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The tentative schedule, April 5, 2025 Doors open at 9 am. 9:45 AM, welcome remarks 10 am, first clinic: Clinic presenters, PMLC 2025. Note that some of these clinic presentations are odd time durations so things likely won’t happen right on the hour. Be flexible! ——————————– Nick Lehrbach – Logging video that includes Coos Bay.Continue reading

The Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress is a one-day annual event. It’s designed to appeal to model railroad enthusiasts who model logging type operations and equipment and others with an interest in logging history. The event features technical and historic clinic presentations, a model contest for all scales and types of logging equipment (see details elsewhereContinue reading “2025 Update”

The 2025 Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress will be the last one that Pam and I host.  Pacificmodelloggerscongress.org Pam and I have had serious discussions about this for some time. We’ve considered all the angles, asking ourselves why we feel this way about shutting down an event with a roughly 20 year history and, unfortunately, anContinue reading “End of the line”

2025 Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress September 23, 2024: The 2025 Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress, the last one we’ll be hosting, takes place April 5 at the Camp 18 Restaurant and Logging Museum. We’ve been taking a long hard look at the event and for the most part, things will remain the same as in pastContinue reading

We’re just over a week away from our 2024 Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress and plans are proceeding apace. One area where we need help, on that day (no earlier commitment required) is with the model contest. We need two people to man the contest entry table in the morning and then do the vote tallyingContinue reading “Camp 18 Model Contest”

Plans are rolling ahead for the 2024 edition of our event. We have a stellar lineup of clinics and speakers this year! These include both modeling and historic theme presentations by Martin E. Hansen, Nick Lehrbach, Greg Baker and Will Cochran. Martin has a presentation on the SP&S moving dead logging locomotives, Nick will coverContinue reading “February 25, 2024”

2023 Clinic details We have our clinic presentations set for March 4th, 2023, and we’re happy to announce we have a two prototype history clinics, a regional prototype current events clinic, and two modeling clinics in the lineup. All presented by pros who know what they’re talking about so they’re all very much worth seeing.Continue reading

We regret that the 2023 event has been cancelled. Weather-related travel difficulties have made it necessary to cancel this year, but we’re looking ahead to 2024 and hoping for the best. After much ado about finding a more suitable date, we’re back to the first Saturday in March, the 4th, for our event. We hadContinue reading “2023 PMLC Cancelled”

First off, we sincerely appreciate the time and efforts our PMLC clinic presenters invest in assembling material to present at our event. It requires time and expertise to put together a first-class clinic and we, and our participants, appreciate that effort. That said, we need to have you bring the prepared and finished presentation toContinue reading “Clinic presentation details”

This seems like a good time to pass along some news about the 2023 Pacific Model Loggers’ Congress. We are going to be combining some contest classes for the 2023 event, partly for financial reasons, and for now we’re eliminating the Diorama class from the model contest. Our event (along with other model railroad conventionsContinue reading “2023 Contest Changes”