General scenic arrangements

[Phil.P]

Possibly a little bit early for the northern hemisphere?
But I am wanting inspiration towards actually building / laying some track this year!

I am looking for 'this is how I crossed the back of the house'..
Did it work, and was it practical?

How to cope with running under (in my case Holly) an established tree. - There is a leaky fibreglass pond under said tree..

This end of the garden is in shade, so it will be damp for a lot of the time.

Then, I will be 68 this year. Tonnes of earth movement and mixing of concrete, are probably not the way to go.
Neither is running too close to the ground?

I don't really want the posed artistic details, more the 'warts and all' of the compost heap, and that pile of old plant-pots, you just can't throw away.

Thank you.
Phil.P

[philipy]

Phil,
Firstly questions:
What sort of soil are you on?
You mention running past the back of the house - is that serious?
What sort of access will be needed through the track to the rest of the garden? i.e how many bridges and how wide?
Roughly what length of run are you after?
Will it be a straight length of track, a dogbone, a simple loop and will there be sidings/station(s)?

Sorry, but they all potentially influence how to construct the trackbase.

[GAP]

Phil as I am about your age I (read my knees) decided that crawling around on the ground was for the birds, so I went the elevated baseboard route.
While not through the garden it does gives me a chance to walk around the garden and I did plant out underneath with flowering plants to give some colour.
Doing this also allowed me to call on my old HO skills to create believable scenes on the baseboard which do not require weeding.
https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... -2023.html
The baseboard frames https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... ework.html
To keep everything low maintenance I use artificial turf for my pathways, only had to crawl around once. https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... ayout.html
Bit of scenery https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspo ... cross.html
I started min in 2019 and have not regretted my decision to go elevated one bit especially after open heart surgery.