TUESDAY July 15
6:00-9:00 PM Registration Desk/Social time, no host bar-Vinyard Room
8:00-10:00 PM Board meeting-Executive Board Room
WEDNESDAY July 16
7:30-8:30 Registration Desk open-Selah Room Foyer
7:30-8:30 Company Store open- Selah Room
8:30 Welcome to convention
8:45 The Northern Pacific and Central Washington Doug Shearer
9:00 The Sunnyside Branch and the Parker Gauntlet Bridge Frank Dekker
9:45 Break
10:00 Perishables and local freight service in the Yakima Valley Ed Novit
11:00 NP Refrigeration traffic out of the Yakima Valley Jim Dick
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own, Company Store, modeling display open-Selah Room
1:30 West Coast Rail Stories - NP and Others Dave Sprau
2:30 Update on Pacific NW Railroad Archives Gary Tarbox
2:45 PM Break
3:00-5:00 NP Veteran’s Panel
5:00 Dinner on your own
7:00 Open Projector-Wade Stephenson Photos Jim Dick
1:00-3:00 Spouse crafts-Marilyne Horne-Tieton Room-further spouse events to be determined
THURSDAY July 17
8:30 Roslyn and Northwest Improvement Co—NP Coal town Fred Fisher
9:30 How two teenagers acquired an NP steam engine-update on the Lake Whatcom RR Bob & Frank Culp
10:15 Break
10:30 The Paper Trail of Car Movement, or the 5 Bills Jack Waters
11:15 Yakima Valley Trollies Ken Johnson
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own, Company Store, modeling display open-Selah Room
1:30 Updates on NP Preservation in Washington State , Tom Groenwald—WSRHS, Pasco, Steve Hayden—Ellensburg depot, Dennis Thompson—Ritzville Depot, Charlie Munschler-Cheney depot, Bob Boltz –Inland Northwest Railway Museum, Richard Anderson-NW Rail Museum, Gary Tarbox West Coast Archives
3:15 Break
3:45 NP wooden cabooses Rick Leach
4:25 “The NP Big Baked Potato” Mary O’Dell
5:00 Dinner on your own (Hotel meal available 5:30-9:00)
6:30 NP 150 year celebration cake –Naches/Wapato Rooms
7:00 General Membership Meeting
8:00 Open Projector NPRY Museum Freight Car Project/old Toppenish Doug Shearer, NP1364/2152 Update-Andy Breeding
FRIDAY July 18
8:00-9:15 Buses leave for Northern Pacific Railway Museum in Toppenish
9:45 Spouse tour leaves for Yakima Nation Cultural Center
11:00 Spouse tour- Toppenish Murals
11:30-1:00 Lunch in Railroad Park, Toppenish-featuring the NP Big Baked Potato
12:30-2:30 Departures for Yakima Valley Trolley Museum
3:30-5:00 Arrival back at Yakima Hotel and Convention Center
5:00-8:00 Dinner on your own
6:00-8:00 Bus tour to Ellensburg depot (limited sign up)
6:00-8:00 PM Model Railroad layout open 111 West D Street-travel on your own own
8:00 Open projector Stan Styles, Gary Oliver, and Herb Chaudiere NP collections Kent Sullivan and Rick Leach Naches/Wapato Rooms
SATURDAY July 19
9:00 -1:00 Swap Meet
9:00 - 4:00 Prototype modeling Clinics—Harrah Room open, details to be announced
9:00 - 1:00 Company Store and modeling display open
1:00-2:00 Take down modeling display, company store, swap meet to clear Ballroom for banquet
5:30-6:30 Social Hour-no host bar
6:30-7:30 30th Annual NPRHA Banquet
7:30 PM Banquet speaker: Jack Christensen
SUNDAY July 20
7:30-10:00 NPRHA Board Meeting

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