Clinics & Workshops – A thru L
Listed are many of the approximate 200 clinics and workshops included in the "Highball To Indy 2016" program. The listing below is alphabetical by the last name of the main presenter (A thru L). Days and times are included. Please note that many of the sessions are repeated! [ Last names M thru Z linked here! ]
To download the entire 38-page clinic & workshop listing, available in .pdf format: CLICK HERE
Updated June 29, 2016 . . . . an Excel-style chart with the clinics slotted per day & room: HERE
(Note: This document is formated for 11" x 14" sheets of paper, but can be resized for 8.5" x 11" paper)
Clinic presenters and topics for HTI '16 . . .
Albers, Dr. Gerry Deepwater District Operations: Giving Your Model Railroad Purpose and Meaning
Wednesday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Albers, Dr. Gerry Designing & Building a Layout with CAD
Wednesday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Albers, Dr. Gerry AC/DC/DCC
Wednesday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Albers, Dr. Gerry Signals-By-Spreadsheet
Wednesday / 11:00 am – 12 noon
Baker, Stuart Layout Command Control - Planning, Setting Up or Extending Your Layout
Tuesday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Baker, Stuart and Harris, David Layout Command Control Users Meeting and Forum
Wednesday / 8:30 pm – 9:300 pm
Besougloff, Neal What’s New at Model Railroader Magazine?
Thursday / 10:30 am – noon
Blake, Bob NMRA EduTRAIN Update
Monday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm and Wednesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bonk, Donald Building the George’s Gorge and some scenic concepts
Tuesday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bopp, John Resources for Scratch Building or How to Build a Cellulose Car from Just One Photo Cancelled on 6/30/16
Wednesday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Bronson, Dick Layout Command Control – Adding Signals to Your Layout with LCC
Thursday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Brown, Bill Enhancing Your Modeling with Digital Photography
Sunday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm and Thursday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Brown, Bill Creating a Scene from Start to Finish
Sunday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Bunza, Geoff Scale Model Animation for Model Railroads
Tuesday / 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Bunza, Geoff Ultra Low Cost DCC for Modelers
Thursday / 11:00 am - noon and Saturday / 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Bunza, Geoff Prototype Maintenance of Way Cranes
Wednesday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Burchnall, John Engineering Secrets of the Eastern Loggers\
Thursday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Burchnall, John Roadbed Materials – New Insights
Wednesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Burnside, Phillip Using 3D printer to build a model of the large Horizontal Blowing Engine used in by the E.T. Steel Mill in the 1940s
Wednesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Burnside, Jim Modeling a Steel Mill Coke Works and “By-Products Plant”
Wednesday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Bussard, John Scenery
Thursday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Cantor, Jim Hand Laying O Gauge Track
Monday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Capron, Dave MMR Making Rock Molds
Thursday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Capron, Dave MMR Making Coal Loads
Thursday / 11:00 am – noon
Capron, Dave MMR Operations On A Room Sized Layout
Thursday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Capron, Dave MMR Techniques in Constructing Craftsman Kits
Friday / 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Carlton, Dave The Art of Soldering [ Note: This Is An EduTRAIN Clinic ]
Wednesday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Carlton, Dave Automatic Block Protection Signals on the Alabama, Tennessee & Northern RR
Thursday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Carpenter, Bruce Human Model Railroad Interface Signal System (HMRI)
Saturday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am and Saturday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Catania, Chuck CMRInet Layout Control Using JMRI
Thursday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Chubb, Bruce – MMR Interfacing a Computer to Your Model Railroad via CMRInet
Monday / 9:30 am -10:30 am and Wednesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Chubb, Bruce – MMR Layout Design Techniques and Sunset Valley Oregon System
Monday / 11:00 am – noon and Tuesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Chubb, Bruce – MMR Sunset Valley Oregon System Updates and Operation\
Tuesday / 10:00 am – noon and Thursday / 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Chubb, Bruce – MMR Signaling Part 1: Fundamental Concepts – Prototype and Model
Monday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm and Thursday / /2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Chubb, Bruce – MMR Signaling Part 2: ABS, APB, Turnout Control and Grade Crossing Systems
Monday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Thursday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Chubb, Bruce – MMR Signaling Part 3: Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) Systems
Monday / 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm and Thursday / 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Cioffi, Dan NMRA 2017 Orlando Convention “So Much More Then Mickey”
Monday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm and Thursday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Clark, Keith Hand Laying HO Scale Turnouts
Friday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday / 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Coble, Kyle Introduction to 3D Printing
Saturday / 11:00 am – noon
Cowles, Mark Boats for Trains
Wednesday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Cowles, Mark A Brief Look at the Great Lakes Car Ferries
Thursday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Cowles, Mark From the Prototype to Your Layout and the Concept of Static Action
Wednesday / 11:00 am – 12 noon
Curran, McKeegan Teenagers and the Next Generation Modelers
Saturday / 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Dalberg, Jed MMR Planning Passenger Operations & Operating Them (On The Lackawanna RR)
Thursday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
De Young, Bruce MMR Weather or Not
Sunday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Wednesday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
De Young, Bruce MMR Modeling Tips and Tricks for Structures
Monday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
De Young, Bruce MMR The Logging Railroads of Pennsylvania
Tuesday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Digitrax Users Group / Zane Ireland
Thursday / 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Dipaola, Jim Modeling a Steel Mill Continuous Caster
Wednesday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Dodge, Andrew MMR Creating a Steam Locomotive Roster
Monday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Dodge, Andrew MMR A Prototype: Modeling the Colorado Midland in Proto 48
Monday / 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Eaton, Leslie MMR Nano Animation for Less Than Ten Dollars
Tuesday / 11:00 am – noon and Thursday 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Eaton, Leslie MMR Tips and Tricks for Scratch Building and Kit Bashing
Monday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Eaton, Leslie MMR What’s On Your Rooftop?
Wednesday / 11:00 am - noon
Edwards, Bill Forest Management with Polyester Trees Canceled on 6/16/16
Friday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Edwards, Bill Believable Hard Water without Resin Canceled on 6/16/16
Friday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Evans, Gary A Snapshot in Time – “Old Glory” Dragline, Farmersburg, Indiana 2007
Monday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Evans, Gary Simplified Signaling for Modelers
Monday / 11:00 am – noon and Wednesday 9:30 am -10:30 am
Evans, Gary Do It Yourself Timetable and Other Operation Paperwork
Wednesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am and Friday / 11:00 am – 12 noon
Fahie, Art Craftsman Kit 101
Thursday / 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Fahie, Art Constructing Realistic City Scenes in Small Spaces – The Where’s Waldo Theory of Density Modeling
Thursday / 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Fahie, Art How to Build Miniature Display Dioramas
Friday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Fahie, Art Signs, Signs, Signs; One Concept – Many Approaches
Friday / 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Fahie, Art It’s In the Details
Friday / 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Faulkner, Bruce Designing a Railroad Inspired by the Clinchfield
Monday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm and Thursday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Feeney, Dr. Kevin A Look at the C&EI railroad through its annual reports: 1940 – 1975
Friday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Ferenc, Jim Day in the Life of the Rio Grande Southern
Monday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Fieler, Frank West Virginia Logging of the 60’s
Friday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Filipiak, Joe The Brick Industry
Friday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Frankrone, Bob Open Loads
Tuesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm and Thursday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Frankrone, Bob Operations on the Louisville Southern Lines
Tuesday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm and Wednesday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Fugate, Joe Painting Models in a Post-Floquil World
Thursday / 11:00 am – 12 noon and Friday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Geiger, Doug MMR Iron and Steel: The Industry
Tuesday / 8:00 am – 9:30 am
Geiger, Doug MMR Tools, Tools, Tools
Tuesday / 10:30 am – noon and Thursday / 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Godwin, Paul Modeling in the 1950’s – Ins and Outs of the Era Cancelled on 6/16/16
Saturday / 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Gore, Jim MMR Adventures of a Test Builder
Thursday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Grivno, Cody Ellis & Eastern: A Railroad You Can Model
Thursday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hale, Miles MMR; Hale, Fran MMR Woodland Scenics Foam Layout Construction
Tuesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am and Wednesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Hale, Miles MMR; Hale, Fran MMR New Products from Woodland Scenics
Tuesday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am and Wednesday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Hale, Miles MMR; Hale, Fran MMR Realistic Scenery for Your Layout from Woodland Scenics
Tuesday / 11:00 am – noon and Wednesday / 11:00 am – noon
Hale, Miles MMR Using Sketch-Up & 3D Printing
Tuesday / 8:30 - 9:30 PM
Hamm, Bob MMR Building Timber Trestles
Tuesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Hamm, Bob MMR Judging the National Contest
Monday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Hanley, Don Creating a 3D Backdrop
Thursday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am and Friday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Harris, David and Racz, Balazs Layout Command Control – An Introduction
Tuesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm and Friday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Harris, David and Baker, Stuart Layout Command Control Users Meeting and Forum
Wednesday / 8:30 pm – 9:300 pm
Harrison, Richard Lionel O Gauge Block Detector Using Outside Rail
Monday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Harrison, Richard Lionel O Gauge Fastrak or Standard Switch Monitor and Activation
Monday 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Harrison, Richard HO Infrared Detectors with LED Panel Indicator
Tuesday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Harrison, Richard HO Building Lighting Projects and Techniques
Tuesday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Harrison, Richard Modify Walthers HO Turntable Remote Control
Tuesday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Harter, Greg Operating DC and DDC on a Large or Small Club Layout
Tuesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Hauff, Steve 21st Century Train Rides
Monday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Hauff, Steve Making Your Own Decals
Monday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am and Tuesday / 8:00 - 9:00 am
Hauff, Steve Slim Gauge Diesels
Monday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hauff, Steve Kitbashing Narrow Gauge Diesels
Monday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Hauff, Steve The Climax Geared Locomotive
Tuesday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hauff, Steve The Heisler Geared Locomotive
Tuesday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Hauff, Steve The Shay Geared Locomotive
Tuesday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Henderson, Byron Layout Design Bootcamp
Monday / 8:00 am - noon
Henderson, Byron A Quick and Easy Start for Operations
Tuesday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hensley, Roger Big Four Rialroad Through NYC to the PC
Saturday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Hensley, Roger Big Four Railroad, NYC, Central Indiana, PRR, NKP, PCm CR & CSX, NS
Saturday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Hobbs, Paul Forty Five Years of Amtrak
Monday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Friday 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Hobbs, Paul Kadee Couplers – A Treatise
Monday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Hohn, Michael MMR Basics of Scratch Building Structures and Rolling Stock
Monday / 11:00 am – noon and Friday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Houzvicka, Frank National and Major Train Museums in Europe
Sunday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Houzvicka, Frank Behind the Scene at Miniatur Wunderland 2016
Sunday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm and Saturday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Houzvicka, Frank Other Large European Layouts
Monday / 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Hunter, Rick and Maureen Applications of "Weathering Mix"
Friday / 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Hunter, Rick and Maureen Make 'n' Take Snow Fence
Wednesday / 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Ireland, Jarrette Braking, Switching, and Running Railroading with Soundtraxx
Thursday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am and Friday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ireland, Zane / Digitrax Users Group
Thursday / 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Jameson, Benita Adding Interior Details to Your Buildings
Thursday / 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Jameson, Benita Detailing and Weathering – Take Your Structures from STANDARD to STELLAR
Thursday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Jameson, William (Gene) Basic Electronics for Model Railroaders
Friday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Jameson, William (Gene) Documenting Your Layout
Friday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm and Saturday / 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Johnson, Ron Steel Bench Work
Wednesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jones, Trevor Covering a Lot of Ground; Scenery Tools and Techniques
Monday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm and Saturday / 2:30 - 3:30 pm
King, Ron Scenery
Saturday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
King, Ron Modifying Passenger Car Trucks for Better Operations
Saturday / 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Koester, Tony Modeling a Granger Railroad
Monday / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm and Wednesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Littenhous, Bill Electric Railroads of Southern Indiana and Louisville Kentucky Areas
Friday / 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Logan, Norman Quality Backdrops You Can Do
Tuesday / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm and Wednesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Lowrance, John MMR Scenery Ground Cover MaterialsCanceled 7/3/16
Tuesday / 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Lowrance, John MMR Setting the SceneCanceled 7/3/16
Wednesday / 11:00 am – 12 noon
Lowrance, John MMR Structure Fanning Canceled 7/3/16
Tuesday / 8:30 - 9:30 pm
Lowrance, John MMR Rocks and Walls Canceled 7/3/16
Tuesday / 9:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Ludley, Joe What Is T Track?
Friday / 8:00 - 9:00 PM
