School Project....

Garden Railroading
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…A school project that I have wanted to have my classes do for a long time is that of building the Transcontinental railroad (union and Central pacific). The Closest we ever got was an N scale one when I was teaching in Ben Bolt, Texas.

Iamgine a rail display in the school Iibrary, how many kids do you think would go to school just for that reason.

Maybe we should work to sponsor such a project in our local schools. Model Railroad club…with books about real historical railroads and a local verticle file for railraod history?

Wha’cha think?

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Well if ya start with one end of the playground as Omaha and the other end as Sacramento, and kind a meet in the center…

…might be a little tough importing a few tons of dirt 'n rock for the Sierra’s and the Rockies though…[:D][;)][D)][:-,][(-D][swg][:-^][alien]

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Great Idea Capt C. start with this http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=12216&browseCategoryId=1038&location=&parentcatid=&subcatid=

Modern marvels on the history channel about the trans cont.[:D]

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Capt., Vic and Matt they still make me LOL William P. “Bluebonnett 71”

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Hi Capt Carrales
Forget it sounds far to big an idea[:(].
Instead have the class build the railroad layout at a managable size to serve
industry the praries ect if planned right the kids can do most of the building.
Learn about how a real railway works what it does and why they where so important.
As part of the Social Studies Class or what ever they call it these days
Its not a new idea it has been done before and apparently worked really well
[:D]
regards John