Past RPM-East speakers and presentations

2023 RPM-East Presentations:
Andy Blenko Modeling Prototype Highway/Railroad Underpasses
George Bogatiuk Get the true-BLU scoop on Blunami Operations using SoundTraxx Products!
John Brown, MMR Auto Frame Transport
Brian Carlson Rust Belt Boxcars
Doug Chapman Lake Erie Coal Dumpers
Pete Clarke East Broad Top update
Kenton Colvin Impact of Railroads on WW I
Shannon Crabtree Paint schemes and detailing of RF&P diesels
Mike Crosby Tracking the PRR T1 Duplex’s
Ted Culotta

The Early 1950s PFE Fleet: Prototypes and Modeling Details You Might Have Overlooked

Keith DeVault Scenes from the B&O West End
Larry DeYoung A Survey of the Erie-Lackawanna Locomotive Fleet
Jerry Doyle The EMD GP30: Dieselization’s Next Generation
John S. Frantz York County Crossroads
Steve Funaro Mathieson Dry Ice Reefers
John Greene Building HO Gauge Passenger Cars using 3D printed and Branchline parts
Eric Hansmann Baltimore & Ohio Allegheny Yard Branch update
Mike Hauk PRR X29’s and B&O M-26’s: A Shallow Dive in a Deep Pool
Michael Hohn, MMR Modeling the Lehigh Valley Railroad Before 1900
Hunter Hughson PC 9188: Individualizing a mass-produced model in four easy mis-steps
Matt Hurst Got milk... PRR and Huntingdon & Broad Top milk operations for the Supplee Wills Jones company
Will Jamison The Mather Mine
Bernie Kempinski, MMR

Manifest Destiny—Expanding the USMRR Aquia Line
Ken Kobus

The Pennsylvania Railroad in Altoona
Dennis Lippert

Modeling Conrail's Cabins (and PRR, NYC, RDG, CNJ…)
Marty McGuirk Update on the Central Vermont Railway’s Richford Branch
Mike Niedzalkoski

Small Town, Big Time Railroading
David Owens Magor DODX 38000-series flat cars
George Pandelios What’s New on the Panhandle 2?
Jim Panza Early Trailer Train Flatcars
Ramon Rhodes A Shortline You Can Model: The Alabama Southern Railroad
Neal Schorr Capturing the Commonwealth: How I Recreated Pennsy's Middle Division
Mike Shylanski

B&O, C&O and Western Maryland Airslide Covered Hoppers and How to Model Them in HO
Robert Sprague Deconstructing a Prototype Track Plan
Mont Switzer Loading the TTX F30 and F39
Chip Syme How a Railroader Details/Operates His Model Railroad
Chip Syme Pennsylvania, Penn Central, and Conrail Non-Revnue Equipment
Brad White

Developing Operations for my PRR Chautauqua Branch Railroad
Kaylee Zheng EMD, SD3ASK… IDK… WTF?! A Guide on Identifying Diesel Locomotives
   
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
   
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 tba
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 tba
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!
   

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
   

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

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

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