HISTORY & MODELING COMMITTEE

If local history, rail history, train fascination or model railroading (any scale) interest you and you would enjoy fellowship with others who share these interests, we invite you to become a part of the growing HISTORY &  MODELING COMMITTEE.

Participation in the 10-year-old committee is a great way to become an active member of the Southern California Railway Plaza Association.

Committee meetings are held at 7 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month (except July and December) at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, at Las Palmas Drive and Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton. We also hold railroad modeling sessions.

For more information, contact Dennis White (714-871-4341) or Harold Benash (714-525-6266) for directions or questions regarding the HISTORY & MODELING COMMITTEE.

RAILROAD OPERATING COMMITTEE

If you are a rail fan wanting to do more than sit in your recliner reading about railroad life, put down that train magazine and join SCRPA’s RAILROAD OPERATING COMMITTEE (ROC).

The group spends one Saturday morning a month down at the Fullerton depot tracks, completing hands-on projects on two vintage cabooses.

Committee membership is open to all current Southern California Railway Plaza Association members at no charge and is a fun way to meet and talk trains with other buffs while helping preserve an important part of railroading’s past.

The cabooses -- an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Ce-1 cupola style, built by American Car and Foundry in 1929; and a Southern Pacific C-40-4 bay window, built by Pacific Car and Foundry in 1961 -- cool their wheels on the Amtrak Depot house tracks at the Fullerton Train Station, 120 E. Santa Fe Street.

If you’re not already an SCRPA member, think about joining so you can participate in ROC, which meets on the third Saturday of most months, working to attain and keep both cars in top operating condition.

Come and join the fun!

For more information, directions or questions regarding the RAILROAD OPERATING COMMITTEE please contact Chairman Stu Proctor, (714-870-6757).