Pond and Petals an AHS Daylily Display Garden

Ponds and Petals Garden Railroad Page

Welcome to the Ponds and Petals Garden Railroad home page. The year 2000 saw the Rail Road really taking shape as we ended up with 190ft of main line track running through the many flower gardens and around some of the water ponds. Also got in about 100ft of sidings and about 25 buildings were added. The weather stayed nice for much of the year until fall then it seemed to rain every time I went out to set up the trains. When it started snowing I thought no problem I'll just pick up a Aristo Craft snow plow car and keep the tracks clean. Well the car does do a very good job with about 6in of snow being all it really wants to handle but the problem is in trying to keep electrical connection to the track while trying to run. Tried putting some wd-40 on my track cleaning car and this took care of most of the problem with connection. Also buy leaving the engine I'm running out in the garage this keeps the engine close to the same temperature as it is outside so there isn't a problem with moisture buildup on the wheels. With the way the flower beds are laid out this causes a lot of drifting of snow during the winter which can affect winter time running. Then I have to get a dust pan out which I use cleaning the track when I have to. I started running on 400ft of main line on June 19, 2001 with another 300ft of passing siding, spurs and a branch line. A friend that is coming over and both helping work on the layout and running has set up a Big Hauler for Battery Power. Its a nice setup, running Sierra sound and using a Aristo Train Engineer while running over six hours before it needs a recharge. Well the year 2002 has been another big year here. Another 100ft of spurs and an addition to the branch line into my pole barn. It sure is a lot easier to put the trains away now. The branch line was increased from 42ft to 69ft. Now I need to get the rest of the track down in the barn to hold all the cars on. Have also added another half dozen buildings and still need a lot more of them. I set up 4 engines to run on either track power or battery power with the addition of my battery car which also has the remote on board receiver in it. I'm using Nicads and the run times are quite good. I hope you enjoy are site and if you have trains you would like to bring over and run or would just to come over and see are trains run you would be welcome. Please call ahead or e-mail as are schedual does change when the trains are running. The phone number is 810-686-2017. Suggestions on are site or are railroad layout are always welcome as the more input in something the better it seems to turn out. Thanks for stopping buy, Jerry

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