Late News / Changes
Registration is now available directly online. Please use  the following link to access these forms.
 
    
The following general interest tours have been canceled:
     G3287 Discovery Science Center
     G4189 Los Angeles Police Museum and Heritage Square
     G7494 Gene Autry National Museum and Forest Lawn
 
The following prototype tour has been canceled:
   # 4159 and # 4260 (Union Station).
   P 3269 -  Metro Link Shops
 
The following Layout Tours have been cancelled:
   L 2405 - Simi Valley Owl
   L 2406 - San Diegan
   L 3412 - Coaster
   L 3413 - Torrance Fast Mail
   L 4227 - San Gabriel Sweeper
   L 4418 - Los Angeles Local
   L 4419 - Valley Lark
   L 5321 - Orange Special
   L 5424 - Big Five Cannon Ball
   L 5426 - Mission Challenger
 
Special Clinic
 
Kenichi Matsumoto and John Glaab will present a clinic on the early days of Japanese brass model making at the NMRA Convention in Anaheim.
Mr. Matsumoto was a young boy during the days when the Japanese brass business was just getting started, and he knew many of these early builders on a first-name basis.
He is now the editor/publisher of the Japanese magazine Train, has published several books, and runs an import business catering to American prototype modelers. He is also an avid collector and has a large HO scale layout based upon western American railroads. He is generally regarded as the “Al Kalmbach of  Japan."
The clinic will consist of a PowerPoint presentation showing several pictures of early Japanese models and the relationship of the American GI to the brass business. He will also discuss the evolution of the business. A question-and-answer session will follow.
John Glaab is the author of  “The Brown Book of Brass Locomotives.”
The clinic will be offered at 8:30 PM on Thursday, July 17th, and 4:00 PM on Friday, July 18th.