schedule

Please note: This schedule is subject to change, and will be modified as items are added. You may wish to review this schedule again as the convention approaches.

Please note the following schedule changes:

Pine and Cypress Trees (Hart) has been CANCELLED.
Wiring and Neon Lights (Maloney) has been moved from 10:30 AM Friday to 9:00 AM Saturday.
DCC (Miller) has been moved from 10:00 PM Friday to 10:30 AM Friday.

Clinics are listed according to the presenter's name. A description of each clinic will be posted as it becomes available.

A floorplan of the exhibit hall is here (Adobe® PDF, 266k).

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Thursday, October 18

Time	Lynchburg	Liberty	Randolph	Open Area
6:30pm				Registration
7:00pm	MER BoD	Paper Posters (MacMillan)	Contest models check-in and viewing
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm		Railfanning in Lynchburg (Johnson)
9:00pm
9:30pm
10:00pm

Friday, October 19

Time	Lynchburg	Ballroom A	Ballrooms B & C	Liberty	Randolph	Open Area
9:00am	Billboard (Jessee)	Sound (Gareis)	Trade Show NTRAK Modular Layout	Auction check-in White Elephant Company Store	Contest models check-in and viewing	Registration
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am	DCC (Miller)	CADRail 1 (Vaccaro)
11:00am
11:30am
12:00pm	Lunch	Lunch
12:30pm	Lunch	Lunch
1:00pm	Milk Station (Brechbiel)	CADRail 2 (Vaccaro)
1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm		Diesel Kitbash (Strohecker)
3:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm		CTC Signal Panel Using a RR-CirKits TC-64 and PanelPro (Bronson)
4:30pm
5:00pm	Ceiling Tile Rocks (Andersen)
5:30pm	Ceiling Tile Rocks (Andersen)
6:00pm	Dinner	Dinner
6:30pm	Dinner	Dinner
7:00pm	VA Blue Ridge RR (Fielding)	Beehive Coke Ovens (Browning)
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm	Animation (Day)	Judging Models in the MER and NMRA (Flichman)
9:00pm
9:30pm
10:00pm	AP Author (Brechbiel)

Saturday, October 20

Time	Lynchburg	Ballroom A	Ballrooms B & C	Liberty	Randolph	Open Area
8:00am					Contest model check-in
8:30am					Contest model check-in
9:00am	Painting Backdrops (Chase)	Wiring & Neon Lights (Maloney)	Trade Show NTRAK Modular Layout	Auction check-in White Elephant Company Store	Contest model viewing and open judging	Registration
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am		Digital Scratch-building (Wiley)
11:00am
11:30am
12:00pm	Lunch	Lunch
12:30pm	Lunch	Lunch
1:00pm	Flat Car hands-on (Brechbiel)	Working With Decals (Mosteller)
1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm		Animation (Miller)
3:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm
4:30pm
5:00pm
5:30pm
6:00pm		Reception	Reception
6:30pm		Banquet, Awards, Guest Speaker	Banquet, Awards, Guest Speaker
7:00pm
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm		Auction	Auction		Contest model viewing and pick-up
9:00pm
9:30pm
10:00pm

Sunday, October 21

Time	Lynchburg	Liberty	Randolph
8:00am			Model pick-up
8:30am			Model pick-up
9:00am	NMRA and the Boy Scouts of America (Jennings)	Auction and raffle item pick-up
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am	Intermediate Resin Casting (Griffith)	MER Business Meeting
11:00am		MER Business Meeting
11:30am
12:00pm
12:30pm
1:00pm
1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm
3:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm


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