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June Social Activity

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Friends!
Summer is upon us and most of us will be busy, traveling, entertaining guests, enjoying family and the outdoors,…
Our May Guest Speaker had to be cancelled due to insufficient member support.  We must have a minimum of 15 participants.  Our guest Speakers donate their time and money in preparing for their talk and in turn we support them by our attendance.
Please make time for our Locomotive Tour!  It has received raving reviews and was suggested by our member, Lenore.
The 2926 locomotive was built in May 1944.  It ran a million miles in the American SW before being retired to Coronado Park in 1956.  Approximately three years ago,
July 2, 2021, the locomotive was moved under her own steam power again.
Rescued from Coronado Park in 2000, the giant steam locomotive has been restored to full operation by the all-volunteer crew of the New Mexico Steam Locomotive and Railroad Historical Society (NMSL&RHS).
The restoration effort started 22 years ago.  She was purchased for $1 from the City in 1999.  The NMSL & RHS society places her value at over 3.5 M
Join us and learn more about the new 2926 locomotive.  Lunch will follow after the presentation.
Please make your reservations no later than Tuesday, June 4, 2024, by calling or texting Berta Wagstaff at 505-710-4448 or replying to THIS email by simply hitting the Reply button and RSVPing to vets4vets@aol.com.  Let me know, you will join us for lunch when you RSVP!
PLACE:          2926 Locomotive Tour
ADDRESS:     1833 8th St. NW*
DATE:            Saturday, June 8, 2024
TIME:              10 am – 11 (depending on Questions,…)
*      Parking is a challenge and it has been suggested, to park along 8th St.    
 Restaurant:  After the tour, Sixty-Six Acres – https://www.sixtysixacres.com/welcome/#ourmenu 
Address: 2400 12th St    Phone #: 505-243-2230
We have reservations for 11:30 am
It is crucial you RSVP to determine whether there will be enough room for all of us on the Tour and to insure ample reservations have been made for lunch.
Grateful for your participation.  Guests are always welcomed!

APRIL 2024 NEWSLETTER

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Our next meeting will be May 4 at the International District Public Library from 11:30am to 1:30pm and will feature Daniel Wald, son of Michael and Jackie Wald, who will speak about his adventures in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia leading companies who specialize in renewable energy, WASH, and health sectors. Berta has already sent out the invitation and discussion of this meeting.

Coming up on June 8th from 10:00 m to 11:00am, we will have a guided tour of the Steam Locomotive and Railroad Historical Society’s Museum at 1833 8th St. NW, Albuquerque, NM.

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Volunteers worked for 20 years to restore this steam engine #2926 which was built in 1944 and is one of last steam locomotives built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Today, it is the only operating 2900-class locomotive in the U.S. and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They are still hoping that the engine will eventually be used to take tours in New Mexico. It
should be a fun outing, so please save the date.

July and August programs are in the works!!!

UPCOMING JOURNEYS

There is an INBOUND JOURNEY being planned with a group coming from the NATIONAL CAPITOL AREA FF from September 26 to October 4, 2024. Please contact Dave Ring, 505-412-3950 if you can help with the planning for the Journey. Dave and Lenore Pardee have found homehosts, small group dinner hosts, and set up the program. Day hosts and someone to organize the welcome dinner are needed.

We are visiting MEDICINE HAT, CANADA June 18 to 25, 2024. Michael Wald is the contact person for this journey and he can be reached at 972-522-9500. We have ten ambassadors signed p so far, so let Michael know if you are interested.
The OUTBOUND JOURNEY to DAYTON, OHIO from May 1-7, 2024 has been canceled by Dayton because so few people expressed an interest.

Many thanks to all of you who have renewed your membership. We appreciate it.
We encourage you to check our website for information about future events:

http://www.ffnewmexico.org.

March Social – additional information

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Friends!
March is our Social month and what a way to utilize the beautiful International District Library with a documentary film!
Tom Dyble, one of our members, whose love is history, attended the premier showing of the film at the November 2017 meeting of the Victim of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington DC.
Women of the Gulag:  The Last Survivors
We are privileged to have the opportunity to view the documentary film Women of the Gulag which tells the compelling and tragic stories of six women as last survivors of the Gulag.  Gulag was a government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camp system.  The six women were in their eighties and nineties who survived Stalin’s repression of the 1930s.  This is the first account of women in the camps and special settlements.
 
Please reserve the date Saturday, April 6!
 
Guests are welcomed and what a way to grow our membership!
Please make your reservations no later than Thursday,  April 3,  2024, by calling or texting Berta at 505-710-4448 or emailing her at vets4vets@aol.com.  Please let me know if you will be able to join us for Lunch when you RSVP.
PLACE:          International District Public Library
ADDRESS:     7601 Central Ave. NE
DATE:             Saturday, April 6, 2024
TIME:               11:00 – 1:00             
 Restaurant: Cervantes Restaurant & Lounge – about 1:30 pm – 505-262-2253
                        5801 Gibson Blvd SE
See you soon!