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Round the Curve to Altoona
2023
Clinics
(as of September 29, 2023)
Extra-Fare and Hands-On Clinics
Title: Make-N-Take Natural Scenery
Clinician: Jane Clarke
Description: This make and take clinic intends to teach you techniques for making scenery using materials from your own backyard.
Fee: $0
Attendee Limit: 20
Title: Make-N-Take Ipswich Hobbies' Tool Shed
Clinician: Jack Dziadul
Description: Step-by-step assembly of Ipswich Hobbies' Tool Shed, a laser cut model kit of a Southern Railway (Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley) speeder shed that once served the railroad in Goldston, North Carolina.
Fee:
$15 N-Scale
$25 HO-Scale
$45 O-Scale
Attendee Limit: 16
Title: Make-N-Take Freight Car
Clinician: Kevin O'Connor
Description: This make and take clinic focuses on getting that kit you just picked up at the last train show, swap meet, purchased on eBay or was gifted ready to run on your layout.
Fee: $12
Attendee Limit: 15
Title: TinkerCAD Introduction
Clinician: Kurt Thompson, MMR
Description: Step-by-step introduction to using TinkerCAD, a free web app for 3D design. Attendees are expected to bring their own laptop to run the TinkerCAD software.
Fee: $0
Attendee Limit: 25
Standard Clinics
Title: Design of the Pittsburgh Mainline Layout
Clinician: Andy Blenko
Title: The Allegheny Portage Railroad and Main Line Canal System
Clinician: Doug Bosley
Title: JMRI Throtttles and Virtual Signals
Clinician: Bob Bucklew
Title: Prototype Timelines for Modelers
Clinician: John Burchnall
Title: Engineering Secrets of Eastern Loggers
Clinician: John Burchnall
Title: Building Model Structures with Plexiglas
Clinician: Andrew Dodge MMR
Title: Modeling to Prototype Structures and Operating Procedures
Clinician: Andrew Dodge MMR
Title: Reconfiguring a Layout:. From the Colorado Rockies to the Rocky Coast of Maine
Clinician: Andrew Dodge MMR
Title: Expand Your Horizons with Backdrops
Clinician: David Ellis
Title: Introduction to Technical Aspects of DCC
Clinician: Jim Fisher
Title: Designing Operations which Reflect Economic Purpose of Railroading
Clinician: John Gallagher
Title: Researching and Designing a Hershey Inspired Reading Layout
Clinician: Rob Hinkle
Title: Becoming a Master Model Railroader
Clinician: Ernie Little, MMR
Title:Building a Programming Track/Using Decoder Pro to Program a Locomotive
Clinician: Ernie Little MMR
Title: The Everett Railroad Story
Clinician: Alan Maples
Title: Obsessive, Compulsive Detailing Revisited
Clinician: Alan Mende
Title: Soldering Essentials
Clinician: Alan Mende
Title: Model Railroading as Art
Clinician: Lance Mindheim
Title: Layout Planning: Putting the Horse Before the Cart
Clinician: Lance Mindheim
Title: Garden Railroading from Beginning to Now
Clinician: Tom Neukirchen
Title: Easy Coal Loads
Clinician: Mike Prokop
Title: On the Waterfront
Clinician: Mike Prokop
Title: Misers Guide to Model Railroading
Clinician: Dr. John Pursell
Title: East Broad Top 101
Clinician: Lee Rainey
Title: Consider Mixed Scales and Gauges in Layout Planning
Clinician: Jim Rose
Title: Recreating the PRR's Middle Division
Clinician: Neal Schorr
Title: Expanding the Long Island Railroad
Clinician: Brian Sheron MMR
Title: Modeling Urban Scenes
Clinician: Brian Sheron MMR
Title: Building an Automatic Operational RR Crossing
Clinician: Brian Sheron MMR
Title: Details Can Make the Difference
Clinician: Brian Sheron MMR
Title: PCC Trolley Restorations
Clinician: Ron Smith
Title: Pennsy Passenger Steam Locomotives
Clinician: John Sokash
Title: Pullman's Hotels on Wheels
Clinician: John Sokash
Title: Returning Contest Judges
Clinician: Kurt Thompson MMR
Title: Scratch-building a Jordan Spreader
Clinician: Joe Walters MMR
Title: Building the PROSES Locomotive House
Clinician: Joe Walters MMR
Title: Remembering John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid Railroad
Clinician: Jeff Witt
Title: John Allen in Print: A Survey of his Publications
Clinician: Jeff Witt
Title: The Gorre & Daphetid Reminiscence Project: Past, Present & Future
Clinician: Jeff Witt
Title: The Frugal Model Railroader
Clinician: Rich Wurst