Thread: G Gauge - Garden Railways

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<span style="color:blue">got a magazine come in yesterday called garden railways....



i have never seen a magazine on these before.........
and ive been playing with magazines for the last ten years......


it just freaked me out...as soon as i find out about garden railawys.....the magazine turns up out of the blue......im sure there is some sort of sign here somewhere.....</span> 8O

Hi DEFENDERZOOK, there are two Garden Railway magazines.

I have been subscribing to the American version for the last 6 or 7 years but about two years ago I came across a British version.

The yank version is by far the best but the the pome one has some good articles from time to time and I only buy that one off the shelf if it has something of interest in it.

The irony is that garden railways started in Britain before the second world war.

Then a German company, LGB, started making 1: 22.5 gauge models and the hobby took off.

The yanks started getting interested around the same time in the late 60s, early 70s and as they say the rest is history.

There are some fabulous layouts over there but as I pointed out in an earlier post on the subject, the whether conditions here in Australia makes this the ultimate backyard hobby.

As you would have seen in the yank mag, there are heaps of manufacturing companies making these models now.

The biggest problem here is the cost. The Crocodile is my most expensive acquisition to date and that one was over $1,400-oo yet the Colorado & Southern steamer came with two coaches and track and was only $450-oo on special. The tracks were crap but the train is good value

I’m now starting to buy from the States as the price can be as little as half that for the same thing here.

Cheers.

<span style="color:blue">thats very interesting to know........

i might have to open up the magazine and have a flick through it.......</span>

G'day All, I have in my workshop a 5" gauge NSWGR 32 class engine also known as a P class 4-6-0, it was handbuilt by me and is almost complete but I suffered an eye injury and haven't worked on it for years. It does run on compressed air both forward and reverse so if it will do that with air that has no expansion qualities it should run on steam. The boiler is a wetback Belpaire type that was hydrostatically tested to 200 psi and it passed with no problems at all but it remains cold as it has never had a fire in it, it has a super heater header as well, but being a dummy I dont know how to post pix anyway enough of my waffling cheers for now Dennis :roll: :wink:
PS I forgot to mention that this is a live steam locomotive but maybe you guessed that anyway

Post pic, post pics, I would love to have a look.

I have always wanted a live steamer and years ago, I spent many hours at the Illawarra Live Steam park at North Gong.

If you need help posting, just ask here. Took me ages to work out how to do it ( posting pics that is ). :wink:

Cheers

Hi folks here some pictures of Dinty’s 32 class steam engine. An awful lot of blood, sweat and tears has gone into the making of this model.

Here’s a real McCoy at Toowoomba today and this is what I bought a 4x4 for, chasing and filming these things.