Chad: By all means go for it, with one word of caution. That big old thing that floats across the sky during the day and hides at night causes serious damage to most plastics. Make sure your rails and ties are UV resistant and weather resistant. For a short time I had a "Z" scale garden railroad in my garden railroad, the ties rotted out quickly, and the "nickel/silver" rails rusted up rather quick. (I’m thinking it was more tin than nickel/silver.) Just make sure that all your materials are able to stand up to the elements.
Tom Trigg
Welcome to the Garden Railways forum! If you want to put HO scale in the garden then do it, it is your decision not ours. I would make an elavated railroad if I were you since anything outside could really knock of a HO scale train. Hope you enjoy your time here. - Peter
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Hi. I'm new to the garden rail hobby but have played with HO and N scale as a kid. My reasoning for wanting to start a garden layout is that I have my old trains packed in a box and have nowhere in the house for a layout. I have an area in the yard for a garden and wanted to put my HO scale in it. I was wondering if anyone else out there has or knows of anyone tried anything like this. I don't plan on putting much for live plants in b/c of size. I thought maybe a rock garden but I'm not sure yet. My main focus is getting trains going. Am I crazy for trying this.
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