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How Garden Trains Work: Plants, Flowers, Bushes for your Garden Railways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. Plants: They Do Call It Garden Trains - Right? The plants you select for your Garden Railroad are as important, maybe even more important, than the trains that you select to run. The garden gives the railway life; the railway gives the garden purpose. The two must be integrated with great care. When choosing plants for your railroadscape, it is important to consider the following factors: the planting site's climate and micro-climates; the amount...
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How Garden Trains Work: Rolling Stock for your Garden Railways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. Rolling Stock: Moving People and Stuff from One Place to Another. If you are going to run Large Scale trains, will need rolling stock to pull behind your locomotives. The rolling stock you select for you railroad will be what moves your passengers and freight for you. On real railroads, passenger cars generally tended to stay on their parent road. Sometimes these cars would travel on other roads, but most passenger trains on a railroad had ca...
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How Garden Trains Work: Track and Roadbed for your Garden Railways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. Track: The Most Important Decision You Will Make for Your Railroad. As with anything in life a good foundation means that you will be able to build a good home and keep it in working order. The same thing applies to Garden Trains. The right selection of track and how you support it will make or break your fun level in this hobby. What's it made of and can I leave it outside? So do I use brass or stainless steel rails? And have never had to clean ...
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How Garden Trains Work: Power for your Garden Railways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. Power: Track Power, Battery or Live Steam - You Choose. You have several ways to provide power for your Garden Train. Learn the secrets of consistent power to every area of your Garden Railroad. It is simple once you know how. Remember how you powered your first model train? Well forget it. The options today are only limited by your imagination, or your budget. Track Power - the way we all got started! Track power is simple, inexpensive and relia...
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(HGTW) Garden Trains: How Garden Trains Work: Guide to Garden Railways, Garden Trains, Large Scale Trains
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. So How Do I Get Started. Getting started in Garden Trains is easier than you think. Several of the major manufacturers sell starter sets that include everything you need to get running. These sets include some track, a power supply, an engine and some rolling stock. Just snap the track together, attach two wires, and you are ready to run. Starter sets can differ in price and quality. You can end up comparing apples with oranges. Help! Well forget...
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How Garden Trains Work: Buildings you need for your Garden Raiways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. Buildings: They create the towns, villages and workplaces on your railroad. Buildings are important to Large Scale railroads because they create the centers of activities along your railroad. Usually, most of us begin to think about acquiring buildings for our railroad soon after we get our track in place. If we did the job correctly, we should think about buildings before the track goes in. You will need houses for all areas of your railroad....
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How Garden Trains Work: Select an Engine for your Garden Railways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. Locomotives: The Power up Front. When people think about Garden Railroads, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the locomotive. The wonderful thing is that today, there are a very large number of locomotives available in Large Scale. Depending on your preferences and the setting of your railroad, you can choose to have steam, diesel or electric types of locomotives and all are accurate representations of the real thing.
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How Garden Trains Work: People, Cars and Trucks on your Garden Railways
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How Garden Trains Work. A simple guide to getting started. People: Without Them Who Will Ride Your Trains? There are several things that should be considered as you think about selecting people to live and work on your railroad. These considerations are the setting of your railroad, the timeframe you are trying to replicate, the scenes you want to create and the effects you want to achieve. In addition, you will want to determine if you want your people ready-to-go or in need of finishing.
