Thank you for Coming!

Thank you for coming to Portland, Oregon and Portland Daylight Express, the National Model Railroad Association Annual Convention for 2015.

Fifteen hundred of you visited from 47 States, including 305 from California, a large contingent of 153 from Canada, several each from Australia 39, United Kingdom 31, New Zealand 18, and from France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil, Argentina.

We hope you had a great time.

Some of us have been engaged in this project for more than four years. Others came aboard as elements developed. Finally volunteers joined in to assist delivery during the convention week.

This has been an incredible journey, ably led by our chairman Doug Auburg.

A small team did the planning and development, including: Steven Watkins on layout tours and local registration, Paul Nasiatka our Treasurer, Greg Madsen as webmaster, Suzy Madsen on Non-Rail and General Tours, Charlie Comstock on Clinics, Paul Hobbs on timetable and publicity, then auction, Jack Hamilton solicited volunteers.

During the event Gene Nedrow handled inside activities, Keith and Ursula Ansell worked the Company Store and Isaac Harpole dispatched the tours. As ever, Bob Hamm and his team came and did the Contests, Clark Kooning and his experts did the Modeling with the Masters program. We thank Jenny Hendricks and her team at HQ for their handling of many tasks.

Notice that a number of these folks do not live local to the convention, several not living in the US at all. You do not need to live nearby to provide useful service to the event; you might consider helping future events. We thank Jenny Hendricks and her team at HQ for their handling of many tasks.

We were able to visit with old and new friends, see tremendous layouts, clinics, contest entries, prototype, SIG and general interest activities, and participate in the auction. There should have been some special, memorable, moments for you.

Ladies in the non-rail program made 34 quilts to be presented to Project Linus, which were gratefully accepted. Kristy Webster embroidered names on convention shirts for those wanting them and gave a hilarious luncheon presentation.

The auction had 87 sellers, 315 buyers for the 926 items sold of 1173 entered. We sold 79% of the entered items, much better than the average 66%. It was a small auction, but of good quality, as the dollars were similar to last year, which had over 2000 items.

A bus broke down, a train hit a car, a couple of trips did not get their lunches, and some antique stores did not open on Mondays. Such incidents are not unusual for events of this complexity. Sorry about them!

We will be keeping the web site at http://nmra2015.sbcrailway.ca available for some time to come, and we will be posting presentations and handouts from the clinics there as we receive them.

Have a safe trip home.

We look forward to visiting the efforts of Steve Studley and his team at Indianapolis next July.

Best Wishes

PDX 2015 planning committee – retired!

Changes for Saturday

Changes for Saturday, August 29th

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.


Clinic: Modeling Asian Railways in N scale

Saturday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Mt Saint Helens
Cancelled


Clinic: Big on Features, Light on your Wallet - an introduction to SoundTraxx new Econami line of decoders

Saturday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Mt. Saint Helens
New


Prototype Tour: P713 Chehalis Centralia Railroad Excursion (Box Lunch)

Saturday, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
Cancelled

Changes for Friday

Changes for Friday, August 28th

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.


Clinic: N-ovations in N scale

Friday, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Three Sisters
Moved from: Wednesday, 11:00 am - Noon, Weidler


Clinic: Micro Macro Modularity: using the modular concept in layout design

Friday, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Three Sisters
Moved to new Time and Room: Wednesday, 11:00 am to Noon, Weidler


General Tour: G671 Art Museum, Courthouse, Walking tour

Friday, 8:40 am to 12:30 pm
Cancelled


Non-Rail Clinic: Book Binding

Friday, 11:00 am to Noon, Oregon
New


Non-Rail Clinic: Easy Mug Mat

Friday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Oregon
New


Clinic: Nn3 - an Overview

Friday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Three Sisters
New


Clinic: Modeling the Pacific Coast Railway's San Luis Obsipo facilities in N scale

Friday, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Three Sisters
New


Clinic: Scenery using geodesic foam

Friday, 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm, Mt Hood
Cancelled


General Tour: G673 Symphony in the Park

Friday, 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Cancelled

Changes for Thursday

Changes for Thursday, August 27th

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.


General Tour: G569 Spruce Division Cut Up Mill, Pearson Air Museum, Ft. Vancouver

Thursday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Cancelled


Layout Tour: L552 Chehalis / Olympia, Washington

Thursday, 7:30 am to 6:00 pm
Cancelled


Non-Rail Clinic: Fabric Flowers

Thursday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Oregon
Moved from: Tuesday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Oregon


Prototype Tour: P512 Northwest Rail Institute Tour

Thursday, 8:30 am to Noon
Cancelled

Changes for Wednesday

Changes for Wednesday, August 26th

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.


Clinic: N-ovations in N scale

Wednesday, 11:00 am to Noon, Weidler
Moved to new Time and Room: Friday, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Three Sisters


Clinic: Micro Macro Modularity: using the modular concept in layout design

Wednesday, 11:00 am to Noon, Weidler
Moved from Friday, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Three Sisters

Changes for Tuesday

Changes for Tuesday, August 25th

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.


Clinic: What's happening at the resurrected Railroad Model Craftsman

Tuesday, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Mt Saint Helens
Cancelled


Clinic: The first two years of the HO scale St. Louis division

Tuesday, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Mt. Saint Helens
New


Clinic: Train Dispatching Elements - extended

Tuesday, 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm, Mt. Bachelor
New


Clinic: Highball to Indy, 2016

Tuesday, 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm, Sellwood
New


General Tour: G363 Powell's Books & Yarn Shops

Tuesday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Cancelled


Layout Tour: L337 Beaverton, Oregon

Tuesday, 8:00 am to Noon
Cancelled


Non-Rail Clinic: Stamped Tea Towels

Tuesday, 11:00 am to Noon, Oregon
Moved to this time from Wednesday, 11:00 to Noon, Oregon


Non-Rail Clinic: Fabric Flowers

Tuesday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Oregon
Moved to new Time: Thursday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Oregon


Non-Rail Clinic: Personal Safety

Tuesday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Oregon
New


Prototype Tour: P317 Hull-Oakes Lumber Mill Tour #2

Tuesday, 11:30 am to 6:30 pm
Cancelled

Door Prizes

The Door Prizes were to be given out at the banquet, however we have now received so many late donations that we will be drawing registration numbers on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday instead. The winning numbers will be posted outside of the Convention Office in the Morrison Room. Please check to see if you are a winner!

Changes for Monday

Changes for Monday, August 24th

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.


Clinic: Your host club: The Columbia Gorge

Monday, 8:00 am to 9:00 am, Mt Saint Helens
Cancelled


Clinic: Sawmills

Monday, 8:00 am to 9:00 am, Mt. Saint Helens
New at this Time


Clinic: Bringing an F-unit cab home in 1:1 scale

Monday, 9:30 am to 10:30 am, Weidler
New


Layout Tour: L232 Woodland / Kelso / Kalama, Washington

Monday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cancelled and replaced with L256


Layout Tour: L233 Vancouver, Washington

Monday, 7:40 am to Noon
Cancelled and replaced with L256


Layout Tour: L256 Vancouver/Kalama, Washington

Monday, 7:40 am to 12:40 pm
New, replacing L232 and L233


Prototype Tour: P204 Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Excursion #2

Monday, 12:45 pm to 5:00 pm
Cancelled

Changes for Sunday

Welcome to the 80th annual National Model Railroad Association convention in Portland, Oregon!

This mobile-friendly web site will be updated each evening with the changes for the next day to help you plan your day.

A complete list of changes is always available on the Activity Changes Page.

Changes for Sunday, August 23rd.

 


Clinic: Micro Macro Modularity: using the modular concept in layout design

Sunday, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, Mt Hood
Moved to new Time: Wednesday, 11:00 am to Noon, Weidler


Clinic: Your host club: The Columbia Gorge

Sunday, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Weidler
Cancelled


Clinic: Creating a Scene from Start to Finish

Sunday, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Weidler
New


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