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Here's a list of links I find either helpful or useful to anyone
interested in trains large or small. -- Enjoy. Private Railroads and Trains Adirondack Live Steamers - That's all I know. Akubi Lightweight Railway - Nice little railroad in Japan. Backyard Rails - Photo archive of now defunct company Barchester Towers Railway - Nice little track in New South Wales, Australia Big Boy #4005 In 1.5" Scale - built by Tom Miller and Severn Lamb UK Big Model Trains - an interesting 1.5" page Bill Harper's 1-1/2" Scale - Nickel Plate "Mighty 90" and Cars Bill McCready - Memorial website Blue Ridge Summit Railroad - off the Blue Ridge Parkway, NC Buchanan Machine Works - Jim and Carol Buchanan's cool website Buckingham Central Railroad - Fort Myers, FL Cascade Pacific Railroad - Roy Hargrove memorial site Cedar Springs Railroad - 2.5" scale, 7.5" gauge track near Calhoun, TN Chicago & Southern Michigan Railroad - Mike's trains Chris Brew's website - Portland, Oregon Cobden Miniature Railway - South West of Melbourne, AU Colorado Midland Railway - Canton, GA Cowan's Point Railway - Martin Roger, Bowen Island, BC Deerfield and Roundabout Railway - north of Chicago, IL Dolittle, Seemore, and Nap - Palm Beach, FL Don Thornton's Private Track - Olalla, WA Emerald Hills Railway - 12" gauge in Redwood City, CA Frosty Hollow Branch Line - Russell Twp, OH Home of the PDCRR Gecko Belt & Sandy Flats RR - John Yell's 1" scale paradise, Overton, NV Goose Creek Railroad Website - Matt Helton's 24" Private RR, Bristol, VA Grosbahn's Big Trains - 7.5" gauge private RR, Evansville, IN Hoginwood Light Railway - A nice track in northern Italy. Hutt Valley - New Zealand Indian Lake RR - Private RR in Washington County, RI Iron Acres Railroad - Mike venezia's track in Jackson, NJ Island Pond RR - Derry, NH (this site) The JLS Railroad - A multi-scale collector Koi Pond & Playground RR - Fun little railroad (not sure where) Lee's Trains - and Western Illinois Railroad Little River Miniature Railroad - near Temple, TX Lizard Attitude - Nice G scale outdoor railroad Mosley Railroad Trust - Private railroad in UK New Unionville & Western RR - Bloomington, IN Newell & Rocky River Railroad - Bitt Matson's track near Charlotte, NC Niles Monorail Road - Fremont, CA Norm and Jon's Shop - Their project page Ollie Johnston's Backyard Railroad - Nice little 1" track in California (now gone) Oregon Pacific Railway - Roy Anderson, Corvallis, Oregon Pacific Coast Railroad - Tom Miller, Sherwood, Oregon PJ & J Shortline - 7.5" gauge in Fort Atkinson, WI Russ's Backyard Railroad - G scale, nice site. Sandy River RR - Roger Loxley's 15" guage SMVRR no. 1801 - comes to Bitter Creek Western Soggy Sod Railroad - Astonia, OR Southern Pacific 5623 in 1.5" scale - GP9 in "Black Widow" livery Southwestern Live Steamers - Group of private tracks in Texas and Oklahoma Spring Creek Railroad - in central Illinois Stapleford Miniature Railway - UK based 10 1/4" gauge railway Tanana Valley Railroad, Inc - Alaskan narrow gauge Washington County Railroad - Cherryfield, Maine White Creek R.R. - Russ Elred Willamette & Kings Valley Railroad - Alan Shifley, Philomath, Oregon Willow Creek Railroad - at Antique Power Land, Brooks, Oregon + another link Woodstock Short line - 18" gauge Suppliers/Manufacturers BB&T Car Shops - Freight car builders (ccvstmr's site) Branchline Products - 1.5" scale rolling stock and parts Bronze Foundry Dot Com - An online lost wax foundry. Cannonball Limited - 1.5" scale locos, cars, and parts Carr's Locomotives - 1.5" scale Diesel locos - BC Canada Catfish Hollow Toys - Locomotives 3.5" to 7.5" gauge Colorado Gandy Dancer - CNC Plasma Cut Shapes for Live Steam/Diesel Hobby Compass House Electric Locomotives - UK Creative Casting Company - Aluminum, Brass, and Bronze Castings Crenshaw Locomotive Works - 7.5", HO, and N Dechant's Railroad Express - Nice little train shop in NW Pennsylvania E-MachineShop - An online parts fabricator J W Harris - Silver soldering supplies Hillcrest Shops - Miniature Steam Railway Equipment in 5" Scale Industrial Metal Sales - gladly takes small orders too Kamilion Locomotive - Builds diesel locomotives L S Manufacturing - rolling stock and loco parts Large Scale Trains - Alloy Steel Wheels Live Steam Locomotives - Roger Goldmann's Big Boy and Challenger site LocoParts - tenders, steam parts, whistles Locomotive Works, The - alias Little Engines Mason's Trains - Chilliwack, BC. Maxitrak - 4.5" & 7.5" gauge Locomotives, UK McMaster-Carr - You can buy almost anything online Merrick Light Equipment Works - 1/3 Scale 15" to 18" Miniature Railway Supply - Steel and aluminum rail - England Miracle RR Products - Decals for 1" to full size trains Moe's Locomotive Works- 1.5" to 3" scale locos, Flamborough, ON Murray Design & Manufacturing (MDM) - 1.5" scale diesel locomotives Narrow Gauge Railroad - 15" and 24" narrow gauge railroads. One Inch Scale Railroad Supply - Ferndale, WA. nice site. Otto Gas Engine Works - (Well I hope so.) This guy makes piston rings. Passenger Car Company - 1.5" scale passenger cars Plum Cove Studios - 1.5" scale flat cars, Gloucester, MA Precision Steel Car Co. - 1.5" scale cars and detail parts Rail Creations - Makes 12" to 24" gauge equipment Rail Rider Supply - Nice little track speeders Real Trains - 1.5" scale trains Ride On Railways Ltd - 5" Gauge Ground Level Garden Railway Stuff Riding Rail Kits - 1" scale trains Severn-Lamb USA, Inc. - Builds locomotives to order Superscale Locomotive Co. - Many fine locomotive detail parts Tiny Power Steam Engines - Branson, Missouri Tom Bee - 1.5" scale couplers, trucks, freight cars, and parts Total-E-Toys - Sells battery-electric drives for new and existing applications Whistle Stop Fabrications - Builds railroad cars in Buckeye, Az Live Steam Clubs Maricopa Live Steamers - Adobe Mountain Park, Arizona Canton, St. Paul & Pacific - Canton, GA United States - Visit my USA clubs page Canada - Visit my Canada clubs page Link Sites Discover Live Steam - Excellent multi-faceted resource site Hobby Link - Index of model RR clubs by state Mike's Railway Links - Another good link source Rails Canada - Miniature Railways of Canada Rails USA - Another good link consorteum Sculpture Journal - A directory of foundaries. Railroad Magazines and Books Fine Scale Railroader - A super magazine mostly about large model trains Grand Scales Quarterly Magazine - 12" scale and above Home Railway Journal - A magazine devoted to rideable home railways Miniature Railway Books - UK Railway Track & Structures - An industry magazine with a good online version Seven-Plus Narrow Gauger - Large Scale with a Narrow Gauge Emphasis Seven-Plus Railroader Magazine - Large Scale - 7" gauge and up Park Railroads and Museums Hesston Volunteers - Site about the Hesston Steam Museum, LaPorte, IN Huckleberry Railroad - Crossroads Village, Mott Lake, Michigan Little Bubba - Large Scale Railroad. Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad - nice little train ride near Titusville. PA Park Trains Website - The Original - Information on Park Trains Rails of Fun - St. Louis, MO Sonoma Traintown - 12" scale railroad in Sonoma, CA The Full-Size Railroading and Rail-Riding Hobby AAPRCO - American Association of Private Railcar Owners Cotton Valley Rail Trail Club - Runs speeders on NH state abandoned track. Handcar.Net - Nice site about the full-size handcar and speeder hobby Homemade Train - These folks explore abandoned broad gauge lines in Australia. McHugh Railroad Maintenance Equipment - Full-size locomotives, cranes, etc. Motorcar Operators West - A great speeder site Rail Riders - Personal pedal powered cars for standard gauge Railserve's Speeder Links - check it out Schnabel Cars - A page about heavy haulers Tales from the Krug - True stories and photos from a BNSF engineer  Southern Pacific 5623 in 12" scale - Two guys who own a full size GP9! Super Site Lost but Not Forgotten Abandoned Railroads of the USA - Always growing. Submit your own photos. Historical Railroads - Pacific Northwest - Brian McCamish's incredible pages Saluda Grade - Historical site about Southern RR's worst South Pacific Coast Railroad - Narrow Gauge in Southern CA Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad - and other lost railroads in California. - Super! Places to Stay B&B Railroad Depot Bed & Breakfast - Eat, sleep, and run trains in Oregon, Ohio Catawissa Railroad Company Caboose Lodge - Caboose Lodging In Pennsylvania Karrels' Double K Ranch Bed and Breakfast - Stay in an SP bay window caboose Trackside Motels - Chris Hash's guide to motels near trains! Whistle Stop Bed and Breakfast - See mainline trains from your front porch. Other Interesting Train-Related Links Animato - Cool site about animation with live steam links Arizona & Pacific Railroad - Dell Webb's Hiway House RR Badger Steam and Gas engine club - Baraboo, Wisconsin Blue Bell Railway - Nice railway preservation site, south end of England. Building 7 1/4" gauge Live Steam - Jan-Eric Nystrom, Helsinki, Finland Burlington Northern Santa Fe #9944 - Live Steam Scale SD60M Clay Spurrier's Train Page - Selbyville, DE Critter Trains - Photos of industrial locomotives Engine Shop - Roland Ruesch's "how to paint locomotives" site Hot Links - Hobby-Tronics Train Mountain photos Live Steaming in the Pacific Northwest - Railroads in USA and Canada Martin Rindlisbacher's Spur 80 - A wonderful Site of Wooden Trains Nashua City Station - The city of Nashua, NH and it's surrounding railroads. Our Railroad Videos - Brian McCamish's great Oregon RR video P.R.I.M.E. 1999 Meet - Sights and sounds of tiny gas and steam engines. San Diego Railroad Museum - lots of useful information 7.5" Gauge Auction - See what you missed. Standard Dimension - A helpful site Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society - 50th anniversary Track Speeder - track speeder in 7.5" gauge The West Berlin Garden Railroad - Nice G scale Railroad If you know of any websites relevant to the large scale railroading hobby, and don't see them in this list, please E-Mail Me. Thanks!
Fraud Warnings:
DO NOT buy anything from BB&W, "Bocock, Boots, and Western" alias
If you have problems with any supplier on this page that you can substantiate, please E-mail me. I will not include any supplier with a repeated history of poor customer relations in this listing. I will also not cross-link to any site who advertises any supplier involved in any such practices.
Fallen FlagsAlton & Pacific Railroad - Fallen 24" Narrow Gauge Private RR, Humbolt county, CABucksgahuda and Western Railroad - Nice 24" gauge railroad in St Mary's, PA Christchurch Live Steamers - Rotorua, NZ Descanso, Alpine & Pacific - Roy Athey's Railway Florida East Coast - real railroad with a 1.5" scale page Fort Taylor & Southwestern Railroad - Dutton Junction, FL The Funny Farm - Winter Creek Tramway, NZ Linstan Lines Railroad - Palmyra, Virginia Manatee Family Lines - Ellenton, FL E & S Lines - Suppliers of hydraulic driven diesels My Other Model Railroad - Bill Coleman, Riverside, CA Pat Turner's 1-1/2" Scale Trains - Atlanta, GA. Very nice. Peoria & Bureau Valley RR - Jack's Private RR Red Rock and Northern Railroad - 7.5" gauge rr located near Austin MN S&S Shortline - Steve Flander's 1.5" Scale RR in Farmington, UT Springville & Southern - Bruce Mowbray's Railroad in PA Backyard Engineer - makes signals and cars Boschan Boiler & Restorations - Carson, CA Don's Machine Shop - 3/4" Scale Trucks Eaton Custom Engineering - Rail, Track, and Locomotives Live Steam Parts Co. - The name says it all Loco Gear - steam castings for large Shay engines Railroad and Trolley Insurance - the name says it all. Scale Products Company - scale railroad signs, crossings etc The Tiemaker - Trains and Portable Track The Right Track - Edaville, USA, annual online newspaper New England Wireless and Steam Museum - East Greenich, RI Putt-A-Round - Miniature golf and Railroad, North Hampton, NH Wildcat Railroad - Billy Jones, Los Gatos, CA Mr. K's Speeder Videos - Great site! Oregon speeder action and more The Railroad Motorcar Page - What you need to know Bridgton Narrow Gauge Railroad - Maine 2 foot gauge. Craig's Railroad Home Page - Nice site about railroads of Death Valley, CA Urban Exploration - A great site featuring lost and forgotten stuff Venango County Ambassador - Bridge preservation and oil industry history site Archive.com - Internet archive, includes vintage RR films Catskill Mountain Railroad - Scenic railroad in middle eastern New York David Dye's D&RG Photo Site - Very nicely done Grasshopper Logger - Bob Starr - Cedar Glen, CA Rick White's page - Lots of neat stuff SAR Steam - South African Railways, big and little. Great site. Scenic Railroads of New England - Richard Bamberg's photo collection Please report any bad links you find. -- Thanks. -- BG |
