Thank you for sharing!
Good to look at and fine for playing with trains.
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Peter
Thank you for sharing!
Good to look at and fine for playing with trains.
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Peter
As many here know, one of my two other passions is garden railroading.
We are pleased to announce that our garden railroad the Tortoise and Lizard Bash (or T&LBRR) occupies 8 pages of the National Model Railroad Association's magazine Scale Rails. We are especially pleased and honored to have garnered the magazine's coveted cover shot.
For those who don't know model railroading, we run what is called "large-scale" at approximately 1:24 (or 1/2" to the foot). This represents a very small percentage of the hobby and it is almost unheard of for NMRA to feature a large-scale railroad let alone put one on the cover of the magazine.
Congrats Todd, someday I'll get out there to see it...
"It only costs 80% extra to go first class"
Dood - for that crowd, yours should be the centerfold, too!
That "dig" of the Stegosaurus is really cool - never seen that! Some sort of Jurassic Garden Railroad Park!
bo
"Indeed, not!!"
now all it needs is some 1:24 scale big honking JBLs for the outdoor festival....
you could take some sansui lens horns, a 3" speaker, some balsa wood....
seriously though, a really nice job on that railroad set up
I've wanted to do that for a while but no place to set anything up. When I was a child I saw a setup in PA that was incredible. An entire basement that a man spent years building. It was wonderful.
I visited Roadside America in Shartlesville PA, they have a huge setup that must be seen.
Why buy used when you can build your own?
Picture is worth 1,000 words.
Congratulations - you deserve it - a gorgeous layout (wish I was closer!)
Also - apparently we can write the magazine and buy copies (via snailmail)
http://www.nmra.org/membership/publi...calerails.html
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Linda just finished putting a new web site together for our garden railroad. If you have a moment (and the inclination) you may want to take a look.
http://tortoiseandlizardbash.com
Thats an incredible piece of work!
I always wanted something like that when i was a kid......Maybe something for when i retire..........
-Tim
2213 + 2435HPL w/aquaplas + H9800 (Matsj edition)
Very nice web site and a really, really nice layout. I was wondering if the Stegosaurus dig was a tip of the hat to John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid, which of course had a "work Stegosaurus" among its highlights.
Clark
Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom
Too many audiophiles listen with their eyes instead of their ears
No, not a tribute, just something I came up with. I didn't know John Allen also had one.Originally Posted by Ducatista47
Your presentation is much cooler than the Dino in John Allen's layout. He had a stegosaurus on a train platform; he explained that it was not out of place as it was hitched to a cart, Railway Express I think, so it was a "Work Stegosaurus."
I am recovering this information from a thirty year old memory, so I may have some errors in the recollection. Since Model Railroader does not currently permit the article to be displayed on the "Gory & Defeated" site, I can't get a new look at it. http://www.gdlines.com/
Your display of the excavation is really first class, a great idea done perfectly. Seeing it blows me away.
Clark
Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom
Too many audiophiles listen with their eyes instead of their ears
Hi toddalin. When I was some years younger (about 40 years ago) I used to have Marklin electric miniature railroad. Don't know if the name Marklin means anything to you. The models was much smaller than the ones you have.
Because I did not have any space in the house to have it installed permanently at that time, I sold the whole thing.
I have been very curious, but have hesitated to ask, but here it comes:
Your train equipment, is it a "all time of the year" outside? Do they accept rain and snow? I do not know the climate in your area, but here at our place in Norway I guess the whole thing must be stored inside from the autumn to the spring, and that would be a serious problem.
To end: It looks fantastic what you have. What about somebody tries to steal something? How do you protect it from that?
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