| | 36th | Missoula | MT | Holiday Inn Downtown | | Jan & Bill Taylor | | | | | | | | | |
| | 35th | Brainerd | MN | Arrowhead Lodge | | Jim Dick | | | | | | | | | |
| | 34th | Chehalis | WA | Comfort Inn Tumwater | 138 | Bill Zidel | | Burien Archives & Washington Historical Society | Chehalis-Centrailia RR | Winery Tour | None | Bill Zidel | Bill Zidel | Layout tours | |
| | 33rd | Duluth | MN | The Inn on Lake Superior | 90 | Paul Anderson | | Lake Superior RR Museum | North Shore Scenic RR | | Jack Christensen | | | | |
| | 32nd | Wallace | ID | Wallace Inn | 135 | Shauna Hilman | | Right of Way Mullan to Lookout Pass | | Tea & Hat Fashion Show | Bruce Flohr | Bruce Flohr | Bruce Flohr | | |
| | 31st | Fargo | ND | Holiday Inn Fargo | 129 | Duane Durr | | Bonanzaville | Red River Valley & Western RR | | | | | | |
| | 30th | Yakima | WA | Yakima Valley Hotel & Convention Center | 170 | Doug Shearer Andy Breeding Larry Rice | Happy 150th Anniversary of the Northern Pacific | Northern Pacific Railway Museum, Toppenish | Museum yard and Yakima Valley Trollies | Yakama Nation Cultural Center, Toppenish Murals | Doug Shearer | Doug Shearer | Jack Christensen, NP vet | 4th RPM-style event with early set-up so models were available for viewing throughout the convention | |
| | 29th | Billings | MT | Crowne Plaza | 123 | Kyle Brehm | | Montana Rail Link Laurel yard, BNSF CWR facility | | Craft room, Beartooth Highway bus tour, lunch at Rock Creek Lodge | Charles McMillian, George Kuchera, Jerry Malkuch, Joe Malingo, Bob ? | | Ron Kaminski, RR Collector | 3rd RPM-style event | Bowser 40' Flush Roof Box Car |
| | 28th | Butte | MT | Front Street Station | 138 | Bill Taylor | | Montana Resources, World Museum of Mining | | Helena, Philipsburg, Butte trolly, cemetery walk | Alan Burns with Butte NP vets. | Bill Taylor | Dick Carlson, NP vet | 2nd RPM-style event | 1.5 story section house |
| | 27th | Carlton | MN | Black Bear Casino | 99 | Jim Dick | | First Spike site, Lake Superior Railroad Museum | | Glensheen mansion, Nokomis Restaurant | Dennis Hendry | Jim Dick | Jack Christensen, NP vet | 1st RPM-style event | NP color/drift cards |
| | 26th | Spokane WA | WA | Mirabeau Park Hotel | 200 | Mike Applegate & Mike Lustig | | Mike Gelhaus and Inland Empire Historical Society railcar collections. | BNSF business cars pulled by Montana Rail Link Sandpoint, ID to Paradise, MT and back. | | Jack Christensen | Bill Taylor | Bud Cain, NP Vet | | Convention model: Athern N–scale GATC 2600 Airslide, 1955 paint scheme, road number – 75507 |
| | 25th | White Bear Lake | MN | White Bear Country Inn | 120 | Jim Dick | | Jackson Street Round House, Iron Horse Central Railroad Museum, river boat ride. | | Conservatory at Como Lake, tour of the Cathedral of St. Paul, lunch at Cafe' Latte on Grand Ave. | Jack Christensen and Bill Kuebler moderated Vets panels. | Ken Zieska | Ken Walkowaik, NP Vet | | Convention models: double bay tool shed, ice shed, track–side phone booth, double privy—all produced by the NPRHA Modeling Committee. |
| | 24th | Tacoma | WA | Sheraton Hotel | 180 | Jerry Pickell | “Jim Fredrickson Country” | | Tacoma Rail—Tacoma to Eatonville | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Taylor | Ronald E. Magden, Ph.D.—“Tacoma Sails to Rails” | | |
| | 23rd | Mandan | ND | Seven Seas Inn | 100 | Michael Booth | “Where the West Begins” | R of W tours | | | | Bob Horne | Frank Vyzralek, North Dakota historian, on The Story of the Mandan South and North Lines. | | Convention car: NP Mechanical Reefers from Red Caboose, fully assembled, twelve different numbers |
| | 22nd | Bozeman | MT | GranTree Inn | 120 | Jan Taylor | | | Copper City Express over Rarus Railway Butte to Anaconda and return | | Phil Beach moderated panel of MRL engineers who operate over former NP tracks. | Bill Taylor | Bill Brodsky, President Washington Transportation Group | | Convention car: 1926 50’ Single Sheathed Auto boxcar resin kit by Speedwitch Media. Also Third Class, 2–story combination depot kit, Plan S–26 produced by the NPRHA Modeling Committee. |
| | 21st | Fargo | ND | Holiday Inn | 110 | Duane Durr | | John Deere factory | | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | Norm Lorentzen, NP Vice President of Operations | | Convention car: 2–bay PS–2 covered hopper/ cement car No. 75280 by Kadee. Also NPRHA–developed motor car shed, fuel shed and scale house kits and “4–Dome Train West” sign by Blair Line. |
| | 20th | Pasco | WA | Red Lion | 130 | Phil Beach | | Pasco yard and visited PF&S Hobby | | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | Charles D. Kilbury, NP trainman and union representative | | Convention car: 5 different numbers of Hart–Rogers ballast hoppers by Atlas |
| | 19th | Billings | MT | Sheraton Hotel | | Jon Bratt | "Warren McGee Country" | | Montana Daylight over Montana RailLink —Billings to Whitehall to Livingston. (BBQ on platform before motor coach ride back to Billings) | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | Richard Beulke, NP Personnel Department | | Convention car: 50’ AAR with billboard lettering by Branchline. Artwork produced by NPRHA. |
| | 18th | Portland | OR | Holiday Inn Airport | | Jim Russell | | Brooklyn Street Roundhouse tour | | | Bill Kuebler moderated first and only all female, all Stewardess–Nurse Vets Panel with Barbara (Person) Hancock in uniform. | Bill Kuebler | Joan (Reitz) Dolan, NP Stewardess–Nurse Supervisor | | Convention car: 5–car set of NP 50’ boxcars by Branchline; 50 sets run. |
| | 17th | Duluth | MN | | | Jon Bratt | | Unique clinic presentation by Fireman Lee Tuskey, describing a 1950s trip on steam out of Duluth | GNRHS / NPRHA Convention Steam Excursion—No. 328 to Stillwater over Chicago Northwestern | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | | | |
| | 16th | Helena | MT | Colonial Hotel | 165 | Warren Broaderick & Phil Beach | | | Montana Daylight over MontanaRailLink—Helena to Missoula, (BBQ at MRL Headquarters) and return | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | Jim Fredrickson, NP telegrapher, and his “Top Ten Reasons Why I Like NP” | | |
| | 15th | St. Paul | MN | St. Paul Radisson | 170 | Jim Dick | | Iron Horse Central Museum in Chisago | | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | Norm Lorentzen, NP Vice President of Operations | Toured model railroad layout in Bandana Square | |
| | 14th | Tacoma | WA | Sheraton Hotel | | Warren Broaderick | | | Spirit of Washington Dinner Train, Tacoma, WA and also Amtrak —Tacoma to Ellensburg (BBQ) | | Bill Kuebler First vets panel including a Stewardess –Nurse, Loraine Nygaard/Taylor | | John Hertog, Tacoma Division Superintendent | | |
| | 13th | Bismarck –Mandan | ND | | | DeLonce Synstegard | | NP museum in northwest Mandan, Terry Lanz’s whirlwind van ride through Mandan Yard | | | Bill Kuebler | Jim Hill | Ed Rowell, NP Passenger Traffic Representative | Visited Mike Booth’s layout room | |
| | 12th | Missoula | MT | Red Lion | 120 | Alan Burns | | | Montana Daylight over Montana RailLink —Missoula to St. Regis to Paradise (lunch) to Evaro to Missoula | | Bill Kuebler | Bill Kuebler | Bud Cain, Missoula engineman and Tacoma & Idaho Divisions RFE | | |
| | 11th | Glendive | MT | Jordan Hotel | | Lowell Vomhof | | Yards and facilities, including cab ride “at the throttle” in yard, SD–60 (or 70) MAC | | | DeLonce Synstegard | Bill Kuebler | Roy Peterson, Fargo Division locomotive engineer and Yellowstone Division Road Foreman of Engines | | |
| | 10th | Spokane | WA | Cavanaugh’s Inn | 170+ | Gene Carlson | | Motorcoach tour of Palouse & Lewiston and Camas Prairie railroads | | | Bill Kuebler moderated Jamestown Vets Panel | Bill Kuebler | Elmer Smoak, Tacoma shop supervisor | | |
| | 9th | St. Paul | MN | Kelly Inn | 145 | Ken Zieska | “Four–Dome Train West” | | White Bear Lake and return, with Yellowstone River business car in consist | | Bill Kuebler moderated Como Shop Vets Panel | Bill Kuebler | Norm Lorentzen, NP Vice President of Operations | | |
| | 8th | Portland | OR | Lewis & Clark University | 150 | Walt Ainsworth | | SP&S No. 700 fired up at the Brooklyn Street roundhouse, moved around the yard as NP No. 2668 | Lewis and Clark Train Ride on Yacolt Branch | | Bill Kuebler moderated first Vets Panel held other than during banquet. | | | | |
| | 7th | | ND | Gladstone Hotel | | Duane Durr | | | Jamestown to Casselton & back, with Dirk Lenthe’s business car and others | | Bill Kuebler moderated Jamestown Vets Panel at banquet | | | | |
| | 6th | Bozeman | MT | Montana State University | | Rufus Cone | | Bozeman Pass, old line Muir to Livingston | | | | | Bill Wolverton, Special Apprentice, NP Mechanical Department and Assistant Dynamometer Car Operator discussed testing NP Steam Locomotives with the Dynamometer Car | | |
| | 5th | Duluth | MN | | | Dave Carlson | | Lake Superior Railroad Museum | | | Bill Kuebler moderated first—and impromptu—Vets panel with Jamestown enginemen Bob Donegan and Gene Gossett, talking mostly about ’66 Blizzard | Gary Tarbox | Don King, NP superintendent | | |
| | 4th | Yakima | WA | Red Lion | | Karl Hammerstrom | | Naches branch, lower Pasco yard & tower, PS&F Hobby | | | | | | | |
| | 3rd | Fargo | ND | Holiday Inn | | Duane Durr | | Dilworth, Stockwood fill, Manitoba Jct. | | | | | | | |
| | 2nd | Tacoma | WA | Tacoma Dome Hotel | 105 | Rick Leach | | Stampede Pass, Lester | Lake Whatcom Scenic Railroad | | | | | | |
| | 1st | Roseville | MN | Holiday Inn | 25-30 | Gary Wildung | | Duluth | Spirit Lake line, Duluth to Carlton | | | | | | |