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Posted by cacole on Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:12 PM
What about built, rebuilt, and rebuilt, and rebuilt, and am still rebuilding...[:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:31 PM
Technically I have built two layouts, my first was my RAGS (Rough As GutS) layout before I moved from Sydney up here to Queensland. But this Kawana island Tropical Railway is built in sections which are joined up, as I only have a series of courtyards (no backyard) As I am now into area 3 and area's 1 and 2 are for the time being completed i guess at the most you could say that i have built four garden railways.


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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:18 PM
I voted none/hope to soon[;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 4:01 PM
I think I'm on #3, except for 2 years I completely changed my small circle of track because nothing was permanate. My permanate layout has been there since the Spring of 03' I think...wait...yeah, thats right.
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Posted by Marty Cozad on Friday, November 12, 2004 2:35 PM
This is NTCGRR #4 , mainly cause we moved to a bigger place each time.

Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?

Long live Outdoor Model Railroading.

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Posted by powlee on Friday, November 12, 2004 10:26 AM
I have built two garden railways. The first was 00 and I ran a double track round a 42 x 20 foot area for 14 years. Two years ago, i went into G scale and put down a single 45mm track over the existing concrete trackbed.
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Ian P

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 9:37 AM
I have built one outdoor railroad, and one indoor large scale railroad.
Richard
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 9:10 AM
Rene
I have one out side that i built and an over head in my basement . planing to rebuild the basement one. Ben
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Posted by markperr on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:47 AM
Technically, I have only built two "garden" railroads but I have built four layouts altogether including two overhead indoor layouts. One at home and one in a restaurant.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:23 AM
Hi Rene
I voted one.
A more acurate answer would be very aproxamatly 25% of a garden railway I curently have a small 30' x10' loop with sidings and the begining of a dual gauge yard. and am working on the lines tha will take it from the side of the house into the back yard wher i will be able to get decent radius curves in
so running steam will be more practical
regards John
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:19 AM
Right now I am on the 3rd outdoor layout, but plan to be moving to a house with a little acreage in less than a year [:)] Then I can start using the cases of track I've been hording in the closet and build something that's not so cram packed llike the one I have now [B)] THough small as it is, it has many cool features that will be expanded upon after moving. It will be nice to build a Marty sized layout with broad sweeping curves thhen I can finally run 100+ car trains [:p] I have the power and the rolling stock, but I need the land grant to start building. I've already set aside funding for several more pallets of landscape bricks and for even more cases of track( 20' curves and 5' straight sections) [;)] I'm just waiting for the right place to appear on the MLS listings. I'm hoping to find a place with a stream running thru it. Then I can build a nice 10 - 20 foot bridge over it like the Gassman Coulee bridge or the one over the Milk river by Glacier Park [^] I hope to start building within a month of moving, but we all know how that one goes [:O][:I][:D]
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Garden railroads built
Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:04 AM
Of course, I realize the answers may be skewed if you build railroads for a living. [:p]

Rene Schweitzer

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