We’re lining up a strong stable of clinics. Here is a small sample of what you can expect.

Dale Kreutzer begins the process of installing another photo backdrop. Dale takes the pictures, edits them using software, has them printed out and adds them on to his layout. Dale’s photos are all specific images taken along the right of way of the RGS. Sometimes he needs to turn back the clock, using editing software to eliminate modern buildings and high tension wires.		Warning: This truck did NOT come from a kit.In addition to his incredible scale trees you saw in the video, Ken Larson is scratch building vehicles in 1:48 scale to complete an accurate roster of West Side Lumber Company trucks and other vehicles. He is building these vehicles out of styrene using a kid’s toy from the 1960s.
Dave Woodrell is another one of our members with a hankering to get his arms into the plaster. Here he is presenting a clinic on his scenery techniques. Dave’s also deeply involved in structures in his large and nearly complete Rio Grande Southern layout in Sn3.		Northwest Narrow Gauge member Glenn Farley scratch-builds and modifies brass locomotives. He is currently producing a clinic on building “The Ant” the first locomotive in Washington State. Glenn also builds turntable bridges, as well as other structures and rolling stock out of brass. He will be presenting clinics on basic and advanced brass work at the convention.
		Ken Larson’s father used to cruise timber in the forests of California. Now Ken is building an incredibly accurate On3 layout based on the West Side Lumber Co. Ken is serious about his massive trees, many are three or more feet high. He models specific types of trees from Ponderosa Pine, to Sugar Pine, to Incense Cedar even oak trees.
Russ Segner, our convention chair, is a student of Seattle’s narrow gauge history. In fact, he lives in Newcastle, the area just south of our convention headquarters known for coal mining using narrow gauge equipment. Russ will be presenting clinics on these subjects from narrow gauge mining, to logging to the rail/marine interface. Did you know an entire train of narrow gauge gondolas full of coal is still at the bottom of Lake Washington?