The Planned Full Size 

Sunset Hill's  I. T. S. 

Branch Line Passenger & Freight Station








Current plans for the Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society "Bull Moose Line" include the construction of a full size Branch Line Passenger & Freight Station as an engine house/shed on the north side of the outdoor garden railway layout. 
The building, will be the hub of activity.

I.T.S. member Phil Bachman presented proposal drawings of a new train shed.
He has prepared a Floor Plan and an Elevation drawing.
Equipped for engine storage it will also be a staging facility, and contain the power unit controls for the five operating  G-scale railway lines of the model layout  





The engine house/shed will be situated so that the I.T.S. engineer of the day will be able to follow the flow of all five trains in operation around the garden 
from the stations bay windows.


Unlike typical railroad G-scale modelers who construct their layout from the ground up the 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 the Passenger/ Freight station and the G-scale train garden.


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




 

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The Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society "Bull Moose Line" is being rebuilt within Sunset Hill Farm County Park located just off the intersection of  US Route 6 and  775 Meridian Road in Valparaiso Indiana.






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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 …
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