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Garden railroads built
Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:04 AM
Of course, I realize the answers may be skewed if you build railroads for a living. [:p]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:19 AM
Right now I am on the 3rd outdoor layout, but plan to be moving to a house with a little acreage in less than a year [:)] Then I can start using the cases of track I've been hording in the closet and build something that's not so cram packed llike the one I have now [B)] THough small as it is, it has many cool features that will be expanded upon after moving. It will be nice to build a Marty sized layout with broad sweeping curves thhen I can finally run 100+ car trains [:p] I have the power and the rolling stock, but I need the land grant to start building. I've already set aside funding for several more pallets of landscape bricks and for even more cases of track( 20' curves and 5' straight sections) [;)] I'm just waiting for the right place to appear on the MLS listings. I'm hoping to find a place with a stream running thru it. Then I can build a nice 10 - 20 foot bridge over it like the Gassman Coulee bridge or the one over the Milk river by Glacier Park [^] I hope to start building within a month of moving, but we all know how that one goes [:O][:I][:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:23 AM
Hi Rene
I voted one.
A more acurate answer would be very aproxamatly 25% of a garden railway I curently have a small 30' x10' loop with sidings and the begining of a dual gauge yard. and am working on the lines tha will take it from the side of the house into the back yard wher i will be able to get decent radius curves in
so running steam will be more practical
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Posted by markperr on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:47 AM
Technically, I have only built two "garden" railroads but I have built four layouts altogether including two overhead indoor layouts. One at home and one in a restaurant.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 9:10 AM
Rene
I have one out side that i built and an over head in my basement . planing to rebuild the basement one. Ben
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 9:37 AM
I have built one outdoor railroad, and one indoor large scale railroad.
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Posted by powlee on Friday, November 12, 2004 10:26 AM
I have built two garden railways. The first was 00 and I ran a double track round a 42 x 20 foot area for 14 years. Two years ago, i went into G scale and put down a single 45mm track over the existing concrete trackbed.
All the best
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Posted by Marty Cozad on Friday, November 12, 2004 2:35 PM
This is NTCGRR #4 , mainly cause we moved to a bigger place each time.

Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 4:01 PM
I think I'm on #3, except for 2 years I completely changed my small circle of track because nothing was permanate. My permanate layout has been there since the Spring of 03' I think...wait...yeah, thats right.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:18 PM
I voted none/hope to soon[;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:31 PM
Technically I have built two layouts, my first was my RAGS (Rough As GutS) layout before I moved from Sydney up here to Queensland. But this Kawana island Tropical Railway is built in sections which are joined up, as I only have a series of courtyards (no backyard) As I am now into area 3 and area's 1 and 2 are for the time being completed i guess at the most you could say that i have built four garden railways.


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Posted by cacole on Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:12 PM
What about built, rebuilt, and rebuilt, and rebuilt, and am still rebuilding...[:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:23 PM
I answered two, although the second one doesn't have any track down yet. It will be 4x as big as the first, and hopefully 8x as good because I won't make so many dumb mistakes as the first one [banghead] , although I bet I still make a few [:D]

I concreted the tunnel sides for the first tunnel at the weekend. The basic track plan has been established although the scenery plan keeps changing every time I wheel barrow another load of dirt around the place. I am sure I must have shifted each piece of dirt at least twice now.[V]

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Posted by aljay on Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:32 PM
Working on mine, I may finish it one day..................[;)]
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Posted by smcgill on Monday, November 15, 2004 8:01 AM
This is my second layout.
I started this one so I could run trains!
Since we moved to a bigger home-4.5 acres- It might progress into a larger size!

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, November 15, 2004 9:46 AM
No outdoor RR and the way its looking, never will. At least not at this house. Have to content myself with the inside layout.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 15, 2004 10:48 AM
I'm on my second garden railway .I learnt all the tricky bits,the do's and the don'ts,on my small one and now I am trying to do it properly on my second big one.
The main thing I have learnt in the past 3 years is-patience.
Rush it and regret it
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Posted by emipapa on Monday, November 15, 2004 12:57 PM
I voted none as yet but hope to start my first in the spring of 2005
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 15, 2004 6:50 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

No outdoor RR and the way its looking, never will. At least not at this house. Have to content myself with the inside layout.


Vic, Have you ever thought of moving? Is it an option? I moved back in 98 to where I am now so I could have a yard for the kids and now for me too!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 15, 2004 7:29 PM
My 300' OS Layout is Expanding Every Time I have a Birthday or Christmas comes around.I own the Lot next Door and have dedicated 1/2 of it for the Arizona Central serving the Columbine Mine,St Elmo Town and Water Station , The JH Ranch etc.etc. I'm a retired Carpenter and Building Small things is natural to me. This is my First Out Doors Layout and I don't expect to ever finish it.It is a Project in Progress.John Harmon, Morristown AZ.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 15, 2004 7:52 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by JOHNHARM

My 300' OS Layout is Expanding Every Time I have a Birthday or Christmas comes around.I own the Lot next Door and have dedicated 1/2 of it for the Arizona Central serving the Columbine Mine,St Elmo Town and Water Station , The JH Ranch etc.etc. I'm a retired Carpenter and Building Small things is natural to me. This is my First Out Doors Layout and I don't expect to ever finish it.It is a Project in Progress.John Harmon, Morristown AZ.


[#welcome] John! Another Carpenter, that make 3 of us you, me and Marty Cozad. How many yrs. knocking nails did you have in before retirement? I have 15 in this February, unsur about Marty.
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Posted by SandyR on Monday, November 15, 2004 8:26 PM
I built my small garden RR in 1993, and it's still going strong. I'll be adding a branch line this coming spring, for point to point operation when I want to do that. Mostly it's a railfan's RR, built with many different views of the train, just to watch it go by from wherever I'm sitting at the time. It kind of keeps me company.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:24 AM
Hi: I was a Self Employed Carpenter/Contractor for 20 Yrs and I spent 12 Yrs as a Union Carpenter mainly working in Nuclear Power Plants and retired in 1999 from Local #195 UBC. John Harmon
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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:01 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by carpenter matt

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

No outdoor RR and the way its looking, never will. At least not at this house. Have to content myself with the inside layout.


Vic, Have you ever thought of moving? Is it an option? I moved back in 98 to where I am now so I could have a yard for the kids and now for me too!


Move ? here? Not on your life!....not when even a modest home is averaging 400K around here....

I'll not planning on leaving Kalifoonia, even with the headaches on living in a megalopolis, I like it too much here. Can go from snow to surf in 3 hours, can't beat that.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:31 PM
QUOTE: Can go from snow to surf in 3 hours, can't beat that.


Come and live in Christchurch, New Zealand. You can go from surf to snow in 1hour. US $400K would give you close to NZ$700K , so you would be living in one of the best houses in the city and we get smog too, so you'd feel right at home[:D]

Only down fall is the exchange rate makes all of the train purchases from US almost twice as expensive which is why I don't have many trains and have to resort to building my own[:(]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:41 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by RockyCreekNZ

QUOTE: Can go from snow to surf in 3 hours, can't beat that.


Come and live in Christchurch, New Zealand. You can go from surf to snow in 1hour. US $400K would give you close to NZ$700K , so you would be living in one of the best houses in the city and we get smog too, so you'd feel right at home[:D]

Only down fall is the exchange rate makes all of the train purchases from US almost twice as expensive which is why I don't have many trains and have to resort to building my own[:(]

Glen.


You gents need to come to South Texas! In most of the little hamlets around here a home begins at $45,000 and an expensive house is about $100,000. Bread is $0.59!

Land is relatively cheap and there is alot of it, wide open spaces! BIG SKY! You might get a few acres for $500 if you are lucky. Prefect for layouts! Check out some realtors website for this area!

Two hours from Mexico, 3 hours to San Antonio!

See the Fake Alamo...


...or the real one!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:42 PM
I and my son(7) have built indoor tables, but not garden variety , YET, guess we need to get a house or surprise nanna at her house....lol........
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:26 PM
My bedfordfallsgardenrailroad.com is my first and now 3 summers old and still growing.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:36 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jwhite729

My bedfordfallsgardenrailroad.com is my first and now 3 summers old and still growing.


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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:48 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jwhite729

My bedfordfallsgardenrailroad.com is my first and now 3 summers old and still growing.


I just checked out your website. Great photos of your trestle bridges.

Glen.

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