Note to all nu bees

[Anonymous]

[:)] Did you ever think about the guy who built the first Garden Railroad? Where did he get his advice from? Aren't boards like this great? However, be adventuresome, strike out on your own, you never know when you will make an earth shaking discovery. Sheep never got to the moon. You are all smart and have a lot to add to this hobby and everywhere else. Get to know local dealers, you may find that they are more aware of local conditions than that big discount house, you might even find their prices competitive. It's always nice to have a source of help near by. Clubs generally don't "think outside the box". Look at the other point of view, Lionel, Marklin, New Bright,etc. Good luck and have a happy experience.

[Anonymous]

Tom; I

n keeping with my profile of having an opinion on everything, I have taken an intreset in what you had to say about the first person to have a garden model railway and I must say i don't think their was any one person; more several people in many countries doing their own thing.

I have a book " The Garden Railway Manual" , written by Cyril J Freezer who from what I can glean came from West Yorkshire in England and he was doing it back in the thirties. Origonally with wind up engines and he refers back to others who were doing it much before that. I think one of the early European Kings had his own model railway.

Cyril does time warps all the time and goes from modern times back to the thirties then back to modern times regularly

However I got two good ideas from this book and if you get one good idea sometimes it is a bonus. 1) Using wire coathangers as reinforcment in cast concrete and tieng them together 2) make a little bridge that you can walk over to gain access and also use this as the roof of a tunnel. For Kim, he covers how high in this book quite well, he has a photo of his wife as a sweet young thing taken in 1955 so he must be older than me or as old poor ***.

Does anyone else have any idea who or when the first Garden Railway/Railroad
was perpertrated.

Regards


Ian; Kawana Island Tropical Railway.

[Anonymous]

Hi Tom/Ian,

I bet the poor guy was just thinking that he would put his trains down on the carpet when his wife said, "you can get that out of here". The rest is history....................
Speaking of wives (one is more than enough), I always seem to find that they support us crazy people with everything they can give when it comes to the railroad. My wife, Gail, tells me that it keeps me out of the pub, gets the gardening done and she likes to see me enjoying myself in my own garden.
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[Anonymous]

Yes my wife supports me too,as well she does a fair share of the work, which is good now that we are retired but she also wants a fair share of the say as well, and it is not easy at times!

Unfortunatle y I can't go to the pub (local bar) any more I got caught by the booze bus back in 1975 and they have been following me ever since; even now when i have moved to another state.

Rgds ian