The PCR 2024 Virtual Convention will feature a Virtual Train Show developed in conjunction with New Tracks Modeling. The Virtual Train show will feature 10 Model Railroad vendors and 3 Model Railroad associations.
The Virtual Train Show will let attendees (both virtual and in-person meet new vendors and understand if their products are right for their modeling. The associations will let you understand if a new scale or approach is best for you.
Sponsored by New Tracks Modeling
The Virtual Train Show is sponsored by New Tracks Modeling. New Tracks modeling is an on-line community, founded by Jim Kellow, MMR, dedicated to “Modelers Mentoring Modelers”. The New Tracks Meetup is every Wednesday night
t 4 PM PT (7 PM ET).. Each meetup includes outstanding modelers and kit manufacturers doing demonstrative builds of great models. See scale specific topics as well as the monthly MyBuild where models are shown by the New Tracks community. Special guest highlight new products,
technologies, and great modeling. New Tracks Modeling currently has over 1,100 videos on YouTube covering a wide range of mode railroading topics. Click the images below to link to the New Tracks Modeling website or the New Tracks Modeling YouTube channel.
Vendor & Association Focus Videos
Each vendor and association is preparing a short video to introduce themselves. These will run during the open time between the end of the morning clinics and the Virtual Prototype tours and before the evening clinics. A schedule of when vendor and association videos will be presented will be distributed to virtual and in-person attendees. Click on the vendor name below to link to their Virtual Train Show video.
- Banta Modelworks
- Brennan’s Model Railroading
- CatzPaw Innovations, LLC
- Conowingo Models
- Lambert Locomotive Works
- Inter-Action Hobbies
- New Creations Victorian Railroad Buildings, LLC
- Miniprints
- Model Railroad Control Systems
- NTMI Scholarship
- O Scale Central
Vendor and Association Breakouts
To enable attendees to meet the vendors and associations and have detailed discussions, we are taking advantage of the breakout capability in Zoom. In the afternoon there will be one or two slots for these. Each vendor and association will have a one hour assigned time in a breakout room during a time period dedicated to breakouts and conversations. Attendees can move between the breakouts to talk to the vendors they wish to meet. This is the schedule for the Virtual Breakout Rooms.
Focus Breakout – Wireless Command Control (WCC): A proposal for a new NMRA standard
This session will discuss a proposal for a new NMRA standard to operate a layout using wireless transport protocols. This is still in its infancy and no decisions have been made yet. We will present the proposal and solicit feedback and ideas of what such a standard should entail.
Vendors Participating in the Virtual Train Show
These are the vendors participating in the Virtual Train Show. Click on the logo to visit their website.
Associations Participating in the Virtual Train Show
