The Garden Railroads at the Color Country Railroad Club’s Home Tour 

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Hi. And THANKS. Great garden railroads! And a beautiful place too

The key to a successful rail road especially with older people, I’ve met a few old people so I know, is keeping it really easy to get to know crawling around on the ground. I know Budget my crawling around on the ground events to four per day. So ground-level railroading is just right out.

Love garden railroads

Glad you like them!

Yea. Love to see that run!!! I sort of wonder if it will go around the track. No real sharp curbs but still may not be able to get around it. A friend had one of those big boys. Well an early version. But he put in a special track in his front yard just to run it. About 15 foot radius curves. Really a huge oval in his front yard.

Right? Inspirational

Do be sure to watch Tuesday. I hope to have a fun show. Except we still need to shoot it. Hum....

Hi and thanks!! A bit more Tuesday for the new year! Still planning the railroad. Had that figured out. Or so I thought. So rethinking most of it. But next year we want to run some actual trains.

What a fun group! Great place too.

More soon!!

Be sure to watch the show tomorrow morning. A bit of follow up on the idea of a planter box rail road.

Wow yes.

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Thanks. I work hard on the music. Cause I love doing it. Glad you like it!!!! Thanks!!!

Yup!!

They are indeed amazing. Check for sure in the morning to see what we’re doing with our rail road. We found that type of rail road in the planter box is surprisingly called a planter box rail road. Well it fits.

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Hi! Yup. We both caught cold. Surgery and virus. Oh joy! More st George soon.

I lived there for two years. And still spend a lot of time there. Great place.

Dream big but build bigger. And I don’t necessarily mean size. I mean achieved dreams.

Back to you!

I do love garden railroads. I fully understand and appreciate the amount of work they are, especially large ones, but boy they are fun. Are unique form of model railroading for sure.

They are neat, for sure.

Really unknown. But the group is really getting attention now.

I really love that system of driving the locomotive right into the wooden box and then transporting it to the shelf with the handle on top. That is slick

Check out our show on Easter eggs and garden railroads.

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We were just talking about Chicago last night! Do usual conversation about the disrespect shown to such a beautiful and dynamic city. The crime rates that people often talk about are way down from what they were a few years ago, but even then I never felt unsafe walking around under the el. Winters suck. But in the rest of the year Chicago any time!! Wanna get back.

Hi. And thanks!!!

They are something. Next year the toy train layouts

You too. More on garden layouts Tuesday

Seeing others work drives us forward. Inspiration and competition. Human stuff. Wow!!!

We agree on your choices there! Do you watch the show in the morning some more ideas on the planter box rail road

Yep in the mornings. Usually while drinking my pot of Coffee.

It’s gotten more affordable over time but that’s not saying much is it! When I look at that 2000 foot rail road and I try to imagine that he spent somewhere around five dollars a foot, the mind boggles. Although that’s about the price of two of those big boys so nice to have money isn’t it!

As long as it’s colorado narrow gauge I’m happy. Check back Tuesday

Merry Christmas and a happy new year right back to you! And thanks for following the channel! Oh and tell your friends!

Look at the show in the morning! No we don’t have that type of rail road but we’re building one. And we will show you the place that we’re building at

Really!

Hi. Tuesday we look at our railroad. Omg. But we have been working on it.

Check Tuesday. Plans for our railroad and progress.

What railroad?

Toy Man Television It runs on my small outdoor layout I put out every summer. (In Ogden Utah) Hahah sorry I wasn’t very specific

But I have only run it indoors so far. I move the railroad into my basement in the winter.

Railbrony sure to watch the show in the morning. Get to see what we’ve been up to on ours.

Be sure to watch in the morning and we will show you where we’re installing our real Road. The rail I have is aluminum and I’m thinking of using it simply because I have a left over from my previous railroad and free is a good price. If I had it to do over and Budget was not a problem stainless steel would be the way to go.

Wanna get to green bay.

Toy Man Television yeah, it's a pretty nice looking UP Big Boy. There are eight survived UP Big Boys. Big Boy 4004 is on display in Holliday Park under restoration. Big Boy 4005 is at the Forney Museum. Big Boy 4006 is at the Museum Of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri. Big Boy 4012 is at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Big Boy 4014 is in operation today since May 2019. Big Boy 4017 is at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Big Boy 4018 is at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, relocated from Dallas in 2013. Big Boy 4023 is at Kenefick Park in Omaha, Nebraska on display.

@@ToyManTelevision visit Lambeau if you do! Go pack go!

I never been to Green Bay, Wisconsin. But I would love to go there. Especially the train museum.

Hi!!!! Hope you are well. This was a great trip. When we knew we were both having surgery we said ROAD TRIP! Editing and recovering. But both well enough now. Love my new hip! Still can’t drive a clutch though.

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I’m guessing that you’re referring to union pacific 3985. The Challenger locomotive. It was taken out of service a few years ago and it was announced that it would be rebuilt. As near as I can tell secretly they had no intention of rebuilding the engine. It has significant problems. But they didn’t want to announce publicly that they had no intention of rebuilding it. But there had been an idea floating around for quite some time to rebuild a big boy locomotive. And with the Challenger in such bad shape it was actually cheaper to rebuild a Big boy then repaired the Challenger. So without telling anybody that they had no intention of rebuilding the Challenger they simply went ahead and restored 4014, the big boy which I think was clearly intended as a replacement for 3985. And now they are publicly announcing that they will not be rebuilding 3985. But never say never and 3985 can be repaired if someone wants to spend the money to do it. It certainly will not be scrapped out it just won’t be rebuilt in the foreseeable future. In the meantime we can all enjoy a Big boy.

Yup. Oddly not sure just what! Better get to work I guess.

Hi. Nope. When we have a railroad then we would love to. Had a live steam boat fir a while. 30 minutes to get it moving then 15 minutes of run time. Still really fun.

Ford Focus. Karyn’s car. My hip was so bad I couldn’t drive then. Good news new hip! Still can’t drive a clutch as yet but driving again!

Yup. Back to the railroad

Just do it !! ;-) Hmm that sounds like a quote from my distant past LOL!

Would really like to get to the other side of the pond and check out some of the railroads there, both real and models. Nothing like going to the source if you want to get serious.

Upcoming show on just that Proto 48 layout. SP and Sacramento northern!

As I said waiting for it.:-)

Ain’t that something!!! Proto 48. Perfect 👌🏼 model. Upcoming show on just that layout.

Seriously? I will be looking forward to it then!

Really. I knew Nat Polk back in the day. I’m afraid we would drink whiskey together, Chivas regal but I digress. Such a dynamic company! Company was so old they were the purveyors of model railroads to the founding fathers, I could be wrong but I think Nat actually signed the Declaration of Independence. Don’t quote me on that but I think he did. Keep hoping someone will pick those lines up.

@@ToyManTelevision They seemed to be near LGB quality with slightly higher than Bachmann prices. Their track was also very economical.