Another year, another two shows done at White’s Nursery. This one was our “Christmas” show typically done in early November just as they are clearing out the Halloween decor and gearing up for the holidays. Our fall shows seem to always involve our hodge-podge collection of gingerbread houses, people and candy trees. They do lookContinue reading “White’s Nursery Fall 2022”
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Heber Valley Railroad
This fall during a trip out west to visit family we had the opportunity to visit the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah’s Provo Valley. Originally completed in 1899 as a part of the Rio Grande Western the branch line was in service hauling freight until 1966. The 1970’s and 80’s saw the railroad operating asContinue reading “Heber Valley Railroad”
A Potager Garden Train
Potager – A kitchen garden where vegetables, flowers, herbs and fruit intermingle. With trains. A Garden train with a lot of plantings involved is a fair amount of work to keep up with. Any grass you have growing is always trying to take over the whole world, annuals have to be replanted – annually andContinue reading “A Potager Garden Train”
Tweetsie Railroad
Summer vacation this year included a trip to the Tweetsie Railroad theme park near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. It was a return visit for the Conductor and a new experience for our Engineer. I would love to say that it was exactly as I remembered it, but as my first time there was 1958 orContinue reading “Tweetsie Railroad”
White’s Nursery Spring 2022
At last, the season of inactivity for us is over – time for another show at White’s Nursery and Garden Center. Our train club did two shows over the winter but we elected not to participate. We enjoy doing the shows at White’s as they are a little more “free-form” and we can do ourContinue reading “White’s Nursery Spring 2022”
White’s Nursery Fall 2021
<<insert Happy Dance>> Our first train show in almost two years!! <<end Happy Dance>> The last of our club’s shows that we participated in was the annual Holiday show in December 2019. We have had a layout at White’s twice a year since the Fall 2015 event and it is a little show that weContinue reading “White’s Nursery Fall 2021”
North Carolina Transportation Museum
White’s Nursery Spring Show, the East Coast Large Scale Train Show, Denbigh Train Days, Poquoson Trinity Show, Ashland Train Days, White’s Nursery Fall Show, TBTO Holiday Show. A lot of (garden train related) things that did not happen in 2020. There is still not much happening yet in 2021, though things are starting to lookContinue reading “North Carolina Transportation Museum”
Christmas Eve 2020
What 2020 has brought us to. Every year that we have been together we have run trains on Christmas Eve. We would invite anyone who chose to come by and watch the trains run and gather together for a little pre-Christmas cheer. The train garden would be decorated as well as the trains. We haveContinue reading “Christmas Eve 2020”
Holiday Show 2020
Our train club, the Tidewater Big Train Operators, has long put on a large Holiday show that runs for eight days and every year that Archie and I have been members we have participated in it. Like everything else in this crazy year the show was cancelled. Sigh. We were not actually planning on havingContinue reading “Holiday Show 2020”
Halloween 2020
Our Open Yard Halloween this year was as much for our benefit as it was for those who stopped by. We have run our trains on Halloween for the last nine years so this provided a small bit of normality in an otherwise weird year. We had all three tracks cleaned up and running trains,Continue reading “Halloween 2020”
Dismal Creek Railroad 