Tag, you may be surprised how many steamers on this side of the pond do
run their steam trains thru miniature gardens--probably more so than in the
UK! They are just not mentioned much on this list.
All the few steamers in this rural area--(5 if us) do so!
Can you send me the JPEG too- off list--Wow, have you opened a can of
worms! OK, worms?- they keep my GR soil active!
Incidentally, Don, I sold air tools to the maintenance shops of Southern
Pacific and ATSF in So. California in the mid 50s--always made sure I had a
pocketful of GOOD cigars for the Supts! Ah, those were the days!
Geoff.
on 30/3/01 7:49 pm, steve at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>> Other avocations are bonsai trees, miniature gardening, and garden
>>>ponds, so
>>> you can understand why this hobby is a natural for me. Since I started
>>> learning and planning about three months ago, it has brought me countless
>>> happy hours and has brought me into contact with some very fine people
>>>in New
>>> Mexico and on the internet.
>>>
>Welcome to the group Don.
>It is good to see that people are nowadays looking to combine live steam
>operation with miniature gardening on your side of the pond. I am not a
>gardening expert, but I do like to run my live steam powered trains through
>living scale scenery rather than giant nodding daffodils. If you are
>interested I can send you a small jpeg (off list) of my scenic efforts.
>it is interesting isn't it that so many padres are interested in railways.
>from the Rev. Malan's very early photographs of the old broad gauge Great
>Western Railway to the Rev. Awdrey, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and
>the many well known "modellers of the cloth". I suspect that the Almighty
>also likes bucolic branch lines or arcadian shortline pikes :-)
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>Yours Aye
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>Tag Gorton
>Longlands & Western Railway Co
>Trematon Office
>Cornwall
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>ICQ* 96182312
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