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Big Bend Railroad Club, Inc.

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We are the Big Bend Railroad Club, Inc., the oldest model railroad club in the St. Louis area. Shortly after our beginning in Webster Groves High School in 1938, we moved into and have been located inside the Webster Groves Frisco Depot ever since. Ever since our beginning, the club's purpose has been to teach and improve the skills of model railroading to it's members and to the general public, by building, maintaining and operating a scale model railroad and by demonstrating other related skills at various model railroad shows.

In 1950 we incorporated as a non-profit corporation and in 1994 we purchased the depot from the Burlington Northern Railroad to save it from demolition. In 2000 we received our 501(c)(3) classification and began to work harder to raise the needed money to make many repairs and restorations to our former railroad depot. We are now committed to do whatever we can to preserve and maintain this fine example of vanishing history.

We found out that it will cost over $60,000 to replace our seventy year old roof and make it look similar to when it opened in 1910. It will take another $30,000-40,000 to complete several other repairs and upgrades to the building and immediate area.

We have no major sponsors to give us the support we need, and ninety-five percent of our income comes from affordable membership dues and the few dollars we receive from monthly donations from our visitors.

We need outside sources of income to help pay for the needed repairs to our only home which is also a piece of local and railroad history.

Organizer

Kenneth Rimmel
Organizer
Affton, MO
Big Bend Railroad Club, Inc. (Big Bend Railroad Club)
 
Registered nonprofit
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