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I can't thank all of you enough!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my questions. I have a couple more questions.... First question is are there any steam locomotives that could be run for 8 hours at a time? I had planned on building a old time setting around the railroad. Water wheel mill house, a stone lighthouse... I was hoping to do an old time theme. If Diesel is the only way to go for dependability then I'll have to take that route but I was hoping for a steam locomotive. I live on the New Hampshire seacoast so I suppose I could use the Boston & Maine diesel in the color blue by USA trains. I don't think the LGB look nearly as good as the USA's or aristocraft's trains from the pics I've seen on line. Next question... I have been looking around online and the prices are alot higher than $65 for rolling stock. Seems $115 is the average. Who has a reasonable price for trains and are there pictures of the cars? As far as track goes the stainless steel seems incredibly expensive. Can anyone give me a good suppliers web site? How long will the brass track hold up to continous use? I'm probably going to have to buy all the train supplies myself. This display I'm planning started off as just a waterfall and pond but I just built a waterfall at another garden center 2 miles away from this garden center and wanted to do something different. I'm in the discussion stage of doing a waterfall pond display but the railroad around a pond has been something I have wanted to do for years now. I hope that the garden center has the vision to see that garden railroading is beginning to take off but theres nobody doing them in my area. If they won't support the funding of the railroad, I will buy it and build it for my own amusement and for my marketing campaigne. It seems like stainless steel track is going to bankrupt me though. I'm between a rock and a hard place. I want to do this so bad I can taste it, but I can't afford to spend more than $2,000 and I don't want the railroad to become a maintanence nightmare either. I should probably just do the waterfall and pond but I love trains and I love to create things that are different from what everyone else is doing. If people see a waterfall, they want a waterfall, so if they see a train, they might want a train. My wife thinks I'm nuts because I just spent three weeks building a waterfall pond display for a garden center for free labor as a method of promoting my ponds and now I want to build a railroad around a pond for another garden center. I'm not building this next pond for free but I'm going to give them a "sweet deal" that they won't be able to refuse. Now I'm ready to add a railroad into the deal. I haven't suggested the railroad yet, I'm still researching if its practical or not. If I build it I will try to get a local "high end" Home and Garden magazine I'm planning on contacting anyways to do an article on my waterfall ponds and garden railroading if this works out. I want to take my landscapes to the next level and the waterfall pond / garden railroad is the direction I want to move towards. I've layed enough brick to last a life time and I want to start doing things that are fun and appreicated. Paul2
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