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Building the Railroad and Where It Went Operating the Garden Railway & Santa Fe
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The next week, as we looked at the photos while sitting on the patio (certainly the wrong place to be) we began to look intently at the backyard. While Joyce dreamed out loud about ponds, and waterfalls and plants, I thought about a simple narrow gauge railroad (G of course) running through those dream ponds, waterfalls and plants. I had no concept of designing a garden railroad, I had little concept of gardening, but within 15 minutes I had drawn (in my head) a trackplan to originate on one side of the backyard, run across the back, and terminate on the other side. Okay, so I was a hardshell, dedicated, HO modeler of modern railroading, the Santa Fe in particular. Now I started dreaming of a nearly bankrupt little narrow gauge railroad. I started looking at magazines and catalogs (no internet in those days), located a train shop in KC that handled large scale, and we started planning, and ordering (snail-mail, no E mail in those days either,) and the dream was about to become reality.
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