Do you have a Garden Railway

[Anonymous]

not yet but i do have my benchwork done

[FJ and G]

Under construction. Toy train O scale (Lionelesque):

36 feet of track are already layed inside this warehouse that I just put up on Sunday. Building turnouts now (handlaying track) from the warehouse to the mainline.



Purpose: 1. To provide an industrial warehouse for the railroad; and 2., to house toy trains outside for a planned garden railroad (my shipment of code 148 n/s rail arrived so I can start laying tracks now on cedar ties, which I custom-cut myself).

Specs:

Approx. weight of shed: 100 pounds; filled with trains, transformers and DCS (housed in the upper office portion: 150 pounds.

About 11.5 feet long.

Long roof comes off in one piece; upper office comes out as well.

Structure made of cedar with waterproof wood glue and silicone calking.

Windows are constructed with a variety of parts including a telephone keypad and parts to a computer.

One of the doors was made from brass and two doors were made from boxcar doors.

Roof vents are constructed with plumbing pipe and with Port wine caps.

"Mort Industries" sign was made from a piece of ductwork with Lowe's mailbox letters (vinyl). They were too shiny so I sprayed them down with auto primer.

Obviously this is a work in progress as tracks are missing.

Below is the door, which is held in place at the bottom w/2 MTH RealTrack center rails and upper part with homemade brass latch.





Below are 8 side delivery doors, with rails from MTH Realtrax spiked with staples. Lights are operational and consist of copper plumbing parts. Electrical outlets between each delivery door were made from Lionel 027 track insulation pieces painted silverish color.



Below are multiple aerial views, taken from a small airplane. : The fan on the back is from a computer.













It was pouring down rain last night so I only managed to get this one blurry night shot. Some other lights are also on but cannot be seen in this picture. I ran 2 circuits, one in parallel, attached to the AC portion of an MRC HO X-former and the other is in series on the DC portion. I cut up Christmas lights to do it.




I was advised by garden railroaders not to use wild plants, so naturally, I went out and found a variety of natural plants incl. mosses, ferns, juniper virginiana, grasses and others I have in pots that even look cooler that I'll plant soon.