#Garden Railroad

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EPCOT Germany Pavilion Garden Railroad.

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Squirrely E8 por zimwizdotcom Por Flickr: After the recent rehab of my railroad, we celebrated by running various trains including my pair of PRR E8s. When we took a short break we parked the trains by the house and upon our return we found paw prints from squirrels all over the trains and several cars were knocked over. These are some of the things that happen when you have a backyard railroad versus indoor model trains. Zeiss Milvus ZF.2 50mm f/2 @ f/8

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Return to the Inham Valley Railway 4K

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Front end friday

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An evening run around the pond.

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Oooooooh this is cooool!

I considered using live plants for my indoors layout before I started the current project, as the idea of live plants instead of a fixed setting really appeals to me... but even bonsai'd plants look huge next to N scale (which is the only one I have space for). And I eventually came to the conclusion it's perhaps not the best idea to make something entirely left-field for my first layout.

But this is a great idea! A planter to make the layout a bit separate from the surrounding nature, and a scale smaller than what garden railways normally use is really interesting.

I'm probably going to build a micro garden reailway in the near future, but first let me explain to the non-railfans who follow me what a garden railway even is because I need to infodump about something.

What is a Garden Railway?

Put it simply, a garden railway is a blend of two otherwise seperate hobbies, railway modelling and gardenning.

Typically, railway modelling is about the persuit of historical and technical realism on a small scale with regards to anything involving steel-wheeled vehicles running on steel rails. That said there are those who simply run trains straight from the packaging on track placed straight on the floor and that's fine.

With a garden railway, the focus shifts away from an almost sterile realism towards a more impressionist's view of a railway running through a landscape, whith emphasis on the landscape being alive.

more than anything I think it's about embracing the joy of enjoying one's hobbies in the great outdoors

So how am I, a queer, unemployable person on benefits going to build a garden railway, especially when all the examples I've used are so grand and spacious?

let me tell you about a little something called scale and gauge

out of the diagram above, Gauge 1 (1:32 scale/45mm track) is the most popular size for garden railways, both historically and current. O scale (1:43 scale/32mm track) is probably the second most popular, being the smallest practical scale for live steam, that's real working steam engines on a sminiature scale.

OO scale (1:76 scale/16.5mm track) the most popular scale all around in the UK, has a fringe use in garden settings, but can create some spectacular scenes if sweeping views of main line cuttings and embankments are your thing.

I'm going with OO scale, but I'm not modelling standard gauge, instead I'm using a narrow gauge standard called OO9. that is to say 1:76 scale trains running on 9mm track, for a scale track gauge of about 2 foot 3 inches (686mm).

a 6 foot by 2 foot raised planter will be all I need for a sizable circuit of track with a branchline and two stations, there's also space to play with hight by having the branchline finish at a lower level than the main running line. the first image is the planter I have lined up, the second image is the rough track plan I've made so far, using the theoretical maximum inside dimensions of the planter as the space I've got to work with.

I already have one starter pack of OO9 track, which contains a full loop and a bunch of straight sections plus a couple of points, which is a decent portion of the costs taken care of. The planter itself is £100, which is also affordable for me.

The unknown for me at this time is what plants to use. It'll probably be figured out as I go but I'm drawn towards alpines because small trains should run through small plants, however I also want flowering plants to encourage pollonators in the city I live in.

I'm also drawn to the idea of a small pond situated by the end of the branchline with the main circuit running directly over the water via a trestle bridge. I'm tempted to look at aquatic plants to help take care of the water but I need to do more research on this front.

all going well I should be able to start work on this after september, and unlike other projects I intend to see this through to the end.

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MNCR 8233 7-22-87

MNCR M-1A 8233 (Budd 1971-73) leads sb train into Botanical Gardens Station, ex NYC Harlem division, The Bronx, NY 7-22-87

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UNTITLED PUBLIC DOMAIN GAME

So I’ve been infatuated with the public domain (a collection of creative works not held under copyright law that are free for public use) for a while now so I’ve been playing around with a story concept :3

♦️ALICE STRAIGHT OUT OF WONDERLAND 🖤

Some town NPCs

And here are some sketches :3

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LARGE SCALE

saw a train today and thought of you. it was a small train though

Thomas..

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Hemerocallis fulva 'Lullaby Baby' / 'Lullaby Baby' Daylily at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to New York City to film the epic work of Smiling Hogshead Ranch in Queens. We tour the community garden which was built on an old toxic railroad bed WITHOUT PERMISSION! Guided by The President of the Permaculture Institute of North America Monica Ibacache and a founding member of the garden, Gil Lopez, we see the incredible transformation of this toxic wasteland over the last 12 years. You've got to see this to believe it!

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In the cutting (originally: A bevágásban) 2023 Acrylic on paper

This is based on a real part of a real railway track, but I changed it a little for the composition's sake. You might ask why a little embankment is starting to rise between the walls of the cutting, when it's pointless to build an embankment inside a cut. That's because this is the area where it starts to turn from a cut (in front) to an embankment (behind us).

There's only a single pair of rails because it's used sparsely enough for that to be enough; at larger stations, there's two pairs for a little while, and that's where opposite trains can wait for one another, then they move on parallel tracks in opposite directions until they get past each other, and so both of them safely enter the single pair of rails. I don't know if they do that in other places, I expect they probably do, but I wanted to explain just in case it looks absurd to have one pair of rails.

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These are some of my favorite photos I've ever taken at Walt Disney World. As a Florida native, many holidays, birthdays, and special occasions were spent at Disney World in my family. As I grew up, these moments were expanded further, as I got to share amazing memories at Disney with my boyfriend, now husband. We got engaged at Disney and had our wedding here as well! This is a place that will forever hold a unique place in my heart. This place is my home. And I hope you can find a home here as well. So, welcome all Disney World fans.

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My print was successful but I cut my thumb when I tried to Remove the supports and raft

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Oops, made another skrunkly

Look a them, they’re adorable