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August 2009 | ModelRailroader.com
By Dave Rickaby | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
August 2009
By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
Garden Railways has been the leading magazine devoted to the hobby of outdoor, large-scale model railroading for more than 30 years. Each issue brings you step-by-step modeling projects, fascinating photo tours of garden railroads, unbiased product reviews, new product announcements, tips from the experts, and much more!
Plus, subscribers get exclusive online access to the Railroad Gardening Library, product reviews, project plans, bonus articles, and more. Whether you’re new to the hobby or a seasoned veteran, this magazine is for you!
Features
Scratchbuild a girder bridge
Styrene construction provides a sturdy, durable structure for outdoor use
Staff corner: Vance Bass
A cane car for Machita
Colorado Consolidated Railways
What if all of Colorado’s narrow-gauge lines merged?
Build our own turnouts: part 2
Putting everything together
A scratchbuild, 1:22.5-scale Kershaw Ballast Regulator
An unusual prototype makes an interesting subject for modeling
Garden railway design & construction
Structures: The essential workshop: part 1
Departments
From the Editor
Remembering Peter Jones
Notes & news
Letters
Garden railway basics
Scale and gauge demystified
Tips & tricks
New department!
Scribblings on a workshop wall
Adeiu
Events
Raising steam
Non-locomotive live steam
Online station
Related links
Product reviews
Accucraft Southern Pacific F5 locomotive
Little Ugly Diesel
Aristo-Craft Revolution system
QSI large-scale diesel sound decoder
Lenz DCC decoder and power-storage module for large-scale trains
Dallee Electronics passenger-car and caboose lighting strip
AMS #6 narrow-gauge switch/turnout
Accucraft British Black 5 locomotive video
Accucraft Southern Pacific F5 locomotive video
If I’d only known. .
Sad slim rails saga
Build a 1:22.5-scale creamery car
Build a 1:22.5-scale creamery car
