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- S Scale Model Railroading (www.trainweb.org/crocon/sscale.html)
Promotes the reliability and easy of modeling in S Scale through pictures, articles and how-to tips; maintained by Craig O'Connell; USA.
- S Scale Model Railway Society (www.s-scale.org.uk)
S Scale enthusiasts offering instruction, parts and support for members modeling in 1:64th scale; Waterlooville, Hampshire, England, UK.
- S & C Distribution Company (www.sandcco.com)
Crestwood, Illinois source for signal and communication needs of railroads and rail transit systems, USA.
- S&R Models (www.srmodeltrains.com)
special run custom decorated N scale models - Florida
- S & S Shortline Railroad (www.sssrr.ssshortlineleasing.com)
24-inch gauge train exhibit that features a diesel-powered engine, an electric trolley, more than 10 passenger cars, a caboose, a 1914 Model T Rail Bus, 5-inch scale GE Dash 8 Road Locomotive and a Crown Steam Locomotive (Farmington, Utah, USA).
- S & S Tours, LLC (www.ss-tours.com)
Learning adventure tours for small groups & individuals in Mexico, Costa Rica South America and Spain; Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA.
- S-Helper Service Inc (www.showcaseline.com)
"The Showcase Line" - S Scale model railroad locomotives, rolling stock, cabooses, track; Lenz DCC distributor; Cliffwood, New Jersey, USA.
- S-Scale Penn Western Railroad (www.royhoffman.com/pwrr)
29 x 45 foot S Scale model railroad layout featuring their Penn Western Railroad and a representation of the East Broad Top in Sn3; Orrstown, Pennsylvania, USA.
- S-Trains (www.trainweb.org/s-trains)
Model train site contains a large amount of information, instruction and photos of S Scale models; Paul Yorke, USA.
- S. Berliner III's Railroad Page (home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rr.html)
Consultant in ultrasonic processing (changing materials with high-intensity sound), technical and historical writer, oral historian, popularizer of science and technology, rail, auto, air, ordnance, and model enthusiast, light-weight linguist, lay minister, and putative philosopher; USA.
- S.T.E.V. Modelisme (pagesperso-orange.fr/stev.pamiers)
Full service hobby shop & source for European prototype model railroad equipment; Pamiers, France (Français).
- S.Z.T.K. TAPS - Maciej Kowalski (www.taps.com.pl)
Producer of passenger seats for public rail transportation; Lódz, Poland (English, Russian, Svenska, Polish).
- SBB (www.sbb.ch)
Swiss Federal Railways
- SEPTA - Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (www.septa.org)
Philadelphia rail & transit
- SIAM Rail Simulations (www.siam.co.uk)
(Tim Bourne)
- SJT Enterprises (www.wirelessmicrocolorcam.com)
wireless micro color camera system
- SJK:s och Tågs Centralstation (www.sjk.se)
Central station for Tåg magazine and the Svenska Railway Club (Svenska, English).
- SKD Electronics (members.tripod.com/joethur/main_train_detection_page.htm)
Authorized distributor of Heathcote-Electronics Train Detection and Automated Controls; manufactures a range of units which automatically control signals, points and engine speeds together with a variable speed clock, relay and timer boards; Waldorf, Maryland, USA.
- SMR Trains (www.smrtrains.com)
Schneider Model Railroading builds brass O Gauge model electric trains in limited editions and sells original, fine art graphics of famous events of early American railroading history by noted artist Ron Hatch; Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA.
- SMRH Tasmania (www.smrailwayhobbies.co.nz)
Established in 1998 and comprised of three divisions (Civil Construction Services and Products, Industrial Railway Products & Model Railway Products) that manufacture and distribute a range of specific N, HO, OO and O Gauge model railway products; Hobart Tasmania, Australia.
- SMS Rail Lines (www.smsrail.com)
Bridgeport, New Jersey based operator serving eighteen miles of railroad in Albany County, New York, plus southern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, USA.
- SNCF (www.sncf.fr/indexe.htm)
French National Railway (English, Français, Deutsch)
- SNCH&TS - Seattle North Coast Railroad (www.trainweb.org/snch&ts)
Historical & Technical Society
- SONO Switch Tower Museum (www.westctnrhs.org/tower.htm)
Located in the fully restored 1896-built Switch Tower; South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.
- SOO Line 1003 (www.sooline1003.com)
1913 2-8-2 steam locomotive preserved and operated by 1003 Operations, LLP, reminding all and educating new generations about the most visible manifestation of the power of railroading; stored for viewing at the Wisconsin Automotive Museum; Hartford, Wisconsin, USA.
- SOO Line Garden Railway (www.donet.com/~trainart/gscale.html)
Ohio large scale layout
- SP Shasta Route (www.spshastaroute.com)
HO Scale model railroad of the Southern Pacific Shasta Division, Black Butte Subdivision in 1952; Piedmont, California, USA.
- SP Trains (Stone Plow Trains) (www.sptrains.com)
New York State based model railroad outlet, USA.
- SPA Valley Railway (www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk)
Runs for 3.5 miles through the picturesque Kentish Weald countryside between the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the village of Groombridge, stopping off at High Rocks, UK.
- S.T.T. Models & Signs (www.sttmodels.com)
Québec & Canadian road signs; railway signs for Canadian railroads (CN & CP) in HO, O, S & G scales; personalised signs for citys, villages, railway stations and road numbers; Owner: Claude St. Charles; Montreal, Québec, Canada (Français, English).
- STOP 92 (www.hcry.org)
online store for Halton County Radial Railway
- SVS Film (www.svsfilm.com)
Producers of railway video, audio and news from the United Kingdom, United States and Europe; Farnham, England, UK.
- Saarbahn (www.saarbahn.de)
Commuter Rail System (Deutsch).
- Sac Valley Model Railroad (home.mchsi.com/~zquarles)
(Jim Quarles)
- Sacramento Locomotive Works (www.sacramentolocomotiveworks.com)
Add-ons for Microsoft Train Simulator, USA.
- Sacramento Model Railroad Historical Society (www.smrhs.com)
Home of the Sierra Central Railroad modeled in HO Scale, standard and narrow gauge layouts; Sacramento, California, USA.
- Sacramento Modular Railroaders (saccentral.railfan.net)
Models the Sacramento Central Railroad in HO Scale modules representing the line between Gerber and Stockton, California; Sacramento, California, USA.
- Sacramento Northern Online (www.people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/home.html)
California electric railway fans (Garth G. Groff)
- Sacramento Regional Transit District (www.sacrt.com)
includes light rail system
- Sacramento River Train (www.sacramentorivertrain.com)
Scenic trips with food & entertainment year-round with dinners, murder mysteries, great train robberies, champagne brunches & more; Woodland, California, USA.
- Sacramento Valley Garden Railway Society (www.svgrs.org)
Model railroad club formed in 1989; meets one weekend per month at member's homes and currently has a modular group and live steam group projects in progress; Sacramento, California, USA.
- Sacramento Valley Live Steamers Railroad Museum, Inc. (www.svls.org)
Dedicated to preserving the lore and history of American steam railroading with a large scale fully functioning steam engine and a railroad for children and adults alike to ride on and enjoy; Rancho Cordova, California, USA.
- Safer (www.safer.it)
Italian manufacturer of brass models (locos, cars); Pedara, Sicilia, Italy (Italian).
- Safefreight Technology (www.safefreight.com)
Manufacturer of a GPS system designed to track intermodal containers moving over land via rail and trucks from port terminals to Midwestern and East Coast destinations; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada & Vancouver, Washington, USA.
- Safetrack (www.safetrack.se)
Provides rail bonding technology, cable bonding systems, rail heating systems, track tools, work tents, catenary, plus other railway maintenance supplies and tools; Staffanstorp, Sweden (English, Deutsch, Svenska).
- Safetran Systems Corporation (www.safetran.com)
Manufactures components for automatic grade crossing warning systems, wayside signaling systems and mainline and yard switch machine applications; an Invensys Rail Group company; Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Saffron Walden & District Society of Model Engineers (www.swdsme.org.uk)
Saffron Walden, Essex club engineering and building various gauge steam, battery/electric or internal combustion powered locomotives, UK.
- Sahuaro Central Railroad Heritage Preservation Society, Inc. (www.maricopalivesteamers.com/sahuaro_history.html)
Creator and promoter of the Adobe Mountain Desert Railroad Park and Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- Sails 'N' rails Hobbies (www.sailsnrails.com)
Full line hobby shop offering Atlas, Athearn, Bachmann, Concur, Digitrax, Kadee, LifeLike, Lionel, MRC, MTH, Proto, Walthers and other model train manufacturers; Delta, British Columbia, Canada.
- Saint Charles Model Railroad Club (www.stcharlesrailroadclub.com)
Founded in 1981 as an HO Scale modular club but now models a two level, traditional permanent type layout that is open to the public weekends; O'Fallon, Missouri, USA.
- Saint Joe Valley Model Railroad Club (www.sjvrr.com)
Fictitious standard gauge bridge route in HO Scale running from St. Joseph Harbor, Michigan, to Evansville, Indiana; Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.
- Saint John Society of Model Railroaders (sites.google.com/site/sjsmrclub)
Model railroad club founded in 1984; operates HO, N and O Scale layouts; plus a collection of Lionel and Marx equipment; Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Saint Paul Bridge & Terminal Railway (www.stpaulterminal.org)
model layout (david zuhn)
- Salem & Hillsborough Railroad (www.shrr.ca/en/index.shtml)
Moncton, NB, Canada museum
- Salisbury Area Signalling Centre (www.salisburyasc.co.uk)
Located at Salisbury Railway Station, controls movements between Grateley and Gillingham/Templecombe/Yeovil Junction, Warminster and Romsey, train movements to and from the Train Care Depot and diversions between Eastleigh and Basingstoke via Laverstock loop., UK.
- Salisbury Point Railroad Historical Society (salisburypoint.tnsing.com)
Focusing on the preservation of Boston and Maine artifacts and memorabillia, USA.
- Salt Creek Society of Model Engineers (www.trainweb.org/sccsrr)
Elmhurst, Illinois, HO scale club
- Salt Lake and Utah Railroad (utahrails.net/utahrails/salt-lake-utah-index.php)
History and equipment lists from UtahRails.net.
- Saltburn Miniature Railway (www.saltburn-miniature-railway.org.uk)
Situated on the North East Coast of England, one of the country's famous 15 inch gauge railways.
- Salviamo l'E550.025 (Save the E550.025) (www.blainestrains.org/E550)
Information about efforts to restore the Italian Railways E550.025 on display at the St. Louis Museum of Transport; donated by the Italian Government in 1968 and a prime example of Westinghouse high output three-phase electric traction; one of 186 built, the only other surviving E550 (E550.030) is in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Milan, Italy; St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Salzburger Modell Eisenbahn Club (www.smec.at)
Austria
- Sam Pottinger's Steel Rails West (www.trainweb.com/samssrw)
Railfan site covering the railroads of Southern California; Norwalk, California, USA.
- Sam Reeves Photography (www.samreevesphoto.com)
Railroad (and other stuff) photos by a commercial photographer; Pacific Grove, California, USA.
- Sam the Toy Train Man (www.toytrains.com)
Place where you can sell toy trains, vintage antique toys & models and die cast vehicles; offers select Lionel and American Flyer trains for sale; Carlsbad, California, USA.
- Sam Shortline Excursion Train (www.samshortline.com)
Cordele, Georgia tourist railroad offering various day long Georgia excursions, USA.
- Samtrees (www.samtrees.com)
trees for model train layouts
- San Antonio Model Railroad Association (www.samratx.org)
Meets for the purpose of preserving and teaching the history of railroading through the building, displaying and operating of model railroads in HO and N Scales; San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- San Antonio NTRAK Association (www.santrak.org)
N Scale model railroad club that is 100% modular according to NTRAK standards; San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- San Antonio Railroad Heritage Museum (www.sarhm.com)
Restoration and preservation of railroad equipment and structures of the South Texas region with primary focus on the Southern Pacific 794; San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society (www.sbrhs.org)
Formed in 1981 to restore and operate (both goals successfully completed) former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 steam locomotive 3751, built by Baldwin in 1927; secondary focus is collecting and preserving historically relevant pieces of AT&SF's heritage; San Marino, California, USA.
- San Diego 3-Railers Club (www.sd3r.org)
3-Rail O Gauge model railroad club, USA.
- San Diego Electric Railway Association (www.sdera.org)
Preserving of the history of the San Diego Electric Railway, a streetcar system which operated from the late 1800's to 1949; San Diego, California, USA.
- San Diego Garden Railway Society (www.sdgrs.com)
Formed in 1988 to share information about the construction, operation and landscaping of garden railways.
- San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (transit.511sd.com)
Official site for the San Diego, California, transit system, USA.
- San Diego Model Railroad Club (www.sdmrrc.org)
Comprised of the 2700 sq. ft. Cabrillo & Southwestern O-Scale exhibit and the 4500 sq.ft. San Diego & Arizona Eastern HO-Scale exhibit, USA.
- San Diego Model Railroad Museum Online (www.sdmodelrailroadm.com)
Museum operated by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association; San Diego, California, USA.
- San Diego Rail (www.sandiegorail.com)
Current information about what's happening on the rails in San Diego, California, USA.
- San Diego Railroad Museum (www.sdrm.org)
Operated by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, USA.
- San Diego Society of N Scale (www.urbaneagle.com/datrains/sdsons.html)
Large model railroad located in the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, USA.
- San Diego Streetcars (www.sandiegohistory.org/collections/streetcar/streetcar.htm)
San Diego, California's early streetcars operated by the San Diego Cable Railway, incorporated on 22 July 1889, USA.
- San Diego and Arizona Railroad (www.desertusa.com/mccain/oct_sdazrr.html)
historical article
- San Francisco Cable Cars (www.sfcablecar.com)
Online home of the web's first Interactive Cable Car.
- San Francisco Cable Cars (web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/SanFrancisco/CableCar)
Background and history.
- San Francisco County Transportation Authority (www.sfcta.org)
Administers and oversees the delivery of the Proposition K half-cent local transportation sales tax program and New Expenditure Plan, passed November 2003.
- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) (muni.sfgov.org/muni)
Department of the City and County of San Francisco that oversees the Municipal Railway (Muni) that has 700,000 passenger boardings each day; San Francisco, California, USA.
- San Jacinto Model Railroad Club (sanjac.leoslair.com)
How to clinics, slide shows and discussions on railroading; sponsors the annual Greater Houston Area Model Train Show and the Fall Model Railroad Layout Tour; Houston, Texas, USA.
- San Joaquin Valley Garden Railway Society (www.sjvgrs.org)
Meets monthly at members homes to share knowledge and enjoy the hobby of garden railroading; Clovis, California, USA.
- San Jose Trolley Historical Restoration Project (www.vta.org/services/trolleys/historic_trolleys.html)
Restoration of six vintage streetcars which run on the Downtown Center Plaza, made possible through donations from the community and the hard work of volunteers; San Jose, California, USA.
- San Juan Car Company (www.sanjuancarco.com)
Produces superbly detailed O & On3/On30 Scale locomotive & rolling stock kits for the discerning modeler; Durango, Colorado, USA.
- San Juan Decals (www.sanjuancarco.com/sanjuandecals)
Manufactures the very best in state-of-the-art, handmade thin film decals for the Rio Grande, Colorado & Southern, and Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railroad lines in HO, S & O Scales; Durango, Colorado, USA.
- San Leandro Historical Railway Society (www.slhrs.org)
Housed in the ex-Southern Pacific depot since 1988; has over 4,000 feet of HO Scale track on 3 levels; San Leandro, California, USA.
- San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad (www.sanluisandriogranderailroad.com)
Colorado shortline railroad with connections to Union Pacific, USA.
- San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Association (www.slomra.org)
Multi-scale model railroad group dedicated to model railroading the central coast of California, USA.
- San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum (www.slorrm.com)
Preserving the railroad history of California and the Central Coast by collecting, restoring, displaying and operating historic railroad equipment, USA.
- Sand Patch Grade (www.ihavideo.com/HIedscorn1.html)
CSX locale in the Allegheny Mountains from High Iron
- Sandcastle Arts (www.railroademporium.com)
Classic railroad lithographs
- Sandcastle-on-Sea (www2.bitstream.net/~minetyoo)
OO scale layout
- Sandefjord Model Railway Club (www.hobbystedet.no)
Norway
- Sandersville Railroad Company (www.sandersvillerailroad.com)
Sandersville, Georgia shortline freight railroad with four daily interchanges with Norfolk Southern Railway and access to over 2,700 railcars, USA.
- Sandia Software (www.sandiasoftware.com)
Developer and distributor of Tom Holtman's Cadrail Model Railroad Layout Design Software.
- Sandon, British Columbia (www.sandonbc.com)
vintage steam freight train exhibit - Canada
- Sandstone & Termite Garden Railway (www.users.bigpond.com/huntergpmj/gregs/ghome.htm)
(Greg Hunter) - NSW 100m G-scale railway
- Sandstone Estates (www.sandstone-estates.com)
Non-profit organization to restore and operate 2 foot narrow gauge and Cape Gauge steam locomotives, specializing in Garratts; publishes DVD's and newsletters; Gauteng, Eastern Free State, Republic of South Africa.
- Sandtoft Miniature Railway Group (www.sandtoftminiaturerailway.co.uk)
7¼ inch miniature tourist railway operating weekends and holidays at the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway; Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Sandy Ridge & Clear Lake Railway (www.srclry.com)
7 1/2" gauge railway modeled after the Maine 2-footers (John Ozanich)
- Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad (www.srrl-rr.org)
Nonprofit, tax-exempt foundation dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the original railroad; Phillips, Maine, USA
- Sandy River & West Forrest Railroad (medlem.spray.se/kri1938/rrp0.htm)
N Scale model railroad featuring 354 feet of track and 59 turnouts; Staffanstorp, Sweden.
- Sans Pareil Digital Video Presentations (www.spdvp.co.uk)
Chinese steam videos
- Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society (www.scrvrhs.com)
Fillmore, California
- Santa Fe "Knowcents" Railroads (knowcents.tripod.com/knowcentsrailroad)
HO scale DCC layout - (Jeff Clodfelter)
- Santa Fe Model Railroad Club (www.santafemodelrailroadclub.org)
Members model several different scales and specialties, including narrow-gauge trains; meets the 2nd Thursday of each month; publishes a club newsletter and displays modular layouts at various shows and events; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- Santa Fe Railroad Memorabilia (www.blytmann.com/santafe.htm)
(Tage & Charlotte Blytmann)
- Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society (www.atsfrr.com)
Independent non-profit corporation devoted to preserving, studying and sharing information about all aspects of the former Santa Fe Railway; Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA.
- Santa Fe Roster (www.rosters.gcrossett.com)
Roster by road number of each Santa Fe diesel unit, including road numbers, builder names, number, and date, history, and disposition; includes renumbering, rebuilding, and repainting data; Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
- Santa Fe Southern Railway (www.sfsr.com)
Tourist railroad based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- Santa Maria Valley Railway Historical Museum (www.smvrhm.org)
Non-profit, educational museum dedicated to the preservation of the railroad heritage of California, the Central Coast, and the Santa Maria Valley; Santa Maria, California, USA.
- Santa Susana Railroad Historical Society (www.santasusannadepot.org)
Model railroad with DCC; Simi Valley California, USA.
- Santa Train (www.santatrain.org)
Boy Scout sponsored Thanksgiving trainride in Wisconsin
- Sarasota Model Railroad Club (www.smrc.org)
Dedicated to the education and experience of railroading, past present and future; implements their mission through museum quality model railroad exhibits; Bradenton, Florida, USA.
- Saskatoon Railroad Modellers (members.shaw.ca/sask.rail)
HO & G Scale group in Canada
- Sathonay Modélisme (www.maurienne-trains.com)
Full service hobby shop & source for European prototype model railroad equipment; Sathonay-Camp, France (Français).
- Saudi Railways Organization (www.saudirailways.org)
Rail network providing freight service on three main lines, 1018 km total, connecting Riyadh with the Persian Gulf ports of Dammam and Al Jubail; passenger trains operate between Riyadh and Dammam; Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic, English).
- Saul Nadler + Railroad Video Library (saulnadler.railfan.net)
Collection of prototype railroad photos and videos; Hillside, New Jersey, USA.
- Savannahlander (www.savannahlander.com.au)
Train journey (beginning in Cairns) up the scenic Kuranda Range, including stops at Barron Falls and Stoney Creek, through rainforests to Kuranda; Edge Hill, Queensland, Australia.
- Save Amtrak (www.saveamtrak.org)
Information, addresses, tips and news about the movement to save Amtrak trains, USA.
- Save Grasselli Tower (www.grassellitower.com)
Help save Grasselli Tower in East Chicago - a preservation effort of the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in North Judson, Indiana, USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Save the Rock Island 905 (www.rockisland905.com)
Duncan, OK (does not work in Netscape)
- Save Our Train (www.saveourtrain.com)
Dedicated to raising funds to save Southern Pacific 4-6-0 Number 2355; Mesa, Arizona, USA.
- Save-On Model Railroad Trains (www.saveon-model-railroad-trains.com)
Division of Hobbylinc offering model railroad kits and supplies in most scales from manufacturers such as Bachmann, Life-Like, Ertl, Aristo-Craft, Model Power and others; Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Savona Equipment Ltd. (www.savonaequip.com)
Supplier of used mining & milling equipment, including used rail and rail equipment; Savona, British Columbia, Canada.
- Sbarounis & Associates Transport Info & Consultancy (sbarounis.ucoz.com)
Greek historical prototype railroads, scale drawings, history, preservation news; maintained by Nick Sbarounis; Athens, Greece (Greek).
- Scale Card (www.thescalecard.com)
Rulers in multiple scales and the Scale Card, a credit card size tool for every model builder who wants to keep everything in scale; Crestline, California, USA.
- Scale Carnival Rides (www.scalecarnivalrides.com)
Hand crafted wood and brass amusement park rides in O Scale with 12 volt DC lighting and 110 volt AC motors; Fremont, Nebraska, USA.
- Scale Craft Baseboards & Consultancy (www.scalecraft.co.uk)
Manufactures custom model railway layout baseboards as well as consults on solving model railway problems; Waldron, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Scale Figures.com (www.scalefigures.com)
Scale figures for model railroads.
- Scale Link Ltd (www.scalelink.co.uk)
model making kits and detail parts - UK
- Scale Model Trains (www.scalemodel-trains.com)
Guide for locating sources and information for Z, N, HO, OO, S, O, G and Standard scale model trains, plus live steam, movies and more; USA.
- Scale Modelers Handbook (www.scale-modelers-handbook.com)
Information, tips, specifications, news and how to projects in all scales for both the experienced and novice model railroader; Nashua, New Hampshire, USA.
- Scale Products Company (www.trainsignals.com)
Small train signals; Bayfield, Colorado, USA.
- Scale Rails of Southwest Florida (www.scalerails.org)
Model railroad club in Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.
- Scale Reproductions, LLC (www.scalereproductions.com)
Scale models, replicas, mock-ups and prototypes crafted with the highest level of model quality; Fairhope, Alabama, USA.
- Scale Segmental Bridge Co (www.scalebridge.com)
Manufacturer of HO Scale pre-cast concrete railroad bridge kits, board-formed concrete piers and abutments, etc.; North Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Scale Shops (www.scaleshops.com)
Model railroad turnout machines, throttles, electrical items; Prescott, Arizona, USA.
- Scale Structures Limited (www.jaksind.com)
Specializing in the highest quality hobby products for the discriminating HO scale modeler; products range from 40's and 50's automobiles to wallpaper & trucks and trailers from the 30's through the 90's through Victorian houses to barns, as well as super detailed accessory products for autos and trucks, under the Scale Structures LTD and Alloy Forms brand names; Inman, Kansas, USA.
- Scale Town Models (www.scaletownmodels.com)
Laser kits for model railroads; Modesto, California, USA.
- Scale Train (www.scale-train.com)
Reseller and manufacturer of model train accessories located in New Brunswick Province, Canada.
- Scale University (www.scaleuniversity.com)
Model train accessories in HO, O & Z Scales; exclusive distributor of cast metal, hand-painted, HO scale animals & craftsman HO kits made by Dyna-Models; Märklin and Trix (since 2006) and Weaver 1/4" Scale (since 2008) dealer; Exeter, Maine, USA.
- Scalecoat Paint (www.weavermodels.com/page7.html)
Formulated for use directly on brass, metal or wood (Scalecoat I) and plastic (Scalecoat II) without use of a primer; manufactured by Weaver Models; Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.
- ScaleSeven Group (www.imagic-design.co.uk/s7)
Modelers work to a scale of 1:43.5, 7mm to 1ft, using a true-to-scale standard gauge of 33mm and a wheel profile which matches closely the real thing; Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK.
- ScaleTree.com (www.scaletree.com)
how to make model railroad trees
- Scaled World (www.scaledworld.com)
Manufacturer of track side kits for O Scale model railroads; St. Charles, Missouri, USA.
- Scalefour Society (www.scalefour.org.uk)
4mm Finescale modelling (Keith Norgrove)
- Scalescenes (www.scalescenes.com)
Lets you instantly download and print realistic model railway buildings from your PC; available in a wide choice of photo-based textures including brick, concrete or stone; Thorneside, Queensland, Australia.
- Scaleway Signals (www.scalewaysignals.com)
Semaphore signals, lever frames, water cranes, wagon components, steam locomotive castings and more for the miniature live steam modeler; Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- Scandinavian Railways Society (www.scanrailsoc.org.uk)
Promoting interest in all aspects of the railways of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
- Scarborough Model Railroaders Club (www.scarborough-model-railroaders.org)
Dual scale model railway club featuring an HO Scale layout set in the 1950's transition era in southwestern Ontario and an N Scale layout loosely based on modern era Appalachia; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Scarborough Railway Society (www.scarboroughrailwaysociety.org.uk)
Thought to be one of the oldest railway societies in England, its founder member being the late Ken Hoole the well known railway author and railway historian; meets at the Public Library on Vernon Road; Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Scenic Express (www.scenicexpress.com)
Landscaping supplies in N, HO and O Scale; Silflor Studios dealer; Delmont, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Scenic Mt. Lowe Railway Historical Committee (www.mtlowe.net)
Volunteers working to preserve the remnants of the Mt. Lowe Railway system, USA.
- Scenic Trees For Model Railroads (www.stmrr.com)
Providing their clients with the best model trees and hedge rows that money can buy; trees are handmade, no plastic is used and each one has it's own support wire; Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Scenic World - Blue Mountains Australia (www.scenicworld.com.au/attractions_railway.asp)
Katoomba, Australia tourist railway featuring the steepest incline railway in the world down to a lush and hidden valley.
- Scenic Railroads of New England (www.romaband.com/trains/trains.htm)
Photos of NE railroads, subway and trolley lines
- Scenic-Railroads.com (www.scenic-railroads.com)
photos, videos & sounds of trains in North America
- Scenic Wales by Rail (www.scenicwales.co.uk)
Partnership of Welsh railways describing the journeys offered by the six member railways - English & Cymraeg, UK.
- Sceniced & Undecided Railway (www.scenicedandundecided.net)
N Scale model railroad began in 1970 with an L shaped design and has seen constant updates and additions since; includes a track plan and offers videos of the layout for sale; maintained by by Rick Spano; Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
- SceniKing (www.sceniking.com)
Model railway backdrop kits in N, HO, S and O Scales by Les Pavor; Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
- Schedule Board (www.scheduleboard.net)
Listing of model railroad and railfan events and news from around southeastern Wisconsin; maintained by Joe Russ; USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Schenectady, New York Railroad History (www.schenectadyhistory.org/railroads)
Railrload history, heavily focused on the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), from the Schenectady Digital History Archive, a service of the Schenectady County Public Library; Schenectady, New York, USA.
- Schlatter Holding AG (www.schlatter.ch)
Provides stationary rail welding systems for long welded rail, turnouts, frog points and crossings; Schlieren, Switzerland (English, Deutsch).
- Schmalspurbedarf (www.schmalspurbedarf.de)
German & Austrian narrow gauge model railroading supplier (1:87 - HO)
- Schnabel Cars (southern.railfan.net/schnabel/schnabel.html)
(Tom Daspit)
- Schoharie Valley Railroads Museum (www.midtel.net/~scha/RailroadsMuseum.htm)
Schoharie, New York
- School Car (www3.nf.sympatico.ca/gazebo.hill/rpn.html)
Newfoundland book
- Schomberg Scale Models (www.schombergscalemodels.com)
Castings of model railroad detail accessories, Schomberg, Ontario, Canada.
- Schrader's Railroad Catalog (www.railroadcatalog.com)
All kinds of railroad oriented products (huge printed catalog available); Schrader Enterprises, Inc., Fairview, Michigan, USA.
- Schuco (www.schuco.de)
Manufacturer of HO Scale model street cars, race cars and farm/harvest equipment; Dickie-Schuco GmbH & Co. KG; Fürth, Germany (Deutsch and English).
- Schuylkill Valley Model Railroad Club (www.svmrrc.com)
1,000 square foot HO Scale model railroad layout that was featured in an article (with track plan) published in the July 2005 Model Railroad Magazine; PDF's of the article and track plan are available; Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Schweizer Electronic AG (www.schweizer-electronic.ch)
Automated warning systems and flexible level crossing applications; Reiden, Switzerland (English, Deutsch, Français).
- Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen (SBB) (www.sbb.ch)
Swiss Federal Railways, Switzerland's biggest travel and transport company.
- Schweizerischer Eisenbahn-Amateur-Klub Zürich (SEAK) (www.seak.ch/seak.htm)
Swiss model railway club
- Scotrail Railways Ltd (www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/index.php)
UK railway company
- Scotland's Railways, Past and Present (www.scottish-rail.co.uk)
Provides somewhere for anyone with an interest in the Railways of Scotland to visit, be informed, be entertained and have the opportunity to have a say on related topics of their choosing; Falkirk, Scotland, UK.
- Scott's Oddn-n-Ends (www.scottsodds-n-ends.com)
electrical hints for model railroaders
- Scottish Garden Railways (www.gardentrains.co.uk)
Model trains in G Scale and 0n30 Scale, new from UK importers, UK.
- Scottish Industrial Railway Centre (www.arpg.org.uk/cms)
Ayrshire, Scotland, preservation society
- Scottish Railway Preservation Society (www.srps.org.uk)
Dedicated to the advancement of Scottish railway heritage; has the largest collection of railway locomotives, carriages, wagons, equipment and artifacts outside the National Railway Museum; travel on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway along the south shore of the Firth of Forth or board a day excursion organised by SRPS Railtours over Britain's most scenic railways; Bo'ness, Falkirk, Scotland, UK.
- Scottish Railway Preservation Society Steam Group (www.srpssteam.com)
Steam locomotive restoration, Bo'Ness & Kinnell Railway; Forth Valley (Scotland).
- Scottish Railways and Steamers (www.railscot.co.uk)
(Ewan Crawford)
- Scottish Scale Loco Works (www.scottish-scale-loco-works.co.uk)
7mm scale locomotives ready to run
- Scottsdale Model Railroad Club (www.scottsdalemodelrrclub.org)
Operates the Paradise & Pacific Railroad (HO) and Uncompaghre & San Juan Railroad (HOn3) model railroads, McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Scotts-dale Division (www.scotts-dale-division.net)
video, clinics, DCC corner, model layout, prototype info
- Scotty Mason Show (www.modelrailroadpodcast.com)
Model railroad podcast offering access to programming, episode guide and a forum dedicated exclusively for model railroaders; Holden, Massachusetts, USA.
- Scotware (www.scotware.net)
TrainTrax inventory program for modelers (Doug Scott); Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Scranton Station - Home of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (www.scrantonstation.com)
Celebrates the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with the modeling being executed in N Scale; maintained by Steve Shanks; Northville, Michigan, USA.
- Scripophily - Old Stocks & Bonds (www.scripophily.net/railroads1.html)
railroads and trolley companies
- Scwajkart Books and Videos (home.earthlink.net/~szwajkartj)
Train Watchers Guides to Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, plus rail videos
- SD40.com (www.sd40.com)
Dennis Holmes' (Wisconsin Central engineer) homepage
- Seaboard Air Line Information Collective & Photo Archive (www.trainweb.org/seaboard)
History, information, rosters, paint schemes, books, photographs and more about this fallen flag railroad; USA.
- Seaboard Southern Model Railroad Club (www.seaboard-southern.org.uk)
Formed in 1998 and caters to members of the NMRA British Region; models HO Scale and meets Friday evenings; Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK.
- Seafront Line (www.volksrailway.co.uk)
Blog site supporting the Volk's Electric Railway tourist line that runs about a mile along the seafront of Brighton; Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- SEARAILS Animated Scale Models (www.searails.com)
Manufacturer of Z Scale cars, trucks, construction equipment, container handling equipment and buildings; Valley Ford, California, USA.
- Seashore Trolley Museum (www.trolleymuseum.org)
Oldest & Largest Electric Railway Museum in the World; Kennebunkport, Maine, USA.
- Seashore Trolley Museum Store Catalog (www.trolleymuseum.org/Catalog/introduction.html)
Trolley and Interurban Books
- Seattle Center Monorail (www.seattlemonorail.com)
Official site of the system operating from downtown Seattle to Seattle Center; Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Seattle Metro (transit.metrokc.gov)
Metro Transit is the name more than 1.7 million area residents use to refer to the public transit agency serving King County, and has twice been honored as the best-run large public transportation system in North America; Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway 1910-1939 (www.co.snohomish.wa.us/documents/County_Information/interurban_history.pdf)
Article from the Snohomish County History Series.
- Sebring Model Railroad Club (www.sebringmodelrailroadclub.org)
Operates two HO Scale model railroads and meets Sundays and Tuesdays; Sebring, Ohio, USA.
- Secondary Railways in France (www.ruralrail-france.com)
(Graham Skinner)
- Secretaria de Transportes y Vialidad (Mexico) (www.setravi.df.gob.mx/vialidades/ferrocarril.html)
Español
- Section Car Page (www.nicdoncaster.com/sectioncars)
Australia (Nic Doncaster)
- Sedona Trolley (www.sedonatrolley.com)
Sedona, Arizona trolley tours and charter services, USA.
- See-N-Joy (See-N-Joy.WhirlyGigs.com)
Display cases for model trains.
- Selfkantbahn (www.selfkantbahn.de)
Meter gauge operating railway Museum in Germany (English / Deutsch / Dutch)
- Sell-it-easy IH GmbH (www.sell-it-easy.de)
Full-line hobby shop in Köln, Germany. (Deutsch, English)
- Semaphore Services (www.semaphoreservices.com)
Offers a variety of railway oriented services including equipment consultation, private railcar logistics, video scene authentication,rolling stock inspection plus other services for the rail industry; Montreal, Quebec, Canada (English, Français).
- Semaphores.com (www.semaphores.com)
preserving semaphore signal heritage (US)
- Seminole Gulf Railway (www.semgulf.com)
Freight railroad in Southwest Florida, hauling much of the region's building materials, newsprint, LP gas, plastics, sugar, stone, recycled materials, steel, and other commodities; home of the Murder Mystery Dinner Train Theater.
- Senatorial Excursion on the Union Pacific Railway (moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=AEC8847)
1867 online book published by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.
- Sergent Engineering (www.sergentengineering.com)
HO scale couplers; based in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
- Series 567 Rail Video (www.series567railvideo.com.au)
Mail Order Specialists in supplying DVDs to railfans and those interested in Transportation in general since 1989 (Victoria, Australia).
- Serrmi Products Inc (www.serrmi.com)
Manufacturer of signal and communication equipment; Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Sertig am Scalettabahn (www.mijn-rhb.com)
Narrow Gauge model of the RhB Branche Davos-Skt Moritz in the Netherlands.
- Setco Trains (www.setcotrains.com/store)
Online model railroad hobby supplies and equipment; Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.
- Setesdalsbanen (www.setesdalsbanen.no)
tourist railway in Norway
- Settle to Carlisle Railway (www.redfern83.freeserve.co.uk)
UK (Jim Redfern)
- Settle-Carlisle Railway (www.settle-carlisle.co.uk)
Celebrates the diverse and varied attractions of the Settle-Carlisle Railway with regular scheduled service, timetables & fares, audio guides, photo gallery and more; Settle, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Seventh Street Improvement Arches (www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/bridges/nrrassa/nrraseve.html)
NP Tunnels in St. Paul, Minnesota
- Severn Beach Line (www.severnbeachline.org)
Local railway route in the City of Bristol and part of South Gloucestershire providing a link for the communities of east and north Bristol; Bristol, England, UK.
- Severn Valley Railway (www.svr.co.uk)
Standard-gauge railway line running regular steam-hauled passenger trains for the benefit of visitors and enthusiasts alike between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire, a distance of 16 miles; Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, UK.
- Severn-Lamb (www.severn-lambusa.com)
Light urban and leisure transport from Severn-Lamb UK Limited, Alcester, England, UK.
- Severna Park Model Railroad Club (severnapark.railfan.net)
HO Scale model railroaders meeting every Thursday evening in what was once the Severna Park railroad station; hosts two open house events per year; Severna Park, Maryland, USA.
- Seymour Railway Heritage Centre (www.srhc.org.au)
Preserving Victorian railway rolling stock in operating condition (Australia).
- sfDisplay.com, LLC (www.sfdisplay.com/traindisplaycabinets.aspx)
Manufacturer of scale train display cabinets for most scales and in many finishes; San Francisco, California, USA.
- Shackerstone Diesels (www.shackerstone-diesels.co.uk)
Collection of groups dedicated to the restoration and operation of heritage B.R. diesel locomotives, UK.
- Shadow Mountain Railroad (members.tripod.com/byoungjr)
HO layout of freelanced Boston & Maine (Bob Young Jr.)
- Shady Creek Model Railroad (www.shadycreek.info)
N Scale model railroad designed for prototypical operations with many switches; Carrollton, Texas, USA.
- Shakespeare Line (www.shakespeareline.com)
Designed to provide an initial focus of information on the benefits of using the route between the City of Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon, together with an insight into the wide range of features and attractions available along the line, UK.
- Shamryn Hobbies (www.shamrynhobbies.com)
HO and N Scale model trains from Rapido and other manufacturers; New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
- Shanghai Maglev Demonstration Line (english.eastday.com/e/sly/u1a4023787.html)
China's first Maglev line that integrates urban traffic, sightseeing and tourism; starts at the south of the Longyang Station of Shanghai Subway Line 2 and runs eastward to the Pudong International Airport, covering a length of 29.863 km; Shanghai, People's Republic of China (Chinese, Japanese, English).
- Shanghai Suyu Railway Fasteners Co., Ltd. (www.sh-suyu.com)
Manufacturer of railway fasteners and components with factories in Changshu and Wuxi, Jiangsu Province; Shanghai, China (Chinese, English).
- Sharlot Hall Museum Transportation Image Collection (azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/index.php?CISOROOT=/shmtrans)
Collection of still images related to transportation in Northern Arizona (1864-1965), Prescott, Arizona, USA.
- Sharp & Fellows, Inc. (www.sharpandfellows.com)
Railroad contractor with expertise and experience in new design and construction or ongoing inspection and maintenance; Gardena, California, USA.
- Sharpo's World (www.sharpos-world.co.uk)
Steam power in the UK on rails, road and water (Paul Sharpe).
- Shasta Rails (www.shastarails.com)
Displays photographs taken in and around Northern California concentrating near the small towns of Mount Shasta and Dunsmuir; maintained by Ryan Wilkerson; Sacramento, California, USA.
- Shasta Sunset Dinner Train (www.shastasunset.com)
On the McCloud Railway, McCloud, California, USA.
- Shaun's Model Railway Project (www.shaunsmodelrailway.net)
British Railways and modern traction N Scale layout in the 1978 to 1983 period; Sheerness, Kent, England, UK.Web Gem Award recipient.
- Shawmut Car Shops (www.shawmutcarshops.com)
G-Scale custom built cars; St. Marys, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Shawplan Model Products (kevinaashcroft.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/shawplan)
British loco etched modern image nameplates
- Shay Locomotives (www.shaylocomotives.com)
Online reference and research site for Shay locomotives by Rick Henderson; Post Falls, Idaho, USA.
- Shays Over the Years (lotzatrains.up-a.com)
Story of the Shay locomotives at the Cass Scenic Railroad; USA.
- Sheboygan Society of Scale Model Railroad Engineers Ltd. (www.sssmre.org)
Promotes interest in model railroading and operates a permanent and a modular layout using Digitrax DCC, fully integrated block detection, ABS signaling and auto stop features, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA.
- Sheffield O Gauge Group (www.sheffield23.fsnet.co.uk)
Meets each Friday evening to run trains, solve layout problems and discuss future projects; Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Sheffield Railwayana Auctions (www.sheffieldrailwayana.co.uk)
Auctions take place four times a year & are conducted by an ardent railway enthusiast and expert in the fields of locomotive nameplates, numberplates and Railwayana in general; Clapham, Bedford, England, UK.
- Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum (www.sftm.org)
Dedicated to preserving and operating trolley car No. 10, built by Wason Manufacturing Co. in 1896; Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, USA.
- Shelf Layouts Company, Inc. (www.shelflayouts.com)
Custom model railroad builder Lance Mindheim caters to those who demand the highest level of finish, craftsmanship and realism; Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
- Shelley Railway Company (shelley-railway.blogspot.com)
Australia HOe (HOn3) model layout
- Shelton Railroad Systems (www.sheltonrailroad.com)
Retail store closed 2004; contact information for model railroad products and repairs is given here; Shelton, Connecticut, USA.
- Sheridan Products (sheridanproducts.tripod.com/sheridanproducts)
D&RGW caboose kits in 1:20.3 scale
- Sherline Products (www.sherline.com)
Machine tools for the modeler
- Sherman Hill Train Spotters (www.shermanhilltrainspotters.com)
Offers for fee access to private property adjacent to the Union Pacific double track at Sherman Hill in southeast Wyoming, USA.
- Sherwood Electromotion Inc. (www.sherwoodelectromotion.com)
Provider of assembly and remanufacturing services for rotating electrical apparatus for rail, mass transit and industrial applications; Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada.
- Sherwood Forest Steam Railway (www.sherwoodforestrailway.com)
5/8th Scale, 15 inch Gauge tourist railway running 1 mile through cuttings, tunnels and across level crossings deep in Sherwood Forest; Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK.
- Sherwood Models (www.sherwoodmodels.co.uk)
Hobby outlet sells slot cars, plastic kits, scenics and model railway products from Dapol, Heljan, Hornby, Metcalfe, Peco, Graham Farish, Woodland Scenics and others; Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK.
- Shiawassee County Railroad History (www.shiawasseehistory.com/owossotrainindex.html)
Railroad history of the Michigan county, USA.
- Shikoku Railway Company (www.jr-shikoku.co.jp)
Operates intercity rail services in the four prefectures on the island of Shikoku; Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan (Japanese).
- Shillingstone Station Project (www.shillingstone.addr.com)
Aims to restore the station and available surrounding area on the Somerset & Dorset Railway to how it was in the early 1950s, UK.
- Shoeburyness Model Railway Club (www.shoeburynessmrc.co.uk)
Meets on Mondays and models N, OO, O, and G Scales for display at exhibits and competitions; Great Wakering, Essex, England, UK.
- Shongololo Express - Great Train Adventures (www.shongololo.com)
Southern Africa rail tours
- ShopTheLine.net (www.shoptheline.net)
Shop online at the businesses along the Metro Light-Rail line in the City of Phoenix, AZ, USA.
- Shore Line Interurban Historical Society (www.shore-line.org)
Publishes First & Fastest, the premier quarterly publication on urban, suburban and interurban passenger service in the Upper Midwest, and other special publications; Lake Forest Illinois, USA.
- Shore Line Trolley Museum (www.bera.org)
Operates the Branford Electric Railway (a National Historic Site), the oldest continuously operating suburban trolley line in the United States; East Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- Short Track Railroad (www.shorttrackrr.org)
One of many exhibitors at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum that collects, preserves and displays examples of mechanical ingenuity and crafts associated with the early days of the American farm and rural community; Vista, California, USA.
- Shortlines USA (www.shortlinesusa.com)
Created to give railfans a comprehensive look at shortline and regional railroading in the US and providing a way to see the variety of equipment and paint schemes of some very unique railroads; Michael Derrick, USA.
- Shortlines of Chicago Historical Society (www.dhke.com/schs)
Shortline and industrial railroads of the Chicago area; Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Show Me Lines (www.showmelines.com)
HO collectible & limited run cars; Grandview, Missouri, USA.
- sHOw Modular Model Railroad Club (www.wku.edu/art/show/pages)
Bowling Green, KY
- Showcase Express (www.showcase-express.com)
Huntington Beach, California division of Sonos Models Inc. offering a versatile, expandable wall mounted display case system, USA.
- Showcase Line (www.showcaseline.com)
Full service S Scale model railroad hobby shop offering a wide range of equipment, parts and service; Cliffwood, New Jersey, USA.
- Showcase Miniatures (www.showcaseminiatures.com)
model vehicles, structures and people
- Shuttlewagon Mobile Railcar Movers (www.shuttlewagon.com)
Grandview, Missouri manufacturer of rubber tired car movers for business and industry, USA.
- Sid Meier's Railroads! (www.2kgames.com/railroads/railroads.html)
Sid Meier returns to reinvent the game that launched the "Tycoon" genre.
- SideTrack Hobbies (www.sidetrackhobbies.com)
Full service hobby shop; Leonardtown, Maryland, USA.
- Sidetrack Laser (www.sidetracklaser.com)
Laser cut craftsman HO & O Scale model railroad kits for sale online and through an approved dealer network; division of Shadetree Enterprises, Inc.; Newberg, Oregon, USA.
- Sidetracked Electronics (www.sidetracked-e.com)
model railway products - Australia
- (The) Siding (www.the-siding.co.uk)
British railway photographs including diesel, electric, diesel multiple units, electric multiple units, driving trailers and steam locomotives, maintained by Frank Cox; UK.
- (The) Sidings Tamworth (www.thesidingstamworth.com)
Specializing in North American and Canadian Model Railroading, stocking what we think are some of the best examples of North American and Canadian Model Railroading from the best manufacturers in HO, N, O, and G Scales, plus narrow gauge; Broadwoodwidger, Devon, England, UK.
- Sidney & Louisburg Railway Historical Society (fortress.uccb.ns.ca/historic/s_l.html)
Nova Scotia, Canada
- Siemens Dispolok GmbH (www.dispolok.com)
European locomotive leasing company. Information on the fleet and online locomotive requirement form; München, Germany.
- Siemens Transportation Systems Limited (www.siemens.co.uk/transportation)
At the forefront of rail technology, designing, manufacturing and maintaining rolling stock, signalling, electrification and communications systems across the UK.
- Sierra Madre Express (www.sierramadreexpress.com)
Tourist train to Mexico's magnificent Copper Canyon; Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Sierra Railroad Company (www.sierrarailroad.com)
Lead-in page for the Sacramento River Train, the Skunk Train & the Sierra Railroad Dinner Train; Oakdale, California, USA.
- Sierra Railroad Skunk Train (www.skunktrain.com)
Sacramento River Train, Sierra Railroad, Skunk Train & the Sierra Railroad Dinner Train operated by the Sierra Railway Company, Fort Bragg & Willits, California, USA.
- Sierra Scale Models (www.sierrascalemodels.com)
Realistic supplies for model railroaders and train enthusiasts; Tampa, Florida, USA.
- Sierra Western & Santa Fe RR (www.lwmweb.com/sw&sf)
Rick Fortin's freelance model railroad based on his affection for the AT&SF, USA.
- Sierra Western Railroad (www.sierrawestern.org)
HO layout
- Sierra Western Trains (www.sierrawesterntrains.com)
Placerville, California model railroad outlet, USA.
- SierraWest Scale Models (www.sierrawestscalemodels.com)
HO & O scale craftsman kits and details
- Sierracin (www.sierracin.com)
safety windshields for the railroad industry
- Sievers Benchwork (www.sieversbenchwork.com)
Prefabricated benchwork (baseboard) modules (in kit form) for model railroad layouts; Washington Island, Wisconsin, USA.
- Sigma Coachair Group Pty Limited (www.sigmacoachair.com)
Produces purpose built air conditioning systems to provide the best in passenger comfort for locomotives & mass transit vehicles all around the world; Wetherill Park, New South Wales, Australia.
- Signal Books (www.signalbooks.co.uk/book.php?a=1904955495)
Publisher of The Trans-Siberian Railway,a traveler's anthology about the journey between Moscow and Valdivostok, Russia; Oxford, England, UK.
- Signal Box (www.signalbox.org)
Describing the principles behind railway signalling in Great Britain, but some coverage of signalling around the world will also be found. The emphasis is on the older, mechanical signalling; maintained by John Hinson, UK.
- Signal Box Models & Railways (www.thesignalbox.co.uk)
Specializes in world wide discount mail order model railway products in most gauges from Peco, Hornby, Bachmann, Dapol Graham Farish, Eckon and more; Rochester, Kent, England, UK.
- Signal Research (www.signalresearch.com)
Roadmaster digital block control for model railroads -- up to 99 trains; Harvest, Alabama, USA.
- Signal Signs (www.signalsigns.com)
High quality railroad heralds, wall plaques, photo CD's, mouse pads and license plates; Spokane, Washington, USA.
- Signaler og sikringsanlfg (home3.inet.tele.dk/henrikka)
Danish signaling (Henrik W Karlsson)
- Signali Ferroviari Italiani (www.segnalifs.it/en)
Unofficial website by Antonio Martino, an Italian railroader, explaining the complexities of railroad signaling; Triest, Italy, (Italiano, English).
- Signaling Solution (www.wsaeng.com/Signaling_Solution)
Model RR train detection and signaling products
- Signaling Systems and Accessories (www.miba.de/erbert)
As used by the German Railways in H0, TT, N
- Signalline Video Productions (www.uktrainwatchers.com)
Specialists in producing quality documentary style DVD's for corporate, promotional, educational, training and railway enthusiasts; maintained by Clive Turner; Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Signalling Center Software (www.sigcent.com)
British railway simulations
- Signalling Interest Group of Western Australia (S.I.G.W.A.) (www.starwon.com.au/~cfrench/Signals/Sigwa.htm)
Dedicated to signalling before the coming of computers; maintained by Chris French (Australia).
- Signalling Record Society (www.s-r-s.org.uk)
Exists to maintain and share knowledge of railway signalling and operation in the British Isles and overseas; possesses much archive material and expertise on these topics; publishes books, photographs and drawings which may be purchased; UK.
- Signalogic Systems (www.signalogicsystems.com)
Complete line of HO Scale railroad crossing products. This includes everything from train detection, control circuitry, flasher and the actual signals themselves, all in one kit. Coming soon: ABS and CTC block signal kits; Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.
- Signature Press (www.signaturepress.com)
railroad books & Western history
- Signet Solutions (www.signet-solutions.com)
Provides services to the rail signaling industry in the fields of technical training and development, competence assurance and technical consultancy; Derby, England, UK.
- SignMaker (www.kurumi.com/roads/signmaker)
Java applet that formats freeway signs for you (free for noncommercial use). You provide the route numbers, town names, exits and your choice of arrows and SignMaker draws a sign for you; USA.
- Siku (www.siku.de)
Manufacturer of HO Scale precision model race cars, farm/harvest equipment and heavy duty construction equipment; Sieper Werke GmbH; Lüdenscheid, Germany (Deutsch).
- Silcott Railway Equipment Ltd. (www.silcott-railway-equipment-ltd.com)
Provides locomotive repair, maintenance and modifications to clients that do not have their own expertise or personnel to care for their equipment; Worthington, Ohio, USA.
- Silicon Valley Lines (www.siliconvalleylines.com)
HO Scale model railroad club operating on a 23 x 72 foot layout operating trains using digital command control (DCC); San Jose, California, USA.
- Sillub Technology (www.sillub.com)
XTrkCad -- model railroad track layout software - CAD - shareware; Riverside, California, USA.
- Silver Creek & Stephenson Railroad (www.thefreeportshow.com)
Operates a 1912, 36 ton Heisler logging locomotive on 1.72 miles of former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad right of way; Stephenson County Antique Engine Club, Freeport, Illinois, USA.
- Silver Rails Resort (www.railresort.com)
Heated and enclosed lookout point for train watching, filming, and photography at Depot Inn & Suites, LaPlata, Missouri.
- Silver Ridge Mining Company (www.silverridgeminingcompany.net/servlet/StoreFront)
G Scale model railroad accessories including people figures, logging equipment, and mining equipment; Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Silver Star Art Studios (www.silverstarart.com)
orginal art of the late steam and early diesel eras
- Silver Stream Railway (www.silverstreamrailway.org.nz)
Silverstream, New Zealand tourist railway and museum.
- Silvergate Distributors, Inc. (www.silvergatedistributors.com)
Distributes European prototype model railway equipment, made by the major European manufacturers, mostly in G Scale with some HO Scale items (see your local hobby shop to order); San Diego, California, USA.
- Silverton Specialties Company (www.rrbuckles.com)
Lost wax cast solid bronze, brass and sterling silver belt buckles designed by Jan Rons with some reproductions of designs by Otto Mears; most limited to 750 serial numbered buckles; Mesa, Arizona, USA.
- Simon's Miniature Railway (www.1smr.co.uk)
Simon's mobile miniature railway is available for hire throughout the UK and Abroad, UK.
- SimSig (www.simsig.co.uk)
Railtrack signalling simulations - UK
- Simmons-Boardman Books (www.transalert.com)
railroad books, videos, charts & posters
- Simon Castens' Titfield Thunderbolt Website (eis.bris.ac.uk/~liserc/tit.html)
Dedicated to the ultimate movie for people who love steam trains in the English Countryside -"The Titfield Thunderbolt"; made in 1952 by the famous Ealing Studios, the film tells the story of how the Titfield villagers fight the closure of their local branch line by British Railways; Limpley Stoke, West Wiltshire, England, UK.
- Simplex Locomotives (www.mrt.org.uk/simplex)
motor rail narrow gauge locomotives - UK
- Simply Trains (www.simplytrains.com)
Model railway site features Hornby, Graham Farish, Heljan and more model railway equipment, a message board, auctions, DVD's, PC games and more; Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, England, UK.
- Simtrain UK (clix.to/trainsim)
British site for Microsoft Train Simulator
- Sindefer - Sindicato Nacional Democratico da Ferrovia (www.sindefer.pt)
Portugese Railways Trade Union
- Single Track Hobbies (www.singletrackhobbies.com)
custom model painting, wireless train camera, signals
- Singular Selections (store.yahoo.com/singularselections/rail.html)
railroad collectibles online
- Sinking Springs Railroad Hobbies (www.sinkingspringsrailroad.com)
Sells N, HO, G Scale trains and accessories, model cars, planes, ships and paints, RC planes and accessories; Sandy, Oregon, USA.
- Sioux City El (1890-1899) (www.kingbridgeco.com/SiouxCityEL.htm)
newspaper reprint
- Sipping and Switching Society of North Carolina (www.mindspring.com/~gugliotta)
"the original" - modular layout group
- Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust Ltd (www.sirnigelgresley.co.uk)
Dedicated to keeping the Flying Scotsman locomotive running, both on heritage railways and on her natural environment the main line; Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Sires Photography (www.angelfire.com/la2/siresphotos)
Louisiana Train photos
- SiSt Trees Ltd (www.themodeltreeshop.co.uk)
Model trees from Z to OO Scale; Chirnside, Duns, Berwickshire, England, UK.
- Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (www.metro.df.gob.mx)
Metro de la Ciudad de México, the Mexico City transit system (Español).
- Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway Ltd. (www.sklr.net)
Southern half of the former Bowater's Railway around the mill at Sittingbourne, UK.
- Six Bells Junction (www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk)
UK railtour information (Gary Thornton)
- Skagit Incline History (www.cityofseattle.org/light/tours/sk5_ihst.htm)
Seattle Washington
- Skagit River Railway (home.att.net/~wrpn/skagithome.html)
Seattle, Washington (Richard Wilkens)
- Skara Railway Museum (www.sklj.info)
Sweden (Anders Tholin) (Svenska).
- Ski Train (www.skitrain.com)
Denver, Colorado railroad offering a dramatic train experience through the peaks of the Rockies, runs on track owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, USA.
- Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat by T S Eliot (www.catquotes.com/skimbleshankstherailwaycat.htm)
poem
- Skip Gibbs Company (www.skipgibbs.com)
Supplies Railspan® modules for a wide variety of bridge structures and has more than 1,400 Railspan® flatcars in successful bridge use at this time; Knights Valley, California, USA.
- Skipton & District Railway Society (www.skiptonrailsoc.org.uk)
Formed in 1968, models primarily in 4mm, 7mm, O Gauge and Sn3 Gauge and meets every Monday evening; Ilkley, Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Škoda Transportation s.r.o. (www.skoda.cz/transportation)
Manufacture and repair of electric locomotives, metro trainsets, tramcars, trolley buses, drive motors and various other products for the railway industry; Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic (Czech, English).
- Skookum Logging & Transport (www.modeltracks.co.uk)
N Scale model railroad by Les VanBrunt representing the logging railroads of the Pacific Northwest; Aberdeen, Washington, USA.
- Sky Train Corporation (www.skytraincorp.com)
Consultants and engineers in overhead supported light rail; Palm Harbor, Florida, USA.
- Skyfire Videos (www.skyfirevideo.com)
Includes 10 steam train videos (DVD or VHS)
- Skykomish Washington (www.seattlep-i.com/neighbors/skykomish/hist24.html)
article by Neil Modie
- Skytop Productions (www.skytopproductions.com)
railroad photo CD's and screensavers
- Skyweb Express (www.taxi2000.com)
A division of Taxi 2000 (T2) Corporation, Skyweb Express designs point to point personal rapid transit systems; Fridley, Minnesota, USA.
- Slater's Plastikard Online (www.slatersplastikard.com)
Manufacturers and suppliers of model railway plain and embossed polystyrene sheets, plus locomotive kits, coach kits and wagon kits in O Gauge, Gauge 1, 7mm, 1:32, 16mm Narrow Gauge and 5 inch Gauge; Matlock, Derbyshire, England, UK.
- Slaton Railroad Heritage Association (www.mercitrain.org/srha)
Official website of the Slaton Harvey House restoration project built in 1912; served as a restaurant until the early 1940's; Slaton, Texas, USA.
- Slim Gauge Guild Model Railroad Club (www.slimgaugeguild.com)
Features an HOn3 layout based on the Denver and Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Southern, and a freelance Sn3 layout loosely based on the Colorado and Southern; Pasadena, California, USA.
- Slim Rails (www.urbaneagle.com/slim)
Information and history of several narrow gauge railroads.
- Sloat Lumber Co. (members.tripod.com/~Sloat_Lumber_Co)
Sn3 logging on a budget.
- Slotrail.com (www.slotrail.com)
Hobby site owned and operated by Bournemouth Model Railway Center; stocks 10,000 model railway products including such manufacturers as Hornby, Peco, Märklin, LGB and more; Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK.
- Small-Model-Rail-UK (www.freewebs.com/model-rail-uk)
Presents information about three N Scale model layouts called, Rorgyle, Penwick and Abington built by Brant Hickman; UK.
- Small Layout Design (home.wanadoo.nl/reinoud.kaasschieter/railway/index.en.htm)
Provides tools and equipment, instruction and tips on designing your own model railway layout in a small space; maintained by Reinoud Kaasschieter; The Netherlands (Dutch, English).
- Small Scale Railway Company (www.smallscalerailway.com)
Two families of low cost on board sound units; units are locomotive or rolling stock mounted systems that operate from either track or battery power; Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, USA.
- Small Shop (www.thesmallshop.com)
Manufacturer of the original photo etch bending tool "The Hold & Fold" since August 2002; Julie & Sam Lockwood dba Kalama Precision Machine; Kalama, Washington, USA.
- Small Word Layouts (www.modeltracks.co.uk)
Two small Z Scale layouts: "Langwaithe", built in a suitcase, and "No Picnic", built in a wicker picnic basket; UK.
- Small-Scale Live Steam Resources (www.nmia.com/~vrbass/steam/steamfaq.htm)
Vance Bass
- Smallphry (www.smallphry.com)
Online blog on building a UK N-scale layout with DCC
- Smalspersjdrnvdgen Hultsfred - Vdstervik (www.hwj.nu)
Narrow gauge Sweden railway (Svenska, Deutsch, English)
- SMARTT - Scale Models, Arts, & Technologies, Inc. (www.smarttrr.com)
Complete line of services to help you turn your model railroad dreams into reality from a complete layout designed and produced from "a to z" or just the benchwork, trackwork and electrical work done by the company, leaving the decorating work to you; North Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
- Smiths Falls Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario (www.sfrmeo.ca)
Housed in a former Canadian Northern Railway Station built in 1914, with 10 acres of things to see and do; steam and diesel locomotives and many exhibits in the station building; Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada.
- Smith River Railroad (www.smithriverrailroad.com)
On30 New England shortline model layout
- Smith-Thompson (www.rrgifts.com)
Source for railroad gifts and and "Thomas & Friends" toys; Richmond, Virginia, USA.
- Smitty's Hobby Shop (www.smittyshobbyshop.com)
First opened in 1938, this full line hobby shop offers HO Gauge trains and accessories, plus plastic model kits, imported military kits, ships, cars and more; Dayton, Ohio, USA.
- Smokey Mountain Miniatures (www.smokeymountainminiatures.com)
Multi-scale Loads including steel, lumber and many others; Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
- Smoky Mountain Model Works, Inc. (www.smokymountainmodelworks.com)
Manufacturer of 3D CAD, Rapid Prototyping and Custom Urethane Casting products in S Scale exclusively, including narrow gauge; Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
- Smokey Valley Railroad Products (www.smokeyvalley.com)
Plantersville, Mississippi supplier of model railroad detail accessories, USA.
- Smokstak (www.smokstak.com)
Antique engine discussion forums related to collecting, restoring and showing hit and miss engines, vintage diesel, steam engines, antique tractors, old generators, pumps, industrial antiques and collectibles; has thousands of old engine photos; members from Australia, Europe, North America and other points across the globe; operated by Harry Matthews, Sarasota, Florida, USA.
- Smoky Mountain Trains (www.smokymountaintrains.com)
Museum dedicated the spirit of model railroading in Bryson City, North Carolina, USA.
- Smokin' Award (www.smokin.kvrr.net)
Railway website award program; TrainNet.org is a recipient of their "Silver Smokin' Award."
- Smugglers Division (www.smugglers-division.dk)
HO model layout of the Union Pacific (Danish/English)
- Sn2 Homepage (www.narrowtracks.com/Sn2)
Modeling 2' railroads in S-Scale
- Sn3 Modeler (www.heimburgerhouse.com/magazines_misc/sn3_modeler.htm)
Semi-annual magazine that offers news and features for 3/16" narrow gauge model railroading.
- Sn3.org (www.sn3.org)
layout tours, clinics
- Sn3nut's Home Page (members.cox.net/sn3nut)
articles & photos of a 3-foot gauge model layout (Bob Hyman)
- Snow on the Rails (www.aaaim.com/echo/v2n4/SnowOnTheRails.htm)
article by Michael Patris
- Snowden Bridge - Fairview Bridge and Tunnel (www.midrivers.com/~fairview/bridges.html)
North Dakota's only railroad tunnel
- Snowdon Mountain Railway (www.snowdonrailway.co.uk)
Britain's only Rack and Pinion Railway up Snowdon, the highest Mountain in England and Wales; Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Snow's Home & Garden (www.snowshomeandgarden.com)
General merchandise retailer sells a wide variety of model railroad products in O, HO, N, S and G Scales; stocking dealer for Lionel, Walthers, K-Line and others; Orleans, Massachusetts, USA.
- So.Ge.Tank SpA (www.sogetank.com)
Operating in the European market since 1982, hires out specialized rail wagons with a particular emphasis on rail tanks for the transport of dangerous goods; Genoa, Italy.
- SoKool Model Railroad (www.angelfire.com/sk/sokool/layout.html)
Watch a layout grow (Andre van Gelder)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Ferreomodelismo (www.sbf.rec.br)
Sao Paulo, Brazil, HO & N train club
- Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources (www.spcrr.org)
South Pacific Coast Railroad
- Society for the Preservation of the S.S. City of Milwaukee (www.carferry.com)
railroad car ferry (M. Hanley)
- Society of International Railway Travelers (www.irtsociety.com)
Worldwide railfan tours, including the "Trans-Siberian Express" and the "Sierra Madre Express" in Mexico's Copper Canyon; Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Society of Model Engineers (SOME) (some.groups.msoe.edu)
Milwaukee School of Engineering on campus club modeling the fictional Overland Western Lines; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Society of N-Scalers (www.societynscalers.com)
Royal Oak, MI club with layout (Don Hannett)
- Société de Modélisme Ferroviaire de Québec (www.smfq.org)
Québec Model Railroad Society, Sainte-Foy (Québec), Canada.(Français, English)
- Socofer Construteur Ferroviaire (www.socofer.com)
Design, construction, maintenanc of railway infrastructure vehicles; Tours and Joue Les Tours, France.
- Sodders Enterprises.Com (www.soddersenterprises.com)
New and unusual items for the discerning model railroaders and model builders, Struthers Ohio, USA.
- Softrack Systems (www.softrack.com)
Model railroad inventory software and on screen "fast clock" program; Decatur, Alabama, USA.
- Softrail Railroad Software & AEI Products (www.signalcc.com)
Train Dispatcher 3 and various Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI) products; formerly "Signal Computer Consultants"; Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Solar Powered Outdoor Model Railroad (www.hightechscience.org/solar_express.htm)
G Scale outdoor model railroad at the South Florida Science Museum powered by solar panels that are hooked up to a charge controller, deep cycle batteries and a power inverter that converts 12 volts DC to 110 volts AC; West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Soldiers Hill Railway Society, Inc. (soldiershillrailway.tripod.com)
Non-profit association aims to assist the fundraising effort for major railway preservation projects in the Ballarat region; Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
- Solihull Model Railway Circle (www.solihullmrc.org)
Shares and improves knowledge and skills between the members and produces scenic model railway layouts in different scales and formats; Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK.
- Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (www.sdjr.net)
Railfan site (Kevin Clapcott)
- Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust (www.sdrt.org.uk)
Preserved rail line; Washford, Somerset, England, UK.
- Somewhere West of Denver (www.somewherewest.com)
West coast railfan photos by Chuck Donaldson; Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Sommerfeld's Trains and Hobbies (www.sommerfelds.com)
Butler, Wisconsin
- Somo Port Railroad (www.semoport.com/railroad)
Interchange shortline, Scott City, Missouri, USA.
- Somscot Railway Modeling (www.net-24.co.uk/somscot)
Repairs to and sales of 00 and sometimes 0 Gauge trains for all the major manufacturers; arrangements made online only; UK.
- Son Remembers (grunt.space.swri.edu/leesdad.htm)
Article about his railroadikng father by Lee Dixon.
- Song Wee Trains (www.songweetrains.com)
Primarily an HO Scale model railroad retailer specializing in complete, ready to set up and run model train kits with DCC controller and ballasted track; Rochester, New York, USA.
- Sonneville International Corporation and Permanent Way Corporation (www.sonneville.com)
Specializes in the design, development and supply of proprietary railway track systems such as the Low Vibration Track (LVT) and the STL rail fastenings; Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
- Sonoma County Model Railroad Society (www.scmrs.net)
Serves the model railroading community by sharing layouts with the community; provides learning opportunities and spotlights modelers abilities; Santa Rosa, California, USA.
- Sonoma Traintown Railroad (www.traintown.com)
Miniature tourist railroad featuring 1 ¼ miles of track; Sonoma, California, USA.
- Sonora Software (www.sonora-sw.com)
Model railroad software to generate the paperwork for operating in a prototypical manner; useful for individuals or clubs; San Diego, California, USA.
- Sonrisa Publications (www.djcooley.com)
David J. Cooley, seller of railroad maps, railfan guides, timetables and books; Auburn, Washington, USA.
- SOO Line Diesel Roster (sooline.dieselrosters.com)
Todd Taylor's unofficial roster of SOO Line diesel engines including many photos, USA.
- Soo Line Historical and Technical Society (www.sooline.org)
Information and photographs covering the Soo Line Railroad, Wisconsin Central, Algoma Central, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic plus other Soo Line predecessors and successors; Dwight, Illinois, USA.
- Soo Line Online (sooline.railfan.net)
Railfan site featuring photos and lots of information about the Soo Line; maintained by Paul Nadolski; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Soo-Spokane Train Deluxe (www.crowsnest.bc.ca/soospokane)
History of the completion, in 1906, of the Spokane International route from Yahk, west of Cranbrook, to Spokane, Washington; maintained by Robert D. Turner; Canada.
- Soroba and Dunbeg Garden Railway (www.sol.co.uk/k/kintaline/railway)
Oban Argyll Scotland UK
- Sound Transit (www.soundtransit.org)
Mass transit system serving King, Pierce and Snohomish counties in Oregon, USA.
- Sounddogs (www.sounddogs.com)
Online sound effects library (currently over 320,000 tracks) of sounds and songs usable on model rairoads; Santa Monica, California, USA.
- SoundTraxx (www.soundtraxx.com)
Sound systems for steam & diesel - Tsunami DCC sound decoders; Durango, Colorado, USA.
- South African Railways Modelling site (sarmodel.collingwood.me.uk)
Dedicated to exclusively to South African Railways modelling.
- South African Railways Steam (SAR) (www.sarsteam.co.za)
Information, with photographs, of full size South African steam railways as well as live steam model locomotives; maintained by John Young; South Africa.
- South Australian Railway News (mysite.freeserve.com/SAussieRailNews)
Railfan site.
- South Bay Historical Railroad Society (www.sbhrs.org)
Preserving the local area railroad heritage while running a working museum, renovation and preservation of the Santa Clara Railroad Depot, the Santa Clara Tower and the two maintenance-of-way buildings; Santa Clara, California, USA.
- South Bend Signal Company, LLC (www.sbsignal.com)
Manufacturer of stock and custom-built signals and systems in HO, N, O & Large Scale; maintained by James Leslie; Niles, Michigan, USA.
- South Carolina Railroad Museum (www.scrm.org)
Collects, preserves and operates railroad equipment pertaining to all railroads with emphasis on those serving South Carolina & the southeastern United States; Winnsboro, South Carolina, USA.
- South Central Kansas Lines Railroad (execsecur.tripod.com/sckl.html)
model layout (Rob Neises)
- South Coast Model Railroaders (www.cnwmr.com/scmrr)
HO Scale model railroad club meets each Thursday evening to operate trains using the Digitrax DCC system; North Bend, Oregon, USA.
- South Coast Railroad Museum (www.goletadepot.org)
Goleta, California railroad museum, USA.
- South Dakota Office of Railroads (www.sddot.com/fpa/railroad)
Department of Transportation
- South Devon Railway (www.southdevonrailway.org)
Registered charity operating a standard gauge railway between Buckfastleigh and Totnes in South Devon beside the fast flowing river Dart; Buckfastleigh, South Devon, England, UK.
- South Downs Light Railway Society (www.sdlrs.com)
Tourist railway in Ovingdean, Brighton, East Sussex, UK.
- South Dublin Model Railway Club (www.sdmrc.hobbysites.net)
Founded in 1975; models for pleasure and builds commissioned layouts for outside display; Knocklyon, Ireland, UK.
- South Eastern Finecast (www.sefinecast.co.uk)
White metal scale model car and Gauge 1 locomotive kits and accessories plus spare parts and window glaze material; Forest Row, East Sussex, England, UK.
- South Florida Railway Museum (www.sfrm.org)
Provides the history of railroading and how it affected the population growth and industry boom from the 1940's to the 1960's in the South Florida area; Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA.
- South Gippsland Tourist Railway (www.sgr.org.au)
Runs a collection of historical diesel locomotives and railcars between Leongatha, Korumburra and Nyora along a 36-kilometre section of former Victorian Railways mainline; Korumburra, Victoria, Australia.
- South Hampton Roads NTRAK Model Railroad Club (members.visi.net/~shrntrak)
Modular NTRAK club serving Suffolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach; meets every Tuesday; Norfolk Virginia, USA.
- South Hants Model Railway Club (www.shmrc.co.uk)
Models in EM Gauge, Scalefour and O Gauge and meets Thursday evenings to improve the modeling skills of the members; Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK.
- South Hills Model Railroad Club (www.shmrrc.org)
Models HO Scale with plans to add 3 rail O Gauge; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- South Jersey Garden Railroad Society (www.trainweb.org/sjgrs)
Garden railroad enthusiasts modeling mostly in G Scale; publish a regular newsletter; Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA.
- South Jersey Railroad Museum (www.sjrails.net)
Acquires, preserves, restores, exhibits and operates historic railroad equipment and model railroads pertaining to railroading in southern New Jersey; operated by the Shoreline Railroad Historical Society Inc.; Tuckahoe, New Jersey, USA.
- South Jersey S Gaugers (www.trainweb.org/sjsg)
Meets to improve and prepare their layout for public viewing and host presentations by members and visitors on many aspects of modeling; Voorhees, New Jersey, USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- South Oakland County Model Railroad Club (socmrrc.org)
Formed in 1954; models the Grand Trunk Western - South Oakland Division (Semi-Prototypical based on the Holly Subdivision of the GTW) in HO Scale in 30 by 50 feet using a Digitrax DCC radio control system; maintained by Marv Linke; Hazel Park, Michigan, USA.
- South Pacific Coast Railroad (www.spcrr.org/HistorySPCRR.htm)
Probably the most successful narrow gauge railroad in California history.
- South Pennsylvania Railroad Right of Way (SOPENNRR.tripod.com)
Surveyed in 1884 between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on todays Pennsylvania Turnpike.
- South Pennsylvania Railroad (www.southpennrailroad.com)
(Russell Love)
- South Platte Press (www.southplattepress.com)
Publisher of books on railroad history, focusing on the Great Plains and the West; David City, Nebraska, USA.
- South River Modelworks (www.southrivermodelworks.com)
Produces museum quality HO Scale Structure kits that everyone from the contest winning model builder to the motivated beginner can enjoy; Conway, Massachusetts, USA.
- South Shore Model Railroad Club (www.ssmrc.org)
One of the oldest HO Scale model railroad clubs in America, founded in 1938 in Quincy, Massachusetts; Hingham, Massachusetts, USA.
- South Side Railroad Modelers (www.railroadmodelers.com)
HO club modeling the South Side & Rio Mesa Railroad; Dallas, Texas, USA.
- South Simcoe Railway (www.southsimcoerailway.ca)
Tourist railway excursions operated by the South Simcoe Railway Heritage Corporation between Tottenham and Beeton, Ontario, in restored 1920's coaches and pulled by vintage locomotives; Tottenham, Ontario, Canada.
- South Simcoe Railway Heritage Corporation (www.ssrhc.com)
Owns a collection of steam-era passenger coaches, freight equipment and locomotives; pride of the collection is Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive #136, built in 1883; operates branchline steam train excursions on the South Simcoe Railway, the ex-CNR Beeton Subdivision, between Tottenham and Beeton, Ontario; Tottenham, Ontario, Canada.
- South Spur Rail Services (www.southspurrail.tripod.com)
Western Australian company providing a cost effective alternative for terminal operations and short haul rail services to the rail transport industry.
- South Texas Locomotive Works (STLW) (www.texasloco.com)
Online brass model railroad equipment dealer focused on western United States railroads, 1960's to present; Sugar Land, Texas, USA.
- South Tynedale Railway (www.strps.org.uk)
Two-foot narrow gauge tourist railway in Cumbria, Northeast of England, UK
- South West Digital (www.southwestdigital.co.uk)
Offering the British modeller DCC products from ESU with authentic British sounds; Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, England, UK.
- South West Herts Model Railway Society (www.swhmrs.org.uk)
Meets on Thursday evenings and models in O, OO and N Gauge; hosts numerous exhibitions with over 20 layouts on display; Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- South West Oklahoma Railroad Association (www.texhoma.net/~swora)
The only HO Scale model railroad club in Duncan where members model in everything from Z to G Scale; Duncan, Oklahoma, USA.
- South West Trains (www.swtrains.co.uk)
UK Train Operating Company - official site
- South Western & Pacific Railroad (www.swphq.com)
prototype photos & N scale layout (Doyle Davis)
- South Western Circle (www.lswr.org)
Historical society for London & South Western Railway
- South Western & Pacific Railroad (www.swphq.com)
Devoted to model and prototype railroad photography from Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and beyond; maintained by Doyle Davis; USA.
- South Western Railway Co. Ltd (www.herman.rula.co.za)
History and photographs of the two-foot narrow gauge forest railroad that operated between Knysna and Deepwalls from 1907 to 1949; Knysna, South Africa.
- South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (www.sypte.co.uk)
timetables, maps, info for this UK region
- Southbound Model Railroaders (www.sbmrr.org)
Group of model railroading enthusiasts from all walks of life building and operating a 35 by 30 foot HO gauge layout with more than 2700 feet of track, and based on an era when steam and diesel ran the rails together; Winston-Salem, North Carolina. USA.
- Southbound Trains (www.southboundtrains.com)
Providing model railroad hobbyists with new and high-quality used model trains since 1989; Franklin, Tennessee.
- Southcoast Scale Models (www.southcoastsm.com)
Manufacturer of structures, along with wood and resin details for model railroads; North Dartmouth, Maine, USA.
- Southeast Alabama Model Railroad Club (www.batherson.com/seamrrc/seamrrc.htm)
N Scale club building modules for a 12 x 8 foot layout representing the area along the Columbia River Valley in Oregon and Washington; Dothan, Alabama, USA.
- Southeast Railroad Supply Company (www.southeastrrsupply.com)
Supplier of crossing material, locomotive repair parts, signage, and track work; Marietta, Georgia, USA.
- Southeastern Railroading (www.hosam.com)
USA (S.A. McCall)
- Southeastern Railway Museum (www.srmduluth.org)
Owned and operated by the Atlanta Chapter, NRHS, occupies a 34 acre site and displays about 90 pieces of railroad rolling stock; Duluth, Georgia, USA.
- Southern Alberta Rail (www.southernalbertarail.com)
Model railroad layout based on the former Canadian Pacific lines in Southern Alberta and British Columbia; also manufactures HO & N Scale resin locomotive bodyshell kits (Canada).
- Southerland Station (www.southerlandstation.com)
Specialty toy store offers a variety of toys, art supplies, tools and electric trains from manufacturers like Lionel, MTH, Bachmann, Woodland Scenics and more; Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
- Southern Appalachia Railway Museum (www.techscribes.com/sarm)
Preserves and restores historic railroad equipment, celebrates the railroad history of Southern Appalachia and sponsors the Secret City Scenic excursion train in Oak Ridge; Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
- Southern Arizona Society of Model Engineers (www.sasme.org)
SASME: HO scale model railroad society, home of the Tucson and South Western Railroad, in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Southern Arizona Transportation Museum (www.tucsonhistoricdepot.org)
The Museum Division of Old Pueblo Trolley, Inc., located in the historic train depot in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Southern Atlantic Transportation (SAXT) (saxrt.tripod.com)
HO scale model rail road; monthly online newsletter; West Columbia,South Carolina, USA.
- Southern California LEGO® Train Club (www.scltc.org)
Specializes in designing, building, and displaying large LEGO® train layouts in San Diego, California,, USA
- Southern California N Scale (www.socaln.com)
Actively involved in the public promotion of scale model railroading and coordinates a speakers bureau on topics ranging from getting into the hobby to rail safety for young people through Operation Lifesaver; Burbank, California, USA.
- Southern California Railfan (SoCalRailFan) (www.socalrailfan.com)
photos, forums, hobby shops, webcams
- Southern California Scenic Railway Association (www.scsra.org)
Nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to promoting public appreciation of Southern California rail history and rail safety; Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Southern California Traction Club (www.trainweb.org/socaltractionclub)
Southern California's premier HO scale modular traction railroad; maintains a clubhouse in Baldwin Hills, California, USA.
- Southern Car & Foundry (www.southerncarandfoundry.com)
Makers of fine model kits of prototypical railroad subjects using resin casting, laser cutting and chemical milling; Altamonte Springs, Florida, USA.
- Southern Catering Project Group (mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/scpgorg)
Preserving railway wagons before they become extinct or - even worse - get scrapped, UK.
- Southern Cross Model Railway Association (www.australianmodelrailways.com/scframe.html)
Parent organization of AMRM and Eveleigh Press.
- Southern Digital (www.sodigi.com)
Digital Command Control specialists as well as a wide range of model railroading supplies and accessories; Snellville, Georgia, USA.
- Southern E-Group (www.semgonline.com)
Information for UK Southern Railway enthusiasts
- Southern Electric Group (www.SouthernElectric.org.uk)
UK 3rd rail electrified system
- Southern Forest Museum & Research Center (www.forestheritagemuseum.org/sfhm.htm)
Long Leaf, Louisiana - logging railroad info
- Southern Garden Railway Depot (www.a-gscaletrains.com)
Primary focus is injection molded, resin and wooden buildings, bridges, railway cars and more for indoor or outdoor garden railway modeling; Winter Haven, Florida, USA.
- Southern Illinois Railcar (www.sircrail.com)
SC Rail Leasing America, Inc., a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation of America, Collinsville, Illinois, USA.
- Southern Kansas City Model Railroad Club (www.skcmrr.com)
HO modular - Missouri
- Southern Lamp & Supply (www.oillampman.com/Page3.html)
railroad lanterns and globes
- Southern Locomotives Ltd (www.southern-locomotives.co.uk)
UK
- Southern Michigan Railroad Society (www.southernmichiganrailroad.org)
Offers a variety of passenger train tours between the towns of Clinton and Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.
- Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History (www.southernmuseum.org)
Features a reproduction of a turn-of-the-century locomotive factory (Glover Machine Works) and the "General" of "Great Locomotive Chase" fame, a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built by Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor of Paterson, New Jersey in 1855; Kennesaw, Georgia, USA.
- Southern New England Model Railroad Club (www.snemrr.org)
O Scale layout in Gardner, Massachusetts
- Southern National Track (www.southernnationaltrack.com)
Constructs all types of new track projects including: welded rail, wood, steel, and concrete ties, concrete continuous pour slab track, track maintenance, including road crossings and crossing signalization; Davie, Florida, USA.
- Southern Pacific Krauss Maffei ML4000C 9010 (www.sp9010.ncry.org)
Chronicles the history of the efforts by The Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. (www.ncry.org) to restore this 1964-built diesel hydraulic locomotive; in 1968 this loco became the SP's famous "Camera Car 8799"; Fremont, California, USA.
- Southern Pacific Austin Subdivision (www.austinsubdivision.com/austinsubdivision)
Railfan and modeler of this Southern Pacific subdivision with both N and G Scale model layouts; Round Rock, Texas, USA.
- Southern Pacific Depots, Freight Houses, and Line-side Structures (www.sptco.tnorr.com)
Photos of the Southern Pacific's surviving structures buildings and line side structures, including passenger stations and shelters, freight houses, yard buildings, engine facilities, water towers and bridges; presented by Art Fisher; Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
- Southern Pacific Railroad Web Resources Page (sphts.org/pmcclosky/spwebresources.html)
Maintained by Peter J. McClosky.
- Southern Pacific 5623 (www.trainweb.org/sp5623)
History and activities of SP Black Widow GP9
- Southern Pacific Model Paint Color Formulas (www.urbaneagle.com/sp/spcolors.html)
For use in painting accurate models of Southern Pacific Railroad equipment.
- Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society (www.sphts.org)
Dedicated to preserving and disseminating the historical record of the Southern Pacific Railroad and its affiliates; Pasadena, California, USA.
- Southern Pacific Model Trains (home.carolina.rr.com/sprr)
photos and links
- Southern Pacific Steam & Diesel Locomotoves (www.cabincreekcds.com/SPacific1.htm)
photo CD from Cabin Creek CD's
- Southern Pacific T&NO Depot Restoration Project (pages.sbcglobal.net/whartonspdepot)
Built in 1913 by the Galveston Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway on what is called The Macaroni Line; restored depot will serve as a transit center and the Wharton Railroad Museum; Wharton, Texas, USA.
- Southern Posters (www.southernposters.co.uk)
Unique collection of railway posters, advertisements, brochures, artwork and other ephemera produced by or associated with the Southern Railway, UK.
- Southern Pride Models (www.spride.demon.co.uk)
4mm coach, tpo and emu kit manufacturer (British outline)
- Southern Rail Leasing, Inc. (SRLX) (www.srlx.com)
Provides railcar leasing and services to shippers and railroads all over North America, USA.
- Southern Railfan (Southern.Railfan.net)
Photos, rosters, etc. (Tom Daspit)
- Southern Railway - Gateway of South India (www.southernrailway.gov.in)
Network extending over a large area of India's Southern Peninsula, covering the states of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherryand a small portion of Andhra Pradesh; Chennai, India (English, Hindi).
- Southern Railway, UK (www.southernrailway.com)
Provides services in South London and between central London and the South Coast, through East and West Sussex and Surrey, and parts of Kent and Hampshire, UK.
- Southern Railway Historical Association, Inc. (www.srha.net)
Nonprofit educational/historical organization chartered in North Carolina for the preservation and dissemination of information related to the Southern Railway, it's predecessors and affiliates, USA.
- Southern Railway History & Modeling (southern-railway.railfan.net)
North Carolina - Building a database for modelers of Southern Railway steam and diesel locomotives featuring individual pages for each class, maintained by David Bott; Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
- Southern Railway of British Columbia, SRY (www.sryraillink.com)
Regional Canadian railway based in New Westminster, British Columbia (Canada)
- Southern Railway System (southern-railway.railfan.net/sry)
Helping others to learn more of the history and operations of the Southern Railway System, its subsidiaries and its predecessors featuring equipment rosters, photo gallery and modeling information; maintained by Larry Puckett; Prattville, Alabama, USA.
- Southern Steam Trains (www.southernsteamtrains.com)
Aster gauge 1 dealer
- Southern Switching Company (www.southernswitching.com)
Subsidiary of Iron Horse Resources, Inc.; 8½ mile shortline railroad interchanges with Union Pacific in downtown Abilene; handles such commodities as grain, feed, fertilizers, oil and more; Abilene, Texas, USA.
- Southeastern Michigan S Gaugers (www.smsgtrains.org)
Formed in 1978 to give S Gauge modelers in the Detroit area a place to enjoy their hobby; Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Southeastern Railroad Pages (serr.railfan.net)
Maps, photos plus other railroading information about southeastern USA railroads.
- Southeastern Railway Co. (www.southeasternrailway.co.uk)
Train services in Kent, South east London and part of East Sussex, UK.
- Southampton Model Railway Society (www.smrs.hampshire.org.uk)
Formed in 1966; meets on Wednesday and Friday evenings and models in N, O and OO Scales; represented at many exhibitions; Thornhill, Southampton, England, UK.
- Southline Railway Models (www.southline.net.au)
Model railways only hobby shop ,established in 2000, featuring a huge inventory of HO Scale model railway equipment and accessories, plus an operating HO Scale model layout; Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
- Southport Model Engineering Club (www.southportmec.co.uk)
Promotes and encourages model engineering that includes the building and running of miniature locomotives, traction engines, stationary engines, hot air engines and like activities; Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Southport Model Railway Society (www.southportmodelrailway.org.uk)
Builds various model railway layouts for exhibitions throughout the year; Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Southview Lines NTRAK Module (www25.brinkster.com/southviewlines)
(Mike Drzycimski)
- Southwest Rail: An Independent Voice (www.trainweb.org/swrail)
Railfan site maintained by Ray Dunbar "from deep East Texas".
- Southwest Rail Industries, Inc. (SRI) (www.southwestrail.com)
Full service leasing of both tank cars and hopper cars to the oil, petrochemical, food, plastics, and agricultural industries in North America; Weimar, Texas, USA.
- Southwest Rail Travel (www.trainweb.org/swrailtvl)
Rail and tour travel throughout the Americam Southwest by Coyote Junction, Towaco, New Jersey, USA.
- Southwest Railcar Limited (www.southwest-railcar.org)
motorcar club
- Southwest Railfan (www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts)
Photos and information on railroads in Texas and the Southwestern United States; features include shortlines, Class Ones, commuter lines, light rail, industrials, abandoned lines and more; maintained by.Wes Carr;
- Southwest Signal Engineering Co. (www.swsignal.com)
Providing time responsive and cost competitive signal and communications engineering as well as the highest quality construction services in the business; Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- Southwest Spirit Antiques (antiques-internet.com/colorado/swspirit/dynapage/PP04.htm)
railroadiana
- Southwestern Live Steamers (www.swlsonline.org)
7 1/2" gauge operation
- Spa Railway in Bad Schwalbach, Germany (www.kurbahn.info/eindex.htm)
narrow gauge tourist train (English, Deutsch, Dutch)
- Spalding Model Railway Club (www.spaldingmodelrailwayclub.org.uk)
Club models OO, HO, N and O Gauge that includes the HO Scale San Andreas Summit American layout; meets Friday evenings; Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
- Spanish Trains On Line (STOL) (www.cuerpo8.es/STOL/STOLpor.html)
First Spanish independent railway information web (since 1995 on the Internet); Madrid, Spain (English, Español).
- Spare Time Hobbies (www.sparetimehobbies.com)
Full line hobby shop offering HO and N Scale model railroad trains and accessories; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Spark Models (www.sparkmodel.com)
Manufacturer of HO Scale model race cars, London double-deck buses and taxis; Minimax Import & Export Co. Ltd.; Taipa, Macau.
- Sparkling Star Models, Inc. (www.sparklingstarmodels.com)
Manufacturer of circus wagons and figures in Z, HO, S, O, 3/8th and G Scales; Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
- Specialist Photo Library for UK Railways (www.photo-rail.co.uk)
High quality, high resolution digital scans suitable for use in print publications for sale; subjects include diesel locos, electric locos, steam locos, DMU-DEMU and EMU equipment; all photos by Paul Bickerdyke; Coulsdon, England, UK.
- Spectrum Infrared, Inc. (www.spectruminfrared.com)
Supplier of track switch heaters, car thawing, ballast heaters, hot box detector snow and ice eliminators, plus other infrared heating systems; Eastlake, Ohio, USA.
- Speedwitch Media & Speedwitch Models (www.speedwitch.com)
Manufactures models & decals, publishes a magzine, books & calendars; Guilford, Connecticut, USA
- Spencer Moulton (www.spencermoulton.com)
Buffer springs, draw gear or draft gear springs and bogie suspension components; Malesherbes, France (Français, English, Deutsch).
- Sperling Railway Services (www.sperlingrailway.com)
Provides innovative track maintenance machinery, based in Canton, Ohio, USA.
- Sperry Rail Service (Official) (www.sperryrail.com)
Coporate site.
- Sperry Rail Service (Unofficial) (trainweb.org/elso/SPERRY.HTM)
Documents the history of the company and the inventor, Dr. Elmer A. Sperry, plus reference material and tips on modeling the track defect detector rail cars; USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Spielwaren Schweiger (www.schweiger.de)
Germany hobby shop (Deutsch, English)
- Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair Nürnberg (www.spielwarenmesse.de)
Annual event; the world's leading fair for toys, hobby and leisure-time articles (multiple languages).
- Spike's Wonderland of Animation (www.spikesland.com/Spikes_Wonderland.html)
animated displays for model trains
- Spinney Light Railway (www.spinneylightrailway.co.uk)
7¼ inch gauge miniature railway in the garden of a house in Surrey with steam trains traveling through 4 stations on a run of about 2000 feet; fully signaled with 4 signal boxes controlling some 17 points and 70 signals (Surrey, England, UK).
- Spirit of Kamloops (www.kamrail.com)
Steam powered train excursions with vintage equipment, plus special events throughout the year, a gift shop and private charters; Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
- Spirit of Traverse City (www.ci.traverse-city.mi.us/parks_and_recreation/train)
Operating a 4-4-2 Atlantic steam locomotive at Clinch Park Zoo and Marina on West Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Michigan; USA.
- Spirit of the West - Midland Railway Co. (www.spiritofthewest.com.au)
Dinner train through Guildford, Midland, Swan Valley and Avon Valley countryside of Australia.
- Spishop - Paper Models (www.e-papermodels.com)
1:300 paper buildings as backgrounds (Czech Republic)
- Spittler Engineering (www.juddspittler.com/spittler_engineering)
High quality freeware for Microsoft® Train Simulator; Upland, California, USA.
- Split Jaw Products, Inc. (www.railclamp.com)
Rail clamps and rail beds for G Scale trains to stop electrical and rail alignment problems; Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Spokane International Ry. (www.spokaneinternationalrailroad.com)
N Scale project railroad which was featured in N Scale Railroading magazine; site offers a series of helpful articles for modelers on building portable layouts and the techniques used to build toward prototype accuracy; maintained by Mike Pagano; USA.
- Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Historical Society (www.spshs.org)
Founded in 1981 to preserve the history of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and its affiliate lines including the Oregon Trunk, the Oregon Electric, United Railways, Astoria & Columbia River and the Gales Creek & Wilson River; Vancouver, Washington, USA.
- Spoor45mm (spoor45mm.come2me.nl)
LGB narrow gauge model railway running on 45mm track with rolling stock acquired from all over Europe; maintained by Harry Bognetteau; Amsterdam, Netherlands (Dutch).
- Spoorgroep Luxemburg (www.spoorgroepluxemburg.nl)
railway club - (Dutch).
- Spoorhobby (www.huismanspoorhobby.nl)
Model railway hobby outlet specializing small model manufacturers of locomotives, rolling stock, electronics, track, scenery and more; Kwintsheul, Westland, The Netherlands (English, Français, Dutch, Deutsch).
- Spoorlijnen in Belgie (www.ibelgique.com/brail)
railways in Belgium
- Spoornet (www.spoornet.co.za)
Transnet Freight Rail (formerly known as Spoornet) bases its core competency on the transportation of freight, containers and mainline passengers on rail; Parktown, South Africa.
- Spreewald Garden Railroad (www.hallas.com)
G scale live steam resources
- Spring Creek Model Trains (www.springcreekmodeltrains.com)
Deshler, Nebraska hobby shop
- Spring Mills Depot (www.springmillsdepot.com)
Model train storage boxes at affordable prices and custom cars for serious modelers; Spring Mills, Maryland, USA.
- Springside Models (www.springsidemodels.com)
Model railway dealer in 2mm, 4mm, and 7mm Scales featuring Proscale and Dornaplas products; Newton Abbot, England, UK.
- Spruce Caboose (www.sprucecaboose.com)
Offers wooden trains, track and accessories from popular brands such as Maxim, Dazy, KidKraft and others; Redwood City, California, USA.
- Spurkle Railways (www.spurkle.co.uk/railways)
Railway job search service owned by Spurkle UK Ltd; their recruitment portfolio comprises the film, TV, and music jobs sites Media Match and US Music Jobs, as well as the USA recruitment search engine Spurkle USA; London, England, UK.
- Spur1 (Gauge 1 - 1:32) (www.spur1.de)
(Deutsch)
- SPV - Steam Powered Video (www.spv.co.uk)
DVDs and CDs featuring railways around the world and the indispensable volumes of the "Railroad Atlas of North America"; Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.
- Squirrel Tracks Wooden Trains (www.squirreltracks.com)
US dealer for BRIO-compatible wooden trains from Eichhorn of Germany and Maxim
- Šroubárna Kyjov (www.sroubk.cz)
Produces fasteners, such as screws, nuts, special fastening materials and forgings for the railway industry; division of Trinecké železárny; Kyjov, Czech Republic (English, Deutsch, Español, Czech).
- St Neots Model Railway Club (www.stneotsmrc.com)
Builds and displays N, OO, O, TT and 16.5mm Gauge model railway layouts at many exhibitions; Buckden, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- St. Alban's Railroad Fellowship (home.comcast.net/~stalbansrr)
HO Scale model railroad club with varied interests and skills combining to build a permanent as well as a modular layout; Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA.
- St. Albans South Signal Box (www.jo37.btinternet.co.uk/sigbox)
Setup by volunteers to restore and preserve the signal box as part of our railway and architectural heritage before the ravages of time takes its toll; St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- St. Aubin Online (www.staubintrains.com/trainshop/default.asp)
Woodstock, Illinois model railroad shop, USA.
- St. Claire & Lazywood Railroad (stclairelazywoodrr.blogspot.com)
Maryland HO layout (Nels Cross)
- St. Croix Railroad (www.stcroixrr.org)
Live steam railroad with a very large layout on approximately 9 acres of land; multiple scales, Hudson, Wisconsin, USA.
- St. Kilda Tramway Museum (aetmsa.railpage.org.au)
Museum in St. Kilda, South Australia.
- St. Kitts Scenic Railway (www.stkittsscenicrailway.com)
Caribbean Island train
- St. Lawrence & Hudson Railway (www.trainweb.org/galt-stn/stlh.htm)
Railfan site.
- St. Louis Ghost Train (www.virtualsk.com/current_issue/ghost_train.html)
Saskatchewan village (article by Dave Yanko)
- St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway (www.slimrr.com)
Steam and diesel (EMD E8) pulled tourist train running through Southeast Missouri; Jackson, Missouri, USA.
- St. Louis Railfanning (www.trainweb.org/stlrailfanning)
Goal is to make this site the place to go for any kind of information regarding St. Louis railroading, John Witthaus; St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- St. Louis San Francisco Railway & Employee Genealogy (freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~veregge/frisco.htm)
(Fred Veregge)
- St. Louis Union Station (library.wustl.edu/units/spec/archives/guides/bysubject_stlouis/union-station)
a guide to the architectural drawings
- St. Marys Hobby Center (www.bright.net/~c3p0)
Hobby shop in St. Marys, Ohio, USA.
- St. Marys Railroad (www.stmarysrr.com)
Pictures and history of the Georgia railroad, USA.
- St. Petersburg Tram Collection (www.sptc.spb.ru)
Established in 1996 to manufacture O Scale tram, trolleybus and bus models from St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Stafford Railway Circle (www.staffordrailwaycircle.org.uk)
Models in 4mm, OO, O and O/16.5 Scales to exhibition quality; meets several times per week and displays at numerous local events & exhibitions; Fulford, Staffordshire, England, UK.
- Staging Tracks (www.stagingtracks.com)
Connecting model railroaders to hobby shops, clubs and train shows, USA.
- Stahlberg Roensch GmbH & Co. KG (www.stahlberg-roensch.de)
Rail welding, rail resurfacing and recycling, logistics and engineering services; Seevetal, Germany (English, Svenska, Deutsch).
- Stainless Unlimited (www.stainlessunlimited.com)
Specialists in building bridges for model train enthusiasts; offers a standard product line and custom built bridges in any gauge and in any size, all from heavy 16 gauge stainless steel, Tig welded by hand; Washington, Missouri, USA.
- Stambanan.com (www.stambanan.com)
Initiative to develop one of Sweden's main railway lines. (Svenska)
- Stan Orr's Train Parts (www.stanorrtrainparts.com)
Both new and used Lionel Train parts. All parts are genuine Lionel parts or excellent reproductions. Also carries current books on Lionel Trains and tinplate equipment , plus a wide array of tools; Stormville, New York, USA.
- Stan's Railpix Railroad Photoshop (www.cafepress.com/stans_railpix)
photo gift shop - eastern US mainly
- Stan's Trains (www.stanstrains.com)
Clocks, drawing tools and software for model railroaders modeling in any scale; Sammamish, Washington, USA.
- Stanbridge's Hobby Shop (www.stanbridges.com.au)
Established in 1948, stocks a large range of train sets, locos, rolling stock, track, accessories and scenery from such manufacturers as Hornby, LGB, Kadee, Lenz and others; Mount Lawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
- Standard Car Truck Company (www.sctco.com)
Manufactures & repairs replacement equipment for freight cars and diesel locomotives in the Car Group and the Locomotive Group under the Durox, REA, Triangle, Barber Spring, Anchor Brake, Elmapy, SanCast, Zef Tek and Barber Brake Beam subsidiary companies; subsidiary SCT Europe Ltd. manufactures the Barber Easy Ride bogie; Park Ridge, Illinois USA.
- Standard Hobby Supply (www.standardhobby.com)
Online shop specializing in model railroading, school project materials, scratch building materials, educational products, diorama materials, structural shapes, science fiction; Ramsey, New Jersey, USA.
- Stanier Mogul Fund (www.staniermogulfund.org.uk)
Dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of ex-BR steam locomotive No.42968; Kinver, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, UK.
- Stanthea Models (homepages.plus.net/stanthea/models)
Self adhesive A4 & 8 by 10 inch railway posters available in poster packs in many scales and gauges for model railways; Towbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK.
- Stapleford Miniature Railway (www.fsmr.org.uk)
Leicestershire UK 10 1/4" gauge train
- Star Headlight & Lantern Company (www.starheadlight.com)
Avon, New York, USA.
- Star Hobby (www.starhobby1.com)
Specializes in model trains in most scales from manufacturers like Aristocraft, LGB, Bachmann, Lionel, Atlas, MTH, Athearn, Walthers, Kato and many others; Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
- Star Trak (www.startrakinc.com)
Restoration & maintenance of private railway cars; Yardley, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Starfire Engineering & Technologies (www.starfire.net)
Some of the services offered are freight and passenger car design, railcar and locomotive modifications, and bridge and track engineering; Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
- Starlight on the Rails (www.utahphillips.org/songbook)
railroad songs by U. Utah Phillips (Christopher Dunn)
- State Belt Railroad of California (www.statebelt.org)
Photos of the locomotives & rolling stock, and the piers they served, on this shortline railroad along the Embarcadero; operations began in 1889, renamed San Francisco Belt Railroad in 1969, ceased operation in 1993; San San Francisco, California, USA.
- State Railway of Thailand (www.railway.co.th)
Timetables, seat availability, fares and other information about this government owned railway; Bangkok, Thailand (English, Thai).
- Statewide Sleepers (www.statewidesleepers.com.au)
Wholesaler of used timber railway sleepers established in 1979; sells to landscape garden retailers throughout Australia and exports to many countries around the world; Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
- Statford Barn Railway (www.statfoldbarnrailway.co.uk)
Multi-gauge private railway is home to an extensive collection of historic steam, diesel and electric locomotives from Britain and overseas. Not open to the public, a number of "Enthusiasts' Days" are held each year and interested enthusiasts may apply for an invitation to one of these events; Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, UK.
- Station Inn Bed & Breakfast (www.stationinnpa.com)
Cresson, Pennsylvania, USA - 150 feet from the Norfolk Southern tracks, 10 miles west of Horseshoe Curve.
- Station Juinen (www.amibo.demon.nl)
global train pictures (Netherlands - Dutch)
- Station World (stationworld.web.fc2.com)
Photographs allowing the viewer to travel to many different stations in Europe and Japan without ever taking a train; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (English, Japanese).
- Stavanger Lokomotiv & Vogn Fabrik (www.slvf-ans.com)
hobby online store in Norway (Norwegian/English)
- Steam & Engine of Australia (www.steamengine.com.au)
Railways (Paul Pavlinovich)
- Steam 2000 (members.tripod.co.uk/stepping_stones/S2000)
Mainline steam in and around Berkshire, UK in 2000
- Steam Arena (www.cia.com.au/drittson/steamarena.html)
CD's of trains
- Steam Central (www.steamcentral.com)
Created in June 1999 to serve as a place where steam enthusiasts could find information on steam locomotive operation and preservation; Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Steam Days (www.steamdaysmag.co.uk)
British magazine offering railway history at its best; includes those light-hearted and memorable moments of trainspotting days, reminiscences from railway men, and excellent top-quality photo features from well known railway photographers; Bournemouth, England, UK.
- Steam Engine Library (www.history.rochester.edu/steam)
online documents & books
- Steam Engine Valve Gear on the Computer (www.tcsn.net/charlied)
(Charles Dockstader)
- Steam Era Freight Cars (www.steamfreightcars.com)
Designed to be a place where model railroaders who seek to produce the most prototypically accurate freight cars possible can come to view information pertinent to their pursuits; maintained by Ted Culotta; San Mateo, California, USA.
- Steam Era Models (home.waterfront.net.au/~sem)
Manufacturers of Victorian railways prototype model kits, motor bogies and wheels in HO Scale; Victoria, Australia.
- Steam in Action (www.steam-in-action.com)
Formed by the Sandstone Heritage Trust, Reefsteamers and Friends of the Rail to present a national, coordinated front for steam preservation, revenue and fund raising, training of shed, maintenance & footplate crews and realistic operation of steam trains; Republic of South Africa.
- Steam in China (www.qj-country.de)
News, information, trip reports and locomotive list about steam railfanning trips in China (Germany).
- Steam Incorporated (www.steaminc.org.nz)
New Zealand locomotive restoration and excursions
- Steam Index: Locomotive History (www.steamindex.com)
Online index of British books, locomotive descriptions, railway civil engineers, reference books, railway societies, publishers and booksellers and much more; Cromer, Norfolk, England, UK.
- Steam Loco Design (www.steam-loco-design.co.uk)
An engineering design practice specializing in steam locomotives and railway rolling stock; Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Steam Loco Photos (members.lsol.net/mollyandmick/Omaha.htm)
Photos of the CStPM&O Ry. circa 1950 (but one) by Larry Bohn, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA.
- Steam Locomotive (www.summitlake.com/WRITING/Stories/Steam_Locomotive.html)
story by Alex Forbes
- Steam Locomotive 6060 - Rocky Mountain Rail Society (www.6060.org)
Preservation group dedicated to the preservation of Canadian National Railway steam locomotive 6060, known as The Spirit of Alberta.
- Steam Locomotive Award Art Prints (www.pch-art.com/html_new/railcat.htm)
Customized presentation awards with a steam locomotive theme: Richard Popolow; Troy, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Steam Locomotive Information (www.steamlocomotive.info)
Accumulating a massive body of knowledge about the steam locomotives of the world; Eagan, Minnesota, USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Steam Locomotive IS (www.parovoz.com)
Detailed information about railways and metros of the USSR, Russia, CIS, and the Baltics including maps and detailed schematic diagrams, interactive timetables, photographs, news, analytical articles and more; maintained by by Dmitry Zinoviev, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (English, Russian).
- Steam Locomotive Simulator (www.battewell.freeserve.co.uk)
Freeware computer program
- Steam Locomotive dot com (www.steamlocomotive.com)
Surviving Steam Locomotive Database which contains links to many museums and informational sites contained further information (Wes Barris).
- Steam Locomotives in Ohio (www.steamohio.railfan.net)
(Jason Johnson)
- Steam Locomotives of India (indiasteam.tripod.com)
(Dileep Prakash)
- Steam Locomotives of the DM&IR circa 1955 (members.lsol.net/mollyandmick/D.htm)
Photos by Larry Bohn, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA.
- Steam on the CLC in Liverpool 1948-68 (www.lenpentin.20fr.com)
Compiling information, anecdotes, memories, photos and records, in connection with all things CLC (Cheshire Lines Committee) Liverpool between 1948 and 1968; Saint George, Utah, USA.
- Steam Operations of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Hinton, West Virginia (members.cox.net/wsimonton)
Railfan site by William E. Simonton, III.
- Steam Operations Corporation (www.steamoperations.com)
Restoration, rebuilding and preservation of steam locomotives (USA.
- Steam Railroading Institute (www.mstrp.com)
Product of the Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation, Inc. educating the public about steam-era railroad technology; Visitor Center & Museum on the site of former Ann Arbor Railroad steam shops and roundhouse; Owosso, Michigan, USA.
- Steam Railroads in Saxony (www.saxon-steam.com)
Germany tourist train sites
- Steam Railway Photographs by Tony Pearce (tony-pearce.fotopic.net)
Collection of British steam locomotive photographs with information; UK.
- Steam Railways in the UK (www.flyingsparks.strayduck.com/rail1.html)
(Peter Townsend)
- Steam Safari (www.steamsafari.com)
Multimedia adventures on great preserved railways of Europe & North America; Rockville, Maryland, USA.
- Steam Shack of Rutland, Vermont (www.steamshack.com)
Specializes in New England and Canadian railroad models from Rivarossi, Proto 2000, Intermountain and others; Rutland, Vermont, USA.
- Steam Sounds UK (www.steamsounds.org.uk)
One of the largest resources on the web for UK steam railway locomotive sound recordings.
- Steam Tales (www.steamtales.com)
Online database of stories and tales from the great steam age available for all steam enthusiasts to enjoy; Epsom, Surrey, England, UK.
- Steam Train FotoImages (www.fotoimages.com/trains/trains.html)
Operating steamtrains in North America
- Steam Train Galleries (www.steamtraingalleries.co.uk)
Photos of preserved railways, special steam trains and locomotives, steam galas and 'steam in the 60's' - including pictures of the Flying Scotsman and the Cathedrals Express, UK.
- Steam Train Note Card Collection (www.knoteworthykards.com/store/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=41)
Note cards featuring a steam train excursion on the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad in Pennsylvania; Knoteworthy Kards; Factoryville, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Steam Train Replicas (www.steamtrainreplicas.com)
Handcrafted scale wooden models of steam trains, each a one-of-a-kind replica with exacting detail, by Bob Stichter; Milford, Indiana, USA.
- Steam Trains and other Vintage Transport (www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk/twinp/colhome/steam.htm)
(Colin Parsons)
- Steam Trains and Tractors (www.steamtrainsandtractors.com)
Collection of vintage steam locomotives and tractors available for purchase; maintained by Keith Schmidt; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- Steam Trains from Wolsztyn (www.parowozy.com.pl)
Trains in Poland; maintained by Wojciech Lis; (Polski, Deutsch)
- Steam in the Garden (www.steamup.info)
publication home page
- Steam in the Valley (www.steamvalley.com)
Book on Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
- Steam on the Cheshire Lines Committee Railway (lenpentin.20fr.com)
Liverpool 1948-1968
- Steam Scenes (www.steamscenes.org.uk)
Pictures of steam traction engines at steam rallies, road runs and within museums across the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
- Steam Services of America (www.steamservicesofamerica.com)
Provides project and management leadership skills for inspections, training, engineering services, rebuilding, restoration, operations, for the tourist railroad industry; Sylva, North Carolina, USA.
- Steam Train Photographs (www.steamtrains.fotopic.net)
Showcases the photographs of David Smith taken with various digital cameras within the last few years throughout the north of England; UK.
- SteamCad (steamcad.railfan.net)
American steam locomotive drawings
- Steaming Priest (www.SteamingPriest.com)
Fr. Jay Finelli's live steam resources
- Steamline Ltd (www.steamline.co.uk)
Fine scale British locomotives in Gauge 'O' (Chris Aldred)
- Steamline Sheffield (www.steamline.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
Dedicated and highly skilled team of modeling professionals who specialize in the creation of custom built and super detailed locomotives in OO, EM and P4, John Brighton; Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK.
- SteamPhotos.com by Christopher Muller (www.steamphotos.com)
Thousands of North American railroad photos plus prints, apparel, and gifts for sale.
- SteamPics (www.steampics.com)
Tim Cowen's collection of photographs of preserved U.K. steam, UK.
- SteamRanger Tourist Railway (www.steamranger.org.au)
South Australia
- SteamRail Wanganui Incorporated (www.steamrailwanganui.co.nz)
Group restoring Wanganui's once-proud rail heritage (New Zealand).
- Steamrail Victoria (www.steamrail.com.au)
Australia mainline operator
- Steamscenes UK and CADECO (www.bakershill.freeserve.co.uk)
UK based publisher of books and calendars; Coleford, Gloucestershire, England, UK.
- Steamtom 1's Web Page (mssls.info/tomm/Home.html)
live steam
- Steamtown Information - Unofficial (www.northeast.railfan.net/steamtown1.html)
Scranton, Pennsylvania museum
- Steamtown National Historic Site (www.nps.gov/stea)
Offical park service page
- Steamtrain's Rail Gallery (www.trainweb.org/steamtrain)
photo album of railroad related pictures
- SteamWeb (www.steamweb.net)
Displays Nigel Kendall's photograph archive of steam on British railways 1961-1968, contemporary action with preserved locomotives and a selection of vintage traction images; Banwell, England, UK.
- Steeple Grange Light Railway (www.steeplegrange.co.uk)
Derbyshire tourist railway featuring a unique twenty minute train ride through dramatic limestone scenery, UK.
- Stella Scale Models (www.stellascalemodels.com)
Manufacturer of fine architectural and model railroad miniatures by James Harr; High Bridge, New Jersey, USA.
- Stephan Lamb Associates (www.layoutsbysteve.com)
Custom model railroad layout builder; Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
- Stephans Railroad History (www.railroadtreasures.com)
railroad books and magazines
- Stephenson Locomotive Society (www.stephensonloco.org.uk)
UK (John New)
- Stephenson's Rocket (www.webcom.com/~trw/London/59473610.html)
Photo of the locomotive in the Science Museum near South Kensington station, UK.
- Sterling Alaska Railroad Page (www.stewsalaska.com/Alaska%20Railroad/Sterling_Alaska_railroad_page.htm)
Collection of photographs representing Alaska railroading 1979 to 1982; Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
- Sterling Auction Services, LLC (www.sterlingrailroadauctions.com)
One of the premiere marketers of locomotives in the United States; launching a new web site for railroad industry professionals in the 4th Quarter of 2009 to feature the most diverse and complete marketplace for railroad assets of every description; San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Sterling Models (www.sterlingmodels.com)
Manufactures highly detailed model trees (a variety of evergreens, Aspens and Maples in both summer foliage and a variety of autumn colors) and "Deep Profile" rock castings that are incredibly detailed; Johnson, Vermont, USA.
- Steve Anderson Art Gallery (www.stevejanderson.com)
prints of vintage steam trains
- Steve Johnson's Railway Pages (website.lineone.net/~sjohnson40)
4mm Scale models using a variety of gauges; Irish models are 21mm gauge and 12mm gauge to P4 standards whereas BR and LT use 16.5mm OO gauge; particular interests are Irish Railways, British Railways in the early 1960's and London Transport, UK.
- Steve Jones' Railway Photo Page (www.samsonrail.com)
UK rail photos categorized by subject
- Steve White's Trix Twin Collectors (www.trix.co.uk)
Steve White's Trix Twin model railway collectors site for trains made in England and Germany between 1935 and 1970; UK.
- Steve's Railway Page (www.rail.felgall.com)
Australian modeler and model railway author's collection of articles and railway links; maintained by Steve Chapman; Australia.
- Steve's Railroad Pages (members.localnet.com/~docsteve/railroad/index.html)
Information about Selkirk Yard and detailed technical data on diesel-electric and electric locomotives by Steve Sconfienza, Ph.D.; New Paltz, New York, USA.
- Steven Reynolds Amtrak Site (www.trainweb.org/reynolds)
Railfan site.
- Stevens Creek Models (www.hon3.com)
HO rolling stock kits
- Steveston Interurban Restoration Society (www.steveston-interurban.org)
British Columbia, Canada
- Still Steaming & Smaller Cousins (www.stillsteaming.com)
Guides to Britain's standard-gauge, narrow gauge & miniature railways, UK.
- Stobart Group (www.stobartgroup.co.uk)
Stobart Rail division offers a package of rail services including structures, earthworks, lineside infrastructure, geotechnical, drainage and permanent way works; Appleton Thorn Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK.
- Stobcross Railway (www.railscot.co.uk/Stobcross_Railway/frame.htm)
Glasgow, Scotland
- Stock Photography (www.visionmasters.net/stock/cat28)
Transportation: airplanes & trains
- Stockholms Modelljdrnvdgsklubb (www.smj.org)
Oldest club in Scandinavia, also owns one of the largest model railway layouts in Sweden; layout is built in HO Scale with two-rail traction; Stockholm, Sweden (Svenska, English). Web Gem Award recipient.
- Stockport & District Railway Modellers (www.sdrm.co.uk)
UK club
- Stocks and Bonds of North American Railroads (www.coxrail.com)
collector's guide (Terry Cox)
- Stockton & Darlington Railway (www.railcentre.co.uk)
History of the Stockton & Darlington Railway that operated between those two cities from 1825 to 1863; Bishop Auckland, Durham, England, UK.
- Stockton Terminal & Eastern Railroad (www.sterailroad.com)
Stockton, California shortline railroad, USA.
- Stocktramway (www.ss.se)
Svenska Tramway Assosiation
- Stoddarts Ltd. Company (www.stoddartsltd.com)
Manufacturer of innovative 3 dimenional locomotive wall art and locomotive shadowboxes; Cumming, Georgia, USA.
- Stolen Model Locomotive Recovery Service (www.thegallos.com/stolen.htm)
List of stolen model railroad locomotives to help recover those locomotives and return them to their rightful owners. Please check this list before you buy any live steam locomotive.
- Stone Arch Bridge Video (www.isd518.net/alc/history/stonearchbridge-home.htm)
History of the James J. Hill stone arch railroad bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota; includes a streaming video; maintained by Ray Lowry; USA.
- Stone Consulting & Design (www.stoneconsulting.com)
Railroad & trolley consultants; Warren, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Stone India Ltd (www.stoneindia.co.in)
Multi-product company offering brake systems for carriages and freight cars, locomotives, and electrical power products for the railway industry; Kolkata, India.
- Stone Mill Models (www.stonemillmodels.com)
hydrocal & resin model railroad structures
- Stoner Creek Miniatures & Trading Post (www.stonercreek.de/en/index_en.html)
Re-motoring kits for various scales of model railway locomotives; maintained by Steffen Rosmus; Neu Anspach, Hesse, Germany (Deutsch, English).
- Stoneworks (www.rrstoneworks.com)
model railroad scenery material
- Stoney Creek Designs (www.stoneycreekdesigns.com)
¼ inch scale structure kits and "narrow gauge" sportswear; Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Stoney Creek Model Railroad Club (www.metronet.lib.mi.us/ROCH/scmrrc)
Founded in 1969, meets at members homes to run trains and share knowledge and is very active in exhibiting their layouts at local events; Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Stoomcentrum Maldegem (www.stoomcentrum.be)
steam tourist railway and museum in Belgium
- Stork Railway Services (www.stork.com/railway)
Specializes in complete bogie overhaul and repair of all railway vehicles; Haarlem, Nederlands (Deutsch, English).
- Storm Enterprises (www.stormyacres.com)
Sound board for recording and playback of sounds for model railroads; Colburn, Idaho, USA.
- Stortford Railway (homepage.ntlworld.com/pj.bennett)
7¼ Gauge garden railway featuring two battery operated locomotives and a County Donegal style railcar; Bishop's Stortford, England, UK.
- Story of the Johnson Farebox Company (www.johnsonfarebox.com)
History and information about the machines found in most trolleys, street cars and buses where the rider dropped the fare; maintained by Michael Sheridan; San Anselmo, California, USA.
- Story of the Locomotive (www.dmm.org.uk/archives/a_loco01.htm)
Durham Mining Museum, UK
- Stourbridge Line Rail Excursions (www.waynecountycc.com)
Information on happenings in and around Wayne County in the beautiful lake region of the Pocono Mountains in Northeast Pennsylvania; Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Stourbridge Lion (trainboard.com/grapevine/blog.php?u=236)
Blog about a modeling and railfan adventures, vacation highlights, railroad games, toy collections, photographs and more; Centennial, Colorado, USA.
- Stout Auctions (www.stoutauctions.com)
Lionel and other toy and model trains - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Stowmarket Railway Club (www.stowrailclub.org.uk)
Founded in 1977, models a permanent OO Gauge continuous run layout in its club room and has an O Gauge exhibition layout for display at its April show; Stowmarket, Suffolk, England, UK.
- Strahan West Coast Wilderness Railway (www.puretasmania.com.au/default.asp?pID=46)
Tourist railway explores the 35km railway built between Queenstown and Strahan more than 100 years ago; Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
- Straphangers Campaign (www.straphangers.org)
New York subway & bus users
- Strasburg Model Railroad Club (www.trainweb.org/smrc)
HO Scale operating model of the Strasburg Railroad and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Strasburg Rail Road Shops (www.strasburgrailroadstore.com)
Full service model railroad store and gift shop at the Strasburg Rail Road, Lancaster County, Strasburg, Pennsylvannia, USA.
- Strasburg Rail Road (www.strasburgrailroad.com)
America's oldest short-line railroad - since 1832; Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylavnia, USA.
- Strasburg Train Shop (www.etrainshop.com)
Primary focus is on O, HO and N Scale model trains and accessories; offers products from Lionel, MTH, Atlas O, American Flyer and others; Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Strassenbahn (public-transport.ne)
tramways in Europe - pictures and information.
- Strates Shows (www.strates.com/train.htm)
America's only remaining railroad carnival - 61 cars
- Stratford 47 Group (www.sf47group.co.uk)
Preserving a 47 that was allocated to the former Stratford TMD in East London, UK.
- Strathspey Steam Railway (src.insch.info)
Central Highlands of Scotland tourist railway, runs between the communities of Aviemore, Boat-of-Garten and Broomhill; Broomhill, Scotland, UK.
- Strawberry Line Miniature Railway (www.strawberryminirail.co.uk)
Recreates the British railways of the 1960's in 5 inch Gauge and operates over almost 4,000 feet of track; Keynsham, England, UK.
- Streamlined Locomotives of the World (www.streamlinedtrains.co.uk)
Railfan site describing streamlined steam locomotives, world-wide; maintained by Alan (Fred) Pipes; Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Streamliner Schedules (www.streamlinerschedules.com)
Historic timetables of great past trains
- Streetcar Boy's Home Page (home.sprynet.com/~jwhite07)
trolleys and trains (Jonathan White)
- Streetcar Days In Honolulu (www.streetcardays.com)
book by John Brizdle and MacKinnon Simpson
- Streetcar Mike Dot Com (www.streetcarmike.com)
traction (Michael Strauch)
- Streetcar for Eureka Springs, Arkansas (www.geekfest.com/trolley)
feasibility study for vintage trolley
- Stringybark Express Museum (greentrail.homestead.com)
Australian tourist railway.
- Structural Shapes of Brass (www.specialshapes.com)
for model railroading projects
- Structures & Trains by Fred (www.structuresandtrainsbyfred.com)
Model railroad hobby shop offering a full line of model trains and accessories including Lionel, Kato, Kadee, Bachmann and many more manufacturers; Geneva, Illinois, USA.
- Strukton Railfinfra bv (www.struktonrailinfra.com)
Railway infrastructure maintenance including diagnostics and ultrasonic rail inspection; Maarssen, Netherlands (English, Svenska, Dutch).
- Stumptown Historical Society (www.stumptownhistoricalsociety.org)
Whitefish Montana railroad depot
- Sudbury Model Railroading (www.sudburymodelrailroading.com)
Online model railroading resource for model Railroaders in the Sudbury area providing contact information to other clubs, a photo gallery; hosts local model train shows; Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
- Subway Navigator (www.subwaynavigator.com)
60 underground railway systems throughout the world (Français, English)
- Subway Page (www.reed.edu/~reyn/transport.html)
links, maps, info (Robert Reynolds)
- Subways.net (www.subways.net)
Railfan site dedicated to worldwide subways featuring animated GIFs, screen savers, and news; Arlington, Texas, USA.
- Suffolk Seaboard Station Railroad Museum (www.suffolktrainstation.org)
Highlights the six railroads existing in Suffolk around 1907: Seaboard Airline, Virginian, Norfolk & Western, Atlantic Coastline, Atlantic & Danville and the Suffolk & Carolina branch of the original Norfolk Southern; Suffolk, Virginia, USA.
- Sugar and Steam in Kohala (www.coffeetimes.com/jan98.htm)
Article by Sophia Schweitzer
- Sugar Cane Train (www.sugarcanetrain.com)
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii tourist train between Lahaina town and the resorts of Kaanapali, USA.
- Sulphur Springs Steam Models, LLC (www.sssmodels.com)
Supplies for live steam modelers including books, videos, fasteners, soldering supplies and tools; Elsberry, Missouri, USA.
- Sulka.de Eisenbahn (www.sulka.de/sites/eb/eisenbahn.html)
Information about steam locomotives, Germany, France, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Wales and China; maintained by Klaus Brechbilder; Lohr am Main, Germany (Deutsch). Web Gem Award recipient.
- Summerfield Model Railway (www.summerfieldrailway.com)
Private HO Scale, DCC controlled model railway layout based on Victorian and Australian prototype trains; Melton, Victoria, Australia.
- Summit Rail Services, LLC (www.summitrail.com)
Rail services company offering railroad materials and construction; Ashtabula, Ohio, USA.
- Summit Signal, Inc. (www.systraconsulting.com)
Railroad signaling and construction company providing a wide range of services designed for the railroad industry, including under ground & above ground signal & construction work; Willits, California, USA.
- Summit USA, LLC (www.summit-customcuts.com)
Supplier of modern structures and accessories for HO & N scale model railroads; Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA.
- Sump, Laisse and Huneausware Railway (www.bdt-home.demon.co.uk/trains/slhr.htm)
Mythical British Railway Branchline in OO Gauge
- Sumpter Valley Depot (www.sumptervalley.com)
Buy, trade and consign brass model trains; Bend, Oregon, USA.
- Sumpter Valley Engineers Gallery (www.sumptersteamtrain.com)
State of the art photographic and graphics studio featuring the work of Cynthia Mayhall Christy, a fully qualified steam locomotive engineer at the Sumpter Valley Railroad; Sumpter, Oregon, USA.
- Sumpter Valley Railroad (www.svry.com)
24 years after the original railway stopped operations, restoration began in 1971 on this tourist railway that operates ex-Sumpter Valley Railway Mikado Number 19 and ex-W.H. Eccles Lumber Co. Heisler Number 3 steam locomotives pulling both freight and passenger trains between McEwen and the historic mining town of Sumpter; located 22 miles southwest of Baker City, Oregon on Highway 7 (see the map on the Contact Us page); Sumpter, Oregon, USA.
- Sun 'N Sand Model Railroad Club (www.sun-n-sand.org)
N Scale model railroad club specializing in NTRAK modular design, McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Sun City Center Model Railroad Club (www.sccmrrc.org)
Operates a large HO Scale DCC-controlled layout (Sun City Central Railroad) covering the territory of the Middle Atlantic States circa 1955; Sun City Center, Florida, USA.
- Sunbird Train Mart (www.sunbirdtrainmart.com)
Full service model train shop; Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Suncoast Model Railroad Club (www.suncoastmrrc.com)
N Scale & HO Scale model railroad club meets every Thursday and Saturday nights; Largo, Florida, USA.
- Sundance Marketing, Inc. (www.sundancepins.com)
Manufacturer of custom lapel pins, railroad pins and patches; Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Sunday River Productions (www.sundayriverproductions.com)
One of the world's oldest and largest sources for archival railroad videos; Concord, Massachusetts, USA.
- Sunningwell Command Control Ltd (www.scc4dcc.co.uk)
Suppliers of Digitrax DCC equipment and associated DCC products; Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
- Sunny Wong's Steam Locomotives (www.angelfire.com/bc3/sunnywong)
Collection of photographs and data about steam locomotives; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Sunrise Enterprises (www.sunrisenterprises.com)
Model railroad accessories manufacturer; Doyle, California, USA.
- Sunset Magazine (sunset-magazine.stanford.edu/html/railroads.html)
railroad themes (Stanford University)
- Sunset Models Inc. (www.3rdrail.com)
Producing the finest brass scale models for over 35 years in HO Scale and 3 rail O Scale; San Ramon, California, USA.
- Sunset Valley Railroad (www.svrronline.com)
Lake Tapps, Washington supplier of code 250 model railroad track system in 45mm and 32mm gauge suitable for 1:32, 1:20.3, 1:22.5 and 1:19 scales for garden and indoor railroads, USA.
- Sunset West Productions (www.sunsetwestproductions.com/citysnds.htm)
City sounds ambient sound effects CD's for model railroads, military, farm, circus, state fair and other dioramas; Highland, California, USA.
- Sunshine Model Railway Club (www1.sunshinemrc.org.au)
Club meets weekly on Thursday Nights at 7:30 pm; photos of the two "display" layouts maintained by the club ("Chuffington" & "Thomas") and two belonging to club members (Ted Alan's "Eddington" & Tom Welsh's "Paydenvale"); participates in many shows and exhibitions; Sunshine, Victoria, Australia.
- SunSteam Internet Railway System (www.sunsteam.org.au)
upcoming steam hauled rail tours in South East Queensland
- Super Glue Corporation (www.supergluecorp.com)
Brands: Bondini, Zap, Pacer Industrial, ProSeal, Orginal Super Glue
- Superior Division, Milwaukee Railroad (www.nconnect.net/~raul/AA1.htm)
model layout - HO
- Superior Times (www.mmwg.com/rails)
(HO Model Railroad)
- Superquick Model Kits (Pems Butler Ltd) (www.superquick.co.uk)
Range of printed card building kits, walls, paving papers for OO and HO Scales representative of English building heritage; Axminster, Devon, England, UK.
- Supply Line Models (www.slmonline.com)
Baltimore, Maryland supplier of 1/2 inch, 1:20.3 and 1:22.5 scale people, HO and O Scale structure kits and other accessories, USA.
- Surface Transportation Board (www.stb.dot.gov)
US Federal agency for resolving railroad rate and service disputes and reviewing proposed railroad mergers; created in the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995; successor to the ICC, USA.
- Surface Transportation Policy Project (www.transact.org)
Diverse, nationwide 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to promote investment in both freight and passenger rail infrastructure and ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment; Washington, DC, USA.
- Surplus Material Components (SMC Electronics) (www.smcelectronics.com)
Many items of interest to the model hobbyist: cables, connectors, fans, hardware, LEDs, motors, relays, switches speakers, test equipment, tools and more; Brockton, Massachusetts, USA.
- Surviving Steam Locomotives Photo Archive (parkengines.railfan.net)
Photographs of surviving steam locomotives from around the United States with an emphasis on "park engines"; USA. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Surviving World Steam Locomotives (www.survivingworldsteam.com/us_steam)
Database program info & order form.
- Suspended Railway Systems (www.locoboose.com)
Suspended railway systems designed to look similar to the real railroad trestles of the late 1800's; available in G and O Scale constructed with red oak, maple, walnut or cherry; Olympia, Washington, USA.
- Sussex Association of Model Railway Clubs (www.samrc.co.uk)
Made up of 12 model railway and model engineering clubs from East and West Sussex, England, catering to all interests from N Gauge to 7¼ inch Gauge; Lancing, West Sussex, England, UK.
- Sussex Branch Memorial (www.dlw-sussexbranch.com)
of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad - New Jersey
- Sussex County Railroad Club (www.trainweb.org/sussexctyrrclub)
HO and N Scale model railroad club meets the last Saturday of each month and displays their modular layouts at local shows several times each year; Hamburg, New Jersey, USA.
- Sutton Coldfield Railway Society (www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/SCRS)
Meets Thursday evenings and encompasses a wide range of interests for the railway enthusiasts and hosts an exhibition each April; Sutton, Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK.
- Sutton Model Engineering Club Ltd (www.suttonmec.freeserve.co.uk)
UK Club
- Suzhou Jinstar Railway Materials Co., Ltd. (www.jinstar.en.alibaba.com)
Specializes in manufacturing and exporting railway standard components and other kinds of fasteners; Changshu, Jiangsu, China.
- Svensk Modelljärnväg (www.svenskmj.com)
Online hobby shop; only ships to Swedish locations, no international shipments; Västerås, Sweden (Svenska).
- Svenska Railways (SJ) (www.sj.se/sj/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10&l=en)
With a 150 year history of running trains, SJ is a limited company owned by the Svenska state since 2001 (English, Svenska).
- Swanage Railway (www.swanagerailway.co.uk)
Preserved railway now offering tourists the opportunity to learn about the railway and enjoy the steam trains on this standard gauge restored system; Swanage, Dorset, England, UK.
- Swanley New Barn Railway (www.snbr.20m.com)
Tourist railway in Swanley, Kent, UK.
- Swansea and Mumbles Railway (www.welshwales.co.uk/mumbles_railway_swansea.htm)
world's first railway service
- Swanton Pacific Railroad Society (sprr.calpoly.edu)
Live steam railroad located on 3,200 acres in Santa Cruz County operating three 1/3rd scale Pacific type steam locomotives built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, plus a diesel switcher; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
- Swaziland Railway (www.swazirail.co.sz)
Founded in 1879 after the discovery of gold and provides rail service to business and industry; Mbabane, Swaziland, Africa.
- SwedeTrack System (www.swedetrack.com)
Designers of the system for automatically controlling beam carried transportation containers for people and goods; Lidingo, Sweden (Swedish, English).
- Swedish Narrow Gauge Society (www.smalsparigt.org)
Founded in 1976 to bring Swedish narrow gauge modelers together and trade information about what was available abroad; more than 600 members in the society and most prefer Swedish prototypes; Balsta, Sweden (Svenska, English).
- Swedish Railroad Photos (w1.586.telia.com/~u58613650/swrrph.html)
Photos taken during the last ten years of lines still in use and abandoned lines; maintained by Ulf Herdenberg; Sweden (English, Svenska).
- Sweet, Bethlehem and Lehigh Valley (personal.myvine.com/~mwatson)
HO model train layout
- Swindon & Cricklade Railway (www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org)
Swindon, Wiltshire standard gauge tourist railway, UK.
- Swindon & Highworth Light Railway (www.highworth.freeuk.com)
virtual railway for Microsoft Train Simulator
- Swindon Model Railway Club (www.smrc.org.uk/Htm/ModrailSMRC)
Very active group of modellers, founded in 1953 that organizes an annual model railway exhibition called MODRAIL; currently has three exhibition layouts constructed to a high standard using the wealth of experience gained from within the club; Swindon, England, UK.
- Swindon Model Railway Club 2009 MODRAIL (www.smrc.org.uk)
Site promoting the club's 50th annual "MODRAIL 2009" exhibition on November 7th & 8th, 2009; Swindon, England UK.
- Swingmaster (www.swingmastercorp.com)
Manufacturer of hyrail tie exchanger, knuckle boom, rail handling and other maintenance jobs; Franklin Park, Illinois, USA.
- Swiss Railways Society (www.swissrailsoc.org.uk)
Enthusiast organization with branches around the world and publishers of Swiss Express magazine; Chobham, Surrey, England, UK.
- Swiss Trains.net (myweb.tiscali.co.uk/john.whitby)
Prototype and N Scale modeling featuring photographs and information on Swiss railways and Swiss modeling; maintained by John Whitby; Sheffield, England, UK. Web Gem Award recipient.
- Swiss Vapeur Parc (www.swissvapeur.ch)
miniature railroad (English, Français, Deutsch)
- Swiss Z Line (SZL) (www.ztrack.com/SZL/swisszline.html)
Meeting the niche market of Swiss prototype Z Scale locomotives and rolling stock; their brass Re 4/4 IIs with corresponding brass passenger cars and gravel cars offered Swiss enthusiasts new options for rolling stock; Dublin, Ohio, USA.
- Switch Back Gravity Railroad Foundation, Inc. (www.switchbackgravityrr.org)
To preserve, interpret, and celebrate Pennsylvania's historic Switchback Gravity Railroad; Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SwitchMaster (www.builders-in-scale.com/bis/sm-home.html)
Slow motion switch (turnout) machines from Builders In Scale, Mukilteo, Washington, USA.
- Sword Precision Scale Models (www.swordmodels.com)
Museum quality scale models of construction equipment; Berea, Ohio, USA.
- Sydney Electric Train Society Inc (SETS) (www.sets.org.au)
Preserving Sydney's vintage single-decker suburban & interurban electric trains were preserved for the benefit of present and future generations; Broadway, New South Wales, Australia.
- Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society Co-op (www.pnc.com.au/~wallison/slsls.htm)
West Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.
- Sydney Monorail and Light Rail (Veolia Transport Pty Ltd) (www.metrotransport.com.au)
Official site of the metropolitan monorail and light rail system; Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia.
- Sydney Society of Model Engineers (www.modelpark.org.au)
Oldest model railroading club in Australia, Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia.
- Sydney Tramway Museum (www.railpage.org.au/tram/loftus.html)
Australia's oldest tramway museum (founded in 1950) and the largest in the southern hemisphere is located in the southern Sydney suburb of Loftus.
- Sykesville and Patapsco Railway, Inc. (www.sykesvilleandpatapscorailway.org)
Members operate in various scales and maintain models in G, O, HO and N Scales; Sykesville, Maryland, USA.
- Sylvan Scale Models (www.isp.ca/sylvan)
Manufacturers of fine quality kits for discerning model railroaders offering buildings, rolling stock, marine kits, detail parts and accessories in both HO and N Scales; Parkhill, Ontario, Canada.
- Syracuse Model Railroad Club (www.syracusemodelrr.org)
Models the transition era from Syracuse, New York to the St. Lawrence River in HO Scale; Syracuse, New York, USA.
- System Five-O (www.dccuncoupling.com)
System that allows uncoupling model railroad rolling stock anywhere on your DCC layout with cars equipped with Kadee or compatible magnetic couplers; Clinton Township, Michigan, USA.
- Syston Model Railway Society (www.systonmrs.org.uk)
Two permanent layouts (OO Gauge and an N Gauge) and a portable N Gauge layout for exhibition; currently building a new N Gauge portable layout and an OO Gauge portable layout; Syston, Leicester, England, UK.
- Systra Consulting (www.systraconsulting.com)
Little Falls, New Jersey company offering, among other things, creative solutions to problems facing all types of
railroad and transit operations, USA.
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