| CLINIC: Notable Train Wrecks |
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| DAY: Friday | TIME: 11:00am–12:00pm |
ROOM: Auditorium |
| DESCRIPTION: This clinic will examine a number of interesting train wrecks, from the beginning of railroading all the way through the present day. For each incident, we'll take a look at what happened, what caused the wreck, the aftermath, and what lessons were learned the hard way. The presentation will feature historic photos and at least one video. |
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| CLINIC: Automating Collection Management with Train DB Plus Software |
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| DAY: Friday | TIME: 9:00–10:00pm |
ROOM: Wayne |
| DESCRIPTION: This clinic will introduce Train DB Plus, a free Windows software package that lets you track your collection of rolling stock and automate other model railroad-related tasks. The software is simple and easy to use "right out of the box," but still allows a great deal of customization to fit your particular needs. With it you can track your rolling stock (and any other items you want), organize your books and magazine articles (and search them by title or key word), record and retrieve other potentially useful information, generate reports, and import or export data to and from CSV or PSV files (which can be read and written by Microsoft Excel and many other applications). The clinic will cover how to download and install the software, as well as an overview of all of its features. |
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About the Clinician... Alan Silverblatt is a Pittsburgh native, now retired from a long career in IT. He’s a member of the Philadelphia Division’s board of directors, and the programmer behind Train DB Plus software. He spends his retirement modeling in N scale, doing part time computer consulting, playing rock and blues on his radio show, and playing guitar in a local classic rock band. |