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- Chuck Geiger' SD&AE Blog
  
  Good collection of information on the San Diego and Arizona Eastern railroad
- Interacting with miniature railroading
  
  Informative Daily Blog with diverse modeling topics related to miniature railroading, such as 15" gauge live steam, HO, N, ON30 and Garden scales.
- Model Railroader
  
  Michael Denny's Niagara Escarpment System, a 2 x 4 N Scale layout. Handlaying in N Scale and testing new modeling techniques.
- Model Railroading and Railroad Photography
  
  Daryl Dankwardt's journal of hand laid HO layout construction
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  Byron Hendersen's layout design blog
- The Railroad
  
  HO Layout blog with hand laid track and lots of posts on building structures.
- Train Blog
  
  Dan Swearingen's blog - "Stories about building my model railroad and other things found along the tracks."
- Trainboard Blog Directory
- UP-BNSF Meet at Rosenberg
  
  Jimmy Low's developing N scale representation of Rosenberg Jct. Worth a look.
- UPRR Geneva Subdivision in N Scale
  
  Darryl Kruse's blog about his UPRR N Scale layout which includes the diamonds at Rochelle IL
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  425 Fulton Shipyard Rd, Antioch, CA
- California Southern Model Railroad Club
  
  12140 E Firestone Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650 (562)863-3156 (Near Disneyland!)
Digital Command Control - DCC
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  Links at the bottom of the Chessie System page
- Train Control Systems - TCS
  
  Great N scale decoders!
- Aztec DCC ready locomotive frames
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- The Railwire
  
  Informative active forums on N, Z and HO scales as well as a good weathering forum.
- Trackside Modeler
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- Z Scale.org
  
  Modelers can always learn a thing or two from working in the smallest scale!
Handlaying
- Fast Tracks
  
  Jigs and materials for handlaying track
- Kappler Mill & Lumber Co.
  
  Ties and stripwood. Custom laser cutting.
- NMRA Track Standards
- Railway Engineering
  
  Turnout skeletons etc for HO Scales and above. Some good hand laying guides on this site.
- San Diego Society of N Scalers hand laying page
Layouts - N Scale
- Allens Model Railroad Blog
  
  Layout construction journal
- Bill Denton's Kingsbury Branch
- CSXT Shenandoah Division
- Gavin Miller's Model Railroad
  
  Freelanced "National Rail Network Authority" (N.R.N.A.) or "RailNet"
- Southern Pacific Coast Line in N scale
  
  Denny's blog covering his N scale layout representing a portion of the Southern Pacific Coast Line in Central California between Callender and Surf, including the Guadalupe yard, set in the early 1970s.
- N Scale Union Pacific Railroad
  
  Rochelle Subdivision
- Tennessee Pass in N Scale
- TraiN'ternet
  
  Collection of great N Scale layouts by modelers located in France.
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- James River Branch
  
  Reading RR in Z scale
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- Andreas Keller's Guelph Jct
- Central Indiana & Ohio Railroad
- CNJ Bronx Terminal
  
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  Pics from Pelle's layout. The guy's a genious!
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  Former layout of the owner of Fast Traks, Tim Warris
- Westport Terminal Railway
  
  Wolfgang Dudler's US layout in Germany
Railroading
- Carr Tracks
  
  Historical information on SP, AT&SF, UP, Rio Grande
- Krug Tales
  
  Great essays from Engineer Al Krug
- Q Station
Rolling Stock
- NWSL N Scale wheelsets
  
  Metal replacement wheelsets in a variety of sizes and precision as drop in replacements for commercial plastic wheels.
- Hays Bros. Garage
  
  Ralistic loads for N Scale cars
- Intermountain wheelsets
- Micro-Trains Coupler Conversion Chart
  
  Table of coupler conversions for N Scale rolling stock
- Wig-Wag LLC
  
  Supplier of Fox Valley Models wheelsets
Stores
Structures
- Custom Cuts
Weathering and Painting
- Model Trains Weathered
  
  Great resource for weathering. Lots of inspiration at this site.
- Railwire Weathering ForumGr
  
  Excellent weathering forum frequented by talented weatherers including Tom Mann.
- Tom Mann Weathering
  
  Brilliant weathering examples and techniques. Highly recommended.

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Friday

May182007

Santa Fe GP60M makes a pickup at Safeway siding on the Richmond Pacific

Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:00AM

I had to run over to Longs to pick up a prescription today. I had heard a train horn that sounded like the crossings at Stege so grabbed my camera just in case. As I came over the Marina Bay Parkway grade crossing I found the BNSF Oakland local doing some switching at Safeway siding.

Forty-five minutes and twenty shots later, I was on my way to the drugstore!

I have posted the shots in a new Prototype Gallery along with annotations about what was going on and a few modelers notes. Even a simple pickup can be an enjoyable railroading interlude.

- Coxy

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