Garden Railway Forum

Here is my RH Billy. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/118048354/Roundhouse%20Billy%20-%202011-10-16%20800.JPG This is the engine how it is today - right out of the box, but there will come more details in some time: A coal bunker (Lady Anne style), nameplates, a headlamp, and other couplings. I would also li...

I really like the fact that the railway carve through a real hill rather than a tunnel made and then encased in a hill! Actually it took a lot of hard work to dig out the pathway for the line. ;) But now when the soil is back upon the tunnelroof, it is time for the small strawberryplants to take ba...

Thank you all for the good advices. :) Here are some pictures from the construction of the tunnel on my garden railway. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/118048354/Garden%20Railway%202011-07-07%20800.jpg The line has a radius of 75cm (2,5 ft). Here is the track temporary in place before construction. http://d...

Do you have a decent snow plough, or do you rely on The Big Hand In The Sky to clear your track? Here in the south-east part of Norway the snow hopefully will come as rain most part of the winter, but last winter we had both snow and below freezing point for several month. To keep the line open for...

Garden Railways has become more and more popular in Norway the last years. Actually there are several kinds of Garden Railways in Norway - mostly those who run the LGB-trains of German and Swiss prototypes, then some who runs US-prototypes both LGB and ther brands, and untill now a few who run these...

Hello Here is my first video of my Garden Railway. Enjoy it.  :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y1mJC07qM Until now it has been mostly construction and tracklaying. But this week my first locomotive arrived the Railway - a Roundhouse Billy. It's real fun to operate my own steam-engine. I actually...

Yes, a coal-bunker or just a wall with 2 oval-chaped-windows like those in front. A livesteam-friend of mine has a Billy with a tender. In this constallation the original engine looks very right because of the wide opening in the rear-end to give access between the engine and the tender. But with no...

Hello Is there anybody here who have attached a rear-end wall to their Roundhouse Billy? I will receive my Billy in a few weeks, and I would like to have either a rear-end wall or a tender to this little engine. I would prefer a rear-end wall because I think this engine looks better in a 0-4-0 versi...

Here I am. :) http://jernbane.co.uk/gleng/bilder/Lokforer_mvg.jpg On the picture I operate as an engineer on this - a norwegian BM91 http://jernbane.co.uk/gleng/bilder/BM91-09_Kroderen_02-07-2004.jpg In other cases I am station-master and chief-conductor on the Krøderbanen museum Railway. Krøderbane...

I started construction on my Garden Railway. There will be one tunnel on the layout, and it will partly be in a curve with 30" radius (SM32 SL605) track. What distance from the center of the track do you think will be adequately to give space for the longest coatches and engines? And what heigh...