A guided tour (photos)

Garden Railroading
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After posting numerous photos of Iandors’ railway,I realised that I have no idea of the extent or shape of it.
I have made a (very rough) map of my railway with numbered picture points.
I hope to give a feel of the garden via pictures.
Here is the garden with the railway marked in white,

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

Number 7

Number 8

And the whole lot !

I would love to see other peoples railways exhibited like this.
If you have trouble posting pictures,get in touch via e-mail and we’ll work something out.
Regards.

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Troy,

Capitial job on your layout!!! Do you name you trains? If so, you might wi***o name the one in pic number 1 the “Marquis de SOD!”

I’ll put something together for my limited layout.

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[^]Excellent idea and great photos. I am confused. You give the impression that you are only interested in Trams or have I got it wrong.
Somebody tried to get us to exhibit pics of the overall garden before but it didn`t take off(Kim, I think ). I need to hang from the roof eaves to get a decent pic. [:D]
I shall endeavor to try. At the moment I am putting together pics of the garden when it was dominated by 00/H0.

All the best

Ian P

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Yes Joe,
I forgot to mention that the children and I are cutting a new flower bed.All the sods are taken from point 1 to point 6 via rail.
Takes ages,but it’s fun [:D]

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Thanks for the tour!

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The trams are my main interest Ian but usually I run the trains.
On this,a gardening day,the trams take a back seat.They can’t carry dirt and they can’t deliver beer to various parts of the garden!
Sometimes the freight trains are best.

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Hi troy
Very nice
You could always get a tram locomotive or build the
Isle of Man work tram[:D] (just to keep in theme) well thats the excuse at any rate[8D]
Like the way the photos are keyed to the plan.
regards John

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Great idea and great pictures!

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Troy
Nice layout and nice pictures. I love the way the track follows the perimeter of your yard. Maybe I’ll try some pictures when I’ve weeded part of my right of way. By the way, did Engli***ram companies have motors for freight or home made motors for maintenance of way work? Something along the traction line pulling your work train, especially something you built , would make that good looking work train outstanding. Keep up the good work!
Bob

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I like the one that you built Bob.That would look very nice.
This is Bob’s electric loco that he built. (I’m just a bit jealous)

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Nice one Troy, now where did i put that camera. How did you do the plan, draw it then pic it or use a program to do it?
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

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Hey Troy

Thats a nice layout, are you going to call the spot between pics 5 and 6 “Cow Lick Curve”?[;)]

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Hey Kim,the plan was done on good old paint (windows)
The numbered picture idea I borrowed from GR magazine.I like the way it brings a layout to life.It’s a great idea.
Vic–the cows are really big now.They can reach right over the track which is a bit worrying as they are really nosy on train running days.It’s really pleasant when you have to wipe cow saliva off the track.Still look on the bright side.The bigger they are,the more meat I will get for Sunday dinner [:D]

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Then they are your cows? I imagine that England is a cow’s paradise, so green an lush. My uncle has some cattle…our foliage used to be Brown, now its gray!

I am at the point where no amount of watering will keep my meager veggies productive…unless we have some rain soon…the NMRR will have to convert to haulling dry minerals.

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No Captain they’re not mine.There is only about 10 of them and they live in the field at the bottom of the garden.We’ve watched them grow up and they come for walks with us.(eg. they are so nosy they follow us when we go walking in the field) They are very useful when it comes to getting rid of grass cuttings.