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.
2008 Railroad Modelers Symposium
The 2008 Railroad Modelers Symposium will be held Friday and Saturday April 18th and 19th 2008. The Symposium will be held at the South Bend Firefighters Association, 4025 Lincoln Way West, South Bend IN 46628. Cost will be $15 for one day, $20 for both.
For more information contact Jim Six (jamessix@bnin.net) or Jason Ciastko (info@sjvrr.com).
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.
Friday April 18th Seminar Schedule
Scratch building Switches
9:00 AM
Tony Sissons will show you how to scratch build switches. Building switches is not a difficult task and can really help in operations, as well as save you some valuable layout money.
Modeling NYC Dual Service GP7s
10:30 AM
Jim Six will present his classic NYC Dual Service GP7 Clinic
Installing DCC and Sound Decoders
12:00 Noon
Rick Bell will help you figure out how to get that sound or regular decoder in your equipment.
Modeling with Photoshop #1
1:30 PM
All of us have seen Jim Six photos. Are they real or are they Photoshop. Come see how Jim improves models and layouts with the software.
Building Craftsman Structure Kits
3:00 PM
Scott Mason will help us get over the humps in building those craftsman kits on our shelves.
Designing and building a Proto-based layout
4:30 PM
Art Hall will help you design and build a Prototype Based layout.
Building an Industrial Switching Layout
7:00 PM
Lance Mindheim will talk about how to build an Industrial Switching Layout
Building the Nickle Plate
8:30 PM
Tony Koester will be showing off his new Nickle Plate layout for us. Come and see the new layout.
Saturday April 19th Seminar Schedule
Digitizing Slides and Negatives
9:00 AM
Rick Bell will help you getting your film and slides digitized.
Better Model Railroad Photography
10:30 AM
Kyle Engelmann will help you improve the photos you shoot of your layout. Come and see how they pro's do it.
Tools, Tips, and Techniques
12:00 Noon
Come see Mont Switzers famous Tools, Tips, and Techniques seminar. Mont uses his years of modeling to help you with what tools and skills are needed.
Modeling with Photoshop #2
1:30 PM
All of us have seen Jim Six photos. Are they real or are they Photoshop. Come see how Jim improves models and layouts with the software.
Kitbashing Plastic Structures
3:00 PM
Come see how Tom Johnson and Jim Six kitbash many of the commercial kits on the market to make un-believe-able layout structures
Creating and Building the INRail
4:30 PM
Come see how Quintin Schini designed and built his INRail layout.
Modeling the PRR Vandalia Branch
7:00 PM
Come see the spectacular layout Tom Johnson has built. This is not the same railroad that was seen in the 2008 Great Model Railroads. Tom has reworked it since the article was written.
Modeling the NYC Michigan Branch
8:30 PM
Here's the one we're all waiting for. Jim Six will fill us in on what he's been doing on his Northern Indiana layout.
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.
