I recently heard about some guy who built a small switching layout in his flowerbox outside his window. i am an indoor model railroader because i live in an apartment and have always wanted to build an outdoor railway, so this is very interesting to me, but i have a few questions: is this a good idea? is it possible? what scale do i use? and what kinds of plants should i get? if there is any other problems that could arise that i didnt mention, any advice would be great.
thanks everyone (Happy new year!)
http://mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40040
Is this the layout? If not, theres a lot of good advise here.
Have fun with your trains
Well i ahev done just the opposite i have built a couple af garden boxes into my railway, as add ons for a station.
Rgds Ian
If have an apartment and balcony, it would seem to me that you could get a nice sized railroad empire in by using N scale and for plants, moss, either the shade moss or the moss that calls for sunlight (not true moss). The mosses would scale out well (to the eye at least) in N scale. The moss would nicely duplicate grassy scenes from the midwest or Scotland or Ireland, where it seems to always be green and lush.
I don't know why no one has ever tried that. You'd likely need to keep the track clean as R/C might prove difficult until battery technology improves.
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