We started running trains on Christmas Eve the first year the Engineer and I were dating. We have an “open yard” for anyone who cared to drop by. It started when we lived in a small community that had a combination hayride/caroling ride. The Engineer drove the tractor that pulled the hay wagon with theContinue reading “Christmas Eve Open Train Yard 2024”
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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”
Holiday Show 2019
The annual Tidewater Big Train Operators (TBTO) Holiday train show is the largest and longest lasting display that our club sets up. We take over an entire gymnasium and the show runs for eight days. 2019 was our year of taking it easy with our holiday show layout. No tricky track work, no electronic wizardyContinue reading “Holiday Show 2019”
White’s Nursery Fall 2019
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.Continue reading “White’s Nursery Fall 2019”
Dismal Creek Railroad 