We went a bit minimalist this year. When we first got started with a garden railroad and did a few shows with the Tidewater Big Train Operators, the train club we are members of, we saw the large trailer the club brings to shows and watched others unloading their full size SUV’s and pickup trucks. We decided that was not going to be us. We were going to stay with simple, small and clean little layouts. Famous last words. We have done a show where it took our truck pulling a trailer plus our car to get everything there. Everything for this show fit in the back of our Fiesta.
This was also our first time with a “pizza layout”, or one that is so small is could maybe fit inside of a large pizza box. This circle of track is less than three feet across and is a diorama of our first generation (broken) Climax getting overhauled and rebuilt. I hope the guys can get it running again, it was one of our first locomotives.
Dismal Creek Railroad 