| CLINIC: How I Scratch Built a Union Pacific Rotary Snowplow | ||
| DAY: Thursday | TIME: 7-8pm | ROOM: Radnor |
| DESCRIPTION: Joe will discuss how he built the Union Pacific’s rotary snow plow #076. The prototype was constructed in 1950 and was last used in 1977. It is unknown whether it is still in service. The model was constructed with sheet styrene and resin cast parts using photos of the right and left sides. The model has a working blade that is operating off a 9-volt battery and a slow-motion motor, and has a completed underside. | ||
| CLINIC: How I Scratch Built a Schnabel Car | ||
| DAY: Friday | TIME: 7:30-8:30pm |
ROOM: Wayne |
| DESCRIPTION: The Schnabel car is a specialized type of freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and high and wide loads in such a way that the load makes up part of load. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms. When the car is empty, the lifting arms are connected to each other to form a freight car that can be moved in a regular freight trains.
Joe will discuss how he built the largest Schnabel car in HO scale using styrene and cast resin parts that he made for this project. The car is the WECX 801, built in 2012 by the car builder Kasgro Railcar for Westinghouse Corp. The car has 18 trucks, 36 axles, and 72 wheels–truly the most interesting freight car out there. |
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| CLINIC: MMR Workshop: Making Utility Poles |
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| DAY: Friday | TIME: 4:30-5:30pm | ROOM: Devon |
| DESCRIPTION: NOTE: Free hands-on clinic to first 15-20 people who show up. This clinic shows how to quickly and easily make a variety of utility poles in HO scale using readily available materials. All supplies and tools will be provided. What you make, you take with you. |
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About the Clinician... Having grown up in Northeast Philly, and now living in Bear, Delaware, his career consisted of experience in the mechanical departments at the Reading Railroad, Conrail, and Amtrak. Over a 32-year period he has held jobs as a car inspector, car repairman, foreman, general foreman, manager, and assistant superintendent. Joe is a prolific modeler, having given a multitude of clinics on scratchbuilding cars both at the division and regional level. He earned his MMR within two years of joining the NMRA. He served as assistant registrar in the 2019 MER convention and currently serves as the superintendent of the Philadelphia Division. |