Welcome to the Tamalpais Valley Railroad website. Be sure to vist the gallery page for lots of photos of the layout. The Tam Valley RR is an HO model railroad that wanders through the bedrooms of our house and is roughly based on the real Southern Pacific with a lot of modeler's license. The route starts at Tamalpais Valley, continues through the Central Valley, over the High Sierras, across the Nevada desert to terminate at Ogden with branches to Sausalito and Mill Valley. The roster consists almost exclusively of surplus Southern Pacific equipment from with some other western roads and some old logging locomotives. I mix times up as I wish, modeling 3 dimensions is plenty, I have left the 4th one indeterminate on the TVRR.
The layout is built, owned and operated by me, Duncan McRee, and I live in San Diego. Model railroading has been a hobby of mine for over 30 years. If you wish to comment, you can email me at dmcree (at) tamvalleyrr dot com.
Cab-foward crossing the Humboldt River in Palisade Canyon. First revenue train!
Analysis* - Steam is prefered on the two coasts with rare exceptions and diesel is slightly favored in the midwest by a small majority. No one likes electric :-( .
*Tongue in cheek :-)
Map of poll response locations. Red=Diesels, Green=Steam
Site Update Log
4-16-08 Added the construction and mscellaneous photo gallery on the Gallery page.
4-17-08 Added photos showing how to make water waves to Resources page.
