mainegardenrailwaysociety2023

Greetings to the Members of the Maine Garden Railway Society.  How many of you have trains running and plants growing?  Let/s talk ,,,communicate with each other. What have you done, what is new, what problems have you solved? or not? Flat Car with Lumber Loads I think that my layout is about done. No more expansion.  Sawmill is in, I have a dust house, The planing mill has been partially enclosed.  The name of the lumber operation is *Twin Falls Lumber, Ltd.  My granddaughter helped with the design of the logo.   I don’t have a pipe to the dust collector yet. Saw Mill and Dust Shed The idea of making a tunnel out of hardware cloth to have a tunnel made by flowers seems to be working. The taller plants took a beating from the rains last week, But we will keep trying.    The small garden can get really colorful. Hardware Cloth Tunnel Photo of egg liners I have more equipment than I need and want to sort out some steam engines and have them all with...

We had twenty Eggliners on the tracks at Doug Johnson's Garden  Railway in Gorham. Here is how it looked on video. The weather and the company made it an excellent afternoon.  Doug's visitors included Dennis & Agnes Farrell, Terry & Sue Norton, Jim Jenkins, Carl Churchill, Mac McLaughlin, Sam & Peg Carr along with Dan, Ann and Rivet ("The Hardware Store Dog" )Johnson.   Video Eggliners Rule in Gorham       Terry, Doug & Ann setting up with help from Ben's grandson Josi     Three Tracks of Eggliners     The weather was perfect  and the trains ran well. The Eggliners ran in groups because 20 is too much for the power on a single track     Watching Trains from comfortable seats     Wharf with a Seagull on the Lobster Traps   Biergarten at the top of the mountain     The "Lineup"     The Water Fall down to the Pond   "Bumblee on the Bridge"       Freig...

On Friday September 9th Nancy Norris from Garden Railway Magazine came to visit Terry & Sue's Norton's garden railway in Eliot. They had it ready, including carefully trimmed trees thanks to local arborist Courtney Goodwin. Very realistic trimmed leaves She toured the layout in detail, photographing trains, plants, buildings and scenery. Nancy and Terry also discussed his plans for a new water feature and a granite mountain that will be in the middle of the Vacation Campground. Where to put the Mountain? Nancy, Sue and Terry on the Visitors Bench After visiting Terry and Sue, Nancy was heading north to see Scott Gould's layout in Cape Elizabeth and then to visit Eric Schade in Phippsburg. So watch for Maine layouts appearing the future issues of Garden Railway Magazine!!!

Paul Smith sent in this information about protecting the live trees on his layout. His notes and photos speak for themselves. The plants came from Iseli Nursery,  http://www.iselinursery.com/   A local nursery special ordered the plant from them Last year (fall of 2015) I put a burlap “shield” on the northwest side of my Jeans Dilly trees to protect them from the prevailing winter winds. That didn’t seem to help as I had those brown limbs on the trees the following spring. This photo was taken October 2015. October 2015 Barrier Last winter, I came home from Florida in the spring and inspected my plantings in the railway to see how they did. It was a low snow year, so there wasn’t much shelter from the winter weather. My south facing hillside which my tunnel runs through is covered with Jeans Dilly tress with a couple Pixie Dust interspersed. I found that I had some browning of the Jeans Dilly trees, but the Pixie Dust trees did fine. I didn’t know if it was the lack of snow th...

Added picture on 05/26 of another Walmart perennial which came up called "ALLIUMS". We were very pleased with this $5 package of 12 bulbs planted last fall. They are called 'Angelique' Tulips. The blooms last for a long time (picture taken this morning) Over 30 blooms from the 12 bulbs. We want to get some more and liked them enough to want to tell others about them. JJ&GG.