Clinics are posted here.

Hotels near Lodi Grape Festival Grounds, Lodi, Calif.
October 9 – 13, 2024

Hotels that offer NSS Discounts: (3 Miles)

Holiday Inn Express:
209-210-0150
40 room block, 38 double queen, 2 king
Reservation Code: NSS

Hampton Inn & Suites:
209-369-2700
15% off the Base Rate
Reservation Code: NSS

Candlewood:
209-483-6056
10 room block, 5 double queen, 5 king
Reservation Code: NSS

Other Hotels at Interstate 5 & E. Kettleman Ln: (10 Miles)

Microtel Inn & Suites: (209) 367-9700
Best Western I-5 Inn & Suites: (209) 367-3000

RV Camping on site at the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds:

Some RV spots at $35 per night are available on a first come first served reservation basis:
water and electric hook-ups only (electrical 30 & 50 amp); dump station on site
restrooms and showers ADA access
pets and children welcome
WiFi is not available
No Tents

Lodi is 41 minutes from the Sacramento International Airport and is eight miles from Interstate 5, making driving from the north or south easy.

For those interested in other aspects of the railroad hobby, Northern California provides a variety of unique rail and live steam experiences:

♦The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, home to live-steam artifacts as well as a provider of live steam rides (weekends only) is a 40-minute drive.

♦In Alameda County, the Pacific Locomotive Association operates standard-gauge live steam locomotive rides every Sunday throughout the summer. It’s a 1-hour drive to the Niles Canyon Railway.

♦For narrow-gauge live steam enthusiasts, the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad operates one of two Shays or a Heisler five times a day on weekends and four times weekdays; Roaring Camp is in Santa Cruz County, a 2-hour drive.

♦Another for narrow-gauge enthusiasts, the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum operates a Railbus on Saturdays; Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum is in Nevada County CA, a 1½-hour drive.

♦The Golden Gate Live Steamers, with 2½- to 7½-inch tracks, run every Sunday in Oakland’s Tilden Park. In addition, the 15-inch gauge live steam Redwood Valley Railway is also in Tilden; on Sunday it will operate 11 to 6 and during the week 12 to 5. Tilden Park is a 90-minute drive.

Please contact us if you are interested and we will put you in touch with the associated party.

steamup -at- steam-events -dot- org

This is a big thank you to Jim McDavid who is retiring again, this time from the Steam Events, LLC. We all wish him the best and thank him for past and future help with our events.

Clinics are posted here.

As in previous years we will be having a Stationary Steamup on Saturday evening. Please bring along an item to display and run if you have one.

We are happy to help facilitate the shipping and return of trains for the event. If you need help doing this please contact us for details steamup -at- steam-events -dot- org

We lost one of own; Tony Dixon passed away April 6th 2021 peacefully at home. Tony was one of the founding members of Steam Events LLC and was actively involved. He will be missed by all.

Good news to all, we found a location to hold the National Summer Steamup after 2020 and signed an agreement booking the dates for July 2021 through 2025. Stay tuned for more information and details as they become available.

The location is in Lodi California a little ways south of Sacramento off of I5. It is called the Lodi Grape Festival and Events Center more information on line at https://www.grapefestival.com

Yes it is air-conditioned.

There are some on-site RV hookups.

Some of the clinics from previous years are now available on the “Clinics from previous years” page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8AQRfb__HE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWo-9wY8g1w

Signed Posters

Sorry it took me longer to get around to posting this. Here is the presentation I gave on 3D printing.

• 3D Printing Power Point
• 3D Printing PDF

In case you are having issues with the power point or PDF here are the links that are in the presentation.

• Material…
  • Details about filaments.
• FDM Machines…
  • Makerbot
  • BoxZY
  • Dremel
  • Ultimaker
• SLA/DLP Machines…
  • Formlabs
  • ONO
• Software…
  • OnShape
  • Slic3r
  • List of Slicers
• Models…
  • Thingiverse
  • List of sites

Some videos from Jim McDavid

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

For those of you that would like to attend but are unable to drive yourselves please feel free to contact us and we will try to arrange transportation from fellow steamers. The best way to do this is to email us at steamup -at- steam-events -dot- org

We collect up several checks and take them to the bank less frequently, please bare with us if your deposit takes a while. We will usually deposit once a month.

If you are interested in and able to post updates from previous years please email steamup -at- steam-events -dot- org and we will add an account for you to do so.

• Steam Events’ Jim McDavid produced a series of videos of 2015’s National Summer Steamup, including Video One, Video Two, Video Three, Video Four and Video Five.

• Rick Parker had only a couple of days at the 2015 event, but has made a nice photo book.

• Videos of the 2014 event have been released by Dean Seavers of Sacramento; they are at http://youtu.be/qYy_OypUMGI?list=UUt13J3K-WFTS7iesGDuay3Q, http://youtu.be/DQRfHVAw7-k?list=UUt13J3K-WFTS7iesGDuay3Q and http://youtu.be/NzRvmeOGpIk?list=UUt13J3K-WFTS7iesGDuay3Q.

• Mike Martin’s photos from the 2014 event and  Rick Parker’s pictures.

• Rick Parker’s photos of the 2013 event are on his DotPhoto site. Mike Martin has his 2013 photos on this personal site.

• Mike Martin posted 2012 event photos, as did Rick Parker.

• For 2011, Rick Parker has done another admirable job with a slide show on his DotPhoto web site; check it out. Mike Martin also posted wonderful photos from the event.

• Rick Parker has provided a slide show of his photos from the 2010 event; here are Mike Martin’s pictures and videos from the event.

• Here are Dave Cole’s photo pages from the 2009 event, and here are Mike Martin’s pages.

• Official 2008 Thursday, Friday and Saturday-Sunday photo pages. Also, pictures from the event taken by Mike Martin.

• Dean Seavers of Sacramento made a nice video of the 2008 event; you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYJPiPcKziY.

• Official 2007 photo page.

• Official 2006 photo page.

• Official 2005 photo page and the unofficial 2005 photo page.

• Official 2004 photo page.

• Unofficial 2004 photos – of the event, of the people and miscellaneous Saturdayphotos.

• Photos from the 2003 event

• Photos from the 2002 event:
  • Friday
  • Saturday
  • Sunday

• Just found! Photos from the 2001 event.

• Longtime former Summer Steamup organizer Sonny Wizelman is profiled by a Los Angeles blogger.

Welcome to our new website.  To make it easier to browse and register for events we have created a new web site.  In case information is missing or not yet transferred please visit the old site here.