Railroads and the Natural Ice Industry: A Symbiotic Relationship
By: Bruce DeYoung
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The harvesting of natural ice to preserve food and cool drinks began in the early 1800’s on farms and homesteads. By the middle 1800’s, it became a large industry. Like many other industries involving heavy, bulky commodities, the ice industry turned to the railroads to transport their product. For the next 50 -60 years, the natural ice industry became huge customers of the railroads. At the same time, shipping refrigerated products by rail increased dramatically, and the railroads became huge customers of the ice industry. In this clinic, Bruce will look at the commercial process of harvesting, storing, and shipping natural ice and the role that railroads used in the process.
Scratchbuilding a Small Rural Station for a Merit Award
By: John McHugh
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Are you interested in earning a Merit Award for the Master Builder – Structures certificate? This clinic will illustrate how to scratchbuild a small rural passenger station to specifically earn a Merit Award. John will demonstrate how he focused on the Judging Guidelines used in the Merit evaluation process to construct the building. The entire process is explained and illustrated including finding a prototype building, making drawings, constructing the structure and adding details for judging. The clinic will also offer pointers to maximize points when filling out the Contest Judging Form. This clinic will help you get started on your Structures Certificate.
Basic Scenery from the Ground Up
By: Doug Dederick
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In this clinic we will go over some basic scenery tips starting from bare white plaster In this clinic we will go over some basic scenery tips starting from bare white plaster and building it from the ground up. I will show you how I apply static grass and how to build oand building it from the ground up. I will show you how I apply static grass and how to build off! of it by creating some basic bushes. At the end of the clinic I will show you a technic I used to of it by creating some basic bushes. At the end of the clinic I will show you a technic I used to match my static grass to the back drop.match my static grass to the back drop.
Soldering: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
By: Greg Williams
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Soldering is often viewed with fear and anxiety. When you don't know the how of it, you will struggle to get good solder joints. In this clinic, some basic theory shows what happens when soldering and what makes for a good solder joint. With that knowledge, practical model railroad applications of soldering are shown with a few tips and tricks included from Greg's 45 years of soldering experience.
Building a Layout in a Year - Some Tips and Tricks
By: David Foster
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Currently in the process of planning, designing and building of my 8th layout this presentation will cover some "common knowledge" topics but hopefully introduce some new tricks accelerating your build process. We'll cover the use of CAD (Computer Aided Design) for your layout and show how to "Avoid" structural modifications during the process. Thinking of using JRMI? We show how using a CAD system you can export the JRMI code into building your layout schematic including signaling. We'll cover ways to reduce your time "Under" the deck with wiring and switch machine mounting. On top of the deck we'll show fast and accurate ways to transfer from design to layout, and some new products to help reduce the landscaping process. The goal of this presentation is to get you to running your trains on your layout in a shorter time period.