THE ASSINIBOINE VALLEY RAILWAY
3001 ROBLIN BLVD., WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, R3R 0B8
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THE ASSINIBOINE VALLEY RAILWAY 3001 ROBLIN BLVD., WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, R3R 0B8 E-MAIL iceman@swedenfreezer.com
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Bill Taylor - President and chief of nut production.
Len LaRue - Vice-President. In charge of machining and medical control of nut ingestion.
Vic St-Germain - Vice-President in charge of engine house and surplus control of nuts.
Dwight Kjartanson - Vice-President in charge of signals and control of nuts running reds.
Mary-Lou Taylor - Vice-President. In charge of nut roasting and other culinary skills.
WELCOME TO THE AVR'S GROWING WEB PAGE. TAKE A LOOK AROUND. CLICK ON THE TITLES BELOW TO GET TO OTHER PAGES. IF A LINE IS UNDERLINED THEN IT TAKES YOU TO ANOTHER PAGE OR A PICTURE. DROP US AN E-MAIL AND TELL US HOW YOU LIKED OUR WEB PAGE.
THIS PAGE LAST UPDATED BY BILL TAYLOR OF WINNIPEG FEB 6th, 2010
19/01/08 AVR RULES WHO ARE WE?
PUBLIC OPEN RUN DAYS
15/10/2009 OUR HISTORY WITH PICTURES 13/03/04LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK 28/01/10 THE DINNER TRAIN 15/10/09
HOW TO FIND US OTHER RAILROADS WE HAVE VISITED 26/01/10
THE CHRISTMAS LIGHT RUN 07/11/09 OUR MEMBERSHIP FORM
ENGINE HOUSE 02/02/08 MEMBERS 28/11/09
FUN RUN DAYS 15/10/09
AUGUST JOINT 2009 MEET BADGES & PATCHES FOR SALE
OLD NEWS 20/01/10 AUGUST JOINT MEET 2009 REGISTRATION FORM
CHRISTMAS AT THE TAYLORS MEMBERS ONLY
YOUTUBE VIDEO CLIPS ON THE AVR
TRAINS RUNNING END OF MAY FOR THE NMRA CONVENTION AND JUNE 12TH AND 13TH FOR THE PUBLIC.
THE AGM OF THE AVR WILL BE HELD AT CHARLESWOOD STATION 2 pm FEB 13th 2010
CAR 3108 AS SHE IS TODAY DEDICATED TO HARVEY SCRIVENER AND PRESENTED BY CALEDON PROPANE FOR USE ON THE AVR
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Friday Jan 1st, 2010 New Years Day, Bill did club admin work and started printing Nutty Reports. The printer cartridge kicked the bucket and no stores open today. The railway was operated by Phil M., Rob, Len, Richard and Bill with Emily recording trips. Despite the -33c degree night almost 100 tough Winnipeggers came to ride the train. The group polished off the Chinese food from the night before. Saturday at 9:30 am at -30C it was noted that the station water supply was still operating meaning that Gil and Bill who had re insulated and re-positioned heater cables in the house and station end of the line have done it correctly. Bill went out in search of an MP3 player and ink cartridge. The learning curve of CD to MP3 were worked through and put into practice. The printer was nudged and cajoled into printing the first 50 copies of the Nutty Report. The railway operated for over 100 hearty people by Vic, Rob, Bill, Phil S., and Pat. Sunday Jan 3rd. Last night of the Christmas Run until next December. The temperature will be warmer. The night will end with a dinner in the station for all volunteers and their wives. Bill updated the web, did club admin tasks and printed out the last of the Nutty Reports. While the cold temperatures kept many away we still had more riders than last year. We are looking forward to a normal December next year. Pat stuffed envelopes. The railway was operated by Rob, Fred, Ed, Ed T., Len and Bill. Monday Bill mailed the Nutty Reports, Did several hours of admin work and moved materials. He sent in the last of the donations to the Christmas cheer board and Rob took the remaining groceries to Winnipeg Harvest. The railway is set for January mode. Wednesday Vic worked on the repair and re-build of locomotive traction motors. Friday Gil cleaned the station floor and got about 3/4 of it painted. We first did it in 2000 and re-did it in 2005 and it is now 2010 so the task is done every five years. Good work. Saturday Jan 9th. Vic continued on the re-build of diesel traction motors, Gil moved equipment in the station and completed the floor painting. Phil M., Frank and Ed T. staked gondolas in the car barn to make room for our two tank cars. Phil also picked up parts for a new whistle for 5427. Fred removed his "G" gauge track from the Ashdown buildings. Vic purchased a generator for standby power in the engine house in case of a power failure. Saturday Jan 16th. Dwight fixed the broken switch stand on the west leg of wye, fabricated circuit controller parts, and machined switch stand parts. Wednesday Jan 20 Gil disconnected all arches and other ground level plugs on the old line, coiling trace lights along the track. He was concerned that if we got freezing rain it would be hard to make under snow disconnections. Bill disconnected a few. Thursday Bill coiled up the lower eight 16 ft road arches ready to transport. Some admin work was completed. The arches mount on a 5 ft steel pipe and the lights go down to the ground and back up plus a plug in cord. This additional line must be un taped and tied up to the arch for transport . Friday Bill coiled up the remaining 8 road arches and then did the eleven 12 ft upper parking arches along with a few 6 ft arches. Parking illuminated signs were removed. Saturday Jan 23rd. Dwight fabricated switch stand parts and a new type of brace for switches. Bill spent the morning making labels for Christmas lines. Bill repaired a hand on a wise man. Richard put all the nativity figures away and returned the three tables to the station. Richard and Ed T. transported the 16 road arches to storage along with the 11 upper parking arches. Gil disconnected a whole group of lights on the new line plus trails followed by objects in the yard. He brought in a group of 6 ft arches. Frank and Bill put labels on 90 strings for identification next fall. Bill removed and stored 12 candy canes. Barry worked on some of the new gears for traction motors at his home machine shop. The need to disconnect all ground level plugs is that the current storm from Colorado is covering us with wet sticky snow that next week will freeze making removal almost impossible until spring. Tuesday Jan 26th Bill worked on the club web page adding the St. Croix 2009 fall meet. Wednesday Vic cleaned up the engine house and worked on the tender. Bill organized pictures for the web page. Thursday Bill updated the WMRC web page and started a new page for the wood box cars. Friday Bill added pictures to 5427's web page and brought the passenger totals page up to date and other admin jobs. Saturday Jan 30th Dwight fabricated signal parts and new style switch braces, and discussed machining jobs with Phil M. Vic continued on the project of re-building locomotive traction motors. Bill picked up two sheets of 1/4" Baltic birch plywood for the box car project and Gil took them for cutting. Gil spent the afternoon taking down light strings north of the station. Richard, Fred and Bill took down the camels, deer, remaining candy canes, poinsettias, circles and most of the Gingerbread displays. Frank cut out drywall for the repair of the area of the station sink faucets. Bill updated the web. Monday Bill worked on draft 1 of the financial statement for 2009. Tuesday Gil and Bill cut up the eight roof sections and eight door sections for the outside braced box cars. Wednesday Vic worked on the tender of 5427 and replaced the ballast in an engine house light fixture. Bill worked on club paperwork, cleaned up the work table and took measurements of the box car doors. Gil took down a number of Christmas lights. Thursday Bill scribed two doors for box cars. Draft 2 of the financial report was completed. Friday Feb 5th, 2010 Gil took down several boxes of Christmas lights while Bill scribed lines on two more box car doors, did some admin and updated the web. Phil M. cut the 6 pcs. 80" x 1.25 x .125 Aluminums to 4" lengths today and will be writing the CNC program to mill slots and drill holes next week. Gil prepared the list of 2009 club accomplishments for the AGM. Saturday Feb 6th, Bill worked on formatting
reports for display on our station flat screen as we are going to attempt
to have a paperless AGM and save a tree and pot of ink. Dwight prepared a
diagram of the Charleswood East track reconstruction project for summer
'10. Material will be
available on request for those who wish a copy to save. Dwight
manufactured signal parts and discussed machining jobs with Phil M. Vic
worked an making a larger water distribution line in 5427's tender. Vic,
Bill and Phil M. moved 6612 back on rack, took down the box cab, removed
batteries and put it in the maintenance building for the winter. Gil did
some final cutting on the box car roofs and spent the rest of the
afternoon taking down trail lighting. Bill and Ed T. cleared the 30 feet
of track east of the station so locomotives can come out of the station
for the AGM. Richard, Ed T. and Bill took down Ogo Pogo, the last of the
Gingerbread displays. Richard and Ed T. continued to take down lights and
were joined by Fred in the project. Bill made up labels and marked a bunch
of strings. Fred and Bill took down the ship. Frank completed the drywall
boarding in the station ready for mud. The weather was mild and a good day
to do outdoor stuff. Dwight continued to fabricate signal components. Phil
M. and August cleaned up the lathe and made some trial parts. -AVR 2008 AUGUST MEET PICTURES (NEW)
ONE OF FOUR NEW LOG CARS NOW COMPLETE AT THE AVR. BILL WAS THE FOREMAN OF THE PROJECT.
THE STEEL BOX CAR # 474 IS COMPLETE. ROB WAS THE FOREMAN ON THE PROJECT
5427 TAKING SHAPE. VIC IS THE FOREMAN OF THE PROJECT. NEW ARRIVAL AT THE AVR CHECK ROSTER CANADIAN PACIFIC 5303 AND 4 CARS THE AVR is a non profit club and we welcome new members who have an interest in small railroading. We are looking for interested model builders who would like to take on or help with structure building projects for the AVR. THERE ARE OVER 150 PICTURES IN OUR HISTORY WITH PICTURES. TAKE A LOOK... NEXT WORK SESSIONS WILL BE Wednesday & Saturday afternoons. Patch plaster in station. Change gear motor and chain sprockets on steaming bay lift. Make new deer gates. Remove moss from behind station. Re-ballast spurs and areas were moss was removed. Re-build some Ashdown buildings. Check and repair track for dips and cross elevation problems. CLICK BELOW FOR SOME CURRENT PICTURES ALL PICTURES ON THIS PAGE WILL END UP IN OUR HISTORY SECTION WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED OTHER PICTURES. 2365 THE PACIFIC CONSTRUCTION PICTURES 2365 PACIFIC PASSES TEST AT TRAIN MOUNTAIN 5427 CONSTRUCTION PICTURES (UPDATED JAN 29, 2010) OTHER RAILROADS WE HAVE VISITED (UPDATED JAN 27TH, 2009) BOX CAB # 25 (BUILDERS PHOTO) AVR REFRIGERATOR CAR (BUILDERS PHOTO) STOCK CAR CONSTRUCTION (BUILDERS PHOTO) FOUR LOG CARS (BUILDERS PHOTO) AVR NEW OUTSIDE BRACED BOX CARS (4) Send us an E-Mail and let us know how you liked our site.
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