Helpful Links
Operations
- Operations Special Interest Group Primer - Answers to frequently-asked questions (FAQ) concerning model railroad operations.
- Gateway NRMA Clinics - Access to clinics, articles and forms to assist in setting up model railroad operations, including timetables and schedules, car cards, waybills, train orders, car routing, and operations best practices.
- Prototype & Paperwork References from ProTrak - ProTrak specializes in prototype-based operations and signaling for model railroads.
Customers' Layouts
- John Parker's Fall River Division - a very large prototype-based freelance representation of today's BNSF Railway operating between the Midwest, and points north through the Pacific Northwest.
Organizations & Directories
- National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) - An organization of model railroaders, advancing the worldwide scale model railroading community through education and standards as well as advocacy and fellowship.
- Operations Special Interest Group - The Operations SIG discusses, develops, and disseminates ways of operating model railroads to realistically emulate practices of the prototype railroads.
- RailServe.com: The Internet Railroad Directory - Guide to 16,000 rail-related websites including train travel, model railroading, railfan resources, train simulators, and railroad industry sites.
Modeling Resources
- Rail Yard Models, Models for the Modern Era - Manufacturer of cast urethane kits of US and Canadian railroad equipment from the 1960s to the present.
