2008 Convention NMRA Mid-Eastern Region

Sheraton Reston Hotel, October 16 - 19, 2008
  The schedule for layout tours is with the layout tours.
FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY
 Thursday, October 16, 2008
Registration 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Time Room 1 Room 2
Off Site
7:00 pm Timetable and Train Order (TT & TO ) – King Basic Techniques for Scratch Building in Styrene – Renard Layout
tours
6 - 9 pm
8:30 pm What To Do With Old Era Railroad Equipment – Mahaney
10:00 pm Getting your MRR Authors Achievement – Brechbiel

THURSDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY		 Friday, October 17, 2008
Registration 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
 Time   Room 1
 Room 2
 Room 3
 Off Site
7:30 am



Manassas
Quarry
Prototype
Tour

leaving promptly at 7:30 am
9:00 am
 Retooling 3 control panels into 2 redundant panels – Swanson
 Steel Mill – Glaab
 Rags, Q-Tips, Steel Wool and Alcohol – Riley
10:30 am
 History of Control Systems – Glaab & Fuchs
 Red Iron as Scenery and Destinations – Brodrick
 Layout Design Philosophy – Scace
11:30 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
 Sawdust Scenery – Horan
Cheap and easy trees – Hladik
Building in Wood: Post Office – Brechbiel & Hyde
Layout
tours
1 - 4 pm
2:30 pm
 Constructing the Sheafe Warehouse – Willis Intro to Decoder Programming with JMRI/ DecoderPro – Bronson
4:00 pm
 Making Dwarf Signals – Abrams Using the PC as a modeling tool – Miller Kit Bashing HO Freight Cars – Johnson
5:00 pm
Dinner
6:30 pm
 Start-up Operations using car cards and waybills – Sekera
 Fine Art of Decaling – Mosteller
 Helix Design Considerations, and Building the Behemoth Helix –  Brunton
 Layout
tours
6 - 9 pm
8:00 pm
 Operations Switchlist Software – Abrams
 Making Stencils – Fuchs
 AP judging – Flichman
9:30 pm
 Cadrail as Electronic Paper– Vaccaro
 Intermodal 101 For Model Railroaders –  Mahaney


THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SUNDAY		 Saturday, October 18, 2008
Registration 7:00 am – 2:00 pm
 Time   Room 1
 Room 2
 Room 3
 Off Site
7:30 am




Ivy City
Prototype Tour

leaving promptly at 7:30 am
9:00 am
 Weighting and standards for high reliability – Bogart
 Fine Scale Animation – Day
 Wood Trestle  Bridge Building – Wills
10:30 am
 Modeling Newport News, VA—C&O in O Scale – Roberts
 Computer Modeling Structures – Jessee
11:30 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
 Tank Cars 101 For Model Railroaders – Mahaney
 Weathering Rolling Stock – Drye
 Ceiling Tile  Rock Building – Andersen
 Layout
tours
1 - 4 pm
2:30 pm
 Designing Industries For Your Model Railroad – Mahaney Building and Coloring Masonry buildings – Emery
 Avoiding Minefields and Pitfalls on Your Nonprofit Board of Directors – Cason
4:00 pm
 Introduction to Layout Control with JMRI/PanelPro – Bronson Grits Just Ain't For Breakfast – Hladik
Q & A with the New MER Officers – Cason
6:30 pm

Banquet

Master Model Railroaders Panel

Potomac Division Election Meeting
9:30 pm

Auction
TOP

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY
Sunday, October 19, 2008
10:00am
 MER Business Meeting
12:00pm-4:00pm
 Layout tours