Late News / Changes
Registration is now available directly online. Please use  the following link to access these forms.
 
NOTE:  Pre-Registrations for Anaheim Special 2008 will close on July 2, 2008. The On-Line Registration Site will be closed on that date, and mailed-in registrations may not get processed id they arrive after that date. To register after July 2nd, please visit the Registration Office at the convention.
    
The following general interest tours have been canceled:
     G3287 Discovery Science Center
     G4189 Los Angeles Police Museum and Heritage Square
     G7493 Gene Autry National Museum and Forest Lawn
 
The following prototype tour has been canceled:
   # 4159 and # 4260 (Union Station).
   P 3269 -  Metro Link Shops
 
The following Layout Tours have been cancelled:
   L 2405 - Simi Valley Owl
   L 2406 - San Diegan
   L 3412 - Coaster
   L 3413 - Torrance Fast Mail
   L 4227 - San Gabriel Sweeper
   L 4418 - Los Angeles Local
   L 4419 - Valley Lark
   L 5321 - Orange Special
   L 5424 - Big Five Cannon Ball
   L 5426 - Mission Challenger
 
Special Clinic
 
Kenichi Matsumoto and John Glaab will present a clinic on the early days of Japanese brass model making at the NMRA Convention in Anaheim.
Mr. Matsumoto was a young boy during the days when the Japanese brass business was just getting started, and he knew many of these early builders on a first-name basis.
He is now the editor/publisher of the Japanese magazine Train, has published several books, and runs an import business catering to American prototype modelers. He is also an avid collector and has a large HO scale layout based upon western American railroads. He is generally regarded as the “Al Kalmbach of  Japan."
The clinic will consist of a PowerPoint presentation showing several pictures of early Japanese models and the relationship of the American GI to the brass business. He will also discuss the evolution of the business. A question-and-answer session will follow.
John Glaab is the author of  “The Brown Book of Brass Locomotives.”
The clinic will be offered at 8:30 PM on Thursday, July 17th, and 4:00 PM on Friday, July 18th.