For the past ten years, a few dedicated volunteers from Division 7 have served as Merit Badge Counselors for the Railroading Merit Badge clinics, as part of annual Merit Badge Fairs conducted by the Boy Scout Councils at both Fairfield and Sycamore High Schools. In 2006, Division 7 sponsored these sessions for approximately 30 Boy Scouts, including providing two HO-scale freight car kits for each Scout to assemble. One session was held at the John Engle Model Train Club's layouts, located in the Hamilton Senior Citizens' Center, in Hamilton, Ohio. The Cincinnati Northern Model Railroad Club provided several volunteers who conducted clinics on materials needed to build a home layout, making artificial trees, and weathering freight cars with chalks. Members of the John Engle Club operated their extensive HO-scale layout, as well as smaller N-scale and O-scale layouts for the Scouts and their parents. The merit badge sessions are held on four Saturday mornings in February and March of each year
Contact Richard White at 513-829-8510 for times and additional information regarding the Boy Scout Railroading Merit Badge training session at Hamilton Seniors' Center.
Contact Community Service co-chairmen John Altshool or Jim MacKnight if you are interested in participating as a Boy Scout merit badge counselor for the Railroading Merit Badge training.
