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October 6 update!

Although the cut-off date has passed, the Holiday Inn Express has made a few additional rooms available at the group rate for a short period of time. However, you need to make your reservation NOW!! (Also, we had inadvertently listed the wrong address for the Holiday Inn Express. That has been corrected!)

Also, don’t forget to register for the meeting!

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The fall membership meeting of the Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society, Inc., has been scheduled for Friday–Saturday, October 23–24, 2015, in Savannah, Ga.

On Friday, we’ll have an archive work session beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Azalea Room at the Holiday Inn Express (see address below.) We’ll be working to clean, organize, and index maps and drawings from the Society’s collection. Members can stop by at any time during the day up until about 5:00 p.m. We’ll have all the supplies you’ll need to help.

At 7:00 p.m. Friday evening, Society president Allen Tuten will give a presentation titled “Central of Georgia Railway and Related Lines: Trackage, Facilities, and Industries in Savannah, Ga.” Our bus tour on Saturday afternoon will take us by many of the locations included in this presentation.

On Saturday, we’ll depart the Holiday Inn Express on a bus around 8:30 a.m. for an in-depth tour of the Georgia State Railroad Museum. We’ll also see the Society’s flat car, which is at the museum, along with other pieces of CofGa equipment.

After lunch, we’ll take a bus tour by a number of railroad related sites in the Savannah area and should return to the motel around 3:30 p.m. (Note that the exact itinerary is subject to change.)

At 4:00 p.m., we’ll have the annual meeting of the Society’s Board of Directors in the Azalea Room at the motel. Members are welcomed to attend, although the meeting is for discussion of various Society administrative business. At 7:00 p.m., following supper, we’ll have our annual business meeting, which will include elections for Board of Directors.

Following the business meeting, Terry Koller, Director of Railroad Operations at the Georgia State Railroad Museum will be giving a presentation on some of the museum’s activities.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Express, 7210 Georgia Highway 21, Port Wentworth, GA 31407 (912-964-8900). The group rate is $99.00 per night. To get that rate, please be sure to mention that you are with the “Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society” when making reservations. The cut-off date for that rate is September 23, 2015.

Registration for the weekend’s events is $30 per person (or $50 per couple). To register, send your name, address, and number of registrations (include individual names for name tags) to Society Secretary/Treasurer Eddie Shaw (see address in recent issues of The Right Way). Payment can be made by check or money order payable to CGRHS. Early registration is highly recommended!

More specific details will be posted as available.

The Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society is pleased to announce the publication of our new 2015 Central of Georgia calendar. The 13-month calendar features color photographs of CofGa diesel and steam locomotives in action at Macon, Atlanta, Echeconnee, Columbus, Nixon (Augusta), and other locations. Important dates in the history of the Central of Georgia and subsidiary lines are also included.

All of the images used in the 2015 calendar are from the Society’s collection. The calendar is available from our online store here and at all of the train shows we attend.