Presenters

We are pulling together a diverse slate of model and prototype presentations for the 2025 RPM Naperville event. A tentative presentation schedule will be posted in the weeks before the RPM.

All of the presentations will be repeated. We have four clinic rooms on Thursday evening, and six rooms on Friday and Saturday for learning and discussion. Steve Hile could use a couple of extra presenters in case we have cancellations. Contact him directly if you can help out (shile@mindspring.com) . A tentative presentation schedule will be posted in late September.

1 – Steve Holzheimer – Freight Car Movement Research

2 – Jerry Hamsmith and Ed Rethwisch – Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 50-foot Automobile box cars

3 – Steve Hile – Rock Island Flat Cars through the years

4 – Scott Thornton – Upgrading Modeling to the Modern Age: Lasers, Resin and FDM Printer Madness

5 – Tony Thompson – Realistic Operation on a Small Layout?

6 – Bob Heninger – Great Northern 50-foot rebuilt box cars

7 – Earl Tuson – Case Study of Freight Car Movements with Atypical Resources

8 – Lester Breuer – Resin Kit Construction Topic

9 – Jim Panza – TTX Specially Equipped Flat Cars

10 – George Toman – Southern Pacific MOW car from Branchline Kit and Resin Sides

11 – Doug Harding – Brick & Tile Works

12 – Ray Breyer – Short length box cars after WWII

13 – David Bott – Using Cricut Laser for Structure Modeling

14 – Craig WIlson – Ann Arbor Steel Cabooses (plus Wabash and Norfolk & Western)

15 – Fenton Wells – Kitbashing Rev II

16 – David Leider – Belt Railway of Chicago

17 – Aaron Gjermundson – Kitbashing with the Central Valley Truss Bridge

18 – Roger Hinman – New York Central 10-foot interior height box cars

19 – Mont Switzer – Building the Freight Cars of Muncie, Indiana

20 – Jeff Hallion – Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway layout progress

21 – Clark Propst – Structure kitbashing with a purpose

22 – Ted Culotta – TBD!

23 – Dick Harley – Pacific Fruit Express Reefers in 1950 – A Deep Dive

24 – Rich Remiarz – Great Northern box cars in 1956, Part 2

25 – Eric White – Easton & Northern branch of the Lehigh Valley

26 – Bob Webber – High Speed Passenger Trains and Proposals from the 30’s

27 – Eric Hansmann – Baltimore & Ohio Allegheny Yard Branch

28 – Tim Van Mersbergen – Rebuilt and recoditioned 40-foot box cars in the 60’s and 70’s

29 – Chris Vanko – Multi-Era Modeling – Some Northern Pacific box cars in the 50′ and 60’s

30 – Doug Chapman – Bobber Cabooses of the New York Central Lines

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32 – Bob Bender – Modern Maritime Containers

33 – Jim Singer – CB&Q Passenger Car Department Interactions with other Railroads

34 – Jason Klocke – Scenery – Planning and Execution

35 – Alan Bell – CTC or Signaling Topic

36 – Eric Mumper – TBD