Conventioneers - Download the Registration Form Here

Dealers - Download the Vendor Registration Form Here

Displays - Download the Layout Registration Form Here

The main convention hotel is located across the street from the convention center.

NOTE: Rates Increase After April 20, 2010

Hampton Inn – Bessemer
4910 Civic Lane
Bessemer, AL 35022
205-425-2010

Room Rates $89 for regular - $115 for suites

Identify yourself as “NMRA” to get the Convention Discount
Rates good for Thursday 5/20 to Sunday 5/23/2010

LAYOUT TOURS

LAYOUT TOURS PAGE

SCHEDULES

CLINIC SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

LAYOUT TOUR SCHEDULE

INFO FOR NON-RAIL's

CLINICS - Your Layout – From Concept to Reality

 Almost all of the clinics will be around this theme.  In keeping with this we have lined up a group of premier modelers and clinicians coming from all around the US.  You have been reading their articles for years in the model railroad magazines.  We have Paul Scoles, Tony Koester, Cliff Powers, Jared Harper, Howard Goodwin and other members of the NMRA Layout Design SIG.  The clinics will take you from design and planning right on through building and completion.  There will be some make and take clinics as well as time for you to talk to the experts about your layout and ask questions.

 Cliff Powers will be doing a 2 hour clinic on building a triple deck layout.  Paul Scoles will be doing 4 hours of clinics on building your layout based on a series of articles that started running in the December 2009 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman and are continuing to run.   Part of the clinic will include “getting your hands dirty”.  

 Tony Koester will be doing a clinic on building a double desk layout with a question and answer period afterwards. 

 We will also have a special guest clinician coming from Australia.  Dan Carmody, a member of the Australia Consult in Washington DC, will be joining us to talk about model and prototype railroading DOWN UNDER.  This will be a good chance for us to see how another part of the world does railroading.   Dan is excited about meeting all of us and sharing his modeling experiences. 

Strategic Layout Design – Clinics 1 through 4

Nothing taps the creativity of a modeler better than layout design!  However, there is so much more to designing a layout than drawing a track plan that it is hard to know where to start or if you have thought of everything.  Maybe you already started and aren’t happy with where you are going?  Both advanced level modelers and beginners will enjoy this new approach to designing a railroad.   Strategic Layout Design is about looking at the dynamic modeling experience as a whole and not just on graph paper, though we’ll cover that, too.  Advanced design concepts, CAD tools, operations and even a little soul searching are all going to be included.  This is an interactive clinic so bring your notepad and questions.  Prepare to enjoy four back to back clinics covering layout design from beginning to infinity!  If you are excited by layout design, this is the place to be!

Strategic Layout Design Clinic Outline

THE COMPANY STORE

Do you have old kits lying around the workshop?

Have you changed era’s on your layout?

Have excess rolling stock that you do not use?

Why not turn these items into instant cash!

As with all SER Conventions we will be having a COMPANY STORE where you can sell these unwanted items and only pay a 10% commission.  It’s simple and easy to do.

Simply download the instruction and forms below.

Item Log For Items 1-25

Item Log for Items 26-50

Item Tags