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2015 SER-NMRA Convention June 5-7, 2015 Progress Report

2015 SER-NMRA Convention June 5-7, 2015 Progress Report. Your Convention Committee. Tony McCall - Facility & Banquet Terry Ervin - Clinics Howard Garner - Contests Bruce Gathman - Home Layout Tours Marv Havens - Prototype Tours Steve Todd - Registrar / Treasurer & Webpage

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2015 SER-NMRA Convention June 5-7, 2015 Progress Report

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  1. 2015 SER-NMRAConventionJune 5-7, 2015Progress Report

  2. Your Convention Committee • Tony McCall - Facility & Banquet • Terry Ervin - Clinics • Howard Garner - Contests • Bruce Gathman - Home Layout Tours • Marv Havens - Prototype Tours • Steve Todd - Registrar / Treasurer & Webpage • Open Position - Non-Rail Activities • Mike Jensen & Jon Judd - OPSIG Activities • Sam Hadel- Promotion & General Support • Fred Coleman (SER Convention Chairman) - Guidance & Support

  3. Facility - Greenville Marriott

  4. Lobby Area

  5. Guest RoomsSpecial Convention Room Rate - $109

  6. 11,566 sqft of total meeting space Largest meeting room is Chateau Ballroom with maximum meeting space of 4,840 sqft and maximum capacity of 500 Maximum of 14 breakout meeting room(s) Exhibition space on-site Meeting Rooms

  7. Technics Room Clinics with video or PowerPoint type presentations

  8. Banquet Room Sub-divides into up to 6 smaller rooms if needed

  9. Clinics • Targeting for 45+ • Automation, Benchwork, Control Systems, Decoders, Electrical, Historic, Lighting, Prototype, Scale Specific, Scenery, Sound, Structures, Theme Related, Trackwork, etc. • Non-Rail Clinics and Activities Details will be posted on the Convention Website as they become available and Convention Updates will be presented at each Division Meeting until the Convention

  10. Clinics Cont. • 24 Clinicians confirmed as of 2/4/14 • Topics proposed : • B&O in SC • Head End Cars • Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps • Beyond the Roster Shot : The Artists View in Railroad • The History of the Railroad in Greenville • Logging in the Smokies • The Saluda Grade and the Railroad Coming to Hendersonville • Yard Design • Modeling the Sandersville RR and Kaolin Cars

  11. Clinics Cont. • 3D Printing • Interior Access Through a Bridge • Progress On My IRT Elevated Line • Initiating RR Operations on your RR • Operations • Using Phones & Pads for Throttles and Panels (JMRI) • Automation • Possibilities in Model Railroad Automation

  12. Clinics Cont. • Have You Been LED On • LED Lighting on the Layout • Scenery • How to Make a Waterfall • Rock Making and Scenery Techniques • Laser Kit Design Considerations • Decals for Your Railroad • Working with Styrene

  13. Model / Painting /Photo Contest • Special Contest Theme : Heavy Loads • General Contest : All models, photos, paintings, etc.according to standard SER guidelines.

  14. Home / Club Layouts • We have 26 Area Home Layouts in G, O, On30, HO, & N scales either already confirmed or highly probable. About half are HO scale.(details as they become available) • Central Railway Model & Historical Association, Inc. • A few distant home and club layouts that are near main travel route to/from Greenville are being considered for Thursday and Sunday. • Other possibilities being investigated

  15. Prototype / Museum Toursbeing considered • Republic Locomotive (Greenville) • Operate locomotive – remote control or cab control • Motor Car rides • General Electric • Special Load & Heavy Load Flatcars; Locomotive: Caboose • Motive Power & Equipment Solutions (Greenville) • River Junction Tour (4 railroads & Greenville Trolley) • Piedmont & Northern (including shops) • Greenville & Western (later Northern) • Charleston & Western Carolina • Southern • SC Inland Port – Intermodal Terminal (Greer) • NS Spur to BMW (Wye, bridges, yard) • Triple Crossing - railroad over railroad over water (Duncan/Lyman • Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car

  16. Prototype / Museum ToursCont. • Hub City Railroad Museum (Spartanburg) • Central Model Railway & Historical Association, Inc. (Central) • Miniature World of Trains & Transportation Museum (Greenville)

  17. Hub City Railroad Museum

  18. Hub City Railroad MuseumExhibit Caboose

  19. Central Model Railway & Historical Association, Inc.Model Train Display & Museum

  20. Central Model RailwayLayout Schematic

  21. Inland Port - Greer

  22. Motive Power & Equipment Solutions

  23. Greenville & Western Railway Company, LLC

  24. Other • Registration will open in June 2014 • Non-Rail Activities - (a complete list available soon) • Historic Tours • A Taste of Greenville - Culinary Tour • Falls Park & Downtown Greenville • Shopping & Dining • Clinic Room Activities • “Operations” Sessions - details as they become available. May start on June 4.

  25. Palmetto ExcursionSee YOU There

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