Garden Railway Forum

I wonder if there is a video somewhere showing how to convert track-powered locomotives to batter-powered?

I want to update the railway after I installed the crossing lights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npH00f0f ... e=youtu.be

Brian,
Thanks for the information. It's amazing this hobby has been developed with a lot of sophisticated designs.

I just bought a classic lighted signal for my track. My question is how to wire this signal to the track that makes the lights flash when the train passing by?

"Oh, heck! That's grown a bit.................................."

Since I got into this hobby, I didn't watch movies anymore. Whenever, I have time in the week-end, I prefer to work in the garden. It keeps growing then.

This is the current status of my garden railway 9 months after I got into this hobby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pen5ehxW ... e=youtu.be

This is after I expanded the railway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZuCuI ... e=youtu.be

This is a few months after I established my garden railway. Later, I expanded the railway twice larger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SejQ4WhI ... e=youtu.be

"What did you use for all the lighting?"

I used LED. The advantage is that it will last much longer than light bulbs. The disadvantage is that LED are directional, so if we reverse the power, it won't work.

"That looks good! Wish my planting would settle in that quickly rather than dying back completely within 2 months! I like the windmill, but its rotating a tad fast for my taste!" Thanks the idea. I also think so, too. I tried to find a gear box motor that can rotate one or two rounds per m...

This is a movie of my garden railway in the first two months. Since then, there are quite a lot of things have been added in the past 9 months, I will list more videos in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0Tt03u5Ig

Lovely autumnal colours, what is the plants name please?

It's Japanese Barberry tree. In Autumn, if the tree exposes to strong sun light, the leaves got to better bright red color.

"Lovely autumnal colours, what is the plants name please?" I need to ask my wife. She takes care for plants and landscape of the garden rail. I take care for hardward, mechanic and electricity. However, the other plant is a Japanese maple tree. The left plant in the last photo. It also has...

Mini foliage in my garden rail.

"What kind of track is it?
It looks like 45mm LGB or Piko track."

You are right, they are 45 mm LGB and Piko tracks.

Some of my updated railway photos in early Fall.

Your garden rail is a dream for everybody. Please share more photos around the year, it's must be very nice in Spring and Fall seasons.

Thanks. I wish to have enough light. I stood up above in my room when I took that photo outside the garden. It's very dark, I pumped ISO up to 6000 and thus the photos are not very clear as wish. The train is barely visible.

Late run in a Summer night.

Arlington, MA does not have a rail but I combined the theme between the rail in Medford and the shopping strip in Mass Ave. Arlington, MA for this design.

The Ohringen station, obviously originated from Germany and the shrine is a theme from Japan.