NERPM features more than two dozen clinics focused on a variety of model railroading topics – weathering, prototype information, layout overviews, techniques and specific pieces of equipment. We welcome presentations from everyone. That model you’ve been working on, or project you’ve been researching, could very well be a great clinic.
2025 partial list is now available; check back for more detail
including dates and times
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2025 Northeast Railroad Prototype Meet
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| CLINICIAN | TOPIC |
| Adam Twombly | Modeling Cedar Hill Yard on an apartment-sized layout. |
| Bill Badger | Marble includes: Moving marble from mines to railheads. |
| Bill Schneider | TBD |
| Brian Carlson | The Cambria & Indiana hopper fleet |
| Dave Oppedisano | BNSF Lakeside sub update. Lessons learned from the demolition, moving, and rebuilding of a 1200 square foot layout from Pennsylvania to Texas. Including design of a new layout building and layout designed by “Bob’s Trackplans.” |
| Dave Owens | Magor DODX flat cars – An updated clinic on the first DODX flatcars and the Rapido model. |
| Dave Ramos | The New York Harbor - 3D Printing and Laser cutting to get the details done! |
| Irv Thomae | Modeling the Montpelier & Wells River, with updates on recent puzzles and progress. |
| Jim Fellows | The New Haven Railroads Norwich and Worcester line: Why model it and how I am doing it: Towns, interchanges, industries, and trains. |
| Jim Homoki | Rising from the Ashes: Design and construction of a new layout. After a devastating fire, Jim has a new home and has started construction on a new layout, focused on the CNJ in the early 1970s. He'll discuss the research being done, and present his methods of layout design and construction. |
| Joe Biagioni, Gary Munsey, Carlton Rohmer | Dead Rail for Model Trains: The advantages of powering model train locomotives (HO and Larger) with batteries instead of using track power. No more cleaning track, no track power layout wiring and no need to clean track for operation |
| John Brown | Shipment of auto frames from manufacturers such as A. O Smith of Milwaukee, Wisc. In gondolas and on flats to automobile assembly plants across the U.S. |
| Mal Houck | Modeling tricks, tips and shortcuts: Master Model Railroader and legendary NYO&W modeler Mal Houck discusses some of the techniques that make him a prolific modeler and creator of amazing scratch built steam locomotives. |
| Mal Houck | Wood passenger cars of the NYO&W |
| Mark Osmun | TBD |
| Matt Herson | A program from Matt’s railfanning travels – Likely E-L and PC |
| Mike Boland | HISTORY OF LIRR SWITCHERS: STEAM, ELECTRIC AND DIESEL. |
| Paul Spilman | Showing its the Seventies: In this clinic, we will take a thorough look at some of the freight car details that place it in the 1970s. From changes in consolidated stenciling requirements, to the massive effort tracking down faulty U-1 wheels and the associated little yellow dots, learn how you can narrow down your era to specifically show that you are modeling the 1970s - or even a particular year. |
| Peter Ness | New Haven Railroad TOFC, 1937-1968; Part III Motor Carriers |
| Randy Laframboise | TBD |
| Rick Abramson | The New Haven's Electrification and the Engines it Powered |
| Ron Johnson | Moving Maine Potatoes by Rail: The clinic will cover movement of potatoes in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, when potato business moved to trucks. |
| Ron Poidomani | Modeling The Manufacturer’s Railroad Part 2 |
| Scott Mason | TBD |
| Steve Meyer | Waybills from the 1960s illustrate the activities of the New Haven’s Thompsonville, CT freight agent. His duties focused on incoming loads to Enfield Lumber, but many other shipments are documented, including a consignment of Ramblers to a dealer in Enfield, and a shipment of Bigelow-Sanford carpets to a warehouse in San Francisco. Maps show the sometimes-circuitous routings used by the freight cars as they moved across the national rail network. |
| Stuart Chirls | A 40-foot boxcar isn't truly obsolete until a thrifty New England railroad says so! A straightforward project to help create a fleet of ersatz hoppers serving a paper mill. |
| Ted Culotta | TBD |
| Ted DiIorio | Hands on weathering. Ongoing during the meet. Bring a model you’d like to weather. Ted will guide you. |
| Ted Shasta | Tuning and Weathering Freight Cars: Tuning involves switching to code 88 wheels, eliminating truck wobble, switching to semi-scale couplers, adding air hoses and cut levers (if required), addressing any misaligned, loose or missing parts, and making sure the car is square and plumb and runs true. Weathering with a variety of materials and by working in layers. |
| Todd Hermann | An overview of Todd’s L&NE Catasauqua Branch layout. |
| Tony Koester | A Wabash Branch Line in Proto:48: In addition to the HO Nickel Plate St. Louis Division in his basement, Tony Koester is now building a two-town tribute to the Wabash R.R.’s Mogul-powered High Line in his enclosed porch. A long, weak span over the Illinois River couldn’t support even a Geep, so the 2-6-0s — made famous by a Kemtron kit and a David P. Morgan/Philip R. Hastings Trains article — soldiered on into the 1950s. The first of at least two Moguls has been converted to fine-scale wheel and gauge standards. Tony is about halfway finished handlaying the code 100 track, the fascia and LED lighting canopy and valance are installed, and he has started some scenery work. |
| Tony Sissons | Prototype Authenticity, a few ideas to improve your railroad without too much fuss. |
| Vince Lee | This talk Growing Up CNJ: A Personal Look at the Central Railroad of New Jersey in the 1960s. This talk will be a mixed color and B&W photographic review of the eastern portion of the Jersey Central Railroad throughout the 1960s. The CNJ’s motive power consisting of 1st generation diesels, facilities, buildings, and views along the mainline from the floatbridges of Jersey City to Bethlehem PA will be shown. |
We are always looking for new clinics and layout owners interested in showcasing their work. Please contact Dave Owens at neprotomeet@gmail.com or call 860-209-8155.