Model Layouts
Note: All the layouts in Arroyo Grande, Oceano and Grover Beach are within
four miles of each other.
Many thanks to Bob Chaparro for organizing these opportunities to visit model railroad layouts during the CCRRF.
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Model Railroads of Southern California (website)
Central Coast Railroad Festival
Layout Tour No. 21
Thursday, October 7, 2010
San Luis Obispo
6:00pm-9:00pm: SLO Farmers' Market
San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Assoc. - small operating N-Scale layout
Grover Beach
6pm-8pm: Beach Walk Beautification Celebration (2nd St. & Grand Avenue at
the Station Grill): CCRRF and SLO Model Railroad Assoc. booth and operating
HO model layout.
Atascadero
Central Coast Trains, 7600 El Camino Real, Ste. 3, (Thur & Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun & Mon by appointment). Three running layouts: N scale 3-track layout, HO layout, and an overhead O Gauge track.
Arroyo Grande
The G Scale Village Railroad is on display daily at
Doc Burnstein's Ice
Cream Lab, 114 W. Branch Street, Thur. & Sun 11:00 am to 9:30 pm Fri. & Sat. 11:00 am to 10:30 pm. This is the best site to enjoy ice cream while watching trains, with hand-crafted ice creams made on-site. The G-scale train travels the perimeter of the shop on a continuous loop, passing through two rooms and outside the building. Lay-out includes bridges, suspended track, and mountain scenery. Running since 1981, the Village Railroad includes an engine that replicates a train that traveled through Arroyo Grande in 1883-1896.
Paso Robles
10am-4pm: Darrell Nash's Sn3-scale "Gold Rock, Columbia and Palisades" model layout.
Friday, October 8, 2010
San Luis Obispo
12:00noon-9:00pm:
California Central Valley On30 Modular group operating
model layout (static display during programs). The goal of this group, a division of the California Central Coast Modular
On30 group, is to have fun building and operating an On30 modular railroad.
The railroad is a freelanced railroad with no specifics other than being
narrow gauge and the locale being Central California, the time period being
sometime just after World War I to shortly before World War II. Website:
SLO Library Community Room
Oceano
11:00am-5:00pm Dennis Pearson's operating 0n30 layout modeling numerous
locations along the historic Pacific Coast Railway. Also operating: the
Oceano Caboose Railway (HO). At the
Oceano Depot, 1650 Front St/Hwy 1.
Paso Robles
10am-4pm: Darrell Nash's Sn3-scale "Gold Rock, Columbia and Palisades" model layout.
2pm-6pm: Paul Deis' Fn3-scale model layout "D&P Mountain Railroad" and his HO-scale "Los Osos Valley Railroad".
Atascadero
Central Coast Trains - see above
12pm-4pm: Elden Paling's G-scale "Colima & Silla Railroad" model layout.
Arroyo Grande
Doc Burnstein's- see above
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Arroyo Grande
10:00am-5:00pm:
Free-mo SLO large modular HO scale layout. This is a module set-up in a 30 foot by 50 foot' space
(barn) with over 100 linear feet of modules. The modules generally represent
the California Central Coast. Operations are point-to-point using digital
command control. There are two yards making the layout a yard to yard
layout. One yard is modeled after the west end of Watsonville. It contains
nine tracks and is twenty-four feet long. The other yard is a five track
yard. (in the large red barn at 661 Valley Road)
Doc Burnstein's - see above
San Luis Obispo
12pm-9:00pm:
California Central Valley On30 Modular group operating
model layout (static display during programs) - see above.
1:00pm-5:00pm: Andrew Merriam's "SP Coast Line" HO-scale model layout.
Oceano
11:00am-3:00pm
Dennis Pearson's operating 0n30 Pacific Coast Railway & the Oceano Caboose
Railway (HO) - see above
Atascadero
Central Coast Trains - see above
Morro Bay
1:00pm-6:00pm: Charlie Burns' N-scale "Southern Pacific" model layout.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Oceano
10:00am-4:00pm -
San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Association's Big Show (N, HO & G Scales) plus Dennis Pearson's operating 0n30 Pacific Coast Railway & the Oceano Caboose Railway (HO, Oceano Depot (1650 Front St/Hwy 1)
1:00pm-9:00pm:
Central Valley Model Works Layout display and model manufacturing shop tours. This is the well known layout created by the late Jack Parker. 1203 Pike Lane, Oceano. Jack began this layout in 1988. The often photographed scenes depict Logan, Montana. While considerable "artistic license" has been taken with the actual arrangement of Logan, the layout allows the simulation of the actual operation of Northern Pacific trains going to and from St. Paul and Tacoma in the late 1940s. The layout room is a generous 17?x 50?plus an extra eight-foot extension on the east end for return loops. The track is, of course, Central Valley CVT. That product was designed and developed for and then used on this layout. Jack's good friend and fellow N.P. model railroader David Coster helped design the layout and also did all of the wiring. The layout features a great roster of detailed brass steam locomotives and these all are tuned and weighted to pull scale length trains.
Arroyo Grande
10:00am-2:00pm: Free-mo SLO large modular HO scale layout,
(http://free-mo.org/) (in the large red barn at 661 Valley Road)
Doc Burnstein's- see above
Morro Bay
1:00pm-6:00pm: Charlie Burns' N-scale "Southern Pacific" model layout.