Please contat Speed Muller if you would like your, your group or your club layout to be set up inside the RPM venue.
WHY do the layout participants need to pay the registration fee?
At a train show, layouts are often subsidized and receive free admission for all the layout members. These train shows have the public attending to cover the overhead of the venue and the layouts are the entertainment for the attendees.
An RPM is a model railroad “Trade Show” for the hobby participants. Even though you are attending with your layout, you are a participant of the RPM. You are exhibiting your layout just like any other exhibitor is exhibiting his or her models. You can attend the clinics, put something on the display tables, enter the door prize drawing, talk directly with industry manufacturers, and shop with vendors and thus need to register for the RPM itself. You are also encouraged to write up your layout section and enter it as a display in place.