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.

• 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.