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Rail Clinic Descriptions (eleven)

3. & 32. Rick Tipton

Trackside around Louisville in the Fifties
Between 1946 and 1998, the late Jack Fravert, a
photography professional, took 40,000 color
slides of railroading in Louisville. This clinic is a
small slice of that work from the 1950’s – look-
ing at the L&N, the C&O, the Pennsy, the NYC,
the B&O, the Southern, the Monon, and the Illi-
nois Central as they were – and as steam disap-
peared here. Jack was from an L&N family, and
so we get inside the grounds of South Louisville
Shops and engine facilities. Get a feel for long-
ago Louisville as a railroad town and the Falls
City as a meeting place of northern and southern
railroad systems.

1. & 10. Peter Weiglin

Railroad Dining Services & Fred Harvey
Eating as a part of train travel has ranged from
barely edible to sumptuous. This clinic shows
the development of railroad food service opera-
tions, with some thoughts on incorporating this
operational element into your railroad.

21. Bob Weinheimer, MMR

What If the Worst Happens?
What would happen if the worst happened to
your railroad or other modeling items? It could
be a fire, a burglary, or even a natural disaster.
This clinic will discuss ways to document your
holdings for insurance purposes and ways to en-
sure that the documentation doesn’t get de-
stroyed as well. This can apply equally well to the
entire contents of your home, it’s not just for the
model trains.