When does your railroad look its best?

[Rene Schweitzer]

Of course, this question is mostly based on climate, but let's give it a go. If you're from another country, please tell us when your best seasons are.

[Marty Cozad]

Rene
You must a a book of Q?..
I voted any time, not because its good looking all the time ,but because the FOUR seasons each has special times that make it very realistic. Spring buds and colors, summers greenery, fall colors and of course, winters blanket of snow. My favorite.

[Anonymous]

Rene
I picked June to September because the flowers are starting to bloom in june and keep blooming until late September ,i like to see brite colored flowers in my garden rail road, pansys , wave petunias . [:D][:D] ben ----------- in Penna.

[vsmith]

It looks best when I close my eyes and visualize how the finished layout will look!

Then I open my eyes and look at the mess of a benchtop and immediatly close my eyes again.. "It will look great!, it will look great!"[(-D]

[Anonymous]

I did not vote becqause I dont have any track laid yet but I would have to say anytime a train is running!!!!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

It looks best when I close my eyes and visualize how the finished layout will look!

Then I open my eyes and look at the mess of a benchtop and immediatly close my eyes again.. "It will look great!, it will look great!"[(-D]

When I get started. I'm with Vic for now.

[Anonymous]

The Gnome Garden Railway looks best at night!!! During the months of June - Sept. At night you don't notice that there isn't much more than the trains and the lighting really makes the whole scene. Additionally, night time is usually alot quieter and you can hear the trains clicking and squealing along the rails alot better.

[Anonymous]

At night, during a solar eclipse and with your eyes closed very tight. It helps to plug up your ears, too. Total sensory depravation - that's the ticket....

[bman36]

Hi Rene,
Remember the picture of a Canadian Garden Railway in Winter??? That's about the only time it's maintenance free. Under three feet of snow! The rest of the year is all unique in it's own way. Much like the rest of the yard. Only bad time is fall when the trees drop scale "bombs" everywhere. Later eh...Brian.

[jtrost]

When you live in soggy western Oregon, about the only time that trains can run without oars is June through September. As others said, the railroad looks best with trains running. Sometimes I envy the indoor railroad folks.[:-^]

[Anonymous]

i have to say my garden railway looks its finest in June because that's when the rest of the garden is in full bloom. :)

[Anonymous]

Hi Rene,
Agree with Vic at the moment, got to close the eyes! Finished shifting all the rubbish out of the back garden this wekend and rescuing bricks to build up the track base, hoping to make a start this next weekend. Hope we have some snow this year because my wife bought me an Aristo gondola snow plow on saturday!
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[Rene Schweitzer]

Marty.

Laughed when I read your comment! No book of Qs here. . though I do keep a log of what polls I've run when. Sooner or later, my brain will probably run out of ideas. . .

[Anonymous]

Hi Rene
I did not vote
But on a coolish day in Autum with the flowers out and the scent of warm steam oil drifting in the air, the almost imperseptable chuff and wisps steam can be seen and the only thing missing is the lonesome sound of a far off whistle.
thats when the railway is at its best.
regards John

[Anonymous]

Rene

I am from another country, The Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, much of Australia has 4 seasons like USA but a lot of the world only has two, they are The Wet and The Dry. Here in Australia THE WET goes from Christmas to Easter. But here on the Sunshine Coast we have a mixture of the two. We are just coming into what they laughingly call winter; 1 Jun to 31 Ausgust. The trees are all evergreens, so there are no falling leaves, the minimum temperature rarely gets under 15 deg C. The birds don't fly south, in fact they don't go anywhere just sit around as usual. No frost or snow.etc. But we do have a disconsolet set of Pelicans, tens of thousands of huge birds that fly east for the summer. Even now 15 to 25 seems to be the daily temperature range and the temperature of the Coral Sea is 21 Deg C.

So I would say that my railway looks the same all year round except in summer when I drive it from my pool with a remote handheld it is so hot. I have photograph of it of a nightime which I call "Train Heaven" is there anyway it can be shown. My web site isn't up to scratch yet.

My layout is quite attractive not to any scale but to an eastern theme, my wife is in charge of all decorative effects and it shows a ladies touch.

By the way what did you think of the wedding last night, us Aussies have now even infiltrated European Royalty.


Regards

Ian Kawana island tropical etc.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor


By the way what did you think of the wedding last night, us Aussies have now even infiltrated European Royalty.


Regards

Ian Kawana island tropical etc.

Great Scott! What's next, Major General Sir Ian 1st Earl of Queensland. [:D] We have no titled nobility and royalty here in Texas, but that just means we can make it up. I, for example, was once announced as Captain Sir Knight Jose Ely Barronet of Carrales, Second Earl of Premont.

[Anonymous]

I'll get you for that Joe. It might surprise you Joe but the only real title I have ever wanted is the one you have, Captain. Joe I might send you another photo and see what you think?

Rgs Ian

[Anonymous]

I don't have one going right now, but I always loved running (and watching) the model trains running in the snow.

Don't know why, it just always seems to look even more realistic.