After building my outdoor track in Georgia, I found that as I visited my children and more importantly my grandchildren they also need a track to run trains on. This also gives me something to do when I am visiting my children and my grandchildren. Some of my children can have an outdoor layout…
Today we hosted an open house of our Train Layout for the Atlanta Garden Railroad Club (GGRS). Our club hosted the Southeast Regional Conference and opened up about 14 of the local layouts in Atlanta. We had visitors from all over the US and some of our neighbors and friends dropped by. We had about…
Every Spring, my train layout needs some work. The freezing, the leaves and the rain cause havoc on my train layout. After several years I have decided the layout needed some major work. For Christmas instead of presents from my children I ask for work on the train. This past two weeks, I have had…
My daughter and son-in-law live in Germany in an apartment. They have two children and part of my theme with the grandchildren are trains. We gave 14 grandchildren so that takes a lot of work ! After some discussion they decided to install a shelf layout train in their living room. In order to work through…
I was very happy to attend the National Garden Railroad Convention 2022 in Denver Colorado this year. The club was great and put on a great convention. Thanks to all who helped out. As usual the highlights of the convention were the layouts at the homes that I was able to visit. All were great…
I recently received an Ultimaker 3 Extended 3D printer. My plan is to print unique buildings and accessories for my Garden Model Railroad. I have all of my children and son in laws that can 3D program to help modify or create structures that I can print. We still have a long way to go…
Well it had to happen but did have to happen 2 weeks before my grandson’s 5th birthday? On 7/2/17 we had a large electrical storm and lightening struck my next door neighbors yard. He lost TVs and other components. My house electrical was protected by my whole house surge protector but any networked component got…
Brandon and Chele were home for a little over a week after the beach and we got a lot done on the train. We were able to wire up all the track electronics and the turnouts connecting them to the (8) DS64s abd (5) BDL168s which are Digitrax products. Papa got to test the programs…
I finally got the first phase of the track, signals, and turnouts wired up. I was able to test out each of the boards. I had trouble with the BDL186 showing the occupied blocks. After a lot of checking I noticed the green network light was not behaving as the other circuit boards did. This…
Some videos of the model g scale train in my back yard.
papa carney 