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.
Alton & Pacific Railroad - Fallen 24" Narrow Gauge Private RR, Humbolt county, CA
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 Another Link
Buchanan Machine Works - Jim and Carol Buchanan's cool website
Buckingham Central Railroad - Fort Myers, FL
Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad - Nice 24" gauge railroad in St Mary's, PA
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
Christchurch Live Steamers - Rotorua, NZ
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
Descanso, Alpine & Pacific - Roy Athey's Railway
Dolittle, Seemore, and Nap - Palm Beach, FL
Don Thornton's Private Track - Olalla, WA
Emerald Hills Railway - 12" gauge in Redwood City, CA
Florida East Coast - real railroad with a 1.5" scale page
Fort Taylor & Southwestern Railroad - Dutton Junction, FL
Frosty Hollow Branch Line - Russell Twp, OH Home of the PDCRR
The Funny Farm - Winter Creek Tramway, NZ
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
Linstan Lines Railroad - Palmyra, Virginia
Little River Miniature Railroad - near Temple, TX
Lizard Attitude - Nice G scale outdoor railroad
Manatee Family Lines - Ellenton, FL
Mosley Railroad Trust - Private railroad in UK
My Other Model Railroad - Bill Coleman, Riverside, CA
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
Pat Turner's 1-1/2" Scale Trains - Atlanta, GA. Very nice.
Peoria & Bureau Valley RR - Jack's Private RR
PJ & J Shortline - 7.5" gauge in Fort Atkinson, WI
Red Rock and Northern Railroad - 7.5" gauge rr located near Austin MN
Russ's Backyard Railroad - G scale, nice site.
S&S Shortline - Steve Flander's 1.5" Scale RR in Farmington, UT
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 track owners in Texas and Oklahoma
Spring Creek Railroad - in central Illinois
Springville & Southern - Bruce Mowbray's Railroad in PA
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
Backyard Engineer - makes signals and cars
BB&T Car Shops - Freight car builders (ccvstmr's site)
Boschan Boiler & Restorations - Carson, CA
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
Don's Machine Shop - 3/4" Scale Trucks
Eaton Custom Engineering - Rail, Track, and Locomotives
E & S Lines - Suppliers of hydraulic driven diesels
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
Live Steam Parts Co. - The name says it all
Loco Gear - steam castings for large Shay engines
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 Rider Supply - Nice little track speeders
Railroad and Trolley Insurance - the name says it all.
Real Trains - 1.5" scale trains
Ride On Railways Ltd - 5" Gauge Ground Level Garden Railway Stuff
Riding Rail Kits - 1" scale trains
Scale Products Company - scale railroad signs, crossings etc
Severn-Lamb USA, Inc. - Builds locomotives to order
Superscale Locomotive Co. - Many fine locomotive detail parts
The Tiemaker - Trains and Portable Track
Tiny Power Steam Engines - Branson, Missouri
Tom Bee - 1.5" scale couplers, trucks, freight cars, and parts
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
Northeast Live Steamers - or what's left of it
United States - Visit my USA clubs page
Canada - Visit my Canada clubs page

Link Sites
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
Miniature Railway Books - UK
Railway Track & Structures - A railroad industry magazine with a good online version
The Right Track - Edaville, USA, annual online newspaper
Seven-Plus Narrow Gauger
Seven-Plus Railroader Magazine

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.
New England Wireless and Steam Museum - East Greenich, RI
Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad - nice little train ride near Titusville. PA
Park Trains Website - The Original - Information on Park Trains
Putt-A-Round - Miniature golf and Railroad, North Hampton, NH
Rails of Fun - St. Louis, MO
Sonoma Traintown - 12" scale railroad in Sonoma, CA
Wildcat Railroad - Billy Jones, Los Gatos, 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 owned 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
Mr. K's Speeder Videos - Great site! Oregon speeder action and more
Rail Riders - Personal pedal powered cars for standard gauge
The Railroad Motorcar Page - What you need to know
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
The Railroad Motorcar Page - lots of neat photos
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.
Bridgton Narrow Gauge Railroad - Maine 2 foot gauge.
Craig's Railroad Home Page - Nice site about railroads of Death Valley, CA
Historical Railroads of the Pacific Northwest - Another one of 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 Site!
Urban Exploration - A great site featuring lost and forgotten stuff
Venango County Ambassador - Excellent bridge preservation and oil industry history site

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 - Eat, sleep, and stay in an SP bay window caboose
Trackside Motels - Chris Hash's guide to motels near trains!
Whistle Stop Bed and Breakfast - See mainline BNSF, UP, D&RG trains from your front porch.

Other Interesting Train-Related Links
Animato - Cool site about animation with live steam links
Archive.com - Internet archive, includes vintage RR films
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 a 7 1/4" gauge (1:8 scale) Live Steam - Jan-Eric Nystrom, Helsinki, Finland
Burlington Northern Santa Fe #9944 - Live Steam Scale SD60M
Catskill Mountain Railroad - Scenic railroad in middle eastern New York
Clay Spurrier's Train Page - Selbyville, DE
Critter Trains - Photos of industrial locomotives
David Dye's D&RG Photo Site - Very nicely done
Engine Shop - Roland Ruesch's "how to paint locomotives" site
Grasshopper Logger - Bob Starr - Cedar Glen, CA
Hot Links - Hobby-Tronics Train Mountain photos
Live Steaming in the Pacific Northwest - Nice site about 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 - Cool page with the sights and sounds of tiny gas and steam engines.
Rick White's page - Lots of neat stuff
San Diego Railroad Museum - lots of useful information
SAR Steam - South African Railways, big and little. Great site.
Scenic Railroads of New England - Richard Bamberg's photo collection
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
Wilton Scenic Railroad - Wilton, NH - in memory of Stuart Draper

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
Captain John Boots of Ocala, Florida. Several have had complaints
and problems. If you have any questions - Please E-mail me.

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