Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Snow in the forecast, are you kidding me?
Now that we are all getting our railroads ready to run for the Spring, we are forecast to get snow tomorrow and Friday. Are you kidding me? Only in Kansas!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Meeting tomorrow evening! 7:00 p.m.
Hey everyone! Our meeting is tomorrow evening at Fred and Millies. Steve and I won't make it as we are in Denver right now but hope to hear all about it. Have a great time!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Are you running yet?
Wow! Isn't this weather great? It got up to 80 today and may have set a new record high. Steve came home over his lunch hour, ate a flatbread sandwich and went out to the garden. He has been trimming down the perennials and we are starting to see little green sprouts coming up. "IT'S ALIVE!" We love this time of year. We are excited to see green anywhere we can see it. The sprinklers have been turned on and is watering the lawn. It's also starting to turn. Everything is coming back to life. I asked Steve if he was going to run something this weekend before I remembered we are heading to Denver on Friday. "Next weekend!" We have some new neighbors moving in across the street with two young kids. Drew is 5, and can't wait to see the trains. Sure, we all do this for our own reasons, but this is why I have gone along with it all these years. I love to see the smiles on the faces of these kids. I know some of you will look at that as secondary, but, I have to stick with that. Hopefully all of you are get out there and getting things going again. Send us pics if you have some.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Garden Railway Workshop a Success!
Many, many, Thanks to Claudia and Garden Railway Gizmos for hosting the hopefully, 1st annual, "Garden Railway Workshop". Over 50 people from the Wichita area and beyond came out for the all day workshop with presentations on everything from "Getting Started in Garden Railroading", "Trestle Building and Balasting", "Building tunnels", "RCS controls", and "Powering your Railroad", "Plants and trees for your railroad". Special Guest Mark Horovitz from Garden Railway Magazine came from Denver to present and attend. There were many new folks from the area who have been thinking about starting a railroad, and hopefully we will see many of these new faces back at some of our meetings and events.
SPECIAL EVENT NEXT WEEKEND: The Wichita Flower and Garden Show at Century II. This is always spectacular. Hopefully, we'll see some members there.
SPECIAL EVENT NEXT WEEKEND: The Wichita Flower and Garden Show at Century II. This is always spectacular. Hopefully, we'll see some members there.
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Open House time.
Every Year, the club hosts an open house for folks to come see the gardens at their best. Our members love to show off our trains and gardens. Many gardens feature miniature worlds with buildings and people. Others focus on the natural aspect of "trains through a garden".
Is it real or a model?
This train is a Shay loco at the blog hosts garden railroad. We hosted an open house on July 4, 2008 where this was taken. Garden Railroaders love to take pics of these trains and fool folks who actually think they are real trains.
One of our youngest members with his collection.
My son is the third generation of train fans in our family. His grandfather was a live steamer in Golden, Colorado. My husband is the "trackmaster" of our Kansas Central and Colorado Railroad. Our son knows more about trains than any other 7 year old I know.
Members of MyLargeScale at Marty's September Thingy in Nebraska.
Every year, a friend of ours with a massive layout hosts his "September Thingy". Folks come from all over the country for this. These are members of www.mylargescale.com.
Our members like the real thing too. This is in Chattanooga, Tennessee. "The Long Black Train"
I took this pic in 2006 on our trip to Tennessee. This is the "Long Black Train" featured in the Josh Turner video. This train runs on the historic Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga.
