VRA EVENTS FOR FIRST & SECOND QUARTERS OF 2007

Sat Jan 06	Kinnelon, NJ – 40B Restoration work day

Sat Jan 06	Joe Weber back in Hospital

Tue Jan 16	Hawthorne, NJ – Easter Bunny Org. meeting

Tue Jan 16	Hawthorne, NJ – VRA Board meeting

Sat Jan 20	Valley Hospital – L&NE Kerosene lantern donated By Chris Abbood to Joe Weber

Sat Jan 20	Kinnelon, NJ – Both 40B engines moved to Jeff Hookways garage for storage

Sat Jan 20	Approval received from NJ Transit for Easter Bunny trains

Mon Jan 22	Easter Bunny trip data posted on VRA website

Tue Jan 23	Joe Weber moved to Oakland Care Center

Wed Jan 24	Joe Weber deceased

Thu Jan 25	Paypal pages setup for Easter Bunny trips

Sat Jan 27	Joe Weber Funeral

Sat Feb 03	Hawthorne, NJ – Work begun on selling Easter Bunny Tkts

Sat Feb 03	Kinnelon, NJ – 40B restoration work day

Mon Feb 05	VRA election results announced

Fri Feb 16	Kinnelon, NJ – VRA membership meeting

Mon Mar 12	Black River Railroad Historical Trust acquires 501(c)(3) status.

Sat Mar 24	Glen Rock, NJ – Easter Bunny Trips

Sat Mar 31	Netcong & Hackettstown, NJ – Easter Bunny Trips

Sat Apr 07	Hawthorne, NJ – Easter Bunny wrap up meeting

Sun Apr 08	Westown, NY – Damage noted on M&NJ

Sat Apr 14	Fairlawn, NJ – Cataloging Joe Weber collection

Wed Apr 18	Hawthorne, NJ – Meeting about Joe Weber collection

Thu Apr 19	Hawthorne, NJ – VRA Board meeting

Wed May 02	Motor car trip dates on NYS&W announced

Thu May 17	Johnson, NY – Work on motor cars & track

Thu May 17	Hawthorne, NJ – VRA Membership meeting

Sun Jun 03	KC’s father deceased

Sat Jun 09	Lycoming Valley motor car run

Sun Jun 10	Ringoes, NJ – BRW Trainman & Safety Session

Sun Jun 17	Ridgefield, NJ – Brush clearing on PSE&G property

Sat Jun 23	Phillipsburg, NJ – Friends open house & annual meeting. VRA Welder donated to Friends

Sat Jun 23 & 24	Ringoes, NJ – BRW Railroad days

Paul Trabert

2 Saturdays, 9 Trains, 3 Stations, 3400 passengers, 1 great Crew.....Priceless.

I wanted to thank everyone who helped make these past 2 weekends a success. Without the effort of everyone who put up signs, gave out fliers, answered phones, sold tickets, staffed the train and did everything else it took to run the trains we could not have done what we just did. While we do not have the final numbers I can tell you this, we officially sold out every train, had nothing but compliments from the passengers and I could not be prouder to have led a bunch of people as professional as you all were.

Thanks, KC
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I wish to echo KC's thank you to all. I also wish to say a HUGE thank you to the man that co-ordinated this grand series of trips, KC himself. Without his knowledge and efforts, it would have been near impossible to do these two trips with any degree of success. And thanks to all the people that put in their efforts with promoting, ticket sales, and day of the trip help, without YOU, it wouldn't have happened. I think Joe would have been proud, as these trips start to give us the monies required toward our goal of station preservation and motorcar restoration. Again, thank you all for a job well done.

Craig W. Hartman
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Fantastic! I only have one problem, we have to wait until next year to do this again. Thanks again for letting us share in this fun.

-Ken, Nadine, Alex, & Samantha
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KC and the group,

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone. No matter how hectic it may get everyone pitches in to get the job done. It is truely amazing to watch all the pieces come together. And a special thanks to KC for being the project manager on this event.

Chris
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