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
Building Oscar 2
Build your models of tinplate
Staff corner: Vance Bass
How to lay track
Build a panning camera car
Build a wood burner
Convert MTH’s DCS to onboard battery power
Garden railway design & construction
Enter our small railroad contest
Departments
From the Editor
Notes & news
Letters
Garden railway basics
Bells and whistles (without the bells and whistles)
Tips & tricks
Model covered loads, clean your track standing up, and more
Greening your railway
Trees and woody shrubs: micro-miniatures, part 1
Plant portraits
Minuta hemlock
Miniscaping
The Zen of weeding
Events
Raising steam
The case for a raised railway
Online station
Online station related links
Product reviews
MTH VO-1000
Accucraft live-steam 0-4-0ST
Accucraft live-steam 0-4-0ST video
Hyde-Out Mountain sound system
Dallee sound system
Building Structures For Your Garden Railway book
The Art of Garden Railways: Reaching for Realism book
If I’d only known
Under the spreading maple tree
Build a 1:22.5-scale Wiscasset station
Plan set #96
Build a 1:22.5-scale Wiscasset station