What is the name of your railroad?

[Anonymous]

I am just getting started..... but it has already been named :"Jacaranda Garden Railway". My wife are I are particular fans of the South African tree which grows very well here in Southern Western Australia. Their beautiful coloured flowers hilight wonderfully against our beautiful blue skys... and whilst they make a mess when they drop, the carpet of flowers is something to behold... hopefully just like kevins railway. The railway will be basically English styled with a lot of the planning and buildings from the Severn Valley Railway in the U.K. ... an area I fell in love with when on holidays.

[Anonymous]

Hello......
The name of my Railway is Taw Vale...
You can see my railway at :
http://www.moonman6.fsnet.co.uk/tawvale/
soo BYEEEEE

[Anonymous]

Nick-
The modeling of the inside of the mine sounds interesting. Is it outside? Would like to see some pictures of that.
pfd586
www.trainweb.org/gnomegardenrw

[Anonymous]

My railway is calledhuckleberry mine.It is meant to be amine in a tunnel but I took the roof off so that you can se the insideof the mine.There are workers and stuff I have also managed to add sound effects o.k thats all for now post another reply soon bye.

Nick

Huckleberry mine

[vsmith]

OK I'll play,

Mine is the Borracho Railroad, a small 42" gauge shortline set in the desert southwest straddling the Mexican border.

The back story:

It was originally built in the early 1900's to service two mines, the Ferrous Underground Boring And Reclaimation Company, a.k.a. F.U.B.A. R. (an Iron mining co. trying trying their hand at Gold mining) and the Silver King, another competing mine who when they say the FUBAR sign posted over above the new mine, jokingly renamed thiers SNAFU just to egg them. But mines only last so long and can only dig so far, so by 1937 it looked like the end for the mines and the little town of Purgitory that served the miners.

That was until a shady character came to town with a couple of very odd looking plants, and stating that the climate was "perfect", he set up a farm growing and cultivating and spreading the odd yucca like plants, they were Blue Agave's smuggled out of Mexico. Within a couple of years he bought an old warehouse, brought in a lot of distillery equipment and announced plans to open a tequila distillery, the only one in the US. When he asked for name suggestions an old man in the crowd said the town was already full of "borracho's", the name stuck and the Borracho Distillery went into business July 4, 1940. The business grew, and within a short time the railroad built a spur to the distillery.

Dec. 7, 1941 saw the business change to making medical alcohol for medical use and the mines picking up work. During the post WWII years (the current setting) , The town renamed itself after the distillery, Borracho Springs, which also took over controling interest in the RR, and the distillery went back into full production, so did the mines thanks to new WWII vein discoverys, and the little trains keep chugging along.

Equipment consists of whatever the owners can get thier hands on. Ex-Mexican narrow guage, ex-Hawiian suger plantation locos, ex-logging engines. The owners will take anything they can get thier hands on, the same with cars. Its a motley mix.

There are very few and poor roads thanks to the remoteness of town so the train is the lifeline.

The layout is inside, about 8' x 20' overall, all the track is layed and wired up and I can run trains. Thats the easy part, now I have to plan out the scenery and buildings. Alot of sketches help there. I'm in no hurry to finish, just enjoying myself.

[Anonymous]

My railroad is just getting started but the name has been choosen. The basis for my layout is 20's -30's northern Minnesota mining and logging. Thus the name :

Thief River, Ely and Eastern Railway

[Anonymous]

I was looking at another forum at the Model RR mag forum and replied to a question about what our rr is named. I replied and realized that it could be a fun topic for us gardeners to talk about. Here is what I wrote on the other forum.

The line I own is the Gnome Garden Railway. I employee 5 gnomes who live in my backyard. I couldn't tell you what they do besides work on the railway. They always seem to be in good humor and attitude so I don't meddle in there affairs. I think they are friendly with the skunks and squirrels. I have seen birds close to them so I assume they are friends with them too! I never see any cats hanging around my yard, so I am sure that cats are affraid of gnomes. Maybe they eat cats because they never ask me for food and I never see cats in my yard. The cat in my house always runs away when the gnomes come in. Maybe they will reveal there mysterious lives to me someday. Time will only tell. They speak in a very low tone and only communicate with my daughter, who translates everything they tell her to me. Which isn't much anyway. They usually only tell her about weeding the garden and cleaning the track. They also have a keen eye on the ballasting situation. I in turn do most of the manual labor on the railway. They are around, leaning on their tools and try to look busy, they can stand still and not move for hours, truly spectacular little guys. At any rate, the line is featured in this website. http://www.trainweb.org/gnomegardenrw please stop by and take a look. Thanks.
pfd586