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2021 Red River Prototype Modelers Meet

Jacob Damron
 

Fellow Modelers:

Our group, the Texas Railway Modeling and Historical Society, is hosting our inaugural Red River Prototype Modelers Meet here in the D/FW metroplex. This meet will be held at the Forest Hill Civic Center on June 26, 2021 from 9 am to 6 pm. This is on the east side of Ft Worth along I-20. 

The lack of an RPM here in the Lonestar State has been a major gap in our prototype modeling community and we hope to correct that. Last year would have been our inaugural year but Covid altered those plans for us. So, 2021 will now be our inaugural event. We selected the month of June to avoid conflicts with other RPM's such as Benton, St. Louis, and Naperville. Those are all wonderful RPM's and we hope to build something worthy of this community here in Texas. 

I'll have models on display along with hosting the event. What exists of my 1963 Twin Star Rocket will be on display as well as portions of my Dallas Union Terminal module complex to include the Triple Underpass, Tower 106, and the Trinity River wye leg trestle. 

For more information including our vendors, raffle donors, and clinics please visit RedRiverRPM.org

Jacob Damron
Michael Gross
 

Great idea, Jacob, and wishing you much success with this latest RPM!
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Michael Gross
Pasadena, CA
Jacob Damron
 

Thanks Michael. We've been very surprised and pleased with the response so far. Our goal is to host a quality event that does justice to the RPM community. 

Jacob Damron
Jeff Ford
 

Jacob,

Good to see the web site up and glad to hear of a positive reception.  I can remember tossing around the idea with Ryan Harris on more than one occasion over the past several years. Glad others have the "bandwidth" to get this off the ground.  One tremendous benefit to tout is D/FW is readily accessible by plane from just about anywhere.

Hoping to attend,
-Jeff Ford
Sanger, Texas
Jacob Damron
 

Jeff:

Ryan, Kevin Leddy, and myself can all be 'blamed' for this. We were discussing RPM's back in 2019 and one of us said 'we wish some of these were closer' and then the next comment was 'why not here?' And, here we are! The response so far has been very good and supportive and we're really excited about the potential of this. Hopefully we'll see you in June. 

Jacob Damron
Ft Worth, TX
Jacob Damron
 

We're now 43 days from the inaugural Red River Prototype Modeler's Meet here in Texas. The response so far has been fantastic and we wanted to share the list of vendors who will be in attendance. In alphabetical order; Bob's Photos, Custom Finishing Models, Ed Stoll Photos, Home Shops, MacRail LLC, Masterbilt, Missouri Pacific Historical Society, PolyPrinter, RailFan Models, The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, SoundTraxx, Spring Creek Model Trains, Texas Zephyr Publishing, White River Productions, and Zycon Models. In addition, we've secured additional donations for our raffle from the following; Athearn, ExactRail, Micro-Trains, Showcase Miniatures, Signalogic Systems, and Switch Line Decals. Clinic presenters include Brien Wood, Jim Ogden, and Dave Oppedisano. We welcome all rail, vehicle, and structure modelers to attend and help make our inaugural event a Texas sized one!

RedRiverRPM.org

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