Tag: Hobby Event

2025 RPM-East summary

Steve Raque’s HO scale models on display at RPM-East

The latest southwestern Pennsylvania prototype modeler meet is in the books! The 2025 RPM-East event was another success with 250 attendees spending their March 21st & 22nd on the Westmoreland County Community College campus in Youngwood, Pennsylvania.

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Red River RPM and more

Brian Ehni attended the Red River RPM near Fort Worth on June 25th. He sent along a few images and notes on the event. Here’s Brian with the report.

We were in the Grand Ballroom of the Forest Hill Civic Center, with clinics in room 202 and a nearby break room. The room was pretty large. They had free water and soft drinks in the kitchen, which were paid for by the $20 entrance fee.

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RPM addendum

I enjoyed another RPM Chicagoland meet recently. A number of Pre-Depression Era modelers (the Pirates) attended, as seen in the lead image. That’s me, down in front. Two Pirates were missing at the time of the photo shoot. It was great to catch up with this group in face-to-face conversations and enjoy meals and drinks together. It’s been nine years since a couple of us began corresponding about railroads and industries of the 1900-1930 decades. We’ve learned a great deal from our collective and advanced our individual modeling skills.

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