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October 1, 2022

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• Detailed Schedules are Posted
• Map View of the Festival
• Museum BBQ Dinners and Online Auction
• At the Oceano Depot
• At the SLO Railroad Museum
• At Norgrove Railway
• At the SLO Library (Downtown)
• At Other Venues
• Share your Festival Photos
• PCRR had to Cancel
• Stay Off the Tracks
• Thank You! 2022 CCRRF Sponsors
• 2022 CCRRF Participants
• Area Railroading Opportunities
• Want Your News/Event Promoted? (It's free)
• Want to Subscribe? (It's free)

CCRRF October 7-9, 2022

The Central Coast Railroad Festival (CCRRF) actually starts this coming Thursday (Oct. 6th) which is the opening day of the self-guided Model Railroad Layout Tour!

Detailed Schedules are Posted

SLO Railroad Museum (Festival Host).
Overall CCRRF Schedule (all venues, dates, times, etc.).
Model Layout Tour, 32 layouts at 18 locations, self-guided (PDF).

These pages can adjust as the Festival approaches. Please check back before setting out. The latest schedule update was made on 9/30/2022.

Map View of the Festival

There's available now a notional map view of the Central Coast Railroad Festival. Click here. You'll still want to reference the CCRRF detailed schedule.

Museum BBQ Dinners and Online Auction

Ordering for BBQ dinners (by Railroad BBQ Co) ends tomorrow and the Online Auction bidding closes this coming Friday the 7th at 5pm PDT. This is a fundraiser for the SLO Railroad Museum that culminates at the Festival. Details: BBQ, Auction.

At the Oceano Depot...

On Saturday the 8th starting at 1pm, the Ukeladies from Morro Bay will be entertaining the crowd. There will also be hot dogs and popcorn available from 10am to 2pm on Saturday. Look for a model railroad yard sale as well on Saturday and Sunday. Check out everything else at the Depot, including HO and N scale model layouts by the SLO Model Railroad Association.

At the SLO Railroad Museum...

The SLO Railroad Museum will be open October 7-9: Friday 2-6pm, Saturday 10am-4pm, and Sunday 10am-4pm. Saturday is the BIG DAY with Operation Lifesaver, South Street Roundhouse, vendors and displays, trackside demonstrations, SMVRR Hi-Rail display, a G-scale layout outdoors, presentation of Photo Contest Winners, lunch by Railroad BBQ Co., kids art contest drawing, and wine tasting in the Pullman car. Friday and Sunday are open as Festival Host only, no special exhibits or activities.

At Norgrove Railway...

The Norgrove Railway Open House will be on Saturday the 8th from 10am to 4pm and Sunday the 9th from 10am to 2pm. It's a brand spankin' new 600mm (just under 2') gauge railroad being built near Hiway 101 that winds through a vineyard and citrus orchard, focusing on superbly refurbished railroad equipment including a WWI trench engine. There will be shop tours and exhibits, operating steam and diesel locomotives, a steam roller, and a display model train layout by the Central California Coast Garden Railroad Society.

Here's a little teaser... Mike Massee recently posted a video on YouTube: Firing up and running "Buckeye" O&K 0-4-0 Steam Locomotive!. This 15-minute video will give you a good idea of what's happening at Norgrove Railway!

At the SLO Library (Downtown)...

The Orange County 'N' Gineers will have a large N-scale layout operating in the Community Room of the downtown SLO Library branch all weekend: Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 10am-3pm.

At Other Venues...

For all the details for these venues, check out the Detailed CCRRF Schedule.

• Central Coast Trains (Atascadero)
• Dana Adobe & Cultural Center (Nipomo)
• Santa Maria Valley Historical Society Museum
• Pioneer Museum (Paso Robles)
• Static Railroad Equipment Display in Santa Maria
• Rock-n-Roll Diner (Oceano)
• Grover Station Grill (Grover Beach)
• Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream Lab (Arroyo Grande)

Share your Festival Photos

If you get any good photos of the Central Coast Railroad Festival (any/all venues, any/all times), please make them available to the CCRRF's webmaster: webman@CCRRF.com. We'd love to put some of them on the CCRRF website, crediting the photographer. You're welcome to submit photos any time during or after the CCRRF weekend.

PCRR had to Cancel

Unfortunately, the Pacific Coast Railroad had to cancel its participation in this year's Central Coast Railroad Festival. They're knee-deep in projects at the railroad as a 9/28/2022 post on their Facebook page attests. We wish them well and hope they try again next year to join the Festival.

Stay Off the Tracks

Here's a rail safety website that's been around a few years, but was new to this editor: StayOffTheTracks.org. It contains various resources with which to partner with them in spreading the word. As you might imagine, they work together with the more familiar (perhaps) Operation Lifesaver.

Thank You! 2022 CCRRF Sponsors

If you'd like to join this list, Contact Us.
KSBY-TV6
Major sponsor.
SLO New Times
Media sponsor.
Unitarian Universalists San Luis Obispo
We join with one another here, not around a single set of beliefs, but in shared promise and purpose. Supplying overflow parking for the SLO Railroad Museum on Saturday.
To Shiny Rails
Jamie Foster's blog of his railroading adventures; just for fun. Sponsor of the Coloring Contest Prize and the SLORRM Photo Contest.
City of San Luis Obispo
Hosting the model layout at the Downtown SLO Library.
San Luis Obispo Library
Handing out Goodie Bags and Coloring Contest Pages across SLO County.

2022 CCRRF Participants

If you'd like to be on this list, confirm your participation by contacting: Conductor@CCRRF.com.

• San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum (SLORRM)
• CCRRF Model Layout Tour (Details)
• Model Railroads of Southern California
• Central California Coast Garden Railroad Society
• SLO Model Railroad Association
• Oceano Depot
• Rock-n-Roll Diner NEW in 2022
• Orange County 'N' Gineers
• Grover Station Grill NEW in 2022
• Hands-On Model Railroad Layout (@SLORRM)
• Operation Lifesaver (@SLORRM)
• Norgrove Railway
• Railroad Modeling talk by Bob Chaparro (@SLORRM)
• Live Music by South Street Roundhouse (@SLORRM)
• Railroad BBQ Co. (@SLORRM)
• Railroad Vendors and Exhibitors on the Platform (@SLORRM)
• Central Coast Trains
• Southern Pacific / SLO talk by Marilyn Darnell (@SLORRM)
• Dana Adobe & Cultural Center
• San Luis Obispo County Library
• Santa Maria Valley Railroad (@SLORRM)
• PCRy "Avila" 2-4-2T model debuts (@SLORRM) NEW in 2022
• Enfold Wines (@SLORRM) NEW in 2022
• EPIC (Engineering Possibilities in College) display of output from Glen Matteson's summer program at Cal Poly, Light Rail Transit Route Design Lab (@SLORRM) NEW in 2022

Area Railroading Opportunities

There's a plethora of railroading going on in our area (broadly speaking, in some cases). Check out this Index of Area Railroading. Be sure to check with any of interest to you to verify their open status and schedules.

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