Great Lakes Region Railroad Modelers Symposium
The St Joe Valley Model Railroad Club is proud to be co-sponsoring the Great Lakes Region Railroad Modelers Symposium in-conjunction with Jim Six. Please take a look at what we have planned for this year. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
2010 Railroad Modelers Symposium
The 2010 Railroad Modelers Symposium will be held Friday and Saturday April 16th and 17th 2010. The Symposium will be held at the South Bend Firefighters Association, 4025 Lincoln Way West, South Bend IN 46628.
This year we will be asking for preregistration. Anyone who preregisters before April 1st the cost will be $30. After April 1st or at the door the cost is $35. This covers both days or one only. We feel this is a great value for what you will see. The form will be available online by December 1st.
For more information contact Jim Six (jamessix@bnin.net) or Jason Powers (jasonp@sjvrr.com) or you can visit our Ning site
here.
Registration
We are requiring pre-registration this year.
Click Here to download the registration form and instructions. The reason we are doing this is to plan seating and such. Also whether we will try to have a food vendor present.
How To Seminars
The focus of this 2-day symposium will be "Modeling a Railroad", not just rolling stock and locomotives! Both evenings feature three 90-minute presentations on popular prototype-based layouts. Both days are jam-packed with how-to seminars. Please review the listing of presentations and seminars below and you will see a wide variety of fantastic topics.
How to Clinics
These clinics will run approximately 90 minutes... Stop back for times and dates
Bob Caywood
Scratch Building Railroad Structures from Styrene
Ray Breyer
Modeling Steam Locomotives in HO Scale
Clark Propst
The Prototype Challenge...
Bill Neale
Modeling the PRR Panhandle
George Pearson
Modeling a town
Tony Sissons
Quick and easy freight cars
Tony Koester
Creating LDE's
Hands On Workshops
These workshops will be running constantly during the Symposium... These are actual hands on so bring your cars, locomotives, tool, and what have you... You will be learning from the best in the hobby... Spend a few minutes or hours with these gentlemen.. You WILL learn a lot...
Weathering Locomotives and rolling stock
Mark Belmonte, Ryan Folk, and Tony Sissons will once again be working all day weathering rolling stock and locomotives... Bring in your cars and locomotives and learn how to weather with the pro's... At last years event, close to 100 pieces of rolling stock were weathered and many attendees learn new and interesting ways to weather... This is a don't miss....
Installing DCC Decoders
Chris Thompson will be showing us how to install and program both regular as well as sound decoders.. Bring in your locomotives and decoders for Chris to help you with... Unfortunately, there will not be machine tools available, so all decoders may not be able to be installed...
Weathering with Acrylics
Jim Six will be working with you on how he gets his fantastic weathering completed using Acrylic paints...
Modeling roads into backdrops
Doctor Tom Johnson and Jim Six will be spending time on how they build their incredible roads and how they blend them into the backdrop... This is a must see...
Accomodations
The South Bend is like most college towns. We have just about every major hotel chain. If your favorite hotel is not listed below, please contact Jason Ciastko (information on the contact page) and he'll let you know if it's in the area.
Quality Inn and Suites
Quality Inn and Suites is one of two hotels located directly across the street from the Symposium.
4124 Lincoln Way West
South Bend, IN 46628
574-288-3800
Sleep Inn
Sleep in is one of two hotels located directly across the street from the Symposium.
Sleep Inn
4134 Lincoln Way West
South Bend, IN 46628
574-232-3200
Econo-Lodge
The Econo-Lodge is located about a half mile east of the Symposium.
Econo-Lodge
3233 Lincoln Way West
South Bend, IN 46628
574-232-9019
Photos
As soon as we have some, we'll post them.
