If you want to get info and updates give us your E-mail address. You will only be sent info as it comes available. All info will be posted to this page about the meet.

Clinics - If you would like to present a clinic at the meet, E-mail us the subject and a brief description. We are already getting offers for clinics now, so get on the list.

Tentative RPM Naperville Presentation List (subject to change)

John Spring Building a Layout to Follow a Prototype

Bob Chapman Pennsy's Cincinnati Limited - Modeling the Consist

Jack Burgess Photo Shop Elements as Modeling Tool

Richard McQuade From Wood to Steel: Classic Canadian Railway Passenger Cars

Art Biehler New York Central Standard Heavyweight Coaches

Al Kresse Class 100 &120 Ton Gondola Cars of the C&O/N&W/VGN Railroads

Stephen Funaro Assembling Resin Kits

David Leider History, Manufacturing and Transportation of Vinegar

Philip Weibler Philip Weibler Classic Photographs (Dinner Speaker)

Ramon Rhodes Chicago: Then and Now

Paul Dolkos Baltimore Harbor District Layout

Tony Thompson SP Freight Cars You Can Model

Larry Kline P&E Stretched Box Cars and other Rebuilds

Roger Hinman NYC Steel Hopper Car

Mike Schleigh The B&O Before the Wellsville Addison & Galeton

Pierre Oliver Wabash in Ontario

Clark Propst Challenges of Building a Prototype Layout

Dick Ryder MP 60 One Train: Cars, Connections, Carriers and Commodities

Martin Lofton St Louis Refrigerated Car Co.

Lance Mindheim How to Compose a Realistic Scene

Ron DePierre TBA

Mike Rose How to Model a Terminal Grain Elevator Complex

Mont Switzer The History of Trucking Horses to Super Highways

Bob Hundman History of Mainline Modeler Magazine (Lunch Speaker)

Bob Hundman Prototype Modeling

Rob Manley Pastel Weathering

John Greedy Hormel-Where's the Beef

Dave Schroedle Steam Era Weathering Workshop

Jim Singer Secondary Passenger Trains of the Upper Midwest

Mark Vaughn History of Piggyback on the C&EI

Bill Schaumburg Commuter Operations Car & Loco Concentrations

Richard Hendrickson Prototype Modeling: Forty Years from Concept to Reality

Richard Yaremko TBA

Jim Ruffing Software used by Railroads to Create Train Schedules

Frank Peacock Steam Locomotive Appliance

Stan Rydarowicz Ice Reefers of the Burlington, GN and Fruit Growers Express

Chad Hewitt Prototype Intermodal

Bill Welch FGEX

We have some additional items related to the Naperville meet that might interest you:
  
   IHobby Expo - http://ihobbyexpo.com/

   Amtrak - http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/HomePage

   Illinois Railway Museum - http://www.irm.org/

   Prairie Scale Model Railroaders - http://psmr.org/

Thanks
Joe
RPM Naperville/Sunshine


Pictures of 2009 Meet