| 2019 RPM-East Presentations: |
| John Albert |
Southern Pacific rebuilt diesels of the late 1970s and early 1980s |
| Charlie Blenko |
Paper Signals for Prototype Operation |
| David Bott |
A Friendly Ghost Story: adding white laser printer toner to my custom decal toolkit |
| Brian Carlson |
Rust Belt Boxcars |
| Jack Consoli |
CISX 500: The World’s Largest Freight Car |
| Ted Culotta |
Scratchbuilding Freight Cars |
| Larry DeYoung |
Approaching the Golden Spike: modeling a mile of the PRR and EL in Ravenna, Ohio |
| Jim Elster |
Advanced Scenery Techniques with Static Grass Material |
| Steve Funaro 1 |
New York, Ontario & Western Seley coal hoppers |
| Steve Funaro 2 |
Heavy duty flat car designs of the P&LE, PRR, and other railroads |
| Ken Hanawalt |
Modeling Railroad Prototype Operations |
| Bill Hanley |
Demystifying Resin Freight Car Kits |
| Eric Hansmann |
The B&O Allegheny Yard Branch |
| Michael Hohn |
Modeling an Anthracite Railroad in the Late 19th Century |
| Ron Hoess |
Tools and Techniques for Prototype Modeling of the Urban Landscape |
| Nicholas Kalis |
Enhance Your Layout's Story Telling - Practical Steps |
| Bernard Kempinski |
High Tech approach to 19th Century Railroading |
| Den Lippert |
Whittling Your Loco Roster |
| Rich Mahaney 1 |
Perishable Operations in the 1950’s |
| Rich Mahaney 2 |
Tank Car Industries |
| Rich Mahaney 3 |
Modelling Crude Oil and Ethanol Operations and Transportations For Model Railroaders |
| Bob Meier |
Yard Layout Design |
| Bill Neale |
Modeling the PRR Panhandle |
| David Owens |
DODX 38000 series heavy duty flat cars – prototype and modeling |
| Jim Panza |
The General American family of piggyback flatcars |
| Ramon Rhodes |
Nailing The Visual Details That Count On Your Layout |
Bill Schaumburg |
Discovering Hope Springs: using Google Earth, Bing Maps and PowerPoint to plan a small, one-town layout |
| Neal Schorr |
Engineering the Right of Way |
| Greg Smith |
B&O Passenger Steam Power on Sand Patch: 1900- 1956 |
| Robert Sprague |
If I Could Turn Back Time: Modeling the Ma & Pa in 1924 |
| Darrall Swift |
Building a freight car roster appropriate for 1979 |
| Mont Switzer |
Painting and lettering Monon's signature plaintive boxcar scheme |
| Chip Syme |
Non Revenue Equipment of the Penn Central and Conrail |
| John Teichmoeller |
Let’s Talk About the PRR H21 |
| E. Roy Ward |
The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway Story |
| Dave Wilson |
Modeling the Union Railroad in the late 1940s and early 1950s |
| Kaylee Zheng |
Hot Rod Chicken: A Story about the Chicken Car and Live Poultry Transportation |
Mike Zollitsch |
Using Excel for Waybill-less prototype operations |
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| 2017 RPM-East Presentations: |
| Keith Albright |
How to Design a Small Layout for Operation |
| Keith Albright |
Building and Operation |
| Andrew Blenko |
Design of the Pittsburgh Mainline |
| Charlie Blenko |
Discovering Model Railroad-Ready Abandoned Branch Lines |
| Jack Consoli |
Union Railroad’s Interchange Freight Car Fleet Evolution: 1900-1962 |
| Keith DeVault |
Flags of Yesterday to Today |
| Ted Culotta |
Finding Kitbashing Opportunities in Freight Cars |
| Bruce Elliott |
B&O Cabooses in HO scale, circa 1950 to 1955 |
| Nick Fry |
Trains and Boats: Researching Rail-Marine Interfaces |
| Steve Funaro |
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| John Greene |
Building passenger cars, sleepers and parlor cars using Branchline and BCW parts |
| Bill Hanley |
B&O Steam Photos in Western Pennsylvania |
| Eric Hansmann |
The B&O Wheeling Freight Terminal: a prototype-inspired switching layout |
| Dave Hopson |
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| Matt Hurst |
Huntingdon, PA and the Broad Top connection |
| Will Jamison |
Transportation of Normal and Excess Width Steel Plate |
| Ken Kobus |
Evolution of PRR's Pitcairn Yard |
| Grier Kuehn |
You can learn a lot in 60 years |
| Den Lippert |
Conrail's common 50-foot box cars - part 2 |
| Mike Niedzalkoski |
Penn Central Passenger Equipment Primer |
| Jim Panza |
Trailer Train/TTX Auto Rack Fleet History |
| Lee Rainey |
Modeling Mount Union |
| Ramon Rhodes |
The Santa Fe Railway in Chicago |
| Jim Ruffing |
Great Northern 40-foot Box Cars – All That Color! |
| Gene Schaeffer |
The Montour Railroad |
| Jim Sacco |
The Modernization of Main Street and How It Affects Our Modeling |
| Mike Schleigh |
More WAG Tales |
| Neal Schorr |
Line Poles and Pole Lines |
| Mike Shylanski |
Evans Coil Steel Cars: Cocoons, Clamshells and Breadboxes |
| Darrall Swift |
Under the Big Stack |
| Darrall Swift |
Why I Chose to Model the Burlington Northern & Milwaukee Road in North Central Montana |
| Mont Switzer |
Monon 40-foot Steel Box Car Fleet |
| Chip Syme |
Conrail Through the Eyes of an Employee |
| Roy Ward |
The WVC&P Railway Story |
| John Wesner |
Prototype Freelancing |
| Dave Wilson |
Scratchbuilding the Prototype You Need: Structures, Locomotives and Freight Cars |
| Bob Zoella |
Conrail's Conemaugh Line - Big Time Railroading in a Small Space! |
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2015 RPM-East Presentations:
| Keith Albright |
Using loads to enhance operations on small and medium sized layouts |
| Paul Backenstose |
We Dig Coal! |
| Andy Blenko |
A Look Back at the Trolleys of Irwin |
| Charlie Blenko |
Creating a Model Railroad Website with Weebly |
| Jim Dalberg |
Lackawanna passenger trains - the prototype, modeling equipement and operations |
| Keith DeVault |
History of the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad |
| Larry DeYoung |
Modeling a mile of the PRR and EL in Ravenna, Ohio |
Dick Foley
& Steve Funaro |
Reading rebuilt automobile box cars |
| John Frantz |
Creating and Applying Decals from a Professional Perspective |
| Nick Fry |
Pittsburgh Images from the Barriger Collection, 1920s to the 1960s. |
| Steve Funaro |
Baltimore & Ohio N-12 class coal hoppers |
| John Gallagher |
The Other Steel Industry |
| John Greene |
Building HO passenger cars using 3-D resin parts and Branchline kits |
| Eric Hansmann |
Reality; it's a bitch! The journey of a prototype-based layout. |
| Eric Hansmann |
Introduction to Blogging |
| Bob Hubbard |
High and Wide Loads |
| Jim Hunter |
Modeling PRR N8 Cabin Cars |
| Jerry Jordak |
Modeling New Castle in 1969: Building a layout based on the prototype |
| Fred Lass |
Building B&O steam engines in HO scale |
| Den Lippert |
Conrail's common 50-foot box cars |
| Jim Panza |
Trailer-Train 60-foot car fleet |
| Ramon Rhodes |
Where did all the sidings go? Santa Fe's Chicago operations |
| Steve Ross |
Tank Cars for Natural Gas Products and By-Products |
| Jim Ruffing |
Burlington Northern merger musings - history and pre-merger modeling |
| Stan Rydarowicz |
Mather Freight Car Company |
| Jim Sacco |
The Modernization of Main Street |
| Bill Schaumburg |
Touring the American Rock Salt Company |
| Mike Shylanski |
B&O's DuBois car shop and the new cars it built |
| Greg Smith |
B&O diesel models from 1945-1960 |
| Mont Switzer |
Favorite flat car loads and the flat cars that carry them |
| Chip Syme |
How a railroader details and operates his model railroad |
| John Teichmoeller |
Coke making in beehive ovens - Mercury Coke & Coke in Bretz, WV, 1973 |
| Mark Vaughan |
Agriculture Processing and the resulting Railroad Traffic |
| E. Roy Ward |
Essentials of Time Table and Train Order |
| Brandon Wehe |
Operating Army trains |
| John Wesner |
Railfanning in the 1950s in and around Pittsburgh |
| David Wilson |
Prototype Modeling of Steam locomotives - Improving Details and Running Qualities |
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2013 RPM-East Presentations:
Keith Albright: Designing a Small Layout for Large Scale Operation
Art Biehler: Bellefontaine, Ohio - the Rise and Fall of a RR Town
Dom Candelore: Scratch Building B&O C-15 Express Car Trucks in O Scale
Jim Dalberg: The Lackawanna Railroad, Modeling an Anthracite Road
Keith Devault: The B&O thru Chessie in West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania
Jeff English: Prototype and Model in S Scale
Dick Flock: Southwestern Pennsylvania Railroad and Youngwood Railroad History
Nick Fry: John W. Barriger III's Chicago
John Gallagher: The Other Steel Industry
Eric Hansmann: Prototype-Inspired Layout Design for Limited Spaces
Jerry Jordak: Postcards from the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Vagel Keller: Operations on the Blacklog and Shade Gap Eastern
Larry Kline: P&LE Serves the Steel Centers - P&LE Commodities
Bob Leverknight: Trackplanning an O scale layout: Operations on the B&O S&C sub
Jim Panza: TTX - the early years
Ramon Rhodes: Railroading Down South - Tuscaloosa Alabama
Jim Ruffing: Easy to Model SP&S Freight Cars
Stan Rydarowicz: Mather cars
Bill Schaumburg: Cars for the 5:15, commuter cars in the traditional era
Mike Schleigh: Modeling the Wellsville Addison & Galeton (WAG) Revisited
Neal Schorr: Pittsburgh Light Rail System
Bob Stutzman: Come Along With Us and Ride the Ligioner Valley
Mont Switzer: Favorite Highway Vehicle Projects
Chip Syme: Odd and one of a kind equipment for Conrail and Penn Central
John Teichmoeller: Prototype and HO Model Slag and Ingot Cars
Tony Thompson: Prototypical Waybills for Car Card Operation
E. Roy Ward: Timetable & Train Order operations
John Wesner: When Freight Cars Became Colorful
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2011 RPM-East Presentations:
Keith Albright - Decoder Pro: Setup, Programing, Speed Matching, Consisting and Prototypical Operations
Art Biehler - New York Central LCL Container Gondolas
Andy Blenko - In Search of Irwin Station
Brian Carlson - An approach to developing a Steam Era Box Car Fleet
Jim Dalberg - Modeling an Anthracite Road - Why, What, Where, When, and maybe some How
Keith DeVault - History of the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad
Larry DeYoung - What a Modeler Can Learn From Running a Short Line Railroad
Gary Dunmire - Operation of a local switcher
Bruce Elliott - Building B&O wooden interlocking towers in HO
Dick Flock - Unique Rolling Stock: Prototype and Modeling
Nick Fry - Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Archival Research on The B&O's Pittsburgh Division
Steve Funaro - Assembling a flat kit vs a one piece kit for a Union RR gondola
Eric Hansmann - Modeling a Mile, or Just a Bit More
Roger Hinman - New York Central Steel Gondolas
Ben Hom - Open Hopper Cars of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 1919-1963
Bob Karig - Calculating the Power Requirements of Steam Locomotives
Larry Kline - Boxcars of the P&LE 1910 to 1975
Bob Leverknight - The Housing Crisis, or Where Do These People Live
Ramon Rhodes - The Santa Fe Railway in Chicago During the 1960's
John Roberts - Modeling Rail Port Operations, C&O Newport News, VA
Steve Ross and Paul Gallick - Classic Farm Tractors, 1917-1959
Jim Ruffing - Modeling Northern Pacific Covered Hoppers
Stan Rydarowicz - Modern Ice Reefers of the FGEX, BREX and WFEX
Mike Schleigh - Hide Cars Report, 1951 to 1972: Prototype and Modeling
Mont Switzer - Interesting Freight Car Modeling Projects
Chip Syme - How to Model a PRR Heavyweight Camp Car
John Wesner - Steam in Western PA (& Beyond) in the Late 1950s
Tom Wilson - Prototype Modeling and Operations: Pittsburgh & West Virginia and Union RRs
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2009 RPM-East Presentations:
Paul Backentose - Pittsburg & Shawmut
Ted Culotta - Modeling Steam Era Tank Cars in HO Scale
Jim Dalberg - Modeling Equipment of the Anthracite Roads
Gary Dunmire - Prototype operating practices by a CR/NS yardmaster
Jeff English - NYC boxcars in the classic era
Dick Flock - Open Loads - Prototype and model
Bill Hanley - B&O boxcars, protoype & model
Eric Hansmann - Modeling the Fairmont Belt Line
Ron Hoess - The Pennsylvania Railroad's Postwar Trackside Buildings
Bob Karig - Freight Car Trucks during the Steam Era
Tony Koester - Nickel Plate's Third Sub: Lessons Learned
Joe Lofland - Building a Scene - Newfield Junction on the WAG
Marty McGuirk - Vermont Yankees to Tidewater – the CV in Connecticut
Lance Mindheim - Layout Design, Putting the Horse Before the Cart
Pierre Oliver - Building Resin Kits, Some thoughts from a custom builder
Ramon Rhodes - Nailing It: The details on your layout that count
John Roberts - Modeling a Port Operation; The C & O - Newport News, VA
Mike Rose - The Port of Erin area on my layout
Steve Ross - Colonie Colors. A History of D&H Diesel Paint Schemes
Stan Rydarowicz - Rebuilt Ice Reefers of the BREX FGEX WFEX and NP
Mike Schleigh - The B&O Before the WAG
Neal Schorr - Modeling line poles and pole lines
Greg Smith - Modeling the B&O's East End
Mont Switzer - Tools, Tips & Techniques Part II
John Teichmoeller - The Ilchester station project
Bill Welch - Freight Cars of the Southern Railway: 1940-1955
John Wesner - Steam in Western PA & Beyond in the mid-1950s |
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