Upcoming Events
- 29 May 2021: Emrig Benoni Northmead Mall, First Street/Pretoria Rd Benoni
Colin 082 828 0665 - 16-20 June 2021: CSME Meet in Centurion, 999 Kwikkie Crescent Zwartkop Centurion
Carel Janse Van Renseburg 076 774 9221 - 31 July 2021: Crossroads Hobbies St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church, 26 Amajuba Street, Noordheuwel, Krugersdorp
Yolande 073 147 1422 /Roelof 076 169 7316 - 28 August 2021: Emrig Benoni Northmead Mall, First Street/Pretoria Rd Benoni
Colin 082 828 0665 - 24-26 September 2021: CSME Meet in Centurion, 999 Kwikkie Crescent Zwartkop Centurion
Carel Janse Van Renseburg 076 774 9221 - 27 November 2021: Crossroads Hobbies St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church, 26 Amajuba Street, Noordheuwel, Krugersdorp
Yolande 073 147 1422 /Roelof 076 169 7316 - 4 December 2021: Emrig Benoni Northmead Mall, First Street/Pretoria Rd Benoni
Colin 082 828 0665 - 16-20 December 2021:
- CSME Meet in Centurion, 999 Kwikkie Crescent Zwartkop Centurion
Carel Janse Van Renseburg 076 774 9221
Sorry For The Delay
Due to Covid-19 Regulations the event dates for the 2021 Swopmeets was a little bit delayed. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Winter Is Coming!
No Way, Who am I kidding? Winter is Already HERE!! Are you sad because you can’t participate in your favorite hobby, because of the cold spoiling everything?
Well I Have Got News For You!!!!
TRAINS!! TRAINS!! TRAINS!!
Trains are the perfect indoor hobby for the icy cold winter lying before us! Stay inside, stay warm and stay safe, while enjoying playing with your trains your perfect indoor hobby!!
Fun Fact of the month
After his assassination in 1865, Abraham Lincoln’s body went on a tour of 180 cities across seven states before arriving in his home town of Springfield, Illinois to be buried. The train, draped in black, was a massive publicity win for George Pullman who, as well as supplying the carriages for the funeral train, lent a number of his Pullman Sleeper carriages to rail companies wanting to run “Lincoln Specials” to Springfield for mourners to pay their last respects.
Rail travel was still somewhat of a novelty in the USA at the time, and the Lincoln funeral was many Americans’ first look at a train. Despite the prohibitive cost of the Pullman Sleeper carriage, the luxury and finish of something that had previously been very utilitarian was so impressive it became — if not front-page news — then certainly a mild sensation. Demand took off, and Pullman Sleepers were in service all the way up to 1968
