SATURDAY, MAY 17 -- 7 PM
The Blackhawk Chapter's Mike Riha will
be presenting an all-EJ&E program, along with programs from some of the area's
finest contemporary railfan photographers, at the Homewood Railroad Heritage
Day Slide Show at St. Paul Community Church, Dixie Highway between 183rd Street
and Ridge Road, Homewood, Illinois. |  |
SUNDAY, MAY 18 -- 9 AM to 3 PM
The Blackhawk Chapter, along with our computerized
Train Simulator, will be at the 5th annual Homewood Railroad Heritage Day
at the Village of Homewood Municipal Center Park District Auditorium, 2020 Chestnut
Road (Corner Of Chestnut & Dixie Highway) in Homewood, Illinois. Admission is
FREE! |  |
FRIDAY, JUNE 6 -- 7:30 PM
Our monthly meeting will feature a program by
noted electric railroad historian
Norm Carlson with a look at the fascinating
story of Illinois Central's suburban lines. |  |
SUNDAY, JUNE 22
Our annual Summer Picnic, exclusively for Blackhawk Chapter
members and their families, at Illinois Live Steamers. Directions to this
private club will be mailed to all current members. |  |
RAILCAMP
2008
JULY 6 - 12: SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA or
JULY 28 - AUGUST 2: ELY, NEVADA
The
Blackhawk Chapter is currently accepting applications for scholarships to send
a local high school student to RailCamp 2008.
Click here for more information. photo
of Steamtown by
2007 RailCamp scholarship recipient Robby Gragg |  |
 SATURDAY,
JULY 12 -- Noon to 5 PM
The
Blackhawk Chapter visits Northwest Indiana for our first-ever
Spring Railroad
Swap Meet and EJ&E Program at the
Schererville American Legion Post
485, 7485 Burr Street in Schererville, Indiana. Featured
will be an EJ&E slide program by John Egan of Hoosier Hobbies and 16mm
color movies filmed of the “J” taken from a hi-rail truck in
the summer of 1972 between Matteson, Illinois and Kirk Yard in Gary. This Blackhawk
Chapter event is open to the public with FREE parking and admission. Vendor
tables for the swap meet are $10.00 each. For
more information, E-mail us at blackhawk@artsalive.org,
call Bill Molony at 815-834-0835
or write us at:
Blackhawk Chapter NRHS, 2009 Boehme Street, Lockport, IL
60441 | 
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FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 5 -- 7:30 PM
Our monthly meeting will feature a program by popular
railroad book author Ed DeRouin with a look back at the Chicago & North
Western, along with our annual September tradition of members showing us what
they have done over the summer. |  |
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 -- 10 AM to 5 PM
The Blackhawk
Chapter, along with our computerized Train Simulator, will be at the Southland
Railroad Show at H.L. Richards High School, 106th Street and Central
Avenue, Oak Lawn, Illinois.
Admission: $6, seniors $5, under 12 free. |
Look for more great programs & events coming in 2008! 
We
are always looking for quality programs from railfans, railroad professionals,
advocates, scholars and historians. We can supply a large screen, projection equipment
(slides, 16mm movies, video or computer) and an appreciative and enthusiastic
audience. If
you have a program to share, please E-mail
us or talk to us at one of our monthly meetings. We
hold regular meetings at 7:30 PM on the first Friday of the month (except
July and August), at the Gladys Fox Museum on the southwest corner of 9th
Street (Illinois Route 7) and Washington Street in the historic downtown district
of Lockport, Illinois. Click here for maps to our
meeting place. Doors
open at 7:00 PM and there is plenty of free parking on Washington Street.
If there is no wake scheduled, additional parking is available in the lot of the
adjacent Goodale Memorial Chapel, in the 900 block of Hamilton Street. Admission
to all meetings is FREE and guests are always welcome. Attendees are invited
to participate in our monthly raffle of rare and interesting railroad memorabilia
and models. Refreshments are available. Meetings
include a presentation on railroads by noted railfans, authors, historians, railroad
professionals and/or railroad advocates. Recent programs have included: - DePaul
University transportation professor Joel Schweiterman discussing his two-volume
book “When The Railroad Leaves Town.”
- A
look at contemporary railroading in Illinois by nationally published photographer
Paul Burgess.
- Area
historian Roy Jackson's program on the history and rebuilding of Joliet
Union Station.
- Rick
Harnish of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association speaking about recent and
proposed improvements to Chicago-St. Louis Amtrak service.
- Presentations
by industry expert Mike Blaszak about early Amtrak's “Rainbow Era” and
railroading in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina.
- Transit
historian Steve Hyett's program on the development, heyday and sudden end
of the classic interurban, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin.
- Rare
and unusual 16mm films taken in the 70s by the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
of their entire right of way as preserved in the Blackhawk Chapter archives.
...along
with many other interesting and varied programs. See what you are missing by attending
a Blackhawk Chapter meeting today!
The
Blackhawk Chapter can present programs on local railroad history for your organization.
There are many possibilities -- a discussion of local railroad history, historic
railroad movies and photographs, or even a visit from a 19th-century station agent!
For
more information, please send us an E-mail
or talk to us at one of our monthly meetings. |
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