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.
A few slots remain open. If you’re interested in presenting a clinic, contact Steve Hile at shile@mindspring.com for more information. Here are the presenters and presentations so far.
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
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
31 – Keith Kohlmann – Modeling a Prototype Town for a Modular Layout
32 – Bob Bender – Modern Maritime Containers
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