May 7th - may 12th family vacation

[ondrek]

I will be taking the family for a vacation from may 7th to the 12th to orlando florida.  we are staying at  a resort very close to Epcot Center....

why am i telling you this?

 2 reasons:

I am wondering if anyone lives close enough by and likes having other garden RR families come by and drool over their gardens.  

I am wondering if there are any stores near by that carry a good garden RR selection.

I have yet to actually start construction but we plan to this summer.  and if we can visit someone or a nice store, that would plant the seed and get us motivated for when we return home.

 

Thanks

 

Kevin 

[dukebasketballer`]

Hi Kevin,

If you are staying near Epcot, you will want to be sure to go to the park and stop by the German pavilion where there is a permanant garden railroad display with primarily German, Austrian, and Swiss trains running. (It is actually located between Germany and Italy). As far as landscaping goes, it is top notch. There has recently been a large addition to rolling stock roster as well and now pretty much all of the engines have sound. There are 5 trains running at any given time. Here is a little preview of the layout:

As far as hobby shops, there are 3 in the Orlando area. There is one on International Drive (where all the tourist stuff is). It is actually an indoor layout display that you have to pay to see, but he also has a few things for sale in the front part of the store. However he is very very very expensive. There are two other that are more towards downtown Orlando. 

Colonial Photo and Hobby (colonialphotohobby.com) which is a really fun store. Not a whole lot of G scale, but a really cool store with a lot of variety.

The other one is The Train Depot. He has a relatively small shop and carries a few peices of LGB, but a bunch of Accucraft, Aster and MTH. He also has a lot of o-scale Lionel.

That about raps it up for Orlando.

[ondrek]

thanks for the info.

I believe we will be avoiding Epcot, our kids are not old enough to appriciate it yet.

 

I will look into those stores though.

thanks

 

Kevin