Model RailRoad

Here is the G Scale ACTRR . There is about 200′ of running here. Hope you enjoy the railroad.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Exhibit 82: Deadtree Junction

Image by Smiley Man with a Hat
G Scale

Good Heavens! He’s only gone and actually built it – despite the involvement of a pratt. Any acheivement like this does, of course, warrant a grand opening . . . .
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Exhibit 82: Deadtree Junction

Image by Smiley Man with a Hat
G Scale

Exhibit 81: Leonville Junction

Image by Smiley Man with a Hat
G Scale

Snow falls on Pine Tree Junction and Thomas and Percy get stuck. Our G Scale Thomas & Friends™ collection are made by Bachmann Trains and are great fun for the whole family. Thomas & Friends™ is owned by HIT Entertainment. Hit Entertainment was acquired by Mattel, Inc. in October 2011.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Cheekwood Trains Casey Jones House

Image by tncountryfan
A G Scale botanical model of the Casey Jones house located in Jackson, Tennessee.

Wonderland Express

Image by kern.justin
View Large on Black at www.thewindypixel.com!

It’s Christmas Eve! Hope everyone is well rested and ready for a nice holiday – here are 12 images from the Chicago Botanical Garden’s Wonderland Express that I took earlier this week. This is an annual exhibit of myriad Chicago landmarks remade in natural, local plant material, replete with G-scale trains snaking throughout the herbivorous landscapes. Check out the details on the Chicago Botanical Garden’s page. The exhibit was free on Tuesdays (until the 22nd) and remains open until the third of January. Some of these displays are absolutely amazing – accurate and superbly detailed throughout. I didn’t get all the displays here, but I have most of the more spectacular and recognizable (you’ll notice I have two images from the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel). Head out to the botanical gardens and check the exhibit out – or stay here and have a look through these photos from the comfort of your chair. See if you can spot all the landmarks – and for the photography nuts who care – all of these were taken as single exposures at ISO 800-1600 and turned into HDRs with photomatix and some photoshop love.

SLHRSspring2011-20

Image by TrishaLyn

Dave Karen’s Garden Railroad (G scale) called the CPR Madison Branch, a fictitious branchline in the 1990s serving the mine at Stump and the town of Hillshed. Aristo-Craft battery control of this backyard loop to loop configuration, photographed at the Sudbury Saturday Night Express NFR-NMRA 2012 convention.
Video Rating: 5 / 5