One picture is worth a thousand words, right?... Well try this on for size. This is the third year for the Eastern Sierra Nevada Desert Rail Road. (ESNDRR)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2xgLUBZZY
There are Videos of other parts of the railroad there as well.
And for Bobai, those are Eagle Iron Works Bridges, made in O guage. You wanted to know about suspention bridges.
The bridge and waterfall is great!
underworld
Have fun with your trains
Thanks for the compliments guys!
I built this primarily for 2 reasons: One, I aready had a big investment in O guage.
Two: Everybody said it couldn't be done! Reason enough. Heck, it was easier to do than the indoor layout. And remember, your only seeing half of it here.
But boy it sure is a lot of fun! ya oughta see the look on peoples faces when they first see it! the gust that I have here for the first time, I take out in back when a train is on the far side, and sit them down at the patio. As the train comes around to the pond, they start to here it. "do you here a train?" someone will ask. About that time it rolls into view across the pond. "WOW!", "I don't believe it!" The watch for a couple of minutes, and then the questions come fooding out.
The open huoses we've done here are great! We get over 75 people a day, all the out here in the sticks, even when the weather is isn't cooperating!
I just chuckle the whole time. The play value is just fantastic!!
Bill
Beautiful!
Proving once again that 'impossible' isn't a statement of fact, unless made so by definition (no five-sided rectangles, for example.) When it comes to model railroads, garden and otherwise, 'impossible' is defined as, "We haven't done that yet." Chances are, somebody already has!
IIRC, somewhere in Disney World (Orlando, FL, edition) there is a garden railroad using European HO (?) rolling stock. Sorry I can't be more specific, but it was toward the end of a long day escorting three women, two of whom couldn't speak English. Smaller-than-G outdoor railroads aren't common, but they're a long way from impossible.
Happy railroading!
Chuck (whose wife is the gardener)
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
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