Managed to get some train running in last weekend. Won’t be long now and it will all be put away for the winter. Have seen snow here as early as the last week of October and with and average of 3 to 5 feet the railroad packs up for the season. Enjoy.
Beautiful railroad Ron, thanks for sharing the pictures.
Matt
… Yeah, for sure! What Matt said… The garden looks gorgeous too… Lotta care gone into everything I see…
Beautiful. I really like all the plants. The buildings are placed perfect, not overcrowded. Looks great. You have a track plan? Would love to see more pictures of the layout
That’s one good looking layout. You have great backgrounds with your extensive gardening.
great shots, nice layout… 
Excellent looking railroad Ron. I love the melding of the trains into the landscape. I hope to achieve that as my layout matures.
Yes , ditto what they all said , really nice .
Great pictures Ron. The railroad is looking great, sorry Chris and I couldn’t make it up there this year, but it is definitely on the schedule for next year, new knee or not. BTW you still coming down for the train show Oct 14th?
Chuck
Great RR and garden, Ron. BZ.
Beautiful Ron !
Very Nice!
Awesome!
-Kevin.
Tk’s for posting the photos… Very nice layout…
Thanks for all the compliments. I have to give credit for the plants to my wife, she really seems to be able to make things grow. The track plan is basically just a loop folded back on itself to look like a figure 8. There is not a lot for operations, mostly it is just watch the trains go round. Here are a couple of pics taken from high up. They are a couple of years old so there is not as much greenery. This one is from a tall step ladder looking east
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This is taken from the bench visible at the end in the first pic.
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and a couple more from last weekend
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When we started about 5 years ago, the reality quickly set in that we didn’t have room to build a large operations based railroad so instead decided to have a large garden with a train running through it. So far it has turned out quite well. Chuck, hope you can make it up next year, and yes, still planning on the 14th.
