Hi all.
This is the short video I did for Garden Railway magazine. It will give those that can’t come and visit a taste of what gos on down here anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HikRv7WHTcE
BTW, if your ever in Okanagan wine country my place is always open.
Dave
Hi Dave,
To most of the guys on here, we’re up there.
Nice job all around!
Very nice video and very smooth running locomotives and rolling stock. I loved the attention to detail including those miles of telephone wire strung all along the line. Very realistic!!!
Tom
Good to hear from you again HJ. I’ve got to get up that way this summer.
Tom. Those wires were essential in my mind, and quite a bit of work, but it took a while to remember they were there when I have to reach for something. Better now. I used something called button hole thread. It’s cheap and doesn’t fuzz up and look silly.
Tom Grabenstein said:
Very nice video and very smooth running locomotives and rolling stock. I loved the attention to detail including those miles of telephone wire strung all along the line. Very realistic!!!Tom
Great video Dave.
Now I have to ask, is the Okanagan wine country in Canada or Washington state? Because our news casters are always talking about the Okanagan Valley in the northern part of Washington. Or maybe I should ask, how far from Spokane, Washington are you located? There is a group of us here on this site that belong to the Inland Northwest Garden Railroad Society based out of Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Chuck
Thanks for sharing with us. That was great
Ralph
Well Chuck the Okanagan Valley begins near Vernon BC (Where HJ lives) then goes south thru Kelowna and Penticton and crosses the border at Oroville WA and continues south thru Okanagan untill it flows into the Columbia river. The whole valley from about Kelowna south is growing grapes and producing some of the finest vintages. BTW Dave lives about a hour north of Oroville.
And South of the border they call it Okanogan, because they can’t spell all that well. :lol: 
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@ Randy,
According to local info 
the Okanagan starts way up there at Grindrod. Mara OTOH is part of the Shuswap.
Hey Chuck
To answer your question more accurately, I am 150 miles north of Spokane and the Okanagan Valley is roughly 150 miles west of where I am.
For you the best route would probably be SH2 to Wilbur, then SR174 to Grand Coulee, SR156 to Omak and then SH97 north to the border. Plan on most of a day to get there. Lots of nice scenery along the way.
Ron
Dave,
Really enjoyed the magazine article and also this video.
Thanks for all the information my Canadian brothers, hahaha. Maybe we’re all going to plan a trip and finally get together. Actually we may have more of the LSC family living up here then they do back East.
Keep in touch eh? My daughter just got posted to Whitehorse so now I’m planning a trip up the Alaska Highway for late August. Something I always wanted to do but never had an excuse. Two weeks away from trains won’t heart. Will it?
Really nice video, Dave.
Ric Golding said:
Dave,Really enjoyed the magazine article and also this video.
Whaddamean away from trains? Skagway and the White Pass & Yukon Railway are only 120 miles down highway 2 from Whitehorse. Many of the residents of Skagway do there shopping in Whitehorse.
Good to hear from you Dave!
Great to hear from you Paul. Skagway will be on the list of “Things to do and see” when I get up there. It’s a great day trip and they say the scenery along the way is really spectacular. I’m counting down.