Sudbury Saturday Night Express
National Model Railroad Association
Niagara Frontier Region
2012 Convention

Sudbury Saturday Night Express

The City of Greater Sudbury is holding a model railroading party in April, 2012. You’re invited to a great city with tremendous model railways and traditional northern hospitality.

The event will be at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel close to downtown Sudbury. Cost will be $90 for the full convention including buffet banquet. A tour of VALE (formerly INCO) transportation is an extra fare item @ $30. Non-NMRA members must take out a six month ‘Railpass’ membership in the NMRA for $10.

Visits to a variety of extraordinary model layouts are planned including various scales from Z to G and from basement empires to a backyard shortline and table top compact layouts. There are many opportunities for watching 1:1 rail action in the region, beginning with the backyard of the HoJo, located beside CPR’s Sudbury yard and transcontinental main line. On Sunday there will be a special opening of the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum in Capreol, the Canadian National division point within the City of Greater Sudbury. If you wonder what a real ‘6060 Class’ locomotive looks like close up, this is your chance since CN 6077 is the centrepiece of the museum’s outdoor displays. A reduced admission price is available for this visit.

Come and take a ride on the Sudbury Saturday Night Express

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Clinics

Proposed clinics for the convention include:

• Piggy Backs of the 1950's (Al Crisp, MMR)
• Algoma Eastern Railway
• DCC A to Z
• Building Your Own Turnouts using Fast Tracks (by Clark Cooning, MMR)
• Hands on Styrene Cattle Ramp (by Clark Cooning, MMR) [extra fare event]
• Scratchbuilding in Wood and other Tips (by Neville Meads)
• more to come ...

Flimsy Article - Clinics and Workshops

Layout Tours

Layouts that will be open for tours include:

Flimsy Article - Home Layout and Industry Tour Overview