Visit our 2,400 sq. ft. of HO {TSR} & N {freelance} Scale layouts! We are a Nonprofit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation since 2019 and Est. In 1992 at SJCF.

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TSMRC takes its name from the Tidewater Southern Railway {TS}, which began operations in 1910 out of Stockton, CA, and became a subsidiary of the Western Pacific Railroad {WP} in 1917.  Its mainline went southeast from Stockton to Manteca Junction to Escalon and then to Modesto before splitting into two branches at the Hatch junction and terminating at both Turlock and Hilmar. TS continued operations under WP until 1983, when Union Pacific acquired WP in a merger. Three years later, when the merger was completed, TS was abolished. 

However, the memory of TS still lives on. Since 1983, portions of the TS have become the Tidewater Subdivision of Union Pacific. In 2001, one of the line's noteworthy traits (rails down the centerline of Modesto's Ninth Street) was abandoned. Turlock bound trains now bypass the north end of the railroad and enter the former TS rails just south of Modesto and Escalon bound trains by the old right-away by SE-Stockton to French Camp Rd to Highway 120.

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