Welcome to my Garden Railroad.

Presented with photos and videos.

"Garden Railroads", as they are called, are also known as "G" scale. They are generally 1:29 scale or 1:32 scale, but can also be 1:24, 1:22.5 or 1:20.3 scale. They are too big to build a layout indoors and most are found in the backyard of a model railroad enthusiast. They are weather-proof. So far I have about 300 feet of track in my backyard. When complete, I will have about 450 feet of track. The track is 45mm (almost 2 inches) between the rails. Engines can be as long as 57 inches and weigh around 80 lbs. The first engine below is a 4-6-0 Mogul steam engine and it's about 30 inches long, 7 inches high and 5 inches wide. Box cars are about 19 to 20 inches long. 4-6-0 means there are 4 small pilot wheels in front and 6 big driver wheels. A 4-8-4 would be 4 pilot wheels, 8 big driver wheels and 4 more small wheels under the engineers cab.

PHOTOS and VIDEOS

PHOTOS

I modified the 4-6-0 Rio Grande Southern and installed the Phoenix P8 Sound System, the NEC D808 DCC (Digital Command Control) decoder and Proline Pulsed Smoke unit. All the experts told me I would not be able to make this electronic configuration work. I figured a way to do it anyway!

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Rio Grande Southern       modifying the engine                                              New York Central
Mogul 4-6-0                                                                                                          Hudson - J1e
1:22.5 scale engine                                                                                                           2-6-4


         
   Rio Grande            modifying the K27
   K27  2-8-2            with sound and smoke

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VIDEOS    -   wmv files


Rio Grande - Mogul, 4-6-0 Videos

                                
   about 1 min.                                                "4-6-0 Drive By"  video                                              "Bridge 1"   video                                                "Bridge 2"   video
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              "Rio Grande 4-6-0 Pulling Out"                        "Rio Grande 4-6-0 Crosses Bridge"                    "Another Drive-By"  12 cars and a caboose

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Rio Grande - K27,  2-8-2 Videos

     
      "K27 Indoor smoke demo video"                   "K27 Pulling Out" video                             "Bridge 1"   video                                       "Bridge 2"   video

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New York Central - Hudson J1e, 2-6-4 Videos

     
       "The Hudson in a cool drive-by"                       "Hudson cruising by"                                   "Crossing the Bridge"                                     "Crossing the Bridge pt. 2"



I'll be adding more photos and videos as my Garden Railroad progresses.