Garden railroads built

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Carrales



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!

Sorry Joe, Been to Texas three times now and sad to say I could never live there, the dam humidity and heat would do me in[:(] Been to Dallas/Ft Worth, and thru southern Texas border region (Drove thru in a car with no AC in summer, down by Judge Roy Bean's "courthouse") as far east as Laredo, and I just cant stand the humid hot conditions you guys get there, Florida is also out for the same reasons. Too humid, I'd never last.

[vsmith]

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.

"..Get behind me Satan,...and dont push!" Stymie of the Hal Roach "Little Rascals" comedies, on temptation...[}:)][8D][:D]

"Shall I? Shall I?" Starbuck, Moby ***, H. Melville[:D][8D]

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by grandpopswalt

I'm a little concerned about your choice of governors, Ronnie, now Arnold, who's next, Mickey?.

Walt

Arnold, Mickey, whats the difference? There both latex puppets...[:D][8D][:o)][:p]

[van buren s l]

Judging by the results of this poll, those of us with garden railways should consider ourselves lucky. Nearly half of the poll responents don't have one. Mine is four years old and occupies and area about 50 x 12 feet. It was expanded to those demensions two years ago at my wife's insistence. There aren't any buildings on the railway yet since I have only recently decided on a scale that I want to stick with. Since I live only half a mile from the Metropolitan Branch of the B & O, I have a sound system for my lay out every time the CSX operating schedule and mine coincide.
Bob

[Wild Bill]

Just the one, and thats all there ever be. We will never move again! And with 13 acres there's no need to[:)] By the end of next year We should have The biggest outdoor O guage in the country! Plans go up to about 1000' at this time.
Can't wait to start planting in the spring. This things going to be great!
(What do you mean the wrong guage?[:D]) Doestn't matter, this has got to be the greatest hobbie in the world!

[Wild Bill]

Just the one, and thats all there ever be. We will never move again! And with 13 acres there's no need to[:)] By the end of next year We should have The biggest outdoor O guage in the country! Plans go up to about 1000' at this time.
Can't wait to start planting in the spring. This things going to be great!
(What do you mean the wrong guage?[:D]) Doestn't matter this has got to be the greatest hobbie in the word!

[bman36]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bennysrr

Walt
have you herd anything from Brian of Canada latey ?????? he must be working a lot. Ben

I'm here!,
Been a very busy week! Too much happening to tell about here. As for the poll....I voted one. One is enough work for me for now. Each new year I plan to add on a little. Guess that may also count as another depending on how big I go. Still having fun here...and NO SNOW. Gonna' run some tomorrow weather permitting. Later eh...Brian. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Walt
have you herd anything from Brian of Canada latey ?????? he must be working a lot. Ben

[grandpopswalt]

Vic,

I'd dearly love to live in northern California. I love the Bay area. But there isn't a decent house for under $500,000 within a hundred miles of San Francisco. But maybe it's a good thing I can't afford to live there because I'm a little concerned about your choice of governors, Ronnie, now Arnold, who's next, Mickey?.

Walt

[grandpopswalt]

I voted NONE, however I've built several "trial" layouts. Most were nothing more than a long, elevated section of track which included some turnouts, a few structures and a plant or two. Most of this was done as part of an "experimentation" phase of GRR'ing. I'm glad I did it this way because I've learned a lot along the way.

I'm working on a "shelf" switching layout in the garage right now. If it gets finished, the plan is to move it outdoors and make it the beginning of a larger permenent layout.

Walt

[081440]

I've built one so far, hoping to expand it the summer of 2006. [:D] [8D] [:)]

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jwhite729

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

[#welcome]

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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........

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

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.

[vsmith]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[SandyR]

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.
SandyR

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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!

[emipapa]

I voted none as yet but hope to start my first in the spring of 2005
Ron

[Anonymous]

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
Troy

[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.

[smcgill]

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!

[aljay]

Working on mine, I may finish it one day..................[;)]

[Anonymous]

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]

Glen.