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Schedule for Thursday, May 4, 2023

Location	9:00am	10:00am	10:30am	11:30am	Noon	12:30pm	1:00pm	2:00pm	2:30pm	3:30pm	4:00pm	5:00pm	5:30pm	6:30pm	7:00pm	8:00pm	8:30pm	9:30pm	10:00pm
Aspen Clinics									SOWARD, MMR Don't Throw That Trash Out With the Trash!		WHIPPLE P&WV and George Gould’s Transcontinental Dream	Dinner Break			PANDELIOS Pour Me a River		TURTON Introduction to 3D Resin Printing		ROSS Classic Farm Tractors and Models 1917-1970
Birch Clinics									BRAUM East Broad Top RR 2022		SCHORR Capturing the Commonwealth: How I Recreated Pennsy’s Middle Division	Dinner Break			BRAUM Resin People: Using 3D Printing to Create Scale Figures		BONGIOVANNI Kit and Scratchbuilding Wooden Structures		KUEHN You Can Learn a Lot in 67 Years
Cedar T-Track & Vendors	T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors
Chestnut Meet and Greet											Meet and Greet
Dogwood White Elephant	White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant
Fir/Elm Clinics											COLVIN Operations on the Rehoboth Valley Railroad	Dinner Break			DOEHRING The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway: A Perfectly Protolance-able Pike		KRUEGER Tips, Tricks, and Hacks		LIPPERT Modeling Conrail's Cabins (and PRR, NYC, RDG, CNJ…)
Hemlock/Hickory Contest Room							Contest Admin Clinic - 1:00pm to 2:30pm					Dinner Break			Contest Entries and Viewing - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Rail Tours
Non-Rail Tours									Pittsburgh Glass Center - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Pre-Function Area Registration	Breakfast 7:00-9:00 Registration 9:00am-		Registration	Lunch 11:30am-1:00pm Registration			Registration		Registration		Registration		Registration		Registration		Registration

Schedule for Friday, May 5, 2023

Location	9:00am	10:00am	10:30am	11:30am	Noon	12:30pm	1:00pm	2:00pm	2:30pm	3:30pm	4:00pm	5:00pm	5:30pm	6:30pm	7:00pm	8:00pm	8:30pm	9:30pm	10:00pm
Aspen Clinics	SEVERSON How the Big Show Moved in the 1920's - The RB and B&B Circus		HOHN, MMR Modeling the Lehigh Valley RR in NY and PA in the Period Before 1905	Lunch Break			SCHORR Introduction to Backdrop Painting (part 1)		SCHORR Introduction to Backdrop Painting (part 2)		FRANKRONE How to Add a Scene to a Layout in 15 Easy Steps	Dinner Break			ZAPYTOWSKI Contest Judging Clinic		GARDINER Modeling Modern Transit Systems		GARDINER Passenger Service is Prototypical on Small Switching Layouts
Birch Clinics	LINGER Basic DCC Installation		JODON Build Your Own T-Trak Module (Make & Take part 1 of 3)	Lunch Break			JODON Build Your Own T-Trak Module (Make & Take part 2 of 3)		JODON Build Your Own T-Trak Module (Make & Take part 3 of 3)		LAUCHLE Modeling the Central PA Scotia Iron Ore Works in the 19th Century	Dinner Break			BROWN Rail Transport of Automobile Frames		SHYLANSKI Painting and Weathering Rolling Stock With Vallejo Paints and Washes		SILVERBLATT Automating Collection Mgmt. and Operating Sessions with Train DB Plus
Cedar T-Track & Vendors	T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors
Dogwood White Elephant	White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant
Fir/Elm Clinics	SWANSON & ZAPYTOWSKI Two Prototypes, Two Models		HILL Wheeling & Lake Erie Locomotives	Lunch Break			Modeling with the Masters Painting and Weathering with Inexpensive Craft Acrylic Paint					Dinner Break			DAKELMAN Exploring Pittsburgh’s Steel Railroads		MAYNARD Car Repair 101		ROSS Tank Cars for Natural Gas Industry
Hemlock/Hickory Contest Room	Contest Entries and Viewing - 9:00am to 11:00am			Lunch Break			Contest Entries and Viewing - 1:00pm to 4:00pm					Dinner Break
Willow Meeting Room																	MCR Membership Meeting 8:30pm - 9:00pm MCR Board of Directors Meeting 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Rail Tours			Rivers of Steel - Industrial Tour of the Carrie Blast Furnaces - 10:30am to 12:30pm						Rivers of Steel - Uniquely Pittsburgh Sightseeing Tour - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Non-Rail Tours
Pre-Function Area Registration	Breakfast 7:00-9:00 Registration 9:00am-		Registration	Lunch 11:30am-1:00pm

Schedule for Saturday, May 6, 2023

Location	9:00am	10:00am	10:30am	11:30am	Noon	12:30pm	1:00pm	2:00pm	2:30pm	3:30pm	4:00pm	5:00pm	5:30pm	6:30pm	7:00pm	8:00pm	8:30pm	9:30pm	10:00pm
Aspen Clinics	C. BLENKO Design of Pittsburgh Main Line		C. BLENKO Summers as a Bridge Engineering Intern for Norfolk Southern and Transtar	Lunch Break			GARDINER Passenger Service is Prototypical on Small Switching Layouts		GARDINER Proto-Freelancing in the Wrong Direction, My Accidental Quest to Model the Near Future		ALLIO Going Dead Rail and Never Having to Deal With Dirty Track Again
Birch Clinics	FUNARO ACF Covered Hoppers		BONGIOVANNI Estate Planning	Lunch Break			DOEHRING Lend Me Your Ears: A Ten Point Manifesto for Building a New 21st Century NMRA		Zoom Call with NMRA President Gordon Robinson, MMR		SCHORR Capturing the Commonwealth: How I Recreated Pennsy’s Middle Division
Cedar T-Track & Vendors Banquet Room	T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors		T-Track and Vendors closes at 3:00pm				Banquet Prep		Banquet
Dogwood White Elephant	White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant		White Elephant sales close at 3:00pm Sellers settle accounts 3:00pm to 4:45pm, room locked at 5:00pm
Fir/Elm Clinics	KRUEGER Adding Detail to RTR Locomotives and Rolling Stock		FRANKRONE Love Those Loads	Lunch Break			HAUK PRR X29’s and B&O M-26’s		KUEHN Modeling Realistic Vehicles		JORDAK Virtual Signaling with JMRI
Hemlock/Hickory Contest Room	Contest Judging - 9:00am until judging is completed and room is locked, Entries are no longer accepted, public can view the models, but may not talk to the judges.																		Contest room opens for entries to be retrieved
Rail Tours		Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum - 10:00am to 2:00pm						Pennsylvania Trolley Museum - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Non-Rail Tours
Pre-Function Area Registration	Breakfast 7:00-9:00 Registration 9:00am-		Registration	Lunch 11:30am-1:00pm