Search This Blog

Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society

Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society is a not for profit group of G-Scale model enthusiasts from the states of Illinois and Indiana. Society members are interested in all of aspects of large-scale model railroading. Among the groups goals are the education of the public about Garden Railroading. That Includes modeling, construction and running of garden trains, railroadiana and American railroad history.

A Sign of Things To Come

Get link
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

June 07, 2018

A Sign of Things To Come

The new sign tells the story: Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society is coming to Sunset Hill Farm Park in 2019.

Get link
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society - New Name For A New Home

September 27, 2019

To more closely identify with their move to the Sunset Hill Farm County Park
located at
775 Meridian Road in Valparaiso Indiana. the membership of the Illiana Garden Train Society voted to change the groups name to

Here is the official tally for the name change to Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society.
Number of member ballots received after the 12:00 noon cut off time on February 14, 2018
and Society members solicited who did not respond = Thirteen (13) Number of Ballots received before the 12:00 noon cut off time on February 14, 2018 = Seven (7) Number of ballots with “Yes” votes received for the name change = Seven (7) “Approved” Number of ballots with “No” votes received = Zero (0) “Not Approved” The “Yes” vote majority passed the name change, 7 to 0, 100% of the votes submitted. By a vote of 7 to 0 the name change to “Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society” was approved by the Society membership.

Members of the "Bull Moose Line" relocation commettee:

Lance Molenda, Owen…

Illiana Garden Railway (IGRS) Is Gone

March 01, 2020

The Garden Railway layout at Samuelson's Greenhouse in Valparaiso is gone. It closed in 2017 and was dismantled.
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.
In 2018 to more closely identify with this move to
Sunset Hill Farm County Park
the membership of the Society voted to change their name to Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society.
*
Here is the official ballot tally for the groups name change to Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society.
Number of member ballots received after the 12:00 noon cut off time on February 14, 2018
and Society members solicited who did not respond = Thirteen (13) Number of Ballots received before the 12:00 noon cut off time on February 14, 2018 = Seven (7) Number of ballots with “Yes” votes received for the name change = Seven (7) “Approved” Number of ballots with “No” votes received = Zero (0) “Not Approved” The…

Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society - Train Garden Progress

December 09, 2019

Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society - Train Garden Progress

Three Years and Counting...

In 2017 the Porter County Parks Department agreed to host the Illiana Train Society and a locastion was chosen on the east side of Sunset Hill County Park for the Train Garden Venue

The Building Commettie formaly broke ground for the Train Garden venue
in the Spring of 2018.

Unlike typical railroad G-scale modelers who construct their layout from the ground up, The Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society's Relocation Committee began collecting $52,000.00 in donations to employ outside contractors to rebuild the
“Bull Moose Line”

The relocation group managed to tear down the original "Bull Moose Line" layout at Samuelsons Greenhouse in the fall of 2018 and then transport the dregs to the Sunset Hill site.

The Porter County Park District provided assistance
to build the railroad garden when equipment and staff where available