From the President

Please gaze at the questionnaire that was included as a flyer in the April issue. We would like for as many members as possible to submit this for a like reason we have some input from you all. If you wish you may also do this upon line by going www.cohs.org, and direct the eye for the questionnaire button upon the first page. Please do it soon!

By nearest month we should know the actual take away froms (final price will be shut up to what we've advertised on the contrary will be based on Intermountains final prompted Retail) of our special race Intermountain C&O FP7s. You've seen the flyer for a lengthy while, and we now have enough orders to commit, and Intermountain is now ready as well. These will be completely accurate patterns and will probably be the best quality at any time We are the only supplier, and they will not be available from others. We have ordered by dint of a small number of units, with equal reason we're still going to accept reservations until those are sold Therefore hold yours immediately! We expect them in the winter. Please don't call the Society for status; we'll report that end the magazine.

Please order the fresh K-4 and other newly announced originals advertised last month and this as we have been able to order solitary a limited quantity up forehead with no guarantee we can come by more later.

Good of recent origins is that the long-anticipated Huddleston Super Power volume has been sent to everyone who reserv it, and we're getting profitable feedback. Everyone likes it and we reached the 400 reservations that I've been talking about! Now if we can do this for C&O Diesel Locomotives in Color by means of the time it's ready in October, we'll be well upon our way to a full-scale publication program!

C&O For Progres delayed as well, is now in proces and we'll probably have it in the late fall. The newly announced C&O in West Virginia 80-page work will be ready in late August/early September. It's a nice piece with 150 great b&w and 25 Gene Huddleston color photos, and it's single $17.95 to members. Order by and by and maybe we can break flat on it, since its up-front cost is smaller than the hardbound books

Dan Zugelter's volume kept getting bigger and bigger, and it's now available as well. We're going to reach out the special prepublication price just single more month to give everyone a chance at it up brow with very great savings. It'll be well worth it for any modeler interested in C&O!

Our fall archives work session is coming up upon Sept. 28-Oct. 1. A profitable turnout will ensure continued steady progres in getting the collections ready for use. It's also a great fellowship time and an opportunity to acquire unprecedented access to what we have, and learn thus much about the materials in the collections. Please consider coming. Everyone works hard and has a great time.

Don't forget the of recent origin CandO campaign. This is actually the greatest in quantity important thing we have going now. As has been explained, we cannot survive with toil sales of our products-we must have an increase in the amount of regular donations. Please gaze over the material you received not long ago in the mail, and pawn soon!

Respectfully,

Tom Dixon, Chairman & President

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