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MRVP Layout Visit: Ray and Renee Grosser’s Nostalgia Trip Outdoor Railway
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page You won’t find the Grosser’s railway in a basement. Instead, they’ve built a 7½” gauge ride-on railroad empire on their rolling property in Southern Kentucky. In this MRVP Exclusive Layout Visit, you’ll get to explore a battery-powered locomotive, 200-pound freight cars equipped with […]
Display at the San Diego County Fair
Name: Mark Lovelace Railroad Name: SDGRS San Diego County Fair 2018 Location: Del Mar, California Scale: 1:24 Theme: How Sweet it Is Description: This is a cab ride on the largest line of a 6-line railroad the San Diego Garden Railroad Society built for the 2018 San Diego County Fair. The video of the train […]
2018 National Garden Railway Convention vendor layouts
Name: Peter Muto Forum User Name: pjm20 Railroad Name: NGRC 2018 Vendor Show Layouts Location: Atlanta, Georgia Description: This video highlights a the layouts that were on display at the vendor show of the 2018 NGRC in Atlanta, Georgia. […]
Debuting the Emma Nevada
Name: Mark Kimball Railroad Name: M&P RR Location: Midwest Scale: 1:29 standard gauge Theme: Short Line Description: M&P RR, a standard gauge short line in the Black Hills, has a replica of Disney Animator Ward Kimball’s Emma Nevada (a Bachmann Mogul). Just got battery power, and AirWire control, out for its first spin. […]
PDF: Build the Arnold S. tugboat
Download the plan to build a 1:24-scale tugboat. Part 1 Part 2 Note: This PDF is formatted to print on your home printer. Most pieces are formatted to fit on a 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper. For larger parts of the plan, you will see “break lines.” Line up the break lines to create […]
Modeling mines and quarries
Photo 1 Mining means accessing Earth’s layers. Splitting slate exposes unusual fossil-faced stone. Taller flagstone hides structural elevated-roadbed posts. Shorter stone risers step up scenery to a higher mountain area. Slate cars wait to be winched up the 22% incline, held together by fines and concrete-bonding adhesive. The author’s Agriculture & Gravel Elevated also quarries […]
Build a sugar industry caboose
Thomas A. Yorke Thomas Yorke presents the third of three scratchbuilt projects in the August 2018 issue. Download these full-size drawings of his caboose and follow his instructions in the magazine. You will also need the basic flatcar drawings from the April 2018 issue for this project. Note: This drawing is broken into two pieces. […]
Improve your garden’s success rate: Part 2
Photo 1 The author’s Hoot ’n’ Holler Railroad in the early stage of transplanting shrubs into amended and prepared soil. The upper-level track is mostly in place and being used, while the lower-level track has yet to be laid. Don Parker Photo 2 The middle of the tiny, white-edged lady’s mantle (Alchemilla faeroensis ‘Pumila’, Zones […]
Lip fern
Nancy Norris Common name: Lip fern, Silver cloak fern Latin name: Cheilanthes argentea Plant type: Perennial USDA Hardiness Zones: 5-9 Cultural needs: Sun to part shade; well drained, slightly acidic, poor soil Plant size: 6″ high and wide The perfect dwarf fern for railway gardens elevated on rocks is the lip fern. Able to withstand […]
New large-scale products from the August 2018 issue of Garden Railways magazine
LGB Factory Trains Piko locomotive East Coast Large Scale Show boxcar USA Trains passenger car Engines & rolling stock LGB (Märklin) has released a digital “Factory Train” (#L29050) to commemorate LGB’s 50th anniversary in 2018. The prototype of the so-called Factory Train stood for many years in front of LGB’s plant in Nürnberg. The model […]
3D Printing & Laser Cutting: A Railway Modelling Companion
3D Printing & Laser Cutting: A Railway Modelling Companion by Jeff Geary & Dave Renshaw Published by Ian Allan Available in the US from: Specialty Press 838 Lake Street S Forest Lake MN 55025 Hardcover, 8″ x 10 1/2″, 160 pgs., 325 illustrations Price: $24.95 If you are new to 3D printing and/or laser cutting, […]
