Garden railway in the Daily Mail

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njee20

#1
August 03, 2019, 09:43:03 AM
Excellent! The 37 looks great!

Bealman

#2
August 03, 2019, 10:14:01 AM
It is very cool indeed, but it always amuses me how papers pick these stories up and present them as being really amazing, oh wow.

Garden railways have been around a while now!

Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

Tank

#4
August 03, 2019, 01:40:11 PM
Was just about to reply to this!  :D

Haven't run mine for months, but they are great fun.  I have a Class 33 and a Simplicity.

Buffin

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August 03, 2019, 09:37:02 PM
Quote from: Bealman on August 03, 2019, 10:14:01 AM
It is very cool indeed, but it always amuses me how papers pick these stories up and present them as being really amazing, oh wow.

Garden railways have been around a while now!

I take your point, but that is the paper's excuse for publishing the piece, and it was nice publicity.

Bealman

#6
August 03, 2019, 10:07:22 PM
There was a fairy called nuff  :thumbsup:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

Malc

#7
August 04, 2019, 04:17:20 PM
His back garden is massive though, so ideally suited to a garden railway.
The years have been good to me, it was the weekends that did the damage.

Bealman

#8
August 04, 2019, 11:21:39 PM
I remember seeing a really huge one in an American mag some years back - I think it may have been a Model Railroader special - Great Layouts, or something like that - in the snow.

It was truly huge - multiple locomotives and operators, large engine servicing facility, and so on.

And no, this was not a commercial enterprise, it was a private garden railway, although it was a big garden... more of a ranch!

Must try and find that mag  :hmmm:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

Railwaygun

#9
August 05, 2019, 06:03:31 PM
it may have been Walt Disney's railway?

https://tinyurl.com/y3n3pnft

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Bealman

#10
August 05, 2019, 10:51:54 PM
That's a very interesting link, thanks for posting. Walt Disney was a trainhead, eh! Cool.  :thumbsup:

The railway in the mag was definitely not that, though. I must see if I can find it. The search will have to wait, though... off to Sydney for a few days to see new grandaughter.  :beers:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

Steven B

#11
August 06, 2019, 08:46:29 AM
How about 37 miles of 7.5" track:
http://trainmtn.org/tmrr/index.shtml

Steven B.

Bealman

#12
August 06, 2019, 08:58:59 AM
Cool.  :thumbsup:

But once again, a commercial concern. I guess Pecorama could be classified as a garden railway.

This American one I'm talking about is really a private railway for one obviously very wealthy American gentleman.

Gotta find that article!  :beers:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

crewearpley40

#13
August 06, 2019, 09:13:42 AM
Please send love to the family george. Fun topic that garden railway
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