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I'd definitely be interested to learn more about why you changed your mind. Always interesting to hear how railways revolve.
Great last photo!
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I'd definitely be interested to learn more about why you changed your mind. Always interesting to hear how railways revolve.
Great last photo!
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Why I changed my plans ?
I will try to explain why my thinking evolved as this project evolved and probably the best way is to document what I was trying to do. I wanted a railway that I could watch the trains go round and round in a nice scenic garden setting. Where I could eventually run it like a real railway, with industries to serve , stations to run between and shunt at. Connected to a storage area to represent the rest of the "world". So I thought the only way I could afford this in G gauge is to use the bachmann thomas range. As a British themed 30s-50s freelance railway. I was inspired by the many amazing conversions I have seen here on gsc and on utube.
I started planning this 6 or 7 years ago. I worked out the area I had to use and drew up plans with 3 passing stations plus a main terminus station. I picked up a percy and a few trucks second hand at pretty reasonable prices to start with. Over the years I worked on percy and early on I got a few more pieces cheap. I built a signal box , I put what spare cash I had into getting some track and saving towards the future building of my railway.
About 2 years ago I discovered the RhB and was amazed at the scenery they run in and thought their trains looked fantastic too. It was great to see short trains , rail connected industries, mixed trains, shunting at stations in a modern setting. I was hooked ,so I looked into what was available and dropped the idea of a Swiss railway pretty quickly. Lgb seemed just too expensive, but my interest in learning about the RhB continued and I have spent many enjoyable hours watching cab ride videos. I thought in the future there definitely could be one shiny red loco running around. I am no purist and I am happy to have and run trains I like just for the fun of it, but as I don't have a unlimited budget I have to prioritise funds towards a "core" railway first.
I actually got started building this year as I have shown above. As a part of the building process I would need to sit and rest in between working , usually with a nice cuppa. I would look over what we had done and plan for the future. Daydreaming my wife calls it. Anyway, towards the end of building the walls I started to bring home the rocks, I have been collecting for this over the years. One day looking at the large pile of rocks I had dumped in the driveway. It dawned on me that if a few small plants were planted in the gaps that would look like a nice model of the alps.
Now I had planned all along to have the scenery drop 25 cm below the track level in most places other than the stations and 50cm around the pond. With view blocks rising up behind the stations and a few bridges. Now looking at the railway for real and not on a paper plan, I thought I could take this concept much further. Use these rocks to make bigger mountains , drop the scenery even lower to form valleys. Have longer bigger viaducts and tunnels . Plant even more plants as forests ,this idea seemed made for a RhB model. So a spanner well and truly thrown in the works.
Seeing I was going to build all the buildings from scratch anyway , there is no cost for swapping to a setting in Switzerland. What I learned about the RhB has shown me I could have a working railway in a modern setting, that looks fun to operate. I realise the cost of Lgb stuff hasn't changed, but that's ok, it will just take me much longer to collect less. I have waited this long to start, taking a few years longer to collect the stock I need to run a railway is fine. To give you guys in other countries a idea of costs here in Tasmania. All you see in the photos posted (including buying the plate compactor) cost less than a ge4/4ii and a ABe 8/12allegra are listed for at our distributor here. Now in the mean time my freelance trains, when I get them finished. Will run in the alps and that's the beauty of garden railways , unlike real life, you can just do whatever you want.
As to a track plan, well I am weighing up the pros and cons of a few interesting ideas at the moment. Unfortunately there will be a few changes made to what has been done. It will end up being better for the changes but it hurts to have to pull apart what has been done, luckily it not too much. If it just stops raining I can get back to the pond and waterfall.
Aren't you glad you asked Curtis?
regards Stewie.
I will try to explain why my thinking evolved as this project evolved and probably the best way is to document what I was trying to do. I wanted a railway that I could watch the trains go round and round in a nice scenic garden setting. Where I could eventually run it like a real railway, with industries to serve , stations to run between and shunt at. Connected to a storage area to represent the rest of the "world". So I thought the only way I could afford this in G gauge is to use the bachmann thomas range. As a British themed 30s-50s freelance railway. I was inspired by the many amazing conversions I have seen here on gsc and on utube.
I started planning this 6 or 7 years ago. I worked out the area I had to use and drew up plans with 3 passing stations plus a main terminus station. I picked up a percy and a few trucks second hand at pretty reasonable prices to start with. Over the years I worked on percy and early on I got a few more pieces cheap. I built a signal box , I put what spare cash I had into getting some track and saving towards the future building of my railway.
About 2 years ago I discovered the RhB and was amazed at the scenery they run in and thought their trains looked fantastic too. It was great to see short trains , rail connected industries, mixed trains, shunting at stations in a modern setting. I was hooked ,so I looked into what was available and dropped the idea of a Swiss railway pretty quickly. Lgb seemed just too expensive, but my interest in learning about the RhB continued and I have spent many enjoyable hours watching cab ride videos. I thought in the future there definitely could be one shiny red loco running around. I am no purist and I am happy to have and run trains I like just for the fun of it, but as I don't have a unlimited budget I have to prioritise funds towards a "core" railway first.
I actually got started building this year as I have shown above. As a part of the building process I would need to sit and rest in between working , usually with a nice cuppa. I would look over what we had done and plan for the future. Daydreaming my wife calls it. Anyway, towards the end of building the walls I started to bring home the rocks, I have been collecting for this over the years. One day looking at the large pile of rocks I had dumped in the driveway. It dawned on me that if a few small plants were planted in the gaps that would look like a nice model of the alps.
Now I had planned all along to have the scenery drop 25 cm below the track level in most places other than the stations and 50cm around the pond. With view blocks rising up behind the stations and a few bridges. Now looking at the railway for real and not on a paper plan, I thought I could take this concept much further. Use these rocks to make bigger mountains , drop the scenery even lower to form valleys. Have longer bigger viaducts and tunnels . Plant even more plants as forests ,this idea seemed made for a RhB model. So a spanner well and truly thrown in the works.
Seeing I was going to build all the buildings from scratch anyway , there is no cost for swapping to a setting in Switzerland. What I learned about the RhB has shown me I could have a working railway in a modern setting, that looks fun to operate. I realise the cost of Lgb stuff hasn't changed, but that's ok, it will just take me much longer to collect less. I have waited this long to start, taking a few years longer to collect the stock I need to run a railway is fine. To give you guys in other countries a idea of costs here in Tasmania. All you see in the photos posted (including buying the plate compactor) cost less than a ge4/4ii and a ABe 8/12allegra are listed for at our distributor here. Now in the mean time my freelance trains, when I get them finished. Will run in the alps and that's the beauty of garden railways , unlike real life, you can just do whatever you want.
As to a track plan, well I am weighing up the pros and cons of a few interesting ideas at the moment. Unfortunately there will be a few changes made to what has been done. It will end up being better for the changes but it hurts to have to pull apart what has been done, luckily it not too much. If it just stops raining I can get back to the pond and waterfall.
Aren't you glad you asked Curtis?
regards Stewie.
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