.org/
Thunder Bay is becoming the model railroad convention capital of Canada! In May of 2015, the TLR will be holding their annual convention there as well. Instead of going across the border all the time for some model railroading fun, why not go to both conventions in Thunder Bay instead?
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