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Smokin' Guns

Banshee Brothers

Emily's Oboe Page

Where I Work

For Our Love of Horses
Emily & Katie Shaw's first Internet page

• Los Angeles Model Railroad Society

• Pasadena Model Railroad Club

• Listing of N-TRAK Clubs WWW Sites

The National Model Railroad Association

Conventions.

Directory of World Wide Rail Sites

NMRA Regional Sites:

Australasian Region	British Region	Lone Star Region
Mid-Central Region	Mid-Continent Region	Mid-Eastern Region
Midwest Region	Niagara Frontier Region	NMRA Canada
North Central Region the" Hotbox" home page	North Eastern Region	Pacific Coast Region
Pacific Northwest Region	Pacific Southwest Region	Rocky Mountain Region
Southeast Region	Sunshine Region	Thousand Lakes Region

Central Indiana Division Midwest Region

Illinois Valley Division, Midwest Region

• Operations SIG (OPSig)
  Contains joining data, back issues of the Dispatchers Office quarterly publication, Chris Butt's database of 6,000+ prototype industries (free download) in the US and Canada, index to all railroad chat lists on the Internet (90+ and growing).
• Layout Design SIG (LDSIG)
  Information and application for membership.
  • Layout Design Sig's Primer for Designing Layouts
• Railroad Prototype Modelers (RPM) Homepage

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES ON LINE

The Bridge Line Historical Society Historical Society for the Delaware and Hudson Railway	The Midland Railway Historical Association	The SOO Line Historical Society
The Erie Lackawanna Railroad Home Page	The Reading Co. Technical and Historical Society	CP Rail Database CP Rail database and up to date CP Rail info
Conrai Historical Societyl	Guilford Rail Systems	Canadian Pacific Home Page.
Southern Pacific Home Page ESPEE Index	SHIP IT on the Frisco	The Chicago and North Western Historical Society
Northern Pacific	The "Un"-Official D&RGW Home Page Lex A. Parker's Personal Tour of the D&RGW	Union Pacific
Traction History in the Los Angeles Basin	KCS	The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society
Norfolk Southern Historical Society	Grand Trunk Western Historical Society	Rock Island Technical Society
Hungarian State Railways (MAV)

Historical Society Listings on the Web

• Con-Cor
  
• Historical Society Addresses
  
• Model Railroader
  

SEARCH ENGINES

• Yahoo - WWW Yellow Pages
  
• INFOSEEK WWW Search utility
  
• WebCrawler WWW Search utility
  
• Lycos WWW Search utility
  

MODEL RAILROAD MAGAZINE SEARCH ENGINES

• Model Railroad Magazine Database Search Utility
  
• Model Train Magazine Index Search Utility
  
• Model Railroader Magazine Index
  

Railroad Related News Letters

• Frontier Flimsy
  
• Railroad Telegraph
  

Tools and Supplies On Line

• Murphy's axiom on Tools, "You Never have the right tool for the Job on Hand"
  NOW YOU CAN FIX THAT!!! 8^)
  
• THE TOOL MAN Any and every model tool you will ever need!!!.
  
• Micro Mark, The Small Tool Specialist
  
• The Rustall Weathering Website - Where Rust never sleeps! 8^)
  
• Purveyors of used grade crossing signals and other unique railroad items
  
• Shenandoah Software Creators of MiTrains Inventory System for Windows with all the Micro- Trains(TM) cars and Waybills for operators.
  
• Quaker Valley Software Operations Software for Model Railroaders
  
• Albion Software SHIP-IT! Switchlist/consist programs.
  

Other Railroad related sites:

• Tom Trencansky's Trains, trains, and more trains!!
  
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• Lex A. Parker's Homepage - A Narrow Minded Modeller
• The Colorado Railroad Musem
• DESTINATION TRAIN CENTER Any and every model you will ever need, all scales!!!.
• MAINLINE TRAINS Any and every model you will ever need, HO & N Scales!!!.
• Brian F. Case's Railroad Website
• The National Toy Train Museum
  Headquarters for the Train Collectors Association. An International organization dedicated to collecting and preserving toy trains.
• The Strasburg Rail Road
  The golden age of steam railroading and the heritage of the Pennsylvania Amish come together at the historic Strasburg Rail Road. Journey through spectacular farmlands while seated in comfort on one of our majestic restored wooden coaches pulled by a huge coal burning locomotive.
• The Choo Choo Barn
  Figures and vehicles come to life throughout this Lancaster County, Pennsylvania inspired model railroad exhibit. Finely detailed, animated, and automated work of art. Located next to a complex of specialty train shops including the Strasburg Train Shop, Railroad Books & Videos, and Thomas's Trackside Station.
• The Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad
  The Milk & Honey Line is a 1920's vintage railroad that takes you on a scenic tour along the Swatara Creek and historic Union Canal to Indian Echo Caverns.
• Jack Winters' Homepage
• James Hoefnagel's Homepage
• Martin Glaser's Homepage
• Danny Farrow's Homepage
• Steve & Cinthia Priest's Paired Rail Railroad Publications Homepage for Santa Fe publications
• Home Page of Jan Olav Jørgensen, a very interesting Norwegian Railroad Page.
• Home Page of Gabor Bejczi , a very interesting Hungarian Railroad Page
• Garden Railways from Down Under
• Cyberspace World Railroad Home Page
• Rick Fortin's Model RR Home Page
• Model Railroad Resources
• Railroad-relatedInternet Resources
• Trains - HARRIS Mountaintop
  
• Webville and Hypertext Railroad Company
• Weyand, Rich The Hobby Shop List and Full FAQ For rec.models.railroad
• FAQ for rec.models.railroad
• Photographs of layouts and prototypes in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada area
• Ahead of the Torch
• Lost Forever
• Mike Davison 's Proto:87 Special Interest Group (SIG)
• Davidson's Home page
• Frisco Modelers Information Group
• Cockburn in Western Australia
• Delaware Valley Association of Railroad Passengers
• Stewart, Ron Live Steam Information and Graphics
• Steve Goddard's GETTING THERE: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century
• Middlesex Central Railroad Club Westford, Massachusetts, by Bengt Mutén
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  The 2mm Scale Association by Nigel Cliffe.
   

University Club WWW Sites

• Carnegie Mellon University Railroad Club
  
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Model Railroad Club
  
• Penn State Model Railroad Club
  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Tech Model Railroad Club
  
• University of Ulm, Germany Interactive Model Railroad

HOME LAYOUTS ON-LINE

• Peter White's home layout, ATSF, Freelance Panoka District in Oklahoma and Texas.
• David Bogard's Fayetteville & Eastern Railroad
• Jack Burgess's Yosemite Valley Railroad
• Eric Hammink's
• Home Layout in Holland

Model Railroad Companies

• Magazines
  
• Model Railroader Magazine
• Aristo-Craft
• Atlas Model Railroad Company On Line Catalog and Product Information
• Dave Frary's Blue Ribbon Models Scenery Building Techniques, Tips Books & Video Tapes
• Concor - Grand Central Railway Station of Cyberspace
• Daylight Sales HomepageAuthentic railroad T-shirts & sweatshirts
• Fleischmann
• Green Frog Productions
• Herpa
• Lenz E-mail
• LOU'S GAME CORNER: Railroad Game Links
• Maerklin USA
• Microscale Decals
• Westerfield Models
• William Ingram's Railroad Games Home Page
• Roco
• Testors
• Tractronics
• Walthers

Useful Model Railroad Files for Downloading

• Quaker Valley Demo Software for the Waybill and Roster Programs (2Meg)
  (self extracting zip file, run then read README file)
• Atlas Switches for AutoCAD (Zipped)
• Railroad Colors by Bill Havrilla : Prototype names A - CHA
• Railroad Colors by Bill Havrilla : Prototype names CHE - I
• Railroad Colors by Bill Havrilla : Prototype names J - Q
• Railroad Colors by Bill Havrilla : Prototype names R - Z
• Colorado Narrow Gauge Color Chart by Robert E. Sloan
• DCC Wiring Help from Allan Gartner

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps........(Concert for George)