Model Railroad Resources
This page contains pointers to resources for model railroad hobbyists. Some of these resources are owned and maintained by TracTronics, some have been submitted by denizens of the Usenet newsgroup rec.models.railroad and are maintained on the web by TracTronics, and some are pointers to resources at other Web sites.
Resources Available
General Information
NMRA on the Web, the official web pages of the National Model Railroad Association.
Frequently Answered Questions for the Usenet newsgroup rec.models.railroad. This pointer sends you to the site of Urban R. Fredriksson, who is the FAQ maintainer.
Frequently Answered Questions for the Usenet newsgroup rec.models.railroad. This pointer is to a slightly out-of-date copy of the FAQ, but this version is easier to get around in, as the index is html tagged.
List Of U.S. Hobby Shops For All States (130+ KB).
List Of U.S. Hobby Shops For States From A To M (70+KB).
List Of U.S. Hobby Shops For States From N To Z (65+ KB).
List Of Canadian Hobby Shops.
Layout Design SIG information and application for membership.
Remarks of Hiroshi Kato at Northwest N-Trak's N-Fest '95.
Switching Layout plans by Scot Osterweil.
Transportation Resources on Internet listing by Colin R. Leech.
DCC Blowout 95 compatibility report by Stan Ames.
MRIA 1994, an informal rambling report by Rich Weyand.
A Helix for the Pocahontas Division, a construction article by Rich Weyand.
How to Install a Drop Ceiling without getting the runners under your lights!
Climate Control for the Pocahontas Division.
TracTronics Information
Mainline Modeler Articles on our electronics control modules for model railroads.
Page 1 of the TracTronics Price List with product descriptions of our electronics modules for model railroads. These products are for all scales.
Page 2 of the TracTronics Price List with product descriptions of our constant lighting products for LGB G scale passenger cars and cabooses. These products are for G Scale.
Page 3 of the TracTronics Price List with product descriptions of our SECSI computer automation control products. These products are for all scales.
Other Sites
An exhaustive listing of model and prototype railroad web sites can be found on the NMRA on the Web, the official web pages of the National Model Railroad Association, in the NMRA's Other Sites list. This list is so complete that I will no longer attempt to maintain such a list here.
Directory of Web Sites for Federal Government Agencies including DoT.
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Last updated: June 25, 2001
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