Re: Garden railroads

I'm sorry I brought it up!  I know how your husband feels.  It's not 
easy being us you know.  I still haven't done the third of the front 
yard I supposed to do.  It's a matter of digging up the water system and 
laying new hose.  It's like a gigantic wall that I can't seem to overcome.

DF

Donna wrote:

>Yep, everything is to scale, plants, houses, mountains, people.... You
>look at plants in a different way.... will this look like a tree next to
>the house? Will this ground cover keep the tiny leaves.... stuff like
>that.
>
>I think a starter set is a 4ft circle.... but trust me, you never seem
>to have enough room....You can buy an engine, cars, track, and
>transformer for 200-400 bucks.... then you get hooked.... and more of
>everything is needed... some locomotives can be 5-6K, depends on what
>brand and what you want (we do LGB).... and then there is the plants,
>houses, landscaping,....
>
>Right now I am a bit disgusted with it... Dh expanded.... but never
>finished it, so it is a total mess! I have plants in holding beds since
>last year and they are not going to make it in the display this year...
>not good! One part of my pond is dismantled so the new waterfall from
>the train area can get hooked in... been like that since last fall...
>and the list goes on....
>
>Donna
>
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>>So Donna, on these garden trains the idea is to suit the garden to the
>>scale of the train?  How much room do you think is adequate for
>>something that size?  Also, just give me a guess as to how much a
>>locomotive would cost.  Usually, I like to work in smaller scale.  I
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>tie
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>>flies that are smaller than your pinky finger nail.  I have hand
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>painted
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>>soldiers in battle scenes that are about the size of your thumb nail.
>>Until I became so busy I was doing an HO scale train scene at
>>Christmas.  But I can see the attraction of a garden train as well.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>DF
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