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RailroadForums.com - RailroadForums.com is a free railroad discussion forum. Discuss railroads, railfanning and model railroads in a friendly setting. No membership fee or monthly charges.
The new forum is doing well in it's first couple of weeks. I'd like to thank all of you who have stopped by to check it out. If you haven't visited yet, please do, I think you'll enjoy it.
This Week's New Links:
Vandewater Books - http://www.vandewaterbooks.com/Vandewater Books is a quality used-book store in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, WA. We feature a catalog of over 700 out-of-print railroad books. We are adding more books to our stock all the time. Also check out our catalog of over 80 Science Fiction paperbacks with cover art by Richard Powers.
Discussion_Forums_and_E-Mail_Lists
RailroadForums.Com - http://www.railroadforums.com/RailroadForums.com is a discussion forum covering railroads and model railroads. If you're interested in trains, either full size or model, you'll find something of interest here. We have forums devoted to passenger trains, freight railroads, railroad history, tourist railways, model trains and more.
Membership is free, and the forum offers a variety of features including subscribing to threads, buddy and ignore lists, private messages and more. Come join us in a friendly discussion of railroading! Freight Services Inc. - http://www.sosrail.com
FSI provides a menu of services to the railroad community including traffic consultant for individual shippers, insurance consultant for railroad matters, fleet management, short line railroad management, and economic feasbility studies of rail operations. A Documentary on a truly unique species: the RAILFAN - http://www.geocities.com/railfan_girlfriend
Finally! A website for the Significant Others/Loved Ones of Railfans! Told from the perspective of a railfan's girlfriend, this is mainly to help other railfans' significant others and loved ones to better understand the idiosyncrasies of the "species". TGV.com - http://www.tgv.com/
The TGV is a high-speed train that travels at 300 km/h and offers you a multitude of services and destinations in France and Europe. It takes you straight to city centres. It’s a highly comfortable and practical train… When you buy a TGV ticket, you automatically have a seat reserved for you. TGV travel is supported by a whole range of services designed to make life easier for you when you are preparing for your journey, when you are on your way and when you arrive.
Historical_Societies/International
Argentine Railway Club - http://usuarios.lycos.es/ferroclub/englifcl.htmlEscalada branch of Argentine railway club Trains4u - http://www.trains4u.info
Pics and info on trains and rail systems from around the world
Passenger_Trains/International
TGV.com - http://www.tgv.com/The TGV is a high-speed train that travels at 300 km/h and offers you a multitude of services and destinations in France and Europe. It takes you straight to city centres. It’s a highly comfortable and practical train… When you buy a TGV ticket, you automatically have a seat reserved for you. TGV travel is supported by a whole range of services designed to make life easier for you when you are preparing for your journey, when you are on your way and when you arrive.
Passenger_Trains/Luxury_Tours_and_Private_Cars
Great South Pacific Express - http://www.gspe.com/Australia's own version of the Orient Express - the Great South Pacific Express. A luxury train journey for the discerning traveller between Sydney, Brisbane the Whitsundays and Cairns on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
This luxurious travelling hotel combines the highest standards of Australian engineering with opulence and comfort and the train pays tribute to Australia's early railway heritage. Walls are in solid red cedarwood and myrtle and roof panels are fitted with intricate stained glass. Golden Gate Railroad Museum Rent-a-Loco and Rent-a-Train - http://www.ggrm.org/rentaloco/index.html
The Golden Gate Railroad Museum of San Francisco is proud to offer this very special program. Under the guidance and instruction of a professional railroader, you will learn about and operate a working locomotive. You won't go fast or far, yet you will get to do something that few have done. You will be in the engineer's seat and you will be able to say, "I ran a real locomotive." Jamestown Area Railfan Site - http://www.jamestownrailfan.net
Dedicated to providing pictures and information involving railroads based in and around the Jamestown, NY area. 3D Railroad Concept And Design - http://www.abracadata.com/
3D Railroad Concept And Design(tm) version 2.0 for Windows includes all the tools and functionality found in previous versions with some fantastic upgrades. Now, in addition to the accurate drawing tools, list compilers, custom benchwork, extensive catalog listings and libraries of manufacturer products, and stunning 3D graphics, we have added ideas and functionality as requested by model railroad enthusiasts. We've done our best to make 3D Railroad Concept & Design the most comprehensive model railroad design tool on the market, while still keeping it user-friendly.
Cadrail - http://www.cadrail.com/
Cadrail has all the extra features that will satisfy advanced users. Beginners can pick it up quickly and grow into the harder parts of railroad design. You get a rock solid, all around drawing tool for all your drawing needs. Design railroad layouts, buildings, benchwork, schematics or anything else you need.
This is a powerful CAD program with many different railroad design tools. You can create track plans of any size and shape. There are easy to use drag and drop tools that allow you to snap track sections together end-to-end and align them automatically. Flexible CAD tools let you create complex shapes that your train will run on and that you can build.
Right Track Software - http://www.atlasrr.com/software/welcome.asp
Right Track is a layout planning program for PC's. The program allows you to design your dream layout using electronic templates of Atlas O's new 21st Century Track System, Atlas N scale and HO scale Snap-Track and Super-Flex Track, True-Track, switches, bridges, turntables, buildings and electrical controls. There are even templates for structures from Walther's Cornerstone Series, Railway Design Associates, Design Preservation Models, Life-Like and now Lionel and Atlas O, LLC.
RR-Track - http://www.rrtrack.com/
This software is the answer for all your toy or model train layout design headaches. No more templates to struggle with, no messy erasing and scribbling, no emergency table extensions propped on sawhorses, no last second hacking of the Xmas tree, just pop up the menus off this fully graphical software in the gauge of your choice and plan away. RR-Track v4 offers in-place object drawing capability as well as menu choice scenery items in addition to the multiple accessory libraries to save you the headache of drawing each of those saw mills and coal loaders yourself. Using the integrated TerraMapper, you can create realistic terrain and layout benches which you can then visualize from any orientation using the integrated 3-D Viewer. Compatible with Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation 3.51 and 4.0, and Windows 2000.
TrackPlanning.com - http://www.trackplanning.com/
TrackPlanning.com is your primary source of in-depth information on Model Railroad Track Planning and related CAD software. We hope you find this site a convenient reference, and encourage you to visit regularly to enjoy new content!
This web site is brought to you by El Dorado Software, supplier of precision track planning and layout design software for model railroading hobbyists. Our latest offering of 3rd PlanIt™ for Windows is available for Internet delivery or shipment. With a broad set of features and powerful automation, model railroad planning has never been easier or faster.
3D Railroad Master(tm) puts the player in the engineer's seat as they roll along on the predesigned layouts of varying difficulty. Players have total control of the trains, first selecting from the wide variety of rolling stock to build trains up to 100 cars long. Players arrange custom trains by coupling and uncoupling cars in any order you choose. After setting up their custom trains, players are ready to begin specifying the game options. Use or edit the predefined pick-up and delivery schedules. If players delight in difficult situations and close calls, they can choose to control up to four trains on a layout. For the die-hard railroad enthusiast who enjoys a real challenge, import your own custom layouts from 3D Railroad Concept & Design(tm), including all 3D objects, grades and elevations.
Train Simulator @ SebastianFrey.de - http://Train-Simulator.sebastianfrey.de
The Ultimate Train Simulator Resource The site is available in German and English. News / Forum / Chat / Downloads / Uploads / Screenshots and more. This site features the biggest german-language MSTS-Forums (over 500 Members in March 2002). Over 250 Downloads in 12 categories (March 2002). The site focuses european-models.
Tourist_RRs_and_Museums/Midwestern_USA
Missouri - Branson Scenic Railway - http://www.bransontrain.com/Branson,MO - We have a beautiful streamliner called the Ozark Zephyr featuring all Budd cars with three original Burlington domes: Silver Garden, Silver Island and Silver Terrace We also have CBQ Denver Zephyr diner Silver Chef which anchors our d/t on Sat nites. We run with our F9PH on one end and GP30M on the other as there is no place to run around up in the mountains. Depart from historic 1906 MoPac depot in downtown Branson. We operate over Missouri and Northern Arkansas tracks. 90% of the time we go south 10 miles into Arkansas thru 2 long tunnels and across 2 high trestles. 10% of time go north thru one tunnel and across James River bridge to Galena, MO.
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