WPM 2010 - Western Prototype Modelers Meet

When: Saturday September 18, 2010
Where: San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot
1170 West Third Street. - San Bernardino, CA 92403
What Time: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

The west coast's largest gathering for railroad prototype modelers, now in it's 21st year!

Come to WPM and see hundreds of locomotive, freight and passenger car, caboose, MOW, structure, and vehicle prototype models on display while countless 1:1 scale BNSF and UP trains roll-by just feet from the depot.
Clinics and seminars will be offered throughout the day. Visit the San Bernardino Historical and Railroad Museum located in the west-end of the depot.
Tons of raffle prizes donated by generous hobby retailers, publishers & model manufacturers will be up for grabs.
Bring your modeling projects, finished, or "in the works". Share ideas and techniques with fellow modelers and meet new friends!

Registration starts at 8:30AM
Doors Open at 9:00AM

Scheduled Presentations start at 10:00
10:00 Butch Eyler – Weathering Freight Cars in the Modern Era
11:15 Scott Chatfield - All About 1st Generation GPs
12:15 Mini-Raffle and Lunch Break
1:30 Bill Schaumburg - An Introduction to Commuter Railroad Operations
2:45 Bob Zenk – SP's Krauss-Maffei: A Love-Hate Story
4:00 Chris Clune - Producing Models at ExactRail
5:00 Raffle Round 2

San Bernardino depot is served by both Amtrak and Metrolink. Links to schedules are posted on our web site.
Exhibitors: Manufacturers, photographers and publishers will participate in WPM (Exhibitors: pre-registration is required, contact WPM at the phone number below.)
For updated info on presentations, program, schedule and photos of past meets:
www.WesternPrototypeModelers.org or call Tim Costello at (714) 832-8696

WPM welcomes modelers of all roads, all scales and eras!

WPM Meet admission: $15.00, or $12.00 if you bring a model(s) to display

Plenty of free parking

Dave Hussey
WPM Committee