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…
Here is a short video of the my layout from the Locomotive perspective going through all of the major sections. Still a lot of work to do to get ready for the National Garden Railway Convention in Atlanta, June 2018 http://www.ngrc2018.com but it is coming together.
The National Garden Railway Convention is coming to Atlanta and my layout is on the tour. If you are in town, you can see my layout on Friday, June 8th 8AM-1PM. It has been a long process…. over 3 1/2 years getting the layout ready. We haven’t even had the official opening yet ! That…
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…
It is finally coming together. Over the past 6 weeks we have installed a landscape retaining wall around the raised portion of the track and then filled in to the track level with gravel and dirt. The track now looks a part of the landscape with easy access from the edges. There was a…
The fun about building trains is that you can learn so much from everyone else. I recently had the opportunity to goto Germany to visit my daughter and son-in-law and we took a side trip to Hamburg to visit a massive model train layout. The place is called is Miniatur Wunderland. http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com It is located…
Oringally building the g-scale drawbrige was planned for much later in the project as I knew this would be complicated and would have to be built from scratch. No vendors that I found offer a drawbrige. But working on the layout, the bridge was in a main path and during the work on the mountains,…
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