Grandpa’s Holiday Train Garden Page for 2023

Train garden at Brookside Conservatory showing train crossing bridge.

Grandpa and Grandma have come off the road and settled down in south-central Pennsylvania. His grandsons are no longer train-crazy but he is still enamored with the Baltimore tradition of Christmas Train Gardens and continues to update this list of holiday train displays. The list is meant to be inclusive,…

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Auto Train or Bust

Ann and I were in Florida for a couple weeks and decided to take the Auto Train home instead of driving. The AMTRAK auto train runs from Sanford FL to Lorton VA and is a 17 hour trip. We were to arrive after 12:30 and before 3PM with a train…

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Fairfax Station January Meeting

We held the January meeting, in the community room of the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum on Sunday, January 15th, 2023, from 11:00 until 5:30pm. WVMGRS members created a large table-top layout consisting of three large loops from 11:00 AM to noon. This effort offered us a great opportunity for us…

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Fairfax Station Layout

WE’RE BACK! After a two year Covid hiatus our club once again provided its fund raiser support to The Friends of Fairfax Station Museum. As always in years past, the main reason we do this civic layout is to assist with their annual December fund raiser. This layout, and all others…

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Benchwork

I am going to offer a series of articles on building an indoor full sized G Scale layout. As you may remember I have just purchased a new home. My old indoor layout from Minnesota, the Frost Bite Falls Railway, is now being reconstructed in my new house and will…

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