Skip To Thursday, May 4 — Thursday, May 18 — Friday, May 26 — Saturday, May 27 — Sunday, May 28
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 |