Interesting Links for Train and History Enthusiasts

Model Train Companies

• Atlas Model Railroad - www.atlasrr.com

• Athern Model Railroad - www.athern.com

• Greatest Hobby - www.greatesthobby.com

• Bachman Railroad - www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/index.html

• Walthers Model Trains - www.walthers.com

• Garden Railways - www.gardenrailways.com

• List of manufacturers - www.hobbylinc.com/mfg/help/mfg_help_a.htm#ath

Model Train Clubs

• Black Diamond Society - www.bdsme.org

• Anthracite Model Railroad Society - www.amrclub.org

• Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Club - members.aol.com/lkv01/lkv01.html

• Nazareth Area Society of Model Engineers - members.tripod.com/~NASME/

Train Meets

• Great Lehigh Valley Train Meet - www.lehighvalleytrainmeet.com/

Train Shows

• World's Greatest Hobby on Tour (Traveling model train show designed to promote the hobby of model railroading)  http://www.wghshow.com

• Greenberg's Train and Toy Show (The largest traveling train and toy show in the northeastern United States)  http://www.greenbergshows.com

• Great Midwest Train Show (The Midwest's oldest and largest monthly model train show held in Wheaton, IL) http://www.greatmidwesttrainshow.com

Historical Information of local trains

• Switchback Gravity Railroad - www.switchbackgravityrr.org

• Black Diamonds to Tidewater - www.gingerb.com

Other Railways

• The World's Most Famous Railways - http://www.rail-ways.com/

Other Interesting Model Train Links

• HO Model train of Mauch Chunk, PA in Birkenhead, United Kingdom - www.homauchchunk.co.uk/

• Allentown Train Meet - www.allentowntrainmeet.com/index.htm

• Lehigh Valley Train Meet - www.lehighvalleytrainmeet.com

• RailServe.com: The Internet Railroad Directory - Guide to 14,000 rail-related websites including train travel, model railroading, railfan resources, train simulators, and railroad industry sites

Other Local Links

• Palmerton Chamber of Commerce - www.palmertonpa.com/chamber

• Welcome to Carbon County - www.carboncounty.com

• The Borough of Bowmanstown - bowmanstownborough.tripod.com

Hobby Stores

• Lehighton Hobbies - www.lehightonhobbies.com

• Plastic Kits - Plastic Model Kits UK - Plastic Aircraft Model, Plastic Vehicle Model, Plastic Model Ships
  UK based Just Kits & Models provides plastic kits and plastic model kits which mainly include plastic aircraft model, plastic vehicle models, plastic ship models, military vehicles, military figures, maritime vessels and dioramas. Good stock of aircraft kits, ship kits, boat kits and road vechicle kits like car model kits, lorries model kits, motorbikes model kits.

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