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Tentative Schedule for 2005 New England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet
8 a.m. to 11 p.m., June 3-4, 2005
Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave., Collinsville, Connecticut
Information, contact Dave Owens at neprotomeet@gmail.com, 860-233-0303
or on the day of the meet 860-209-8155.

Registration is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. To register, send a check payable to NE Proto Meet to Fran Richard, 34 Ellsworth Road, West Hartford, CT 06107.

Thursday, June 2
5 and 7:30 p.m., Tours at Branchline Trains in East Hartford - contact us at neprotomeet@gmail.com to pick a tour and get directions.

Friday, June 3
8 a.m.
Registration and model set up begin.
9:30 a.m.
Clinic 1 - John Orofino - Creative Assembly of Structure Kits - how to turn a kit into a miniature scene - clinic is part 1 and will focus on basic modeling and creating a live scene.
11 a.m.
Clinic 2 - Ramon Rhodes - Detailing a Layout for Maximum Effect - give your layout a sense of history through details, such as rail side structures, signals and communication equipment. Clinic also covers weathering track, era-specific details and geographic considerations.
12:30 p.m.
Lunch break
1:30 p.m.
Clinic 3 - Den Lippert - The Basics of Diesel Detailing - An overview of "what details commonly need to be added, and why", "case studies" of particular
locomotives, and the mechanical aspects of applying them to models. The presentation is designed to show the beginner what sorts of tools and parts are available to make diesel detailing easier for them, and to hopefully encourage them to try it themselves.  For the more advanced modeler, there is an opportunity to perhaps learn some new techniques, and to see some nice models on the screen!
Clinic 4 - Neil Gage - Military Transportation by Railroad - modeling movement of military equipment by rail from 1940 through about 1975.
3 p.m.
Clinic 5 - Mike Rose - Pennsylvania-flavored Road and Rail Bridges: Prototypes & Models in the Conrail Era.
4:30 p.m.
Clinic 6 - Bill Schaumburg - From Ties to Ties - a tour of a tie treatment plant that uses old railroad ties to produce both steam for the treatment plant and electricity for the general consumer
Clinic 7 - Art Biehler - Richardsonian Stations on the Boston & Albany
- Development of the Richardsonian Romanesque passenger stations designed in the late 19th Century by Henry Hobson Richardson and successor firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge that once stretched along the B&A.
6 p.m.
Dinner break/Swap meet - bring models you want to get rid of!
7:30 p.m.
Slide show 1 - Bob LaMay - History of the F40 - starting with the F40C, predecessor of the F40PH, the show goes from builder photos to current owners of remaining units.
9ish
Slide show 2 - Pete McLachlan - Railroads that frequented Maybrook, N.Y. - from an engineer who took his camera to work everyday

Saturday, June 4
8 a.m.
Registration
9:30 a.m.
Clinic 8 - Steve Funaro - Assembling Resin Kits.
Clinic 9 - John Orofino - Creative Assembly of Structure Kits - Part 2 - how to add landscape elements and other details to create a scene.
11 a.m.
Clinic 10 - Mike Simonds and Rene Paquin - DCC basics, with Q&A to follow as well as workshops all day Saturday.
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Clinic 11 - Tim Frederick - Tank Car Design 101 - A tank car design overview.
Clinic 12 - Mike Tylick - Quick Interior Details for Buildings - There is a middle ground between painting the pounds of type metal required for the interiors in contest models and painting the windows black to hide an empty space.  Mike has long used simple drawings on card stock, wood and found objects to quickly and simply provide the illusion of a detailed interior.  The simplicity of digital photography has also caused him to experiment with photographic interiors.  This Power Point presentation will show how the interiors created for several recent projects were created.
3 p.m.
Clinic 13 - George Barrett - Modeling trucks 1930-1960 - with an emphasis and truck bodies and trailers.
Clinic 14 - Ralph Barger - The 120 Heavyweight (Standard) Sleepers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad - Many cars were common to other railroads, so this clinic has a wide appeal.
4:30 p.m.
Clinic 15 - Ted Culotta - Steam Locomotives for Dummies - Most people have not had the opportunity to see steam operations on their favorite roads and do not have an intimate understanding of the workings of steam power.  Ted's circa October 1947 New Haven layout will require lots of steam and he knew he would have to educate himself in order to reproduce some of it.  Ted will present the basics of steam locomotives and then show how he modified a Bachmann Spectrum Light
USRA 4-8-2 to recreate New Haven Class R-1b Mountain no. 3330 as it appeared circa 1947.
Slide Show 3 - Tom Nanos - Contemporary Connecticut Horsepower - A brief digital multimedia tour of the railroading in our own back yard. Photos are from 2002 to the present, and are derived from prints, slides and digital photos, presented against an instrumental music backdrop.
6 p.m.
Dinner break/Swap meet - bring models you want to get rid of!
7:30 p.m.
Clinic 16 - Tony Koester - Prototype modeling and multi-level layout design and lighting
9ish
Slide show 4 - Mark Branibar - The Penn Central - significant
highlights year by year, from 1968 to April 1, 1976.

Sunday, June 5
Layout open houses at the Collinsville club and the homes of  Glen Rappoport, Bill Schneider, Michael Wlochowski and the Silk City Model Railroad Club, and potentially others.

Special notes:

Mike Simonds and Rene Paquin will offer workshops on decoder installation all day Saturday. If you're interested in participating in their workshop, contact Mike ahead of time at Customreproductions@comcast.net so that he can bring the proper decoder for you.

A Swap Meet is planned for Friday and Saturday evening during the dinner break. Please feel free to bring surplus locomotives, rolling stock, structure kits, vehicles or anything else you want to get rid of.

There will be dealers and manufacturers at the meet and the nearby Hobby Shop of Collinsville will be offering specials to meet attendees.

The Penn Central Railroad Historical Society will unveil a custom piece of HO scale rolling stock at the meet. (Hint: New York Central modelers will like the kit too.)