Our second holiday themed show at White’s Nursery in Chesapeake, Virginia.
This was the debut of our Dinosaur Train. Kids in general love trains so one goal of our train club, the Tidewater Big Train Operators, is to keep them interested in the hopes that they’ll grow into big kids who love trains. Kind of like us. At every show our club does one of the layouts features Thomas the Tank Engine or one of his friends (James, Emily, etc.). However, Archie has a particularly strong dislike of Thomas therefore we do not have one on our layouts. Or even own one. We wanted to have something for the younger wannabe engineers so we came up with our rendition of the Dinosaur Train, a popular PBS children’s show. The train isn’t available in a G scale version so we had to get creative and put together our own.
This layout was also done in the glass house at White’s and we used a layout known as a folded dogbone using five foot curves. You are not going to get a very big engine running around a design like this, but you can squeeze a fair amount of track into a small space.
Dismal Creek Railroad 