As a kid, I was blown away by this railroad. I was always confused as to what scale it was - it didn’t look like anything I’d seen in Hobby Shops or magazines.
I’ve learned (thanks to the internet) that it was all scratchbuilt 1/2" scale. The website that contains info about it says it’s the largest garden railroad in North America. Any fans of this garden railroad here?
I remember seeing that pike as a kid!! I remember going back and forth between it, and the Orange Empire club’s layout. Didn’t the cars and trucks move on the garden RR?[:)]
Finally, someone who knows what I’m talking about! Yes, it had some cars and trucks too - they ran on track also - that was buried as well as it could be in the streets.
I, too, used to go back and forth between it and the indoor O scale layout. Because these were the only two model railroads I ever saw as a kid in addition to me and my Dad’s 4 x 8 at home, I thought HO wasn’t a very popular scale - figured it was this little scale that only people with 4 x 8’s had.
Then as I got older and started going to hobby shops and reading magazines, the outdoor garden railroad scale seemed HUGE!!!
Someone on the Garden Railway forum gave me the link to the official site of the outdoor railroad… www.fgrr.org
I am hoping to find some pics of the original trains. A seriously amazing piece of model railroad history, and I can’t find any pictures! (ok, so maybe I’m just hunting for a piece of my childhood… seeing those trains every year is serious business to a 5-10 year old!!!)