Note: The Program Committee is in the process of assembling materials under the headings below. At present, the following numbers contain no items: 10, 11, 13, 15-17, 19, 23, 27, & 29.
Resources to Help Creating Your Own Layout and Models
- 1. Introductory materials
- 2. Layout Design
- 3. Benchwork and Substrates
- 4. Trackwork, Turnouts
- 5. Scenery
- 6. Backgrounds and Layout Lighting
- 7. Electricity and Electronics — DC, DCC, & Deadrail
- 8. Motive Power — Steam, Diesel, and Electric plus other self-powered vehicles
- 9. Freight Cars
- 10. Passenger Cars
- 11. Maintenance of Way and Other Non-Revenue Rolling Stock
- 12. Building Structures
- 13. Structures: Stations and other Buildings
- 14. Structures: Industrial
- 15. Structures: Commercial (Stores, Service Stations, etc)
- 16. Structures: Miscellaneous — Domestic, Schools, Churches, etc.
- 17. Structures: Signals
- 18. Weathering
- 19. Operations
Prototype Railroads and Layouts that Model Them
- 20. Major
- 21. Local, Short Haul, and Industrial
- 22. Logging
- 23. Mining
- 24. Coal
- 25. Steel
- 26. Trolley Lines
- 27. Maritime
- 28. Narrow Gauge
- 29. British and European
- 30. Garden Railroads
