Silicon Valley Lines Model Railroad Club

SiliconValleyLines

Winter Open House January 30th, 2010 from 7 PM to 10 PM

As part of the Bay Area Layout Design & Operation Weekend, we'll be hosting an open house on January 30th.

Visitors are welcome to come down between 7 and 10PM to see our HO Scale Model Railroad in action.

We'll be operating, and if you're interested, you too could run a train.

Click here for directions to Silicon Valley Lines


Recent Updates:

Newly Posted Video of the layout

Bayrails Beef Sandwich Recipe

Online tour has been updated

Founded in 1979, Silicon Valley Lines (SVL) is an HO Scale Model Railroad Club located in San Jose, California. In 1999, we moved to our current location on 148 E. Virginia Street in San Jose, where our new 23' x 72' layout is now in operation.

SVL operates trains using digital command control (DCC), which allows engineers to control locomotives independently on the same track.

Members are given switchlist and must coordinate via radio with the dispatcher to obtain authority to move on the mainline and complete their work in a timely fashion.

Our layout is constructed using some unique benchwork building techniques, with much of the layout supported by structural steel components.

Visitors are welcome to visit us at our club any Friday evening, after 7:30PM. The first Friday of each month is the club business meeting, the last Friday is “Operations Night,” and all other Fridays are work-nights. Some folks leave at 10PM, some stay until midnight or so, and a group of night owls usually adjourn to a nearby Denny’s.

Membership is open, and we’re always looking for new folks to help build, operate, and enjoy HO Scale Model Railroading. Click here for directions to SVL.

If you have additional questions, feel free to email us at: svl@siliconvalleylines.com

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SVL News

7/29/2000: Added new videos to YouTube!

5/12/2009: Added Bayrails Beef Sandwich Recipe

3/20/2009: Friday. SVL Hosts operations for Bayrails (www.bayrails.com). Some photos here.

2/13/2009: Friday the 13th! Bayshore turntable gets it's fitting! Click Here.

7/8/2008: We have a new Layout Tour in progress!! Click here to view it.

2/8/2007: Two new videos from the layout: DM&IR and BLI Hudson.

9/29/2007: Photos from the CEMOF Grand Opening in San Jose.

9/3/2007: New Video of some recent track work.

9/1/2007: Up-loaded June Open House Photos. Click Here

7/14/2007: New DCC Presentations from Mark Gurries for the NMRA 2007 Convention.

3/1/2007: Added Megadrawer Movie

2/14/2007: Added Open House and PCR Ops-SIG Movies

5/15/2006: Added Mark Gurries DCC Presentations from 2006 PCR Convention.

5/10/2006: Updated the home page, and cleaned up some of the web site.


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