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New to trains-help!!!
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That’s ambitious. I think the first information you need is this: you really can’t raise the track much steeper than 3 inches per 10 feet. I have an HO train and that’s about as steep as it can be and still run ok. Perhaps the garden variety (no pun intended) is a bit beefier and you could go steeper, I don’t know. I’m thinking you’re going to have over 1000 feet of track. Even at 6 inches per 10 feet it will likely take more than 400 feet of track to go up and back down. I just purchased a lionel Christmas G scale train. All it does is go round and round a tree in the front yard. It runs really well and now I too want to make a garden railroad. All it takes is money. If you got that, it will be no problem.
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