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[quote user="SeeYou190"]We will drive to Orlando on Friday and spend Friday and Saturday night at the convention. Are the last three days of the convention the best? What will I miss?[/quote] From past experience, you will miss 90 percent of the clinics, layout tours and prototype tours.   There are two typically two types of layout tours.  One type is a bus takes you around to different layouts.  Lunch is typically included, and sometimes dinner if it is a long tour.  The second is self guided.  You pay $10 or so and they give you a book of layouts that are on the tour and the days and times they are open, scale of layout and a brief description.   Prototype tours are bussed events.  Lunch is typically included. If you are not a NMRA member, you will not get to participate in any of the activities except the train show anyway, so its kind of a mute point (unless they just changed that this year).   Clinics start the Sunday evening before the NTS, there is also a dinner that evening.  The clinics and tours run throughout the week until Saturday evening.  Clinics are typically 60-90 min in length, and vary in scope and topic and type.   They range from hands on building a model with an master model railroader to powerpoint presentation to slide show of old photographs.   Topics vary widely and you can get a sample of the types of clinics by looking up a past convention (I think Portland 2015 and Indianapolis 2016 are still online).  I got to go on the Tacoma Rail facility trip and the Indiana Railroad trip, both were interesting.
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