Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society - Train Garden Progress

Two Years and Counting...



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


Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society Relocation Committee

 Lance Molenda, Owen Todd, George Sarver, David Ransom, David Casey, Gary Barneko


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




Subcontractors in the process of building the I T S Train Garden retaining wall for the "Bull Moose Line"
on the ground above the old septic field 





Final exterior touches to the prefab shed were made by Amish craftsmen
 after delivery to the site.




This she shed takes the place of the branch line train station that was originally envisioned by the group.




Send donations to:

Valparaiso, IN 63684
donations@illianaroad.com
Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society
P.O. Box 2836

Or Via PayPal to:

 donations@illianaroad.com






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These visual effects will offer the “Bull Moose Line” a unique suspended right-of-way on a series of trestle bents.  Trains  will travel the track over a roadway held in place by cribbing timbers to join wooden trestle bents that carry the track elevation up and around the lower mill pond to a crossover compression bridge. Following the risers upgrade the trains will move along track to circle the upper reflection pond, then descend along a cribbing held roadway through a tunnel to  once again circle the lower mill pond.  








An addition covered bridge will sit as a set piece on the track, over the water fall on the upper reflection pond, where Thomas The Train and friends will travel.








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The Bull Moose Line - Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society

The "Bull Moose Line" G-scale Railway Garden is being rebuilt at Sunset Hill Farm County Park locatedat 775 Meridian Road, just north of Valparaiso Indiana.



A Name Change To more closely identify with the move to the Sunset Hill Farm County Park the membership of the  Society voted to change their name to “Sunset Hill’s Illiana Train Society"
* Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society Relocation Committee
Lance Molenda, Owen Todd, George Sarver, David Ransom, David Casey, Gary Barneko
* l Rather than build a layout as most G-scale modeling groups do, the Relocation Committee is seeking  $52,000.00 in donations  to use outside contractors toreplicate the original “Bull Moose Line” over the septic field 
on the north side of Sunset Hill Farm County Park.

The committee members hope to open the venue for public viewing sometime in the
Spring or Summer of 2019.
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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.






To more closely identify with their move to the Sunset Hill Farm County Park the membership of the Illiana Garden Railway Society voted to change their name to  Sunset Hill's Illiana Train Society.

Here is the official ballot tally for the Society 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 …
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