2020.04.24 (24 hours)
Ralph Renzetti: From Workbench to Mainline
Kaylee Zhang: Using Cellular Speakers for DCC Sound Clark Kooning, MMR®: Model Railroading 101 Joey Guinto: Weathering for Beginners Ron Marsh: My Home layout. A virtual layout tour Kevin Marks: Track building tips with Fast Tracks Tools Neil Erickson: Oahu Railway Wahiawa Branch & Dead Rail Duncan Cabassi: UPBNSF Sub Downunder N Scale Gerry Hopkins, MMR®: Selection of Australian Layouts Craig Mackie: "Cassino" HO Scale Martyn Jenkins: Raspberry Pi and Engine Driver Mike DeSensi: Ohio Valley Lines MR Club, T-Trak Subdivision Randy Hammil: New Britain Station
Rob Clark: Is Model Railroading Art?
Peter Bowen: Weathering Locos and Cars in 5 minutes Perry Lamb: Utah, Colorado & Western Developing a History Thomas Gasior, MMR®: Split Rock Mining Company, HO Layout Chris Adams: Modeling the Valley Local Michelle Kempema: Colorado Model Railroad Museum Tony Cook: Prototype to Model SD50/SD60's Seth Gardner: NYC Piney Fork Branch Mike Mackey, MMR®: Details make the Difference
Walker Embry: Big Turn & Southern Railroad AML: AML Live Podcast, The Digital World!!! 2020.05.09 Ask the MMR
2020.05.16
John Gaydon: NSW Automated Signalling
Gerry Hopkins, MMR®: Virtual Layout Tour - Australian Narrow Gauge Mike Mackey, MMR®: 3D Printing & Model Railroading Joey Guinto: Creating Simple Rust for Beginners Perry Lamb: Detailing Diesel Locomotives Dave Burman: Against the Grain - Modeling Prototype Agriculture Kevin Marks: Track Building with Fast Tracks Clark Kooning, MMR®: How to build a plastic structure kit Andrew Porter: Virtual Layout Tour - Elk Creek Logging Company Tony Cook: An overview of Revell HO Ralph Renzetti: Weathering Wall Signs Eduardo Becherell: Landscaping 101 2020.05.30 Mike Mackey, MMR®: Scenery with Florist Foam
Gerry Hopkins, MMR®: More Layouts from Down Under Lloyd Henchey: Layout Tour, MHO Junction Jerry Britton: Moving the Presidents by Rail Dwight Sturtevant: Layout Tour, New Middletown and Stonypoint RR Duane Richardson, MMR®: If it ain't dirty it ain't done! Scott Perry: Scratch building Structures Randall Hammill: New Haven Steam, A Detail Study for Modelers Pete Steinmetz: Simple, Effective Weathering Techniques John Bate: A Gentle Introduction to Arduino Programming Jim Sacco: Easy City Streets Using Sintra (and Tips on Modeling Streets) Bruce Petrarca, MMR®: The ABC's of DCC 2020.06.13
Arthur Hayes, MMR®: Building an 8-wheel wagon (Freight Car)
Gerry Hopkins, MMR®: Something from Down Under! David McLaughlin: Scratchbuilding Western Maryland Railway Structures Michael Groves: Lighting your layout without Wiring Dave Abeles: Onondaga Cutoff, Remote Operating Sessions Randall Hammill: New Britain Station, Designing Operations Mike Deverell: Drawing for Lasercutting 101 Jim Gore, MMR®: Building Grandpa's Service Station Frank Markovich, MMR®: Detailing wood for structures and rolling stock John Bate: Creating Your Own 3D Designs with SketchUp Mike Mackey, MMR®: 3D Printing & Model Railroading Neil Erickson: Exploring Dead Rail, Battery Powered Trains 2020.06.20 Ask the MMR
2020.06.27
Gerry Hopkins, MMR®: Australian Layout tours
Adam Wuiske: How I got into model manufacturing Monty Smith: Not Just Toying with Bricks: L Gauge Layout Tour & Demo Miles Hale, MMR®: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of building a model railroad Hale w/John Lowrance, MMR®: 2 Words and how they effect our railroads Dave Burman: Against the Grain - Modeling Prototype Agriculture, part #2 Robert Thomas: Layout tour, The Crawford & Cherokee Joey Giunto: Carving rocks from foam Andrew Porter: LCC for beginners Tom Barbalet: Podcasting is easier than you think! Paul Hobbs: Business Cars, Private Cars Scott Thornton: Brief history of the ProtoThrottle and how it may enhance your operations 2020.07.12 GatewayX
Day 1, Sunday
Michael Hill: The very first introduction to Arduino
Don Fowler: Woodland Scenics Realistic Water Jonathan Small: N-scale Trees: Modeling Trees from Astilbe Flowers Edward Koehler: That town at the end of the line - Coal Patch Communities Eduardo Becherell: Ballasting 101 Carl Blum: PVC Terminal Strips for Model Railroads Dan Munson: Model railroad photography Lloyd Henchey, Perry Lamb, Neil Erickson, Mike Mackey MMR®: Panel Discussion: Building Your First Model Railroad Ralph Renzetti: Weathering, we don't know what yet. It is a surprise Perry Lamb: Realistic base level scenery for your model railroad John Lowranch, MMR®: San Antonio and Northen Railroad Greg McComas: Touring the Michigan Interstate St. Clair Subdivision Ed McNamara: Portland and Western, Free-Mo-N Day 2, Monday
Kevin Marks: Track building with Fast Tracks
Peter Bowen: Scratch Building in Wood David Hager: Drawing-3D in SketchUp Bob Feuerstein: Getting a Pro Look with a Simple Camera Jim Sacco: Modernization of Main St. and How It Affects Our Modeling Mike Corley: Building Rooftop details Bob Feuerstein: Photo Editing Programs and Efficient Workflow Mike Ross: Tree building for Model Railroads Mike Walter: Resistance Soldering Joey Guinto, Andrew Porter, Clark Kooning MMR® Panel Discussion: Skills and Techniques for Kit Building
Lloyd Henchey: Building Interiors Jack Ellis: Bar Mills Model Works: The Last Two Inches of The Layout Barry Silverthorn: Roomettes Jeff Palmer, MMR®: Roads Duane Richardson, MMR®: What it takes to make a model great Day 3, Tuesday
Tim O.: Lake Michigan Carferry Operations at Kewaunee, WI
Randall Hammil, Andrew Porter, Mike Mackey MMR®: Panel Discussion - Modelling Freight Cars & Locomotives Arthur Hayes, MMR®: Conveying goods & freight on your layout Dave Burman: Covered hoppers, Against the Grain Tony Cook: Greenville, Pullman-Standard, and Thrall 86-foot High-Cube Boxcars Matt Lentz: Rebuild Athearn Blue Box Locomotives Paul Hobbs: Streamlined Passenger Trains serving St. Louis Day 4
Dave Burman: Against the grain. Modeling prototypical agriculture, part 3
Jerry Hoverson, MMR®: Planning your Layout (before you install benchwork) Andy Ambroze: From 12x20 to 20x16x3! Gordy Robinson: Layout Design from track charts and maps Randall Hammill, Dave Burman, Dan Munson, Ed Smith: Panel Discussion – Layout Design John Feraca, MMR®: Building the Beaver Creek Branchline Bruce Wilson: Culm Valley Light Railway Edward Koehler: Introduction to modelling firefighting Dave Burman: Designing from the Prototype - Making it Real Joe Fugate: TOMA, The "One module approach" Day 5
Dan Spalding: Painting & Weathering
Otto Vondrak: History of Railroad Model Craftsman magazine Drake Hokanson: "That looks right", How better scenery graphics and improved railroad graphics can enhance realism in your model railroad. Ralph Renzetti & Dan Spalding: Panel discusion, Painting & Weathering Art Fahie: Bar Mills Model Works Matt Lentz: Contrast Paint vs. Brass Locomotive Bernard Hellen: How to paint 3D resin prints. Make your layout come alive! Jeff Kuebler: Track Weathering - 1,2,3 Day 6
Jim Kline: Preparing to Program an Arduino
Jim Lewis: Super Simple Lighting: LED and Fiber Optics Animation without soldering Tim O.: Scratch building a RR Car, Cricut Cutting Styrene Tim O.: Scratch building a RR Car, Simple 3d Printed Parts Bill Sartore: Microlumina: Lighting kits Dave Ackmann: Amazing Arduino Animations for Beginners Dave Ackmann: Building Billboards for the Baden, Vogt & DeSmet Speed, Michael P., Bruce P., Nathan H.: Panel Discussion – Technology & Electronics Pat McCarthy: Lights and interiors Michael Groves: Designing Prototypical Lighting for Realism Jim Kline: Introduction to NeoPixels Bruce Petrarca: DCC Consisting Pete Steinmetz: Battery Power Remote Control - Dead Rail. An Overview of Various Systems and Options Day 7
Carlton Brown: RFID/NFC and JMRI
Kevin Marks: Magic with rail Ron Poidomani: Introduction to Building Craftsman Kits Tony Cook: Ski Train Chris Adams: Operating the Valley Local Greg McComas: OPs on the Michigan Interstate St. Clair Subdivision Richard Sieben: Operations by Spreadsheet Joe Fugate: Runs like a dream Dan Munson: Yardmaster 101 Dave Burman: A river runs through it - barge operations and your railroad Tony Cook & Craig Ross: Virtual Banquet – "The Business of N Scale with Craig Ross of Bluford Shops" Eric Smith: Getting Started with Operations, for the novice Arthur Hayes, MMR®: Prototype Ops on a Small Layout 2020.07.25 SERx
Room 1
David McLaughlin: Scratchbuilding Western Maryland Railway structures and more
Jonathan Small: Trees for your Layout Randy Hammil: Operations Jobs performed by the Railroad James Knabb: The Next Generation Model Railroaders Michael Hill: How to build an Ardunio based control panel. Gordy Robinson: From Track Charts to Track Plan Room 2
Steve Todd: JMRI Operations with no paper
Stephen Sprinkle: Quick assembly of an HO scale layout designed for operations Perry Lamb: Military flat car loads Carl Blum: PVC terminal strips for insulation displacment screws Tom Gordon: Arduinos & Raspberry Pi's - Oh my! Chuck Jenkins: Trees as supporting actors Walt Liles: Modeling a Walthers structure to look real Craig Laing: Prince, WV: Modeling a real place using an N scale T-TRAK module Room 3
Peter Bowen: Scratch Building in Wood
Nick Santo: Basic DCC Decoder Installation Thoughts Mike Mackey, MMR®: Foam Scenery Scott Griggs: The end of the line - Selling your trains David Popp: Overview of the Canadian Canyons N Scale Layout George Bogatuik: Overview of Tsunami steam decoders - Soundtrax Jon Tamkin: Mission model paints Pete Steinmetz: Weathering with AK Pencils George Bogatuik: Overview of Tsunami diesel decoders - Soundtrax 2020.08.22 BODx, ask the Board of Directors
2020.09.12 Ask the MMR Patrick Grace: A day in the life of my layout Thomas Klimoski: The Georgia Northeastern Railroad, Prototype and Modeling Jeff Gerow: LCC, a better way to move points Pete Leach, MMR®: The Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington in On30
Chuck Lind, MMR®: Crowell Long Leaf Lumber Company, Inc.
Dave Ackmann: I Just Bought a 3D Printer – Now What Can I Do With It? Eduardo Becherell: Water & Lakes Bernhard Beck and Dave Falkenburg: Silicon Valley Lines Model Railroad Club Richard Sieben: Car floats on Chicago River David McMorran: MQTT in the model train world (mqTrains.com) Joey Guinto: Carving Rocks from Foam Part 2: Adding Color and Foliage Gerry Hopkins, MMR®: Scenery Clinic for Beginners 2020.10.23 NMRA BR
2020.10.24 NMRA BR
David Ramos: DCC++ Andy Crawford: Sage Brush Trees John Doehring: Confessions of a (Reforming) Armchair Railroader (Seven Secrets to Getting Started, getting Going, and Enjoying Model Railroading More) Ron Poidomani: Modeling The Manufactures Railroad New Haven CT 1948
Lloyd Henchy: 3 scratchbuild buildings on the MHO Junction
David Hager: Port Railroads: Galveston Island Tim O.: Using JMRI for Auto Train Running and Dispatching Jeff Rykiel: Lumberjack: the old, the new and the ugly? Michael Barrett: Arduino Uncoupling Craig Mackie: Making Pallets Pete Steinmetz: Dead Rail Laurie McLean: Animation NERx:
2020.12.01, Day 1 Clinic 1 Jeff Gerow - Foreground Trees with Leaves - HERE Clinic 2 Dave MacPherson - Clinch Mountain Railroad - HERE Clinic 3 Lou McIntyre - Bringing the Railroad to Life Using Layers - HERE Clinic 4 Kaylee Zheng - Achievement Program and Contests - HERE Clinic 5 Andy Reynolds - Building Bar Mills Magee's Tire Repair Shop - HERE Clinic 6 Ned Spiller - Danby Ludlow & Springfield RR - HERE Clinic 7 Steve Perry - Modeling An Operating Pre- W.W.II R.R. Grade Crossing Signal - HERE Clinic 8 Ed Olszewski - Western Adirondack Model Railroaders - HERE
Clinic 1 Doug Dederick - Basic Scenery Tips - HERE Clinic 2 Herm Botzow - Buckeye RR - HERE Clinic 3 Steve Erickson - Coal Cod & Cash - HERE Clinic 4 Kaylee Zheng - Achievement Program and Contests - HERE Clinic 5 Jim Fairbanks - Using Paper to Build that Model for your Railroad - HERE Clinic 6 Gordon Spalty - Maine and Western Railroad - HERE Clinic 7 Bruce Robinson - Let’s learn to operate local train POFR for the beginner –(Part 1) HERE (Part 2) HERE Clinic 8 Mike Dolan - South Shore Model Railway Club - HERE
2020.12.03, Day 3 Clinic 1 Chuck Diljak - My Big Fat Clinic. Or, How to Weigh Cars Like the Prototype - HERE Clinic 2 Mike Tylick - Rails Across Marshfield - HERE Clinic 3 Edward Koehler - The Welsh Highland Railway - HERE Clinic 4 Kaylee Zheng - Achievement Program and Contests - HERE Clinic 5 John Doehring - Take Two! Module Building Lessons Learned - and Some New Ideas for the Second Time Around - HERE Clinic 6 Victor Hand - New York Central - Harmon to Cold Spring - HERE Clinic 7 Jeff Faust - Just Build an Inglenook - HERE Clinic 8 Doug Dederick - Great Northern Railway, Kalispell Div. - HERE
2020.12.04, Day 4 Clinic 1 John Feraca, MMR® - Building Stone City Heights - HERE Clinic 2 Bob Peterson - Binghamton Society of Model Engineers - HERE Clinic 3 James Kline - Introduction to NeoPixels - HERE Clinic 4 Kaylee Zheng - Achievement Program and Contests - HERE Clinic 5 Jon Silhavey - Paints, 3D Printing - HERE Clinic 6 John Feraca, MMR® - Stone Canyon Railroad - HERE Clinic 7 Irwin Nathanson - My Miniatur Wunderland - HERE Clinic 8 Jeffrey MacHan - Kofferbahn von Sankt-Bartholomä - HERE
2020.12.27:
Richard Sieben: Central manufacturing district in Chicago
Ralph Renzetti: AK Weathering Pencils in ActionJordan Kramer: Railfanning in Winter Gerry Hopkins, MMR®, MMR: Engine and rolling stock maintenance Joseph Giunto: Simple Fading Using Acrylic Paints Craig Mackie: This is how we OPs
2020.12.31: NMRAx New Years Eve Special 2021.01.23 William Neale, MMR® - Steam Era Freight Car Weathering Chrizandri Roth - 3D modelling for beginners with Blender James van Bokkelen - New England Passenger Trains Eduardo Becherell - Mexican Railroads Robert J. Thomas - Introduction to JMRI Operations for a Small Layout Jeff Rykiel - Modules: Risers and corners Pat Gagel - History Canberra Rail Gerry Hopkins, MMR® - Australian Layout Tour #5 |