2007 work day on the new tunnel
These are links that the reader might find of interest to the model engineering community or were passed on during some of our 'Bits and Pieces' seminars. If there is any link that might be a beneficial to add, is in error, is out-of-date or broken, please contact the web master.
Live Steam Clubs
2110 S. Halcyon Road
Arroyo Grande, California
93420
P O Box 3216
Costa Mesa Orange County, California
92628
Portola Valley & Alpine Railroad
Box 273
Rancho Cordova, California
95741
Southern California Live Steamers
799 Berrydale Ave
Medford, Oregon
97501
36941 S. Chiloquin Rd.
PO Box 438
Chiloquin, Oregon
97624
Yahoo Groups
Golden Gate Live Steamers Projects
Members only
Railroad/Non-Railroad Attractions
Vasona Park,
110 Blossom Hill Rd,
Los Gatos, California
95032
A locally operated 18" gauge non-profit organization for the enjoyment of the local
public.
California State Railroad Museum
125 "I" Street
Sacramento, California
95814
Located in Old Sacramento, the California State Railroad Museum is a complex of historic facilities and unique attractions. Widely regarded as North America's most popular railroad museum, there is something here for everyone! Throughout the year, experience lavishly restored trains, engaging exhibits, and unique special events. Every weekend April-September, ride behind a real locomotive!
A site dedicated to enthusiast of all skill levels and disciplines of the metal working hobby.
International Brotherhood of Live Steamers.
McKinstry Stree Station
1275 McKinstry Stree
Napa, California
The Napa Valley Wine Train provides a relaxing three-hour, thirty-six mile round-trip journey from the historic town of Napa, through one of the world's most well known wine valleys to the quaint village of St. Helena, and back.
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Museum
5 Kidder Court
Nevada City, California
The 'Never Come, Never Go' narrow gauge railroad was a 22-mile connection between Nevada City and Colfax, California in the gold country of California. Visitors are offered a docent-lead historical tour of the museum, rail yard and restoration shop.
1100 Avenue A
Box 150040
Ely, Nevada
89315
"Rent a locomotive for a day and 'Work on
the Railroad' programs on a full size
railroad."
Niles Station
37001 Mission Blvd
Fremont, California
94536
The Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. operates the Niles Canyon Railway as a living history museum interpreting the importance of our heritage railroads in the development of California and the nation.
Northstar Mine Powerhouse Museum
10933 Allison Ranch Road,
Grass Valley, California
95945
(530) 273-4255
"This historic site includes a fascinating exhibit of hundreds of Sierra Nevada gold mining artifacts, including a working Stamp Mill and Cornish Pump, the largest Pelton Wheel ever constructed."
5401 Graham Hill Road
Felton, California
95018
Rail Excursions Await - The Redwood Forest Steam Train and the Santa Cruz Beach Train.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Box 15
Strasburg, Pennsylvania
17578
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania houses one of the most significant collections of historic railroad artifacts in the world.
1337 Canal Blvd., Berth 6A
Richmond, California
94804
Welcome to SS Red Oak Victory, the historical World War II cargo Ship owned and maintained by the Richmond Museum of History.
Grizzly Peak Blvd & Lomas Cantadas Rd
Berkeley, California
A 15" gauge miniature steam railroad in Tilden Park ridden by many generations next to the Golden Gate Live Steamers club facility!
Auto & Technik Museum in Sinsheim, Germany
Willits Depot
299 East Commerical Street
Willits, California
95490
One of the Most Scenic Railroads in North America, trips are offered from our two stations located at opposite ends of our railroad line in Fort Bragg and Willits.
2150 Green Hill Rd.
Sebastopol, California
95472
Sturgeon's Mill Restoration Porject is a non profit organization to restore what is considered on of the last great saw mills of its kind since 1914.
299 Swanton Rd,
Davenport, California
The railroad is located on the beautiful 3200-acre Swanton Pacific Ranch in Santa Cruz County. The rolling stock consists of 3 one-third scale Pacific-type steam locomotives built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition and a diesel switcher.
370 F Street
Virginia City, Nevada
775-847-0380
Nevada’s most famous short line, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad connects Carson City, Virginia City and Minden.
5848 State Highway 12
Suisun City, California
94585
Take a 10-mile electrically powered train trip through the peaceful, picturesque Montezuma Hills over the original historic main line of the Sacramento Northern Railway
Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad
56001 Hwy 41
Fish Camp, California
93623
An exciting 4-mile railroad excursion at Yosemites Park's South gate on highway 41. Ride into history where powerful locomotives once hauled massive log trains through the Sierra Mountains.
Miscellaneous Links
Recommended by Rich Lundberg, this company provide free PC system and data backup.
Oracle Operating System "virtualizer"
Recommend by Rich Lundberg, this application allows an earlier unmodified operating system & its environment like XP to run on a special environment on top of a current PC or mac operating system like System 7 at near host speed.
Vendors and Suppliers
1701 South 400 East
Columbia City, IN
46725
The 'Industrial Erector Set' used by Charlie Reiter to construct his adjustable track
stand. See also 8020 and itemsoutheast
23638 Lyons Avenue
Newhall, Calif
91321
Live steam and locomotive supplies for 3/4", 1", 1.5" and 2.5" scale including trucks, whistles, injectors, lubricators, blowdown valves, water gauges, water treatments, books and steam oil.
Devine & Associates
Las Vegas, Nevada
89130
4.75", 7.5" gauge steam locomotives, rolling stock, accessories and parts.
Box 510
Freeland, MI
48623
Gene Allen plans and parts for 1.5" scale Wabash mogul, Chloe plantation engine, ten wheeler, consolidation, Fitchburg Northern and others.
Box 848
Gardnerville, Nevada
89410
3-cylinder, 3-truck, 60-ton Shay, 1.5" scale ready to run steam or built to suit.
315 E. North St.
Kalamazoo, MI
49007
Silicon mold making rubber & urethane casting resins.
American Model Engineering Supply
800 Valastics Ave.
Valparaiso, Florida
32580
Nuts & bolts, live steam fittings and supplies including new MTP taps & dies, pressure/
water gauges, lubricators, model hex bolts/
nuts, valves & MTP fittings, oilers, grease cups, unions. Noteworthy is the supply of model hex bolts/nuts.
37530 Enterprise Ct
Newark, California
94560
(510) 797-1562
A hard-to-find source of fasteners used by Ken Brunskil. Similar to Bowlin Equipment of Berkeley, California or Harrison & Bonini or R.J. Leahy Co. of San Francisco, California.
1107 10th Street
Berkeley, California
(510) 527-8282
Highly recommended by Rich Lundberg as a hard-to-find source of fasteners. Similar to BHJ Bay City Screw & Bolt Co of Newark, California or Harrison & Bonini or R.J. Leahy Co. of San Francisco, California.
"1.5" - 1' Narrow Gauge Scale Detail Parts For the Discriminating Live Steam Modeler."
"Bryte Rails is now manufacturing caboose markers, locomotive markers and switch lamps previously produced, for many years,
by Maumee Model Car and Foundry in Maumee, Ohio. The caboose and locomotive markers are representative of the kerosene lamps produced by Adam Westlake (Adlake) and the Dressel companies in the later half of the 1800's and the first few decades of the 1900's. Madee Kid Kar Kits and journal box cover accessories are available also."
Box 2694
Bloomington, Indiana
47402
1.5" scale modern roller bearing premium freight truck .
20811 Upper Hillview Dr.
Sonora, Calif
95370
Foundry Supplies for industry and hobby .
Building Miniature Live Steam Locomotives
Jean Nystrom's web site.
Cannonball Scale Rail Products
11501 E. Waterloo Rd.
Arcadia, OK
73007
"Cannonball ... Your 1.5", 7.25" and 7.5" gauge manufacturer and supplier of model railroad. Over 20 years experience and
200 products available. Locomotives,
freight cars, trucks, couplers, rail & railroad building supplies."
1638 Industrial Avenue,
Port Coquitlam,
British Columbia Canada V3C 6N3
Carr's Locomotives builds 1.6" scale 7.5" gauge electric powered model locomotives.
768 S Blakeland Dr
Pueblo West, CO
81007
Clecos and cleco accessories (sheet metal clamps).
Box 623
Warren, TX
77664
"Plans, Nuts, Bolts, Piston Rings, Small
Tools, Spark Plugs, Whistles, Lubricators, Pressure Gauges and Much Much More!!!"
Box 1775
Waskom, TX
75692
1.5"/1.6" scale locomotive, trucks, cars, rail, rolling stock.
Dave Moore's Live Steam Catalog
4186 La Canada Rd.
Fallbrook, Calif
92028
"I sell kits for 1.5" to the foot through 1.6" to the foot scale live steam models. Each kit comes with unmachined castings, drawings and specialty components. Kits include cold water pump, heater tops, hot water pump, Alco power reverse gear, butterfly fire door and air compressor dummy. "
Live Steam & Diesel Model Railroading newsletter.
4992 Allison Parkway Suite G
Vacaville, Calif
95688
"Electronica" line of Digital Readouts for
mill drills and lathes.
400 Nevada Pacific Hwy.
Fernley, NV
89408
"Since 1940, Enco has been a leading
source for quality machinery, cutting tools
and industrial supplies at the guaranteed lowest prices anywhere. "
1055-A S. Melrose St.
Placentia, Calif
92870
"We specialize in miniature hobby screws in metric and standard sizes and have a wide variety of materials from anodized aluminum, stainless steel, plated and alloy steel screws to nylon and titanium."
250 Gibbs Road
Islandia, NY
11749
"Virtually perfect replica casting of internal and external forms with flexbar Reprorubber, the Flexbar Tirga-bore, Flexbar Posiitioning System and the Flexbar Visorguard ."
Franklin Automatic Machine Co.
Box 1975
Brentwood, Tennessee
37024
Locomotive class lamps/flags rotating caboose marker lamps, tender marker lamps 1.5" scale, electric style, assembled and ready-to-use, 12 volts.
Freeman Manufacturing & Supply Company
1101 Moore Road
Avon, Ohio
44011
"North America's largest materials supplier
to anyone making parts, patterns, tools or molds."
96 Cummings Park
Woburn, Mass
01801
"Providing Traditional 'Rough Castings' and Hand-Drawn Blueprints for Small-Scale,
Coal-Fired Live Steam Locomotives."
The Great American Train Company
Two Carlson Parkway North, Suite 375
Plymouth, Mn
"Backyard trains are miniature reproductions of real trains. They run on batteries instead
of steam, making them easy to operate. Yet they're powerful enough to pull riding cars
with several children or adults."
Box 1118
Fall City, Wa
98024
Sapon-A-max steam cylinder oil, PB&J220 pin, bearing & journal oil.
1821 Valencia St.
Bellingham, WA
98229
"Since our inception in 1983, Grizzly Industrial®, Inc. has grown into one of the largest machinery companies in the United States."
Harrison and Bonini (fasteners)
1122 Harrison St
San Francisco, California
(415) 861-8300
Used by Charlie Reiter as his source of hard-to-find fasteners. Similar to BHJ Bay City Screw & Bolt Co. of Newark, California or Bowlin Equipment of Berkeley, California
Historic Models & Reproductions, LLC
4683 Canyon Oaks,
Brighton, Michigan
48114
"Providing casting kits for scale model
engine builders, drawings restoration services, custom displays, pattern making
and CAD design services and some of the best stationary engine reproductions available." His Gothic Beam Engine series
is published in Live Steam and Outdoor Railroading magazine.
The Home Railway Journal Magazine
10011 Folsom Blvd, #106
Sacramento, Calif
95827 USA
"The only magazine devoted to those who
are interested in rideable home railways."
5150 S. 48th Street
Phoenix, AZ
85040
'Industrial Metal Supply Company (IMS) is
a full line metal distributor serving Southern California and Arizona metal users in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Inland Empire and Phoenix.'
Box 4158
Houston, Texas
77210
Propane ring burners for the firebox of boilers.
2727 Main Street
Riverside, Calif
92501
"We're more than just metals; Service first, since 1941."
963 W. Commerce Drive, unit D
Traverse City, MI
49685
"Machinings, Fabrication, Welding help for your loco or rail car project."
Little Engines of California
now The Locomotive Works
Russell Stewart
439 Georgetown Road
Georgetown, Pa
15043
1/4", 1/2", 3/4" and 1" scale castings.
396 W. Washington Blvd. #500
Pasadena, Calif
91103
"The premier source of tooling, parts and accessories for bench top machinists."
Roger Goldmann
413 Morrison Lane
Santa Paula, Calif
93060
"Live Steam Locomotives is your hobby supplier for precision 7.25" - 7.5" gauge locomotives, including the Union Pacific Challenger, the only articulated live steam model on the market. We also have an extensive collection of reproduction locomotive and tender drawings from railroads of the live steam era."
Unit 7, Dept IN
Old Hall Mills
Little Eaton
Derby DE21 5EJ
United Kingdom
"Live Steam Models is an established
family-run business offering complete
traction engineering capability for today's enthusiast."
Offerings include valves, water pressure gauges, displacement & Foster lubricators, oilers & grease cups, whistles & sirens, injectors, unions & nipples, rivets, screws
and bolts.
Box 639
Traverse City, Michigan
49685
Home of Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading, Machinist's Workshop, Home Shop
Machinist magazines.
1471 Spring Meadow Lane
Suffolk, Va
23432
Globe and angle steam valves, boiler check valve, whistles, sight glass, whistle, blow down valve, lubricator, mogul tender kit.
1318 E. Nebraska Ave
Spokane WA
99208
"This site is designed to inspire you to get started casting just like in a foundry."
375 Troyer Avenue
Palisade, CO
81526
Parts and plans for a 7.5" gauge mogul,
2.5" scale C 16, 2-8-0, 0-4-0, 30-ton Davenport switcher and some 1.5" accessories.
Box 19792
Portland Oregon
97280
Many stationary and tool castings such as the Quorn, stationary pillar, die filer and strong arm shaper and many more.
P.O. Box 4355
Chicago, IL
60680
"490,000 products for your business and hobby."
P.O. Box 299
Eagle Point, OR
97524
"Mesa Tool designs & manufactures tooling for the machinist with durability & simplicity
in mind."
520 Abilene Drive, 2nd Floor
Mississauga, Ontario L5T 2H7
Metal Supermarkets is the world’s largest supplier of small quantity metals.
24 Cokesbury Rd Ste 2,
Lebanon, New Jersey
08833
"Affordably priced socket screws, machine screws, locknuts, washers, sheetmetal or
self tapping screws, wood screws, other fasteners and related items in US and
metric sizes."
340 Snyder Avenue
Berkeley Heights, NJ
07922
Specializing in Tools and Accessories for
the Model Craftsman.
2834 Midway Rd
Shady Dale, Georgia
31085
Graphics and Decals for the large scale
train modeler.
"A sixteen year member of Los Angeles Live Steamers, Brad Bluth is offering custom casting work to scale model builders."
27 Dundas St. E. Unit 8-A
Flamborough, ON. L9H 7H8
"Live Steam Locomotives (Custom design available), Locomotive Parts, Steam Locomotive Repair & Maintenance."
Steve Morris
421 N. Sheldon St.
Charlotte, MIchigan
48813
1.5" ready-to-roll EMD diesel locomotive,
40' gondolas, box cars.
219 Rowan Street
Salem, Virginia
24153
"Mountain Car Company was formed in
1983 as a one man operation with the idea
of manufacturing reasonably priced 1.5"
Scale Train Cars that looked good and preformed well. The company has
expanded with people and equipment while we have designed, developed, machined
and manufactured our way into becoming a large supplier of 1/8 scale train products."
75 Maxess Road
Melville, New York
11747-3151
"MSC Industrial Supply is one of the nation's largest direct marketers of a broad range of industrial products to industrial customers, satisfying their maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supply requirements."
Murray Design & Manufacturing Corp
1931 NE 69 St.
Oklahoma City, OK
73111
"We supply 1.5" scale, electric powered, diesel locomotive models, power trucks, and accessories for the large scale backyard railroad hobby, AKA the live steam hobby. We primarily model locomotives built by the Electromotive Division of General Motors Corp. though many of our parts and accessories may be used to model diesel locomotives built by other manufacturers.
Our models are built to the scale of 1.6" to
the foot and to a track gage of either 7.25"
or 7.5"."
Box 1
Benalto, Alberta TOM OHO
Canada
"New West's mission is to provide a service to anyone who would like to own and operate their own stam locomotive, tration engine or sttionary engine but who doesn't have the
time or resoures to build it themselves."
Northwest Railroad Foundry & Supply
"The most complete resource for miniature railroad enthusiasts in the Northwest". Supplier for the Accu-Tie Rail System, Turnout & Wyes, Railroad Tie Plates, Cross Buck free-standing signal.
7824 Enterprise Drive
Mentor, OH
44060
"Nuts and Bolts, etc is the leader in online metric and American standard fastener and fastener supplies."
21 Pamaron Way, Ste. G
Novato, California
94949
"Ball Turner and other hard-to-find tools"
1138 W. Ewing Street
Seattle, WA
98119
"The Web's superstore for small quantity metal orders welcomes you to explore exceptional metals sales and service from metal buyer's guides, to metal project ideas. At OnlineMetals.com, no order is too small
for our high standards."
1909 Utah NE
Albuquerque, NM
87110
Passenger cars in 1.6" scale.
Pattons Metal Working Solutions
1095 E. California Street (P.O. Box 273)
Ontario, Calif
91762
"Patton's has four divisions, Steel, Industrial Tools and Machinery, Ornamental Supplies and Office Furniture."
RD 1
Box 557
Claysburg, PA
16625
Pocahontas Live Steam coal is $15.00 for a 50 lb bag plus shipping.
Ed Perry
Box 455
Five Points, California
93624
"Custom boilers to your blueprints."
19.Linwood Place
Gloucester, Massachusetts
01930
Battery powered 7.5" gauge box electric locomotives including battery powered DRG&W Goose kit.
4110 Niles Hill Road
Wellsville, NY
14895
Model boilers, model machine tools, solar engine models, steam engine models and their accessories; Model pipe & fittings, flywheel castings, rod & shapes, tools, popular books & misc. Noteworthy is a tree
of model pipe castings and globe valve kit
of 4.
6655 Ashe Knoll
Hamilton, OH
45011
1/8 Scale Train Car Kits and Accessories.
A Division of P.I. Engineering
101 Innovation Parkway
Williamston, MI
48895
"These historic cyclopedias, now available
on CD, provide the dedicated modeler or railroading fan with hundreds of pages that are filled with scaleable high-resolution images and searchable text."
8244 Allport Ave,
Santa Fe Springs, Calif
90670
Model gas powered speeders, wheels, cars, train parts.
12 Westray Road
Nashua, New Hampshire
03062
Products include Central Pacific American No. 173, B&O C16 and C16A, Baldwin
Mogul & Consolidation, SD & GP diesels,
25-ton diesel switcher.
59 Miles Road, Unit A
Mound House, NV
89706
"We specialize in Live Steam Locomotives and Accessories for the Live Steam Hobby."
4030 Garner Rd.
Riverside, Calif
92501
"Since 1985, Rainbow Bolt & Supply, Inc.
has been providing quality Industrial
Products and Fasteners at competitive prices."
"Our brake systems are true safety brakes that apply if the train line is broken. Application of the brakes is done by the reduction of air pressure to the "Train Line". Brake release is done by restoring pressure to the "Train Line"."
32215-D Dunlap Blvd
Yucaipa, Calif
92399
Beginners train set, locomotive, car and
track.
Appleby Hill
Austrey
Warks
CV9 3ER
"Widely accepted as being the world's
largest stockist of model enginering supplies."
11129 Nantucket,
Wichita, KS
67212
"Top Quality 1.5" & 2.5" Scale Backyard Railroad Products"
9961 Buck Rd.
Freeland, Michigan
Marty Knox offers the live steamer complete boiler services including design, build, inspect and repair.
Builders of custom steam whistles.
1475 Yosemite Avenue
San Francisco, California
94124
(415) 861-7161
Brass and copper sales, fasteners of all kinds Contact Karen or Russell. Suggested by Michael Smith. R.J. Leahy is similar to BHJ Bay City Screw & Bolt Co of Newark, California, Bowlin Equipment of Berkeley, California or Harrison & Bonini or R.J. Leahy Co. of San Francisco, California.
760 W. Ventura Blvd
Camarillo, Calif
93010
7.5", 12", 15" gauge steam, propane, gas-powered locomotives, rolling stock, accessories, parts, tracks, signals and miscellaneous items.
Round House
Box 821
Midway City, California
92655
Bettendorf Trucks
7054 C.R. 521
Bayfield, Colorado
81122
Signals & Structures, all scales, all types.
Shay Locomotives Castings and Drawings
Ken Schroeder
1016 Irma Lane
Gardnerville, NV
89460
1.5" scale castings for class 'B' 2-truck or class 'C' 3-truck shay.
52023 Yale Road
Rosedale, BC Canada
Digital Read Out display for mill drill or
lathe.
Slater Tools -- Rotary Broaching
44725 Trinity Drive
Clinton Township, Michigan
48038
Slater Tools Inc. offers the largest variety of internal and external rotary broaches, also known as wobble broaches.
8005 Ore Knob Drive
Fenton, MI
48430
Custom decals & paint masks, patterns for castings, engraved builder's and number plates. Also 2.5" scale hoppers, flat cars,
tank cars, box cars and cabooses.
Darjeeling B-Class Plans in 7.5" or 7.25" gauge.
SteamCad is a collection of free AutoCad© Line Drawings of steam locomotives and tenders.
Staverton Court,
Staverton, Cheltenham, GL51 0UX
"The Society is established for the purpose
of promoting 7¼" and 7½" gauge railways,
in particular to meet for rallies, publish a magazine, improve liason with the trade and to undertake such activities as may from
time to time be incidental and conducive to the attainment thereof."
Stephenson Machine Industries
1090 NE Delta School Road
Lee's Sumimit, Mo
64064
Bettendor Trucks for 7.25" or 7.5" gauge track.
Super Scale Locomotive Company
367-A Beckett Place
Grover Beach, Calif
93433
Exquistic injectors, safety valves, check valves, steam valves, pipe fittings, cylinder cocks, and several other accessory items
for live steam models.
12419 E. Nightingale Lane
Chandler, Arizona
85286
"Taig Micro Machines and Accessories"
Tanksi Model Engineering
8927 Notre Dame Drive
Eden, New York
14057
3/4" Scale Raritan drawings and casting.
196 mass ave
Harvard, MA
01451
"In addition to common machine tooling Tools4cheap specializes in hard to find tooling for Bridgeport Mills and South Bend, Logan, Atlas Lathes."
204 Moravian Valley Rd
Suite N
Waunakee, WI
53597
"With more than half a ton of iron behind it, the PNCN 1100 Series 3 has the precision and rigidity you need. Whether your work requires milling intricate linkages, heavy casting or complex 3 dimensional reproductions, this 3 axis CNC mill is ready when you are."
"The Ultimate Steam Page" - Steam locomotive Information Resource
Box 6827
Napa, CA
94581
Waterjet service used by members to cut
out locomotive frames.
Heber City, Utah
15" gauge Cagney Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive, ASME 'S' stamp boiler for sizes 7.5" to 36" gauge, restoration & repair services, new fabrication of locomotive &
train sets.
New provider of the Winton Mogul, American and Consolidation in 7.25" and 7.5" gauge track. Formally available from Mammoth Locomotive Works.
4690 Apple Valley Drive
Bettendorf, Iowa
52722
"Our mission at Zoket is to simply solve your problem. While we're not equipped to put together a new design for the space shuttle, we can solve your small to medium design problems - From analog circuits, wiring harnesses and micro controllers to RF components, data links and 1.5" railroad products."