FELLSMERE RR PRESENTATION
The FECRS was well represented on Saturday afternoon Sep 8, 2012 at the Brevard County Library in Melbourne when cabooseMikey gave a power-point show to the South Brevard Historical Society on the Fellsmere Railroad/Trans-Florida Central. There were about 65 guests present.
FECRS members Jerry Groothouse, Richard Benjamin, Jason Treichler,Tom Chaffee, Jeff Smith and cabooseMikey's favorite buddy, Mr. Jacob Smith (age 10), brought two large display cases full of wonderful railroad antiques and artifacts to display to the audience. There was even a long-spouted oil can similar to the one engineer Reynold Teed was using to oil-around FRR #100 in one of the slides.
More than thirty photos, many of them 100 years old, from the Walter A. Siewert Collection were displayed power-point fashion to an appreciative audience. An hour simply flew by which was then followed by a question/answer session and Jerry's information-packed show-and-tell.
Richard, Jason and Jeff were all on hand to answer many questions and tell about their involvement with collecting and the railroading hobby.
My favorite helper, though, was everywhere seemingly at once with my little movie cam in hand to record as much of the presentation as possible. I have great hopes that he will follow us amateur historians simply because he sees how much fun we have.
There are future presentations in the works and field trips being scheduled as the weather becomes a little friendlier. All are welcomed, so don't miss out on the Fellsmere Railroad when I holler "ALL ABOARD"!
cabooseMikey.
