Dan Elliot and Scott Lawson - Plumas County Museum
5:00 PM
10:00 PM
Kevin Caldwell layout tour - Squirrel Valley
6:00 PM
9:00 PM
Bob Westphall and Bob Norwich layout tours
7:00 PM
10:00 PM
Mixer at NCO Depot
Friday
12:00 PM
12:03 PM
Opening
12:03 PM
12:40 PM
40 min
Working for the WP
Todd Bruso and Michael Rush
12:45 PM
1:35 PM
50 min
WPRM and the City of Portola
Robert Meacher and Steve Habeck
1:35 PM
2:35 PM
60 min
BREAK
2:35 PM
3:10 PM
35 min
Modeling WP Caboose 484
David Epling and Kevin Caldwell
3:15 PM
3:55 PM
40 min
WP's Oroville Line Change
Kerry Cochran
3:55 PM
4:10 PM
15 min
BREAK
4:10 PM
5:00 PM
50 min
Keddie: Western Pacific's Heart
narrated by Eugene Vicknair
6:00 PM
9:00 PM
James Petro layout tour and operations session
5:35 PM
Gates open for Reno Aces - 6:35 PM game start
Saturday
9:30 AM
10:45 AM
FRRS Board Meeting
11:00 AM
11:05 AM
Opening
11:05 AM
11:50 AM
45 min
Orange and Silver Days Gone By
Keith Ardinger
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
30 min
Virgil Staff film
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
60 min
BREAK
1:30 PM
2:15 PM
45 min
Story of WP caboose 668
Katy Dickinson
2:20 PM
3:20 PM
60 min
California Zephyr films
Warren Haack - Catenary Video Productions
3:20 PM
3:35 PM
15 min
BREAK
3:35 PM
4:20 PM
45 min
Time Flies and the Feather Flows - WP Then and Now
Steve Cope
4:25 PM
5:00 PM
35 min
Tesla, California, and the Alameda & San Joaquin Railroad
Dan Mosier
6:30 PM
9:00 PM
Banquet
Seating starts at 6:00 PM
Sunday
8:45 AM
5:15 PM
Virginia City and Nevada State Railroad Museum Excursions and Tours. Please assemble by 8:30 AM.
~ LAYOUT TOURS ~
(updated 4/23/17)
Bob Westphall - HO scale
Thursday, May 4th 6 PM to 9 PM
Viewing session
Anyone wishing to visit must email Eugene at
info@wplives.org
so we can get a head count.
Bob is building a western themed, HO railroad, featuring a lot of Western Pacific equipment. He has been working on this layout for some time and has a lot of very nice scenery. There is a Helix up to an upper level logging branch. An expansion is now in progress with 65 ft of new mainline operating and connecting with the existing trackage over models of the Keddie bridges area of the WP.
Bob Norwich
Thursday, May 4th 6 PM to 9 PM
Viewing session
Anyone wishing to visit must email Eugene at
info@wplives.org
so we can get a head count.
Bob is creating a fictional On30 railroad in post war Nevada town that has hit hard times and is using worn out steam engines. There are over 50 buildings with scenery almost done over half the layout. The rest is in progress. A wall has been torn down to make room for more railroad, expanding from the current size of 18' x 30'. He operates with DCC.
Kevin Caldwell
Thursday, May 4th 5 PM to 10 PM
Viewing session
Anyone wishing to visit must email Eugene at
info@wplives.org
so we can get a head count.
Kevin's layout is the N Scale Squirrel Valley Railway Company, a 9' x 13' foot garage layout with plans for a lower deck. The layout has many different sections (all in various degrees of construction, no formal scenery has been completed) that includes the mountainous Donner Pass, coal regions of DRGW Tennessee Pass, a freelanced brewery section, Southern California citrus region with yards, engine facilities and a passenger station. A 6.5 coil helix has been constructed for the flight down to the proposed lower level. All 66 turnouts and diamonds are handmade with Code 55 track. The main era of focus is late 70s to mid 1980s and include the Western Pacific, Southern Pacific, ATSF, DRGW, UP, and his fictional Squirrel Valley.
James Petro
Friday, May 5th 6 PM to 9 PM
Operating and viewing session
Anyone wishing to visit must email Eugene at
info@wplives.org
so we can get a head count.
Jim's layout is HO scale and models the D&RGW in about 1955. It is an operation oriented layout with several staging areas. It starts with the Joint Line, south of Denver, has a large Denver area, then proceeds through Moffat tunnel and goes through Grand Junction. Car movements are done with car cards. The layout is dispatcher controlled with CTC and some ABS signaling.
More presentation announcements to follow, as well as the reveal of our banquet speaker. Also coming is a full itinerary for the Sunday excursions and tours.