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RE: How did you get into garden railroading?

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I wanted to get into model trains when my kids were small but I worked too hard and wasn't prepared to invest the money in it.Decades went by, changed wives and houses and took up coastal yachting but after many years my knees are going and I had to do something less strenuous. So I recalled wanting to get into model railways and looked into it, the news was that if you want to get into outdoor railways the only way to go is G scale. I was also advised that the only way to go was LGBand I took a starter set home that very day, plus a lot of second hand track. Had it going for a while in my garage, then I built my RAGS (Rough As Guts) just about 30 metres of track slung together around the pool. It had to be temporary as we were going to move. The move took place and here we are on Kawana Island with a much better built reproduction of the old Rags layout plus another 10 M, thi is what we call area 2. We have just completed area 1 which is a long run into a complex reversing loop, all done with, tropical plnts and decrorative gravel and stones to an oriental theme. Area 3 is in the planning stages at this time; unfortuneately my house doesn't have a back yard as such, just a series of courtyards and joining the sections up in this instance isn't easy, as the pump house for the pool is in the middle. I have 3 trains; a small fun unit set in the late 19 th century, pulled by my Stainz loco with 5 carriages all a different colour, this is just a development out of the original starter set. Another is the LCE or German Ice train but my main train is DR Mallet engine pulling some Golden Mountain coaches very powerful and full of class. They are all under the control of an LGB digital MTS complete with cordless remote to allow me to go to each area and still be able to control things. We like to sit out of a night and warch the lights go round and the reflection in the pool and get slightly sozzled. This is and all year round thinh here as we virtually have very little if any winter. Regards Ian
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