A neighbor with a mini-excavator was hired to dig the canal and the larger pond. We did NOT care to dig all of that by hand. But there signs at the far end of the layout that completion may actually exist. The small pond is starting to fill in. The inner loop of track isContinue reading “Construction Aug 2016”
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Construction June 2016
This is about the time that the neighbors begin to wonder just what we are up to. We got all three tracks in place. We ran trains. We contemplated and navel gazed for a bit. We decided we were really going to do this. And then……we got to work. The large blob of deadness inContinue reading “Construction June 2016”
Construction May 2016
One of our first thoughts when we moved in to our house was where to put the train garden? We live in an old farmhouse sans the farm. When the farmland itself was sold off something that went with it was any sort of a back yard. One side of the house is taken upContinue reading “Construction May 2016”
New Carolinians
We have moved! We bought a house and are now North Carolinians. Packing up all the “stuff” from the train room at the campground and getting it down to our new house was an experience. And moving the train garden itself was a feat. We picked up all of the track. Emptied and brought downContinue reading “New Carolinians”