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Santa Fe GP9u 2244 switches the piggyback facility on Stephen M. Priest’s St. Louis Division layout. This layout and many other fine examples of modeling will be on tour during the convention.
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Building Structures with Styrene
Building a Freight Car Shed
Introduction to Building DPM Structure Kits
Introduction to Building Your Own Turnouts
Introduction to Making your own Molds - Part A
Introduction to Making your own Molds - Part B
Making Foreground Trees
Scratchbuilding a Wooden Loading Dock and Attached Ramp
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Card Making - First Section
Card Making - Second Section
Circle Mini Scrapbook
Craft Fantastic Jewelry
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Spoon Jewelry - Section 1
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Sunday
, August 5
6:00pm CDT
British Railway Modelling
Penn Valley
Mike Arnold
Early Kansas City Development and the Railroads
Pershing South
Larry Diehl
Effective Make and Take Clinics. Preparation for and conduct of an effective make and take clinic at the Division level
Pershing North
Jack Hamilton
Incorporating Potato Farming and Shipping on a Model Railway
Pershing East
Steve McMullin
Setting up Operations on your Model RR
Pershing West
Mark Juett
7:30pm CDT
Kansas City Stockyards & Meat Packing
Pershing South
Larry Diehl
RAILS TO WALES and elsewhere in the British Isles
Penn Valley
Ron Johnson
The NMRA Data Sheets
Pershing East
Philip Sharp
Using JMRI for car forwarding
Pershing West
Mark Juett
What's in My Tool Box? (2-hour clinic)
Pershing North
Jack Hamilton
9:00pm CDT
How the Panama Railroad developed the country and canal
Penn Valley
Brian Krupicka
Realistic Operations
Pershing West
Jim Providenza
Monday
, August 6
8:00am CDT
Full operations on a small room size layout
Shawnee
David Capron . MMR
Getting Started in Operations
Pershing East
Bob Weinheimer MMR
Improving the Operation of Brass Steam Locomotives
Pershing West
Bill Deen
Modeling Tips and Tricks for Structures
Pershing North
Bruce DeYoung MMR
Scratch Building in the Digital Age
Pershing South
Steve Zapytowski
Arduino Hands-On
Penn Valley
John R. Mick
Layout Design Bootcamp
Washington Park Place 3
Byron Henderson
9:30am CDT
Facing a Blank Wall & Scratch Building Simple Structures
Shawnee
Larry Alfred MMR
Interiors - Without Edges
Pershing North
Jeff Gerow
Lemonaid; New power for old brass
Pershing West
Bruce A. Knapp
Operations on the Pennsylvania Southern
Pershing East
Bob Weinheimer MMR
Taking the Perfect Layout Photo…That Failed
Pershing South
Steve Zapytowski and Bruce Hukill
11:00am CDT
Building a Maintenance of Way boxcar
Pershing West
William (Gene) Jameson
Evolution of an Operating Scheme
Pershing East
Bob Weinheimer MMR
Harvey Houses
Shawnee
John G Stevens
How to Prepare and Present a Clinic
Pershing South
Steve Zapytowski
Modeling the Prototype - North Whitefield, Maine
Pershing North
Pete Magoun MMR
1:00pm CDT
Building a Layout for the 2018 Convention
Washington Park Place 3
Stephen Priest
Building a New Layout Room
Shawnee
Cal Sexsmith
I Want it ALL: Layout Design for Operations, Train Watching & Scenery Construction
Pershing East
Greg Johnson
Judging the National Contest
Pershing North
Robert (Bob) Hamm
Kit-bashing a Maintenance of Way boxcar
Pershing South
William E Jameson
The Art of Soldering
Pershing West
David Carlton
Arduino Hands-On
Penn Valley
John R. Mick
2:30pm CDT
CANCELLED Communications for Model Railroads
Pershing South
Seth Neumann
Constructing rock molds and modeling with rocks
Washington Park Place 3
David Capron . MMR
Getting Down & Dirty with Weathering
Pershing North
Leslie L. Eaton MMR
Layout design for operations
Pershing East
Bob Reid MMR
Modeling the Walther's Ethanol Plant.
Shawnee
Ron Morgan
Smooth Running with Small Steam Locomotives
Pershing West
Don Ball
4:00pm CDT
Building a Maintenance of Way boxcar
Pershing West
William (Gene) Jameson
From the track back. Background scenery
Pershing East
Lloyd Larson MMR
Tips & Tricks for Scratchbuilding and Kitbashing
Pershing North
Leslie L. Eaton MMR
Constructing Craftsman Kits (2-hour clinic)
Washington Park Place 3
David Capron . MMR
Photo Editing for Backgrounds (2-hour hands on clinic)
Shawnee
Miles Hale MMR
6:00pm CDT
Advanced Static Grass Techniques for Static Novices! (Hands on clinic)
Washington Park Place 2
Jim Elster
CTC Demystified 1 - An Introduction to Centralized Traffic Control Machines
Pershing North
Doug Geiger MMR
Engine Driver and the Raspberry Pi
Penn Valley
Martyn Jenkins
Kadee Couplers a Treatise
Pershing East
Paul Hobbs
Nineteenth Century Railroading Modeling the Past with Modern Methods
Pershing West
Don Ball
7:30pm CDT
CTC Demystified 2 - Advanced Features and Concepts of Centralized Traffic Control Machines
Pershing North
Doug Geiger MMR
Good Looking Easy Trees from Natural Plants
Pershing South
Paul Evans • Mark Juett • Charles Yaw
Maintenance 101, the proper lubrication of rolling stock and track cleaning fundamentals.
Pershing West
Harry Kannry
Making, modeling and operations with real coal loads
Washington Park Place 3
David Capron . MMR
Running CMRI on a Raspberry Pi, Can it be done?
Penn Valley
Tom Gordon
Streamlined Passenger Trains Serving Kansas City
Pershing East
Paul Hobbs
9:00pm CDT
Blending Foreground and Background Scenery
Pershing South
Bruce DeYoung MMR
The Cable Car in Kansas City
Pershing East
Paul Evans
Tuesday
, August 7
8:00am CDT
A Model Railroad Systems Architecture
Pershing South
Erich Whitney
Battery powered engines
Pershing North
Donn Tolley
Good Looking Easy Trees from Natural Plants
Pershing West
Paul Evans • Mark Juett • Charles Yaw
History of Argentine Yard
Shawnee
Robert D. Walz
LCC - A Non-Technical Introduction and Overview
Pershing East
John Forsythe Dick Bronson
Realistic Operations
Washington Park Place 3
Jim Providenza
Arduino Hands-On - Tuesday Morning Session
Penn Valley
John R. Mick
9:30am CDT
A JMRI-Based DCC Decoder Calibration Testbed Part 1: DCC decoder motor control basics
Pershing South
Erich Whitney
A look at Amtrak during its formative years
Pershing West
Dave Phillips
CANCELLED Communications for Model Railroads
Pershing North
Seth Neumann
How the Panama Railroad developed the country and canal
Shawnee
Brian Krupicka
LCC - A Technical Introduction and Overview
Pershing East
Balazs Racz & Stuart Baker
Setting up Operations on your Model RR
Washington Park Place 3
Mark Juett
11:00am CDT
A JMRI-Based DCC Decoder Calibration Testbed Part 2: How to perform DCC decoder calibration with JMRI
Pershing South
Erich Whitney
CANCELLED The Great Railroad War
Shawnee
Christopher R. Gabel
It gets in your blood, the Narrow Gauge
Pershing North
Robert (Bob) Hamm
Laser Cutting Your Own Structures
Pershing West
Greg Johnson
LCC - Adding Signals to your Layout with LCC
Pershing East
Dick Bronson
Using JMRI for car forwarding
Washington Park Place 3
Mark Juett
1:00pm CDT
Constructing rock molds and modeling with rocks
Pershing North
David Capron . MMR
Highlights of the National World War I Museum & Memorial
Shawnee
Merrill Walz
Implementing Modular Layout Operations with CMRI and CATS
Pershing South
Erich Whitney
Modeling Tips and Tricks for Structures
Pershing West
Bruce DeYoung MMR
Weathering With Pan Pastels and Ammo of Mig
Pershing East
Pete Steinmetz
Arduino Hands On (2-hour clinic)
Penn Valley
Seth Neumann & Earl Girbovan
2:30pm CDT
Battery Powered Radio Control In Smaller Scales
Pershing East
Pete Steinmetz
Getting Down & Dirty with Weathering
Pershing West
Leslie L. Eaton MMR
Making, modeling and operations with real coal loads
Pershing North
David Capron . MMR
Modeling the Prototype - North Whitefield, Maine
Pershing South
Pete Magoun MMR
The Katy Railroad In Kansas City
Shawnee
Raymond B. "Ray" George
Update on the Nickel Plate
Washington Park Place 3
Tony Koester
4:00pm CDT
A Gentle Introduction to Programming an Arduino
Penn Valley
Dr. John Bate
A look at Amtrak during its formative years
Pershing South
Dave Phillips
Build a Phone System for your Model Railroad
Pershing East
Seth Neumann
C/MRI Layout Control Using JMRI
Washington Park Place 3
Chuck Catania
Full operations on a small room size layout
Pershing North
David Capron . MMR
How Fred Harvey built a travel experience for the Santa Fe
Shawnee
Merrill Walz
Tips & Tricks for Scratchbuilding and Kitbashing
Pershing West
Leslie L. Eaton MMR
6:00pm CDT
Custom Decals for your model railroad
Penn Valley
Dave Roeder MMR
Harvey Houses
Shawnee
John G Stevens
Implementing a Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system using C/MRI and JMRI
Washington Park Place 3
Chuck Catania
It gets in your blood, the Narrow Gauge
Pershing West
Robert (Bob) Hamm
Modeling the Walther's Ethanol Plant.
Pershing North
Ron Morgan
The NMRA Exhibit at California State Railroad Museum
Pershing East
NMRA Museum Committee Chairman • Charlie Getz • NMRA President & Allen Pollock
LCC - Building Your Own Layout
Pershing South
Balazs Racz
7:30pm CDT
CMRI SIG Meet and Greet
Century B
Seth Neumann
CTC Demystified 1 - An Introduction to Centralized Traffic Control Machines
Shawnee
Doug Geiger MMR
Documenting Your layout
Penn Valley
William (Gene) Jameson
Facing a Blank Wall & Scratch Building Simple Structures
Pershing North
Larry Alfred MMR
From the track back. Background scenery
Pershing East
Lloyd Larson MMR
The Kirkwood cutoff - Model Railroad Planning & Design
Pershing West
Dave Roeder MMR
9:00pm CDT
"How to Lose Money and Have Fun Doing It: Passenger Operations on the Lake Erie & Southern"
Pershing West
Drake Hokanson
A look at the GM&O thru its annual reports: 1945-1971
Pershing North
Dr. Kevin Feeney CPA
Build a Phone System for your Model Railroad
Pershing East
Seth Neumann
CTC Demystified 2 - Advanced Features and Concepts of Centralized Traffic Control Machines
Shawnee
Doug Geiger MMR
LCC - OpenLCB Users' Group Meeting
Pershing South
Stuart Baker
Wednesday
, August 8
8:00am CDT
"How to Lose Money and Have Fun Doing It: Passenger Operations on the Lake Erie & Southern"
Penn Valley
Drake Hokanson
Documenting Your layout
Pershing South
William (Gene) Jameson
Modular Structures
Pershing North
John Lowrance-MMR
Scenery Projects at The Model Railroad Club
Pershing East
Scott Dunlap
Tank Cars 101 For Model Railroaders
Washington Park Place 3
Rich Mahaney
The Western Maryland Railway and The Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Pershing West
William Wolf
9:30am CDT
Basic Electronics for Model railroaders
Pershing South
William (Gene) Jameson
Connecting Arduinos for an ABS or APB Signal System
Penn Valley
Gary Saxton
Engineering the Right of Way
Pershing East
Neal Schorr
Intermodal 101 For Model Railroaders
Washington Park Place 3
Rich Mahaney
Iron and Steel: the Industry
Pershing West
Doug Geiger MMR
Setting The Scene
Pershing North
John Lowrance-MMR
US Army Mortuary Trains 1947-1951
Shawnee
Jim Murrie and Naomi Petersen
11:00am CDT
Colorado Fuel & Iron Steel Plant
Pershing West
Paul Evans
Ground Cover Pallet
Pershing North
John Lowrance-MMR
Highlights of the National World War I Museum & Memorial
Shawnee
Merrill Walz
Line Poles and Pole Lines
Pershing East
Neal Schorr
Selecting Industries For Your Model Railroad
Washington Park Place 3
Rich Mahaney
The Making of a DCC/LCC Throttle
Penn Valley
John Socha-Leialoha
1:00pm CDT
A Layout Essential- Fire Stations
Pershing North
Bruce Evans
Build - N - Play Circuits Model Train animation circuits both Audio and Scenery electronic projects
Penn Valley
Brian Krupicka
Building a Layout for the 2018 Convention
Washington Park Place 3
Stephen Priest
How Fred Harvey built a travel experience for the Santa Fe
Shawnee
Merrill Walz
Populating Your Layout - Making Your Own Figures
Pershing East
Marty Vaughn MMR
Steel Mill Modeling
Pershing West
William Wolf & Phillip Burnside
TSU2 Installed, Now What?
Pershing South
George Bogatuk III
2:30pm CDT
Choosing, using, maintaining and troubleshooting your air brush equipment
Washington Park Place 2
Ken Schlotfeldt
Connecting Arduinos for an ABS or APB Signal System
Penn Valley
Gary Saxton
Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) an revolution in the making Steel and how to model it
Pershing West
Phillip Burnside
Emergency Operations...Accuracy in Scene Construction
Pershing North
Bruce Evans
Modeling the old West.
Pershing East
Marty Vaughn MMR
RAILS TO WALES and elsewhere in the British Isles
Shawnee
Ron Johnson
Weathering With Pan Pastels and Ammo of Mig
Pershing South
Pete Steinmetz
4:00pm CDT
Battery Powered Radio Control In Smaller Scales
Pershing South
Pete Steinmetz
CANCELLED The Great Railroad War
Shawnee
Christopher R. Gabel
Fun Foolproof Painting With Water Base Acrylic Paints
Washington Park Place 2
Ken Schlotfeldt
How to paint scale people and animals
Pershing East
Charles Yaw
The Art of Soldering
Penn Valley
David Carlton
The Greeley Railroad Forest Fire...
Pershing North
Bruce Evans
What is need to develop a 3D Model for 3D Printing of Parts for a Steel Mill
Pershing West
Phillip Burnside
6:00pm CDT
A Layout Essential- Fire Stations
Shawnee
Bruce Evans
Beginner's Guide to Using Social Media for your Division and/or Region
Penn Valley
Christina Zambri and Gordy Robinson
Engineering the Right of Way
Pershing East
Neal Schorr
Improvements to a working Hump Yard
Pershing North
Juan Celorio
YARDMASTER 101
Pershing South
Dan Munson
“Quick Industries” For Your Model Railroad
Pershing West
Rich Mahaney
Learning How to Airbrush Freight Cars (2-hour hands-on clinic)
Washington Park Place 2
John Lee MMR • Ken Schlotfeldt
Railroad Signaling/Operations (2-hour forum)
Washington Park Place 3
Stephen Priest
7:30pm CDT
Disney Trains, by Sam Nicastro
Pershing North
David Nicastro
Emergency Operations...Accuracy in Scene Construction
Shawnee
Bruce Evans
Intermediate's Guide to Giving your Region/Division a True Social Media Presence that Gets Positive Results
Penn Valley
Christina Zambri and Gordon Robinson
Line Poles and Pole Lines
Pershing East
Neal Schorr
Model Railroad Photography
Pershing South
Dan Munson
What to Do With “Old Era” Railroad Equipment
Pershing West
Rich Mahaney
9:00pm CDT
17 Ways Not to Make Signals – and One That Works Pretty Well
Pershing North
David Nicastro
Basic Electronics for Model railroaders
Pershing East
William (Gene) Jameson
Cast a Giant Shadow! Deriving Maximum Operating Enjoyment from a Small(ish) Layout. A Case Study
Pershing South
Bret Overholtzer
Excursions in Time
Washington Park Place 2
Jerome (Jerry) Crosson
Hazardous Materials For Model Railroaders
Pershing West
Rich Mahaney
The Expert's Guide to All Things Media for your Region/Division
Penn Valley
Christina Zambri and Gordon Robinson
The Greeley Railroad Forest Fire...
Shawnee
Bruce Evans
Thursday
, August 9
8:00am CDT
A brief history of Model Railroader project layouts
Washington Park Place 3
Hal Miller
Getting Started in Operations
Washington Park Place 2
Bob Weinheimer MMR
Growing Up Along the Rio Grande
Shawnee
Jeff Pierce
Incorporating Potato Farming and Shipping on a Model Railway
Pershing West
Steve McMullin
Kansas City Union Station in HO Scale
Pershing North
Nick Muff MD
Model Train Detection - What It Is & What It's Good For
Pershing South
John Parsons
Running CMRI on a Raspberry Pi, Can it be done?
Penn Valley
Tom Gordon
YARDMASTER 101
Pershing East
Dan Munson
9:30am CDT
Cast a Giant Shadow! Deriving Maximum Operating Enjoyment from a Small(ish) Layout. A Case Study
Washington Park Place 3
Creating a Fiber-Optic Lighting Solution
Penn Valley
Michael Groves
Grade Crossings I have known.
Pershing West
Fred Headon
How to model your hometown
Pershing North
Cody Grivno
Model Railroad Photography
Pershing East
Dan Munson
Nuckolls Meat Packing, history and modeling
Shawnee
Paul Evans
Operations on the Pennsylvania Southern
Washington Park Place 2
Bob Weinheimer MMR
The Kirkwood cutoff - Model Railroad Planning & Design
Pershing South
Dave Roeder MMR
11:00am CDT
Blending Foreground and Background Scenery
Pershing North
Bruce DeYoung MMR
Colorado Fuel & Iron Steel Plant
Shawnee
Paul Evans
Custom Decals for your model railroad
Pershing South
Dave Roeder MMR
Evolution of an Operating Scheme
Washington Park Place 2
Bob Weinheimer MMR
Implementing Modular Layout Operations with CMRI and CATS
Pershing East
Erich Whitney
Kansas City Union Station in HO Scale
Penn Valley
Nick Muff MD
Layout design for operations
Pershing West
Bob Reid MMR
One Man’s Experience Implementing JMRI Operations Pro
Washington Park Place 3
Scott Pandorf
1:00pm CDT
3D Printing using a home printer
Pershing South
Kent Hurley
A Day in the Life of the Rio Grande Southern
Shawnee
Jim Ferenc
A Model Railroad Systems Architecture
Pershing East
Erich Whitney
Automation and Controls for Railroad Accessories
Washington Park Place 2
James LeFevre P.E.
Building a New Layout Room
Pershing West
Cal Sexsmith
Model Train Detection - What It Is & What It's Good For
Penn Valley
John Parsons
Setting The Scene
Pershing North
John Lowrance-MMR
Update on the Nickel Plate
Washington Park Place 3
Tony Koester
2:30pm CDT
3D Printing Fundamentals
Pershing South
Jim Macino
A Gentle Introduction to Programming an Arduino
Penn Valley
Dr. John Bate
A JMRI-Based DCC Decoder Calibration Testbed Part 1: DCC decoder motor control basics
Pershing East
Erich Whitney
Ground Cover Pallet
Pershing North
John Lowrance-MMR
Kids n' Trains
Pershing West
Allen (Al) Hovey
Planning Operations Using Historical Society Resources
Washington Park Place 3
Chris Atkins
Reserection of a Failed Frontier Railroad. The Rio Grande RR
Shawnee
Mark Hemphill
What Would You do Differently? Layout Design SIG (Panel)
Washington Park Place 2
Seth Neumann
4:00pm CDT
3D Printing for scratchbuilders
Pershing South
Jim Macino
A JMRI-Based DCC Decoder Calibration Testbed Part 2: How to perform DCC decoder calibration with JMRI
Pershing East
Erich Whitney
A Model Railroad Makes Middle School Math Fun and Engaging
Pershing West
Jeffrey Allen
Lionel TMCC, signal issues, Using it with JMRI and wi throttle and iPhones
Washington Park Place 2
James LeFevre P.E.
Modular Structures
Pershing North
John Lowrance-MMR
More Fun with Arduino’s and Layout Automation
Penn Valley
Scott Pandorf
Researching and Designing a Model Railroad that Captures the Essence of Pueblo’s Railroads
Shawnee
John McBee
The Sue Line takes the LEaD....
Washington Park Place 3
David Colvin
6:00pm CDT
British Railway Modelling
Washington Park Place 3
Mike Arnold
Home Injection Molding for Model Railroads
Pershing West
John Socha-Leialoha
Kit-bashing a Maintenance of Way boxcar
Pershing North
William E Jameson
LokProgrammer and CV changes
Pershing East
Mathew Herman
Scratch Building in the Digital Age
Penn Valley
Steve Zapytowski
US Army Mortuary Trains 1947-1951
Shawnee
Jim Murrie and Naomi Petersen
Wiring for Signals
Pershing South
Rodney Black
7:30pm CDT
ESU CabControl DCC system
Pershing East
Mathew Herman
Excursions in Time
Washington Park Place 2
Jerome (Jerry) Crosson
Modeling the 1953 Ringling Brothers Circus Train
Shawnee
Jim Murrie and Naomi Petersen
Taking Measurements from Photos
Pershing North
Philip Sharp
Taking the Perfect Layout Photo…That Failed
Penn Valley
Steve Zapytowski and Bruce Hukill
TSU2 Installed, Now What?
Pershing West
George Bogatuk III
Understanding Signals
Pershing South
Rodney Black
What I learned from the Prototype Railroad (2-hour forum)
Washington Park Place 3
Stephen Priest
9:00pm CDT
CATS: A CTC Panel that Grows
Pershing South
Rodney Black
Digitrax User Forum
Pershing East
Zana & AJ Ireland
How to Prepare and Present a Clinic
Penn Valley
Steve Zapytowski
Improvements to a working Hump Yard
Pershing West
Juan Celorio
Realistic Barbed Wire Fence
Pershing North
Mike Brusky
Friday
, August 10
8:00am CDT
3D Printing using a home printer
Shawnee
Kent Hurley
Awesome Awnings for Awful Little Buildings
Pershing East
Howard R Garner MMR
Creating a Fiber-Optic Lighting Solution
Pershing South
Michael Groves
Overview to Miniatur Wunderland
Pershing North
Frank Houzvicka
Tam Valley Depot QuadLN Decoder Users
Penn Valley
The Western Maryland Railway and The Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Pershing West
William Wolf
9:30am CDT
3D Printing Fundamentals
Shawnee
Jim Macino
Behind the Scene at Miniatur Wunderland
Pershing North
Frank Houzvicka
Laser Cutting Your Own Structures
Pershing East
Greg Johnson
Maintenance 101, the proper lubrication of rolling stock and track cleaning fundamentals.
Penn Valley
Harry Kannry
Steel Mill Modeling
Pershing West
William Wolf & Phillip Burnside
11:00am CDT
3D Printing for scratchbuilders
Shawnee
Jim Macino
Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) an revolution in the making Steel and how to model it
Pershing West
Phillip Burnside
Scenery Projects at The Model Railroad Club
Pershing East
Scott Dunlap
Smooth Running with Small Steam Locomotives
Penn Valley
Don Ball
What’s new at Miniatur Wunderland
Pershing North
Frank Houzvicka
1:00pm CDT
Basic Electronics for Model Railroaders
Pershing North
Carl Marchand
Early Kansas City Development and the Railroads
Pershing East
Larry Diehl
More Fun with Arduino’s and Layout Automation
Washington Park Place 3
Scott Pandorf
Nineteenth Century Railroading Modeling the Past with Modern Methods
Penn Valley
Don Ball
Preview: 2019 National NMRA Convention
Pershing South
Steve Moore
Tank Cars 101 For Model Railroaders
Shawnee
Rich Mahaney
What is needed to develop a 3D Model for 3D Printing of Parts for a Steel Mill
Pershing West
Phillip Burnside
2:30pm CDT
Automation and Controls for Railroad Accessories
Washington Park Place 2
James LeFevre P.E.
Battery powered engines
Pershing South
Donn Tolley
Colorado Fuel & Iron Steel Plant
Pershing West
Paul Evans
Engine Driver and the Raspberry Pi
Pershing North
Martyn Jenkins
I Want it ALL: Layout Design for Operations, Train Watching & Scenery Construction
Washington Park Place 3
Greg Johnson
Improving the Operation of Brass Steam Locomotives
Penn Valley
Bill Deen
Intermodal 101 For Model Railroaders
Shawnee
Rich Mahaney
Kansas City Stockyards & Meat Packing
Pershing East
Larry Diehl
4:00pm CDT
Build - N - Play Circuits Model Train animation circuits both Audio and Scenery electronic projects
Pershing North
Brian Krupicka
How to model your hometown
Pershing South
Cody Grivno
Iron and Steel: the Industry
Pershing West
Doug Geiger MMR
Lemonaid; New power for old brass
Penn Valley
Bruce A. Knapp
Lionel TMCC, signal issues, Using it with JMRI and wi throttle and iPhones
Washington Park Place 2
James LeFevre P.E.
One Man’s Experience Implementing JMRI Operations Pro
Washington Park Place 3
Scott Pandorf
Selecting Industries For Your Model Railroad
Shawnee
Rich Mahaney
The Katy Railroad In Kansas City
Pershing East
Raymond B. "Ray" George • Jr.
6:00pm CDT
A brief history of Model Railroader project layouts
Washington Park Place 2
Hal Miller
C/MRI Layout Control Using JMRI
Pershing North
Chuck Catania
Kids n' Trains
Penn Valley
Allen (Al) Hovey
Modelling the Owen Sound sub in the 1870s and 1890s
Shawnee
Philip Sharp
Populating Your Layout - Making Your Own Figures
Pershing South
Marty Vaughn MMR
The Cable Car in Kansas City
Pershing East
Paul Evans
Wiring for Signals
Pershing West
Rodney Black
7:30pm CDT
A Model Railroad Makes Middle School Math Fun and Engaging
Penn Valley
Jeffrey Allen
Implementing a Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system using C/MRI and JMRI
Pershing North
Chuck Catania
Modeling the old West.
Pershing South
Marty Vaughn MMR
Nuckolls Meat Packing, history and modeling
Pershing East
Paul Evans
The Sue Line takes the LEaD....
Shawnee
David Colvin
Understanding Signals
Pershing West
Rodney Black
9:00pm CDT
Basic Electronics for Model Railroaders
Pershing North
Carl Marchand
CATS: A CTC Panel that Grows
Pershing West
Rodney Black
How to paint scale people and animals
Pershing South
Charles Yaw
Saturday
, August 11
8:00am CDT
Introduction to T-Trak modules
Pershing East
Ray Chaffee
Kadee Couplers a Treatise
Shawnee
Paul Hobbs
The NMRA Data Sheets
Pershing West
Philip Sharp
“Quick Industries” For Your Model Railroad
Penn Valley
Rich Mahaney
Constructing Craftsman Kits (2-hour clinic)
Pershing North
David Capron . MMR
What's in My Tool Box? (2-hour clinic)
Pershing South
Jack Hamilton
9:30am CDT
Modelling the Owen Sound sub in the 1870s and 1890s
Pershing West
Philip Sharp
Realistic Barbed Wire Fence
Pershing East
Mike Brusky
Streamlined Passenger Trains Serving Kansas City
Shawnee
Paul Hobbs
What to Do With “Old Era” Railroad Equipment
Penn Valley
Rich Mahaney
11:00am CDT
A look at the GM&O thru its annual reports: 1945-1971
Shawnee
Dr. Kevin Feeney CPA
Awesome Awnings for Awful Little Buildings
Pershing North
Howard R Garner MMR
Effective Make and Take Clinics. Preparation for and conduct of an effective make and take clinic at the Division level
Pershing South
Jack Hamilton
Grade Crossings I have known.
Pershing East
Fred Headon
Hazardous Materials For Model Railroaders
Penn Valley
Rich Mahaney
Taking Measurements from Photos
Pershing West
Philip Sharp
1:00pm CDT
History of Argentine Yard
Shawnee
Robert D. Walz
Introduction to T-Trak modules
Pershing East
Ray Chaffee
Preview: 2019 National NMRA Convention
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Steve Moore
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Making Foreground Trees
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Card Making - First Section
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