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About the Society
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The Society's mission statement (as adopted at the 1st Quarter 2005 meeting):
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Dues are payable on a calendar year basis. The Society publishes four issues of the newsletter each year. No matter when a member joins during the year, the member shall receive the four issues published that year, no matter the aggregate cover price.
Members joining after the Annual meeting, but prior to the end of the calendar year, shall have the option to pay for the following year, but in such event they will not receive the prior year's issues as a dues benefit.
Payment of dues shall also give the right to vote on all society business, as well as the election ballot in advance of the annual meeting.
The membership application is available online in word format
All applications should be mailed to:
RF&P Railroad Historical Society, Inc. ATTN: Membership Chairman PO Box 9097 Fredericksburg VA 22403-9097New members joining late in a calendar year will be assumed to be joining for the following year unless stated otherwise on their application.
This results in two options for late 2009 into 2010:
Option 1 will mean only issues for 2010 will be delivered, but back issues could be purchased through the
Company Store
Option 2 will entitle the new member to the 2010 issues AND to all four issues from 2009 at the membership dues rate, saving off of the cover
price and not being subject to Va Sales tax. This option also means no renewal notice as the rest of the 2009 members will receive with Volume 5, Issue 4.
For 2009, and 2010, dues levels are as follows:
Dues levels for 2010 were set at the 2009 Annual Meeting that was held on 14 November 2009. They remained the same as 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, with the benefit continuing to be 4 issues in 2010 as it was in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, as opposed to the 2 issues of 2005.
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The Society meets in person on a quarterly basis. Only the 4th Quarter meeting, the Annual Meeting, is at a fixed location, the Salem Church Library. The other three quarters are open to meeting elsewhere when the program requires it.
The meeting RSVP/regrets email address is meeting-rsvp@rfandp.org.
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The fixed site of the Annual meeting, and the site of most meetings to date, including the rest of 2010, is the Salem Church Branch of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library on Salem Church Road in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Brief Directions:
From I-95, take Exit 130, Route 3 West. Pass through several traffic lights, before turning left just past Salem Church onto Salem Church Road.
The Library is on the left side just past the 2nd traffic light.
GPS Street Address: 2607 Salem Church Road, Fredericksburg VA 22407
Library official website here. Google map as used on their site:
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The Society publishes a quarterly newsletter. Nineteen issues have been published to date: Two issues of Volume 1 were published in 2005, with four issues each of Volume 2 (2006), 3 (2007), 4 (2008) and 5 (2009). Presently, one of four issues for 2010 have been published.
As yet, the newsletter does not have a permanent title. It has carried a railroad phrase to date - "Linking North and South" - as a temporary title. The publication schedule is such that the newsletter will be in members' hands at least 10 days prior to that Quarter's on-the-ground meeting.
Details of the Issues and a summary of their contents can be found on the Society Publications Page.
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On the web since 1994:
Email List: (1998-2004 on lists.psu.edu; 2004-present on Yahoogroups)
Into the live-meetings of 2004 and 2005:
Bylaws Adoption, Dues Collection & Initial officers:
Incorporation, 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, regular Newsletters & rising membership:
Company Store flourishes
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The Society received its 501(c)(3) Letter from the IRS on June 9th, 2006, with an effective date of February 2, 2006 - the date the Virginia State Corporation Commission accepted our Articles of Incorporation. Any contributions since February are covered under the determination letter, and all prior contributions back to formation date of May 14, 2005, are within the initial period that status is assumed.
The Society is a not-for-profit corporation, but it still must collect and pay Virginia sales tax on any sales, such as back issues or other company store items. The Society came on-line with the state in this capacity on May 1, 2006.
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The CS debuted on the ground at the 3rd Quarter 2006 Society meeting on August 19, 2006. It was also present at the August 26-27, 2006, GTE Show at Chantilly, Va.
Among the first offerings were a print by Keith Wilkerson of the "Thomas Jefferson" 4-8-4 at Richmond's Broad Street station, alongside shirts with the Society logo.
In 2007, the Society commissioned Atlas to do a custom run of their HO scale wide vision caboose in RF&P's 1987 red scheme applied to cabooses 903 and 906.
These were delivered to the Society in February 2008.
Current offerings can be found on the Company Store main page.
Ron Herfurth is presently "store manager", and has been since the inception of the CS. In that capacity he can be reached at csmanager@rfandp.org. He is simply the lead volunteer of the many that are necessary to keep up the basic show schedule that Ron travels, which, in addition to Soceity events, include Greenberg shows in Chantilly, Fredericksburg and Richmond in Virginia, and Timonium in Maryland, the occasional Great Scale show in Timonium, and have included events such as the Manassas Railfest and the Lynchburg Rail Day in the past. Without Ron's efforts, the CS would not be what it has become today. Additional volunteers to help man the table at the various shows and Society events are always appreciated. Summarized, the CS presently offers shirts with the Society logo are available for purchase by members, as are shirts with the 1983 stacked letters logo. Hats the the same logo and mousepads with both the Society and the RF&P "Linking North and South" state outline logos are available, as are back issues of Society Publications. The Wilkerson print is still in supply, and there is a work in progress to offer RF&P logoed coffee mugs. The Society is a not-for-profit corporation, but it still must collect and pay Virginia sales tax on any sales to Virginia residents or for Virginia delivery. (Orders taken for later delivery out of state do not require tax) |
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The Archives were authorized by action of the Membership at the May 2005 meeting. The Archives cover all types of items from the RF&P - its current contents are those items that have been given to the Society. In addition to preservation of items of the Railroad, the Archives will retain the corporate records of the Society.
Russ Dolbear is the Society's Archivist, and he can be reached at archivist@rfandp.org.
More information about the development of the Society Archives can be found on the Archives Page.
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By mail (all applications should be sent to this address):
RF&P Railroad Historical Society, Inc. PO Box 9097 Fredericksburg VA 22403-9097Addressing your correspondence to the proper department will speed the reply process.
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Note that the meeting RSVP/regrets email address is meeting-rsvp@rfandp.org, which is used for both RSVPs and Regrets. General suggestions can be sent to suggestions@rfandp.org.
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