Some New Ideas for the New Season

Garden Railroading
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With the Spring season right around the corner, here are some new ideas for your layout:

  1. We’ve all seen the old steam locomotive getting scrapped on many railways. Well I’ve decided to give this a new twist and have an old steam locomotive being restored by a preservation group.

  2. In another new twist on an old idea, I will be converting the abandoned siding leading to an old mine into a “rail trail” for hiking, biking, ect.

  3. In an homage to Law & Order, one of my favotie TV shows, I plan to create a crime scene. I just need to find that yellow tape they use to cordon it off in small scale.

  4. In another homage to another favorite show, I’m planning to modle “The Simpsons” house.

These should keep me busy for a while.

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I really like those ideas. I might try some of them. The crime scene sounds really interesting.

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Go to your food pantry and look at the twist tie on a loaf of bread, if not there then look at the twist ties in a box of plastic bags.

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IThanks for the tip; I’ll give it a try.

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That is a pretty neat idea, and low, if any, cost.

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Why not just use the real tape and slice it to size? It’s already weather resistant and color fast, 3 or 4 ft of tape would last forever and it comes in yellow and orange. You could get the same thing from construction sites, or if you want to spend money, pick up a roll at Home Depot.

My only idea for for the new season is to finish the ideas I started last season. [B)]

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Here’s another idea, making highway shields for the main highway this web site http://www.kendrick.org/shields-up/ will do it for you, just enter the route number and select the state (or US, Interstate or County). I’m also planning a an under-construction segment of I-78 in one corner of the layout.

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Well of course why not do what we all do around here in summer time we go surfing, fishing and eating al fresco.

Rgds ian