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Other Historic Railway Information on the World Wide Web

The Danbury Railway Museum is far from alone -- there are very many other railroad and railway preservation groups around the world. Listed here are Web pages for some of them. Some of these pages are official (as the DRM's pages are), and are maintained by the organizations specified. Others are unofficial, personal efforts of interested individuals.

Other Rail Attractions in Connecticut

• Essex Steam Train, operated by the Valley Railroad Company in Essex.
• Shore Line Trolley Museum (B.E.R.A.) in East Haven.
• Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, in Willimantic
• Connecticut Trolley Museum (Connecticut Electric Railway Association (CERA))
  

Other Rail Attractions Elsewhere in New England

• Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.
• Berkshire Scenic in Lenox, MA

Preserved and Tourist Railroads in the USA

• Alaska Railroad, Anchorage, AK 99522
• Cripple Creek Narrow Gauge Railroad, Cripple Creek, Colorado.
• Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Antonito, Colorado.
• Napa Valley Wine Train, Napa, California.
• Pike's Peak Cog Railway, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• Puffing Billy Railway in Australia.
• Rocky Mountaineer Railtours -- the Canadian Rockies by rail.
• Tennessee Valley Railroad, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• West Central Virginia Railroad, Durbin, West Virginia.
• Indiana Official Railroad Attractions.

Railroad Museums and Historical Societies - USA

• California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento.
• Golden Gate Railroad Museum, San Francisco, California.
• Golden Spike National Historic Site, at Promontory Summit, Utah, where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific connected on May 10, 1869.
  (Yes, it's Promontory Summit, not Promontory Point. See the "Golden Spike Trivia" on this page.)
• The Illinois Railway Museum, Marengo .
• Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven (!) Kentucky.
• Kingston Trolley Museum, Kingston, New York.
• New Haven Railroad Historical & Technical Association, NHRHTA, A tax-exempt, non-profit group dedicated to the preservation of the history of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and its predecessor and subsidiary companies..
• North Carolina Transporation Museum, located in the old Spencer Shops of the Southern Railway.
• Old Pueblo Trolley, Tucson, Arizona.
• Portola Railroad Museum, Portola, California.
• The Reading Company Technical & Historical Society , Hamburg, PA
• San Diego Railroad Museum, California.
• Steamtown, USA National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• The Union Pacific Museum. This is in fact the official home page for the Union Pacific Railroad, with much more than just the museum.
• Yakima Valley Rail and Steam Museum, Toppenish, Washington.
• The US National Railway Historical Society.
• Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society.
• Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society.
• Conrail Technical Society.
• Delaware & Hudson's Bridge Line Historical Society.
• Grand Trunk Western Historical Society.
• MONON Railroad Historical-Technical Society
• Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California.
• Soo Line Historical and Technical Society
• SONO Switch Tower Museum - South Norwalk, CT
• Westconn Chapter NRHS.

Railroad Museums and Historical Societies - United Kingdom

• Great Britain's National Railway Musuem in York.
• The London Transport Museum has lots of information on London's Underground (subway) system.
• The Welsh Highland Railway, now undergoing major rebuilding and expansion.
• The Talyllyn Railway in Wales. This was the world's first preserved railway, and their Web site is well worth a visit.
• The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway in South East Kent. This is a 15" guage railway that runs across Romney Marsh.
• The East Kent Railway running between Shepherswell and Eythorne.
• The Kent and East Sussex Railway running between Tenterden and Bodium Castle.
• The Bluebell Railway in Sussex which is home to the largest collection of Southern steam locomotives.
• The West Somerset Railway is one of longest preserved steam and diesel railways in the United Kingdom.
• The Severn Valley Railway is situated in the West Midlands and runs from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth over 16 miles in length.

Commercial (Non-Tourist) Railroads - USA and Canada

Except as noted, these are the official home pages of the indicated companies.

• Amtrak.
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Not long ago this was two separate railroads; before that, it was more than two....
• Canadian National.
• CSX Corporation. They have an interesting "chronology of events" page outlining the history of railroading in general and of CSX's predecessor railroads in particular as well.
• Metra, the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation (Chicago).
• Metro-North Commuter Railroad. Metro-North Home page.
• New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's home page, including Metro-North Commuter Railroad and the Long Island Railroad.
• Union Pacific Railroad. (This is the same page as listed above under museums.)
• VIA Rail, Canada.

Commercial (Non-Tourist) Railroads - United Kingdom

Except as noted, these are the official home pages of the indicated companies. Rail services in the United Kingdom are operated by private companies.

• Anglia Railways
• Arriva Trains
• c2c
• Central Trains
• Chilten Railways
• Connex
• First Great Eastern
• First Great Western
• First North Western
• Gatwick Express
• GNER
• Heathrow Express
• Hull Trains
• Island Line
• Midland Mainline
• ScotRail Railways
• Silverlink Train Services
• South Central
• South West Trains
• Thameslink Rail
• Thames Trains
• Virgin Trains
• WAGN Railway (Stansted Express)
• Wales & Borders Trains
• Wessex Trains
• West Coast Railway Company (West of Scotland)
• London Transport (Bus and Subway services)
• Eurostar, London to the centre of Paris and Brussels as well as Fridays only to the South of France direct. Eurostar is the operator of the trains that run under the English Channel through the channel tunnel ("Chunnel").
• Rail Planner for train journies
• RailTrack Timetable Look Up
• Current running of British Rail Services
• The Office of the Rail Regulator
• The Strategic Rail Authority
• The Health and Safety Executive
• Association of Train Operating Companies

American Association of Railroads 'Museum Parter.' - http://www.railfanclub.org/

Model Railroad Information

• Robert Bowdidge's Model Railroad Information page has lots of pointers to modelling information.
• The National Model Railroad Association home page.
• NTRAK, the N scale modular layout group.
• Model Railroader magazine.
• Con-Cor's Grand Central Railway Station of Cyberspace, a collection of pointers to model and real railroading information.

Model Railroad Equipment Manufacturers

Here are some of the ones I've been able to find so far.

• Aristocraft
• Bachmann Trains
• Atlas
• Dave Frary's Blue Ribbon Models and Trackside Modeller
• Con-Cor
• LGB
• Polyterrain (tttrains)
• Märklin
• Model Memories

Hobby Shops and Other Retailers

• Ken's Trains specializing in N scale.
• Tried-and-True Trains, an on-line catalog company offering railroad modelling supplies.
• The Rails USA , a complete listing of all the hobby shops that advertise in railroad-related magazines, sorted by ZIP code within state.

Searching the Web

Use one of the Web search engines to find sites that fit your particular interest.

• Starting Point is a Web "meta-search" engine, allowing you to search many of the databases listed below from a single screen. It has lots of other useful links from its own pages as well.

• Alta Vista
• LinkStar
• Yahoo
• Lycos
• WebCrawler
• InfoSeek
• Go
• New Riders' Official WWW Yellow Pages

Something completely different ...

Try operating a model railroad by remote control. The control unit is your Web browser; the model railroad is at the University of Ulm in Germany. This site deservedly won one of the "Top 5% of Web Sites" awards.

Site names and addresses are changing all the time. While we do our best to keep these links up-to-date, if you find any errors or have any suggestions, please email John Silbert:

jsdrm@snet.net

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