The Liberty Bell Special clinic program will feature presentations by talented modelers, authors, and experts from every aspect of model and prototype railroading. The clinics will vary in presentation style and some will include hands-on operating sessions to solidify the material taught in class. We’re lining up presenters from all over the Mid-Eastern Region and even a few from beyond. Whatever your interest, we’ll have the clinic for you.
Clinics at the Liberty Bell Special will be presented Thursday evening, Friday morning through evening, Saturday morning and afternoon, and Sunday morning. Some of the clinics will be presented twice during the convention.
Below is a list of committed clinicians and confirmed clinic titles. More clinicians and clinics are expected when info is finalized. Descriptions to follow. Stay tuned. Still, please be aware that info is subject to change.
For more information or to volunteer as a clinician, please contact Clinics Chair John Seibert.
Clinic descriptions and clinician bios coming!
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| Alan Mende | Master Modeler - Motive Power: You Can Do It. |
| Alden Smith | Building Thurmont |
| Andrew Dodge | Modeling to Prototype Standards |
| Bernie Kempinski | USMRR Aquia Line – A high tech approach to a 19th century railroad |
| Bill Sartore | LED lighting |
| Bob Sprague | If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time |
| Bob Zeolla | Conrail's Conemaugh Line - Adding Virtual Signals Using JMRI |
| Brian Kampschroer & Kurt Thompson | Hobgoblin and Elf earn their Electrical AP (Again) |
| Brian Sheron | Modelling Urban Scenes |
| Brian Sheron | Expanding the Long Island Railroad |
| Brian Sheron | Electroluminescent Signs For Your Layout |
| Charles Liggett | Chester Valley Railroad |
| Dan Mycio & Steve Koffel | WOW Sound Version 5 |
| Dan Mycio & Steve Koffel | TCS Wifi throttle |
| Dennis Blank | Coal Company of Fulton County |
| Dick Foley | Post-War Reading Boxcars, 1946-1956 |
| Don Borden | Prototype Sounds and Operations Using the Latest Version of TCS WOW decoders |
| Earl Hackett | Scratch Building Using CAD |
| Eric Dervinis | Woodward and Lance — Modeling a “Modern” Anthracite Breaker |
| Fred Miller | Light, Sound & Motion Animation for Model Railroads |
| Fred Miller | Construction of a Model K1 Trolley Controller |
| Fred Willis | Researching and Building a Historic Structure – the Sheafe Warehouse |
| Fred Willis | Building from Photographs – Blacksmith Shop and Railroad Station |
| Glyn Thomas | Modeling the Minnesota Commercial |
| Greg Shindledecker | Mack & Myre for hire: If it's worth doing, it's worth doing twice |
| Jeff Witt | Remembering John Allen’s Gorre & Daphetid: A pictorial journey through the history of a great model railroad and its creator |
| Jerry Britton | POTUS on Pennsy |
| Jim Hertzog | Exploring Reading's Shamokin Division |
| Joe Walters | Scratch Building the Jordan Spreader |
| Joe Walters | Scratch Building a Depressed Center Flat Car |
| John Gallagher | Freight Trains Using Dead Rail/Operating Power on Board |
| John Green | Building Passenger Cars Using Bethlehem and Branchline Parts |
| Kaylee Zheng | Using Mobile Speakers for DCC Sound |
| Kaylee Zheng | Hot Rod Chicken: A Story about the Chicken Car and Live Poultry Transportation |
| Lance Mindheim | Model Railroading as Art |
| Larry DeYoung | Modeling Another Mile in Another Scale |
| Larry DeYoung | What a Model Railroader Can Learn From Running a Short Line |
| Mark Wallace | Preparing the Layout Room |
| Marshall Abrams | Using Model Railroad Switch List Software |
| Marshall Abrams | Introduction to Model Railroad Operations |
| Marshall Abrams | Signals for Operations and Animation |
| Martin Brechbeil | Getting Your Model Railroad Author Certificate for the NMRA Achievement Program – Tips & Hints |
| Martin Brechbeil | Resin Casting: Basics, Intermediates, Tips & Hints |
| Mathew Thompson | Being Prototypical |
| Mike Prokop | The Camden NJ Waterfront and the Railroads |
| Mike Prokop | Special Trackwork |
| Phil Kinsey | The GG1 |
| Ralph Deblasi | Weathering For Beginners - No airbrush required |
| Rich Mahaney | Tank Cars 101 |
| Rich Mahaney | Tank Car Industries |
| Rich Mahaney | Perishable Ops in the 1950s |
| Rich Mahaney | Intermodal 101 |
| Rich Newmiller | Modeling the Diamond Glass Company, Royersford, PA. |
| Rich Newmiller | Silos & Elevators - Historical Review and Modeling Methods |
| Ron Hoess | Tools and Techniques for Prototype Modeling of the Urban Landscape |
| Steve Salotti | Edgewater New Jersey: The Prototype and the Model |
| Thom Radice | Civil War Era Prototype Modeling: Why a Civil War Layout? |
| Val Pistilli | Why Do Cars Derail? |
| David Yale | 3-D Modeling |
| Rick Hunter | Make 'n' Take Hunterline King Post Bridge |
| Mike Dettinger | Make 'n' Take T-Trak Module |