Garden Railways April 2016

The Great Canadian West Coast Railroad
By David Hiebert
A highly detailed line in a tiny backyard

Staff corner: Don Parker
By Don Parker
Hands-off train control

Recreating the Larkinbuerg grain elevator
By John Vorhes
An abandoned prototype inspired this interesting project

National Garden Railway Convention preview
Steve and Darci Smith’s Vista del Bahia
The Clockmaker’s Railroad with Sid Emison

A viaduct for a French garden railway
By Bernard Deluard
Building a bridge from PVC: Part 2

Make an effective track cleaner for regular and rack track
By Jeff Norgate
An old glue bottle provides the components

How to build a scale tipi
By Patrick Friedmann
This authentic model is built much like the prototype

Replicating SP&S caboose No 792
By Norman Baullinger
A USA Trains bay-window caboose was the starting point

Back to black & white
By Gavin Sowry
Today's digital technology makes black-and-white photography easy

NEW High tech modeling for garden railroaders
By Steve Berneberg