Central Coast Model Railroad (CCMR)

Welcome to the Central Coast Model Railroad (CCMR) at the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum (SLORRM).

The CCMR is a working HO Scale model representing the Pacific Coast Railroad from Avila Beach to San Luis Obispo in the early 1900’s and the Southern Pacific Railroad from Paso Robles to Surf in the mid 1950’s. The CCMR is in a room that is approximately 32′ X 50′ room (~1,600 square feet). It is a double deck model with San Luis Obispo to Paso in the north on the upper deck and San Luis Obispo to Surf (Near Lompoc, CA on the coast) in the south on the lower deck. There is approximately 550′ feet of mainline track (~415 feet exposed and ~140 hidden), over 6 scale miles of track.

Paso Robles is north of San Luis Obispo and Surf is south of San Luis Obispo. The Southern Pacific’s main offices were in San Francisco, they considered this the western end of the railway, all trains heading to San Francisco were headed west and all trains heading away from San Francisco were heading east. This simplified directions for the workers on the railway, as the tracks twist and turn across the landscape, if you stand on the tracks with to San Francisco to your left and away from San Francisco to your right, the rail and anything in front of you is north. The rail behind you and anything on that side of the tracks is south.

What is a Station?

Many people confuse the term station and depot. A depot is a building, a station is a named location on the railway. It is an exact location and normally has a sign. As an example, the Pismo Station is just as you are heading east out of Price Canyon.