Illiana Garden Railway Is Gone



The Garden Railway layout at Samuelson's Greenhouse in Valparaiso is gone.
No G-scale trains will run there again.



The "Bull Moose Line" outdoor G-scale venue
is being relocated to Sunset Hill Farm County Park located at 775 Meridian Road,
 just north of Valparaiso.
To more closely identify with this move to 
Sunset Hill Farm County Park 
the membership of the Society recently voted to change their name to
Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society.

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Unlike typical railroad G-scale modelers who construct their layout from the ground up the Sunset Hill's Illiana Society's Building Committee:

Lance Molenda, Owen Todd, George Sarver, Dave Ransom, Dave Casey and Gary Barneko

 
are asking for $52,000.00 in donations 
to have an outside contractor build a train garden 
at Sunset Hill Farm County Park.

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Send donations to:
Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society
P.O. Box 2836 
Valparaiso, IN 63684

 Or

 Via Paypal:
donations@Illianaroad.com

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The Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society plans to carry on the operating traditions and craftsmanship associated with G-scale modeling of the  society founders, 
opening a new “Bull Moose Line” to the general public sometime in the Spring of 2019.








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