Mark your calendar for BayRails 10, March 22-24 2025 (Saturday - Monday) in the San Francisco Bay Area. We look forward to having those invited join us for exciting operating sessions, great camaraderie, interesting clinics, and visiting sites in here in the Bay Area. Operating sessions will be held Saturday, March 22st thru Monday March 24th. About twenty Northern California railroads will be available for your selection as well as bonus Op Sessions after the main event, located a little further afield, many on the way to the PCR Daylight Limited Convention in San Luis Obispo . We are scheduling bonus sessions on Tuesday on the way South to PCR and PCR is setting up Wednesday Drive-in Sessions, so you can experience 9 days of continuous railroading! The sessions will be daytime operating sessions and will generally run 4-6 hours with a break for lunch. We will have a dinner Saturday evening and a clinic program Sunday evening.

We suggest you plan to arrive not later than Friday and to depart not earlier than Monday afternoon. For those of you flying in, the closest airports to the hotel are San Francisco (SFO). San Jose (SJC), Oakland (OAK - Check! They now call themselves San Francisco Bay-Oakland, it is NOT SFO) are about 45 minutes away. Amtrak serves Oakland (Emeryville) with the daily California Zephyr between Chicago, IL and Emeryville, CA and the Coast Starlight from Los Angeles or Seattle.

We are requesting a $30 contribution to offset costs, payable at registration

We are really excited about partnering with the PCR Daylight Limited Convention in San Luis Obispo March 27-30. The convention includes informational and hands-on clinics, prototype tours, model layout tours, a swap meet, layout operations including on the modular layout at the convention hotel, Wednesday Drive-in Op Sessions, and a Sunday morning Awards Brunch. Information and registration can be found at the link above. The Amtrak excursion is limited and is selling out fast. Similarly, a tour of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad facility is also selling out quickly.

2023 BayRails Hotel accommodations were at the Crowne Plaza in Foster City about 20 minutes south of SFO and we expect to use this facility for BayRails 2025. The hotel room rates will also be honored for the days preceding and following BayRails 2025 for those who wish to extend their stay. Go to the Hotel Information Page for additional hotel information. Check back to see the latest changes!

updated 11/24/2025