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.

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 box cars after WWII

13 – Seth Lakin – New York Central 40-foot PS-1 variations

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