FOBNR 2023 Mini-Convention
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
June 1-3, 2023
The FOBNR board of directors has decided to hold a mostly railfanning convention in 2023 and return to a full-blown convention in 2024. It will be free to attend, but there will be no presentations, no tours, and no firm agenda except for a membership meeting on Thursday evening. Just meet up each day at a predetermined location, decide where to go, and head out. Watch for more information here and in the January issue of The BN Expediter.
Each year the FOBNR holds a convention and membership meeting at some location on the BN/BNSF system. The convention includes tours of local BN/BNSF facilities and other railroad-related facilities, a display of BN historical information and items, tours of local layouts (and sometimes operating sessions), railfanning opportunities, a banquet with a speaker (usually a local BNSF official), and a board meeting.
Descriptions and photos from previous conventions:
2022 Vancouver (WA) Convention Report
2021 Vancouver (WA) – no convention (COVID-19), replaced by a mini-meet (railfanning only) in Galesburg (IL) – Report
2020 Vancouver (WA) – no convention (COVID-19)
2019 Kansas City (KS) Convention Report
2018 Aurora (IL) Convention Report
2016 Glendive Convention Report
2015 Minneapolis Convention Report
2013 Missoula Convention Report
2012 Amarillo Convention Report
2011 Gillette Convention Report
2010 Galesburg Convention Report
2009 Seattle Convention Report
2008 Lincoln Convention Report
2007 Bismarck/Mandan Convention Report
2006 Denver Convention (no report)
2005 Superior Convention (no report)
2004 Spokane Convention (no report)
2003 Alliance Convention (no report)
2002 Fort Worth Convention (no report)
2001 Fargo Convention (no report)
2000 Minneapolis Convention (no report)
1999 Kansas City Convention (no report)
1998 Essex Convention (no report)
1997 Galesburg Convention (no report)
1996 Seattle Convention (no report)
1995 Chicago Convention (no report)
1994 St. Paul Convention (cancelled)
1993 Galesburg Convention (no report)