Steel Town RPM 2026

Today's the day!!!! Come on down, doors open at 8:30. Eva Rothwell Centre 460 Wentworth St N, Hamilton, ON L8L 5W8

There is parking on the premises

Seeing as all the clinics have been announced, it's time to tell you when they’ll be. Here’s the schedule for the whole day:

Welland and Smithville get packed full with trains as our volunteers work to get the tracks clean in time for Saturday. ONE WEEK everyone!!! April 18th 8:30-4:30 with the HOMES layout being open 9:00-4:30

As a thank-you to the Eva Rothwell Centre for allowing us constant use of their facilities, we will be holding a food drive!
If you are able and willing please bring down any non-perishable food item(s) so that the centre may give them out to the community. The ERC does great work running kids' programs and events (not to mention allowing us to run around with model trains) and we (RPM, HOMES and BCRHS) would like to contribute to their work.

Two weeks to go everyone! As in previous years, we’ve asked around and procured some prizes to enter into a raffle. Currently, we’re sitting on 67 items to win and here’s a little peek at some of the choices.

Keith Stamper is a lifelong narrow-gauge modeller working in On3 scale.

Keith has used a Smartphone to take multiple photos of his layout and a process of Photo Stacking to produce photos with greater depth of field.
Photos entered at the Narrow Gauge Convention photo contests have earned awards. At the 2025 Narrow Gauge Contest, Keith was awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for photos taken on the layout.

This short clinic will discuss using simple software to take photos of your model railroad and convert them into images with greater depth of field.

New clinic announced! Long-time CN engineer Steve Lucas will be presenting the latest developments on his Maynooth Branch layout, a unique light-rail branch line in Central Ontario featuring a wide variety of interesting techniques for hand-laying track!

Debuting at the Steel Town RPM! Come take a look at the prototype for Yelton Model's newest project, the London & Port Stanley L1-L3. Under development is an HO scale model of the famous GE 60-ton boxcabs that plied a 24-mile short line ferrying coal from connections on Lake Erie to St Thomas and London. If you have ever wanted to model one of these iconic engines preserved at the Halton County Radial Museum and Elgin County Railway Museum, keep an eye out for more, and come visit the Steel Town RPM to get a look at a development sample!

Lifesavers is a well-known candy brand known for its spearmint mints and fruit-flavoured gummies. A little less well known is that Hamilton was home to one of its factories. Opening in 1922 and situated at 100 Cumberland Ave, this sweet-smelling building made candy for 82 years, permanently closing in 2004. I've heard stories from old neighbours who recount the times the factory was open, they said that of all the flavours that were made making the neighbourhood smell good butterscotch was the people's favourite.

Though the building still stands today in a rather run-down state you can see it in all its glory on the HOMES layout which will be open during the RPM Meet! (can't promise it’ll smell as nice as the real one did though)