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• New version of RBL plan posted (3rd Plan It)
• Santa Cruz Local with ex-D&RGW power
• Ferromex visits Richmond Pacific Rails
• Squarespace upgrade
• UP Manifest at night

My son Mitchel (aged 4) learning about ‘little trains’. His sister Natalie (aged 7) says “I don’t really like trains Daddy”. But she does like to have a little drive on the layout when it’s out.

• Train Shows
  • Model Railroad News
• Blogs
  • FRN
    Jonathan Crowe's excellent railroad blog
  • 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 Rail Services
    Byron Hendersen's layout design blog
  • Model Railroading and Railroad Photography
    Daryl Dankwardt's journal of hand laid HO layout construction
  • 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
  • UPRR Rochell Subdivision in N Scale
    Darryl Kruse's blog about his UPRR N Scale layout
• Clubs
  • Black Diamond Lines
    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
  • Allan Gartner's Wiring for DCC
  • Digitrax
  • Computer control via DCC
  • JMRI group
  • Decoder installation guides
    Links at the bottom of the Chessie System page
  • Train Control Systems - TCS
    Great N scale decoders!
  • Aztec DCC ready locomotive frames
• Forums
  • N Scale.net
  • N scale.org
  • Trackside Modeler
  • Trainorders
  • 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"
  • Lundsten's Basement
  • 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.
• Layouts - Z Scale
  • James River Branch
    Reading RR in Z scale
• Layouts - HO Scale
  • Andreas Keller's Guelph Jct
  • Central Indiana & Ohio Railroad
  • CNJ Bronx Terminal
    Tim Warris's new hand laid HO layout. Amazing stuff!
  • Great Northern Down Under
    Gerry Hopkins MMR
  • Housatonic Railroad Company
  • Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line
  • Pelle Soeborg's Mountain and Desert Railroad
    Pics from Pelle's layout. The guy's a genious!
  • Port Kelsey Railway
    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.
  • Wig-Wag LLC
    Supplier of Fox Valley Models wheelsets
  • Intermountain wheelsets
  • Micro-Trains Coupler Conversion Chart
    Table of coupler conversions for N Scale rolling stock
• Stores
  • 4NScale.com
  • Internet Trains
  • N Scale Supply
  • Loys Toys
  • Tony's Train Exchange
• Structures
  • Custom Cuts
• Weathering and Painting
  • Griff's Grime Shop
  • Painting N scale units
  • Model Trains Weathered
    Great resource for weathering. Lots of inspiration at this site.