https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7316111/Train-fan-builds-30-000-railway-track-gardens.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7316111/Train-fan-builds-30-000-railway-track-gardens.html)
Excellent! The 37 looks great!
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!
Eat your heart out @Tank (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=2) :D
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.
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.
There was a fairy called nuff :thumbsup:
His back garden is massive though, so ideally suited to a garden railway.
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:
it may have been Walt Disney's railway?
https://tinyurl.com/y3n3pnft
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:
How about 37 miles of 7.5" track:
http://trainmtn.org/tmrr/index.shtml (http://trainmtn.org/tmrr/index.shtml)
Steven B.
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:
Please send love to the family george. Fun topic that garden railway