Clinics

This is an exploration of advanced Brakeman! operations on Riley’s Port of New York Railroad (PoNYRR). The Brakeman! approach to operations involves simulating operating activities beyond just moving cars around the layout. It is designed to make prototypical operations accessible for both beginners and advanced operators.

In this clinic you will learn about advanced opportunities for adding realism and prototype operating scenarios and activities of the PoNYRR and other layouts, and how to craft your own layout’s character and story through operation activities.

Riley is also presenting Simplicity in Model Railroading earlier on Saturday.

About the Presenter

Riley Triggs is an architect, urbanist, historian, design educator, and lifelong model railroader. He is an architectural project manager and an architecture professor where he explores the emotional space shared by people and the built environment that create personal identity and authentic experiences of place. He uses this research approach to model the Port of New York (ponyrr.blogspot.com) and to recreate the experience of railroading in Hoboken, NJ and the Port of New York in 1959.

Riley is currently the Publications Department Manager for the NMRA and formerly held many roles in the hobby: Lone Star Region magazine editor, President of the Austin Model Railway Society, editor of theLayout Design Journal, Lone Star Region board member, 2023 national convention marketing chair, regional convention clinic chair and other volunteer roles. He has given clinics at local, regional, and national conventions, been published in Model Railroader, Marker Lamp, Layout Design Journal, and he has appeared on NMRAx, Modelers Life, and Around the Layout.