This website has been archived from TrainWeb.org/girr to TrainWeb.US/girr.

I've been really negligent in keeping this links page up to date. If your site isn't here and you'd like it listed or you find a bad link, drop me an email. If you want to add a link to my pages in your's, feel free to do so.

If you find the concept of a garden railway interesting, more information can be found at these sites:

Chat Rooms and Forums

On June 27, 2000 a terrible calamity occurred in Large Scale CyberSpace. Large Scale On Line became Large Scale Off Line. Gone, Bye-Bye, History. The immediate survey of the devastated cyber landscape was grim at first, but then miraculously, new life appeared amid the rubble and wreckage. New forums and chats popped up seemingly from nowhere.

After just two days, there were more places to exchange information and chat then ever before. Only time will tell which of these sites will attract attention and survive, but in my book, the more the merrier. Competition is good.

What follows is a list of the sites that I've found so far with a short description of what's there and what may come in the future.

• Public Forums
  • TrainWeb has a new forum is a UBB format and has a large scale section, curiously separated from the rest of the model railroad forums. The new forum is at TrainWeb RailForum.
  • TrainWeb has a second set of forums using a different format.
  • Fine Scale Railroader Magazine has created Fine Scale On Line. This is another indented list that came to line on June 29.
  • Large Scale Central popped up from nowhere. This is another UBB like site created by Bob McCown. It is also subdivided into topics.
  • myLargeScale.com is a new site that is intended to grow to be something like LSOL was. For a few days, this board was hosted on the Utah GRS site.
  • TrainBoard.com is a UBB format general railroading forum, but there are model railroad boards for most scales.
  • Large Trains On Line is yet another forum. This one appears to use a custom forum format.
  • THE GAUGE - Chat Forum seems to be related mostly to "O" Scale trains.
• Manufacturer's Forums
  • The AristoCraft Forum has been around for awhile. It uses the UBB format. This forum is hosted on the AristoCraft web site and is reasonably restricted to anything AristoCraft related. Go here to communicate directly with AristoCraft.
  • The Bachmann Forum is an indented list type format. The forum is hosted by Bachmann Trains on their web site and is reasonably restricted to anything Bachmann related. Go here to communicate with the Bachmann himself.
• Public Chat Rooms
  • Large Scale Central has established a chat room with some of the old LSOL look and feel. This is the most active of the chat rooms.
  • myLargeScale has established a chat room based on some chat software that I've not seen before.
  • TrainWeb has a real time chat room also. This one is Java powered and I haven't got it working on my Mac yet. There are actually several chat rooms there, each with a different railroad related subject.
  • Large Trains On Line has another LSOL style chat room. This one has a spelling checker.
• Email Lists
  • You can subscribe to the Big Trains List by typing the work subscribe in the body of the email message. You will receive a couple of more emails to verify that you actually want to be on the list and that you have supplied a good email address.....then stand back and watch your mailbox fill up.

Large Scale Publications

• Fine Scale Railroader Magazine
• Garden Railways Magazine
• A.W. N.U.T.S.

Club Sites

• Charleston Chapter, National Railway Historical Society
• The San Joaquin Valley Garden Railroad Society
• The South Jersey Garden Railroad Society
• The New Hampshire Garden Railway Society
• Piedmont Garden Railroaders
• Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders
• Saskatoon Railroad Modellers Home Page
• The Los Angeles Live Steamers

Personal Large Scale Web Pages

• Welcome to the DRY GULCH & ROCKY RIVER Railroad
• Welcome to the RS&L
• D & L Garden Railroad
• The Beaver Creek Railroad
• All Gauge Page
• Raccoon Creek & Gully Railway
• Prescott Canyon Southern Garden RR
• Jamie Foster's Garden Railroad Web-site
• Poppa Shehop's Garden Railroad Web-site
• The Tortoise and Lizard Bash Railway
• The Desert Springs and Rattlers Gap Railroad
• The Napa Valley & Altadena Railroad
• JJ & C RailRoad
• JLS Railroad
• The Bear Creek Railroad
• Toy Trunk Railroad, Railroad Cartoons
• Redrock Railroad
• The Coramba Creek Timber Co.
• Rick Henderson's Indoor Large Scale Page
• Karl's Home Page Featuring Large Scale or Garden Rail Roads
• Clear Creek & Idaho Springs Garden Railroad
• Bills Page
• SQUAW PEAK & PARADISE VALLEY RAILROAD
• The Shay Guru
• Peters Creek Inn
• Bob's Sun City RR page
• The Stonewall Shortline Page
• The Squirrel Valley Railway
• Lazy Acre Lumber Company RR
• Toenail Ridge Shortline

Large Scale Train Manufacturers

• The Aristo Craft Internet Depot
• LGB of America
• USA Trains
• Model Die Casting
• Aster
• Marklin
• Bachmann Industries

Accessory Manufacturers

• Barry's Big Trains, Bachmann Loco rebuilds
• Ewing's Hobbies, custom painting, decals and freight car loads
• Shawnut Car Shops, custom painted cars and rolling stock kits
• Garden Texture, wood building plans, kits and materials
• ELDORADO RAILWAYS, custom trestle kits
• Kadee, couplers
• Phoenix, sound systems
• Soundtraxx, sound systems
• Dallee, sound systems
• PH Hobbies, sound systems
• RAM Products, LED lighting and other electronic accessories
• SMALL SCALE RAILWAY COMPANY, sound systems and other electronic accessories

DCC Equipment Manufacturers, Retailers and General Information

• DCC Information Sites
  • Digital Command Control and Large Scale
  • Tried and True Trains
• DCC Manufacturers
  • Digitrax
  • Lenz
  • Wangrow
  • North Coast Engineering
  • Zimo
  • CVP
• DCC Discount Mail Order Sources
  • Loy's Toys
  • Tony's Train Xchange

Large Scale Train Shows

• The Big Train Show (Queen Mary Show)
• The Great American Train Show

Large Scale Train Dealers

• Discount Trains Online
• Railroad art by R. S. Gilbert
• Scottish Garden Railways
• Gold Coast Station
• Lantz's Train Shop
• Charles Ro
• Trainworld
• Walthers
• San-Val Discount
• Watt's Train Shop
• West Bend and Jackson
• Tried and True Trains

General Railroad Information Sites

• The Voice of the Iron Horse steam whistles
• Locomotive Gyrating Warning Lights
• Santa Fe Locomotive Drawings
• The ATSF All Time Diesel Roster
• The ATSF Internet Resource Center
• The ALCO Hauler Home Page
• The Denver Public Library Photo Archive, tons of western history photos

Parts and Materials Suppliers

• Data Bookshelf An index of sources for datasheets for practically every electronic component made.
• McMaster-Carr Industrial Supply industrial equipment and materials (if it isn't here, it probably has never been made)
• Radio Shack electronic parts retailer
• Newark Electronics electronic parts distributor
• DigiKey electronic parts distributor
• Mouser electronic parts distributor
• NTE Electronics generic replacement semiconductors and parts
• Hosfelt electronics parts discounter
• MPJA electronics parts discounter
• American Science and Surplus electronics parts discounter
• All Electronics electronics parts discounter