Rail Fanning and Train Spotting are the recreational pastimes of people who collect or log detailed data or images of railways / roads and / or trains, using physical, electronic, or mental means.
This category list sites which contain resources useful to trainspotters and rail fans, such as databases of locomotives, rolling stock or other records.
Rail sites of a personal homepage nature, which do not contain such resources should be listed under / Recreation / Trains_and_Railroads / Personal_Pages /
a personal photo galley and home to the Ohio Rail Link, and a list and photos of ex-Conrail units in CSX and Norfolk Southern paint. www.trainweb.org/columbusrailfan
Train spotting pictures in Southern California, Cajon Pass. Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific can be found here. nothingbuttrains.tripod.com
A listing of hotels, motels and inns located directly on rail lines in the US, with views of the railroad tracks from at least some of the rooms. home.att.net/~roadrailer/MotelsIntro.html
A complete guide for railfans visiting this Oregon Coast shortline. Topics include locomotive and car rosters, galleries, videos, history, and maps. www.trainweb.org/potb
Historical information, such as steam rosters, old timetables, menus, and photographs. Also current aspects such as present-day timetables, diesel roster and modern photographs. keretapi.tripod.com
It is neither a real company, nor a real railroad. Rather it is a site for the archiving of historical and informational documents and binaries concerning railroads, railfanning and model railroading. www.spikesys.com/webville.html
Learn about an inspection trip that was organized by rail-fans on the South Shore Line, America's last inter-urban electric railway. www.ameritech.net/users/liz357/SSL.htm
Engineers, conductors and passengers share their experiences as they travel through the great American west. Spectacular images of some of America's favorite trains. HDTV. www.rmpbs.org/trains