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Garden Trains are the fastest growing area of Model Railroads. Plus home gardeners are finding out that it is something exciting to add to their gardens. Garden Trains.com is your best resource. We provide you useful information at our site and references to the best sites on the Internet for Garden Trains. Welcome to the perfect family activity.

Tips for Getting Started
If you are new to the idea of Garden Trains it may be hard for you to get an understanding of what this hobby is all about. The most important thing to remember is that there is no one right way to build a Garden Railway.
Watch out for the "professionals" that try and tell you how to do it, and don't teach you how things can be done. Writing about Garden Trains and Railroads is one thing -- doing it is another.

The best way to get started is to watch a video and read all you can. Find or make a friend who already has a Garden Railroad. Finding a local club is a great way to get started and you can check out a complete database of clubs - online right here

How to use Bridges on Your Garden Railroad
Tim Anderson: Bridge's add character to a garden railroad. Logging railroads probably created some of the most interesting "bridges". Today with the weight of the new garden train engines the bridges have to work just like the prototype. Engines are just too expensive to build a cheap bridge to save a few cents.

Edward Stempien: I have a small garden trains set-up in my back yard. In it, I have incorporated three bridges, all scratch-built. The bridges create the system. I wish that my terrain (flat coastal South Carolina), were more conducive to the use of bridges. They lend realism to the garden railroad and give the opportunity to fantasize at being a Civil Engineer.

Ed Frey: Bridges on a Garden Railway are of almost universal appeal. Ever notice how many ads, magazine covers, and layout photos show the trains on a bridge? I can't imagine a railroad without bridges. Maybe it's because of the aspiring "civil engineer" in most of us, but more practically, it's usually because we need a place for water to go, we have a topographical gap to cross, or we need to get one track over another. Based on comments from our railroader and non-railroader visitors to our garden railroad, they are seen as focal points that add interest and plausibility to the right-of-way. Besides, I just enjoy building them

David Clapper: Bridges and railroads share a long history. The railroad's need for a nearly level roadbed made bridges necessary where the common wagon roads in the early days tended to follow the contours of the landscape. So, a garden railroad without a bridge is quite unusual.

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  • Buildings
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  • Garden Train Photos
  • Getting Started
  • Grades
  • How Garden Trains Work
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