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RE: How did you get into garden railroading?
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I've always wanted a model railway but could never devote any indoor space to a permanent layout. Back in the 60's my dad had a HO layout in the basement and my brothers and I spent countless hours toying around with that. That layout fell into a rather sad state of disrepair because of it being in the unfinished basement. The early 70's brought N scale on the scene and every christmas we would set up a temporary layout on a small piece of plywood covered with that green fake grass paper. The piece is still down the basement waiting for another chance I guess. I wanted to put the garden layout in about 5 or 6 years ago but my wife talked me out of it because the kids were still small and ran around the backyard with reckless abandon, kicking soccer balls and swinging wiffle bats. I agreed it wasn't time yet. Finally, we put an above ground pool in the yard and that changed the whole yard. No more kids running around and whatever space was left was going to be a flower garden, with a train running around in it. Thats were it is today. Still have plenty of room to expand the road and can't wait for this miserable winter to end. 3 more months. <br />Pete
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