Clinics

Rob Hinkle

Drew Marshall

Contact Clinics Committee

Clinics are up to an hour long with a half hour between clinics.

Our clinicians are volunteer speakers who have experience in their subject matter.

If you have experience that you wish to share, we would love to hear from you. Contact the Clinics chair persons. Furthermore, Clinicians will have their registration fee refunded after their presentation.

Since this event is sponsored by a 100% NMRA club, you can earn two points toward your 

NMRA Achievement program certificate.

We have projectors, screens, & computers with USB inputs that you can plug in a flash drive with your clinic on it. At the beginning of each clinic, we will be there to be sure that everything is working properly.

List of 2026 Clinicians

John Brown            Riding the cab of CSX coal trains

DC Cebula               Scratch Building a U.S.M.R.R. Flat Car in HO Scale from Prototype Images

Ted Culotta             Early PRR Welded Box & Automobile Cars

Ralph DeBlasi        Signaling your model railroad- Signals

Ralph DeBlasi        Signaling your model railroad - Systems

Ralph DeBlasi        Improving the Athearn Blue box Drive for our prototype models

Ralph DeBlasi        PS2 covered hopper madness.

Larry DeYoung      I Carried a Camera to Work on Conrail

Ted DiIorio             Hands-On Weathering

John Frantz            The Pennsylvania Railroad Covered Hopper Fleet

Nicholas Fry           The B&O Railroad St. Louis Division-Terminals and Interchanges you can model

Jim Hertzog            Modeling the Reading's Shamokin Division

Ron Hoess               Modeling Midvale Steel

Tom Jacobs             Realizing the Reading, Vol. 4: It’s Alive!

Steven Meyer          The Iconic Santa Fe F7 Warbonnet—A Legendary Loco in Railroading.

Dave Owens            DODX Flat Cars

Ramon Rhodes       TBD

Mike Rose                Lehigh Line Update

Nick Santo               What is a decoder buddy?

Nick Santo               What’s Up with Power Bridge Stay Alives?

Fred Willis               Early English Locomotive History 1804-1829

Joe Walters              TBD

Steve Wysowski       Kitbashing an HOn3 Doodlebug

Eric Hansmann       Team Tracks and Team Yards

Doug Chapman       “Bobber” Cabooses on the New York Central Lines

Steve Funaro            A look at the Monon Composite Gondola

Shannon Crabtree   History and modeling of a Virginia Shortline: The Virginia Central

Bill Schneider           The Old Woman in the New Basement

Bill Schneider           How We Make Little Choo Choos at Rapido

Joe Walters               Scratchbuilding a Schnable using Styrene and 2-part resin parts

Matthew Hurst         Building the H&BTM, A modelers perspective

Mike Shylanski         The B&O and General Motors Team Up in Martinsburg

Rich Newmiller        Building a Simple Intermediate Signaling System

Gary D. Stroh           The design and build of my HO Scale layout - The Conrail Hbg Div in Philadelphia.

Michael Junod         Traction Modeling Techniques from the Mayfair Electric

Clinics to Download

We sincerely want to thank these Clinicians for sharing their clinics with everyone.

John Greene

Building Heavyweight Passenger Cars PowerPoint

Building Heavyweight Passenger Cars  Keynote

Bob Zeolla

1. Conrail’s Conemaugh Restaging

2. Digitrax Advanced Consisting

Bruce Smith

Military Loads

Mike Baker

Resin Kit Introduction

Painting 102

Val Pistilli
Why Do Trains Derail

Eric Hansmann

Ventilated Box cars
Ventilated Box Cars Talking points