Announcing — the BDRC (Lower Level model train team at Freeman Station) will be meeting on Saturday August 18th, 10 AM til Noon.

We’re in our space at last & materials are on site to begin building the Diorama.

Come & see the Lower Level and learn how plans for building the model railway layout and the teaching diorama are shaping up.

Your ideas are needed. NOW it’s our time! Will you be part of it?

(More details on the project are available at the “Diorama” menu item above.)

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The BDRC volunteer painting crew did a great job the morning of Saturday June 23, they did the primer coat on the basement walls.
The work party at the Station consisted of:
Barb Plander, Marion Richardson, Brian Aasgaard, Ed Keenleyside, John Mellow, Eric Shergold, Ken Taylor, David Vollick, and Denny Williams.
We also had a visit from Gordon Sherwood who gave FOFS a nice commemorative spike and date nail mounted on white oak, and a framed picture of a Kingston steam locomotive.
Without our volunteers the Station would not be at the stage it is today.
Thanks to all.
Bob Miller.

City of Burlington Best Awards acceptance speech RCTD 5 9 18

Eleanor McMahon, MPP and Blair Lancaster, Councillor, City of Burlington presented the
Ontario Trillium Grant cheque to Ron, President FOFS and Brian, Treasurer FOFS which is designated for the wheelchair accessibility work at the station.

RTO/ETO District 15/Halton of the Retired Teachers of Ontario has announced approval of a grant application by Friends of Freeman Station (FOFS) to fund a computer control system for its historic model railway educational exhibit.  The money will be used to purchase the central “brains” of a planned interactive, museum-quality model railway diorama depicting life in the village of Freeman (now part of Burlington) in the early 1900’s.  Additional details at freemanstation.ca/llrd/.

If you have extra 2X4 lumber, 4X8 sheets of drywall, insulation materials, or fasteners left over from a project, we would be delighted to receive them for finishing the lower level of the Station.  Your donations are 100% tax deductible.   Call 905-334-0272 or email info@freemanstation.ca and we’ll coordinate delivery.