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Thursday, May 4th, 2023

On Line
19:00 – 19:05 Welcome
19:05 – 19:50 Matthieu Lachance: Modelling Pre-Nationalization Railways in Canada? Can Do!
19:50 – 20:35 Chris Van der Heide: Modelling Wrapped Lumber Loads
20:35 – 21:20 Rob Kirkham: Shadow of the Dominion Car: the CPR’s boxcar fleet 1890-1930, a high speed review.
21:20 – 22:05 Bill Decker: Fleshing out Eugene and Springfield on the SP Cascade Line

Thursday, May 18th, 2023

On Line
19:00 – 19:05 Welcome
19:05 – 19:50 Eric Gagnon: Blog! Paper! Scribblers! Kingston’s Hanley Spur Layout Development
19:50 – 20:35 Tim Schwartz: Laser Engraver – The Model Railroader’s New Tool?
20:35 – 21:20 Geoff Bunza: An Operating Steam Throttle
21:20 – 22:05 Dave Marecek: What I Learned Modelling the Trail Smelter and Applying TT&TO for CPR Yards in 1901

Friday, May 26th, 2023

Various Locations
9:00 – 12:00 Prototype Tour – Pick up at either Simon Hotel or Park and Tilford Shopping Centre
13:30 – 16:30 Operating Sessions. Arrive between 13:00 and 13:30
18:00 – 19:00 Pick up layout tour maps – Food Court at Guildford Town Centre, 10355 152 St, Surrey
19:00 – 22:00 The Valley Layout Tour

Saturday, May 27th, 2023

West Mall Centre (WMC) 3260
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:50 Keynote
9:50-10:05 7th Division Awards
10:05-10:15 Meet up introduction
10:25-11:25 Meet up
11:25-13:00 Lunch
WMC 3260 (tentative) WMC 3210 (tentative) WMC 3253 WMC 3255
13:00-13:50 Burr Stewart: How to make videos of your layout Cancelled Display and Darryl Jacobs Table-top Clinic Display and Table-top Clinic
14:00-14:50 Tim Horton: Tackling Track Al Lill: Modelling Grain Operations
15:00-15:50 Michael Batten: Fixing THAT Problem – Making a Major Revision to an Existing Layout Brian Stokes: Where to From Here? Update on the Columbia & Western 2.0 Display Display
19:30-22:30 Operating Sessions. Arrive between 19:00 and 19:30

Sunday, May 28th, 2023

West Mall Centre (WMC) 3260
9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-10:30 Meet the Modeller
10:35-11:05 Meet my Layout
WMC 3260 (tentative) WMC 3210 (tentative) WMC 3253 WMC 3255
11:10-12:00 Tony Thompson: Modeling Freight Traffic on Your Layout Victor Gilbert: A New Type of Benchwork – False Start and Lessons Learned Display and Table-top Clinic Display and Rene Gourley Table-top Clinic
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:50 Tim Horton: BCR Freight Car Paint & Stencil Schemes 1972-1984 Ken Robertson: Making it Work Takes a Little Longer Display and Table-top Clinic Display and Table-top Clinic
14:00-14:50 Mike Barone: Winter Is Coming: An Overview of CPR Snowplows Steve Stark: You Don’t Have to be an Artist to be an Artist
15:00-15:50 Rene Gourley: The Home Wheelwright Marc Simpson: Weathering Techniques for Covered Hoppers Display Display