Links
Trainz:
Cayden's Canadian Pacific Railway Mountain Subdivision page
Lots of good Trainz Blender tutorials
Cripple Creek Railroads
Shortline (Linda)'s homepage; focused on Colorado mining railroads. Also several tutorials.
Ianz Trainz
Many good tutorials and other content
The Missabe Road
Good turn-of-the-century content
San Juan
Trainz Workz
Todd Hohlenkamp (Prowler)'s site - lots of great Rio Grande content.
Sir Gibby's TrainZONE
The home of the excellent Murchison Layouts. Tons of free content as well as excellent payware.
Slugsmasher's Virtual Narrow Gauge and Logging Short Lines
Excellent source for logging equipment, tutorials and sample files. Home of the MLOG product system.
Subpar Productions
Ben Neal's (bdaneal's) site - lots of excellent steam engines - both narrow and standard gauge -
including several old west 4-4-0's.
Trainz Pro Routes
Home of LARS product systems; also the ARN (automatic running number) script for freight cars.
Excellent forums at
http://trainzproroutes.org/forum/.
Virginia & Truckee Railroad:
All Around Nevada: American Flat Mill A virtual tour of the old United Comstock Merger Mill at American Flat; including many historic photographs.
Backyard Traveler Blog that often covers historic sites around the V & T
California State Railroad Museum Second-largest collection of V&T equipment
Comstock Car Shops Model Railroad supplies, including V&T items. Also some historic V&T photographs.
Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum Volunteer organization; unofficial homepage for the NSRM. V&T rosters and photographs, mainly of existing equipment.
Kent Kristiansson's V&T page Excellent page with lots of information; including nice artwork.
Lyon Replica Construction Project Building a full-scale replica of V&T No 1, the "Lyon" Link appears to be down at the moment, but they also have a Facebook page.
Nevada State Railroad Museum Official homepage for the NSRM. Some nice historic V&T locomotive pictures
Nevada Department of Transportation A low-resolution set of the 1916 V & T right of way maps. Higher resolution copies are available (for a small fee) from the Nevada State Railroad Museum.
Onderdonk's Way Covers building a section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The section on A.O.'s Plant covers the history of 4 ex-V&T locomotives (V&T numbers 3, 5, 7, and 8). This was an exhibition on the Kamloops Art Gallery's website, but was removed. Fortunately, the exhibition is still available at the Internet Archive.
PacificNG.com Although focused mainly on Pacific Coast Narrow Gauge, the site also has several active V&T modellers and a V&T - specific forum.
Reno Historical Good details about many old Reno buildings; some of which were adjacent to the V & T tracks.
Rio Grande Models Model Railroad supplies, including many HO-Scale V&T items
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad The current V & T, operating as a tourist railroad between Virginia City and Gold Hill
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad Historical Society Dedicated to the research and dissemination of V&T history.
The Western Nevada Historic Photo Collection Good collection of V&T photos, as well as photos of surrounding scenery.