Staging Yard in G-Scale Garden Train Railway Fun Land - 05-31-15

(Blog Entry & Photos by Bob)

I have noticed that loading railcars from the garage to the tracks has become an ordeal.  I kept having to tip-toe to the centre of the layout to find room to put the railcars down.  I have decided instead of taking cars from the garage to the train tracks, that I would make the train tracks come to the garage.  The plan is to expand the layout 2-feet deeper into the backyard and use wood to make a staging platform.

The first thing I did was weather-proof some fence boards.




I screwed some 2x4's together into a 20-foot ladder .





I then removed the sod so everything could be buried into the ground.





More sod had to be removed to run the staging yard around the switching yard.





I dug out an 18-inch trench at the end of the patio stones.





I had to raise the lawn and some of the patio stones.





I used a level to make sure everything matched up even.





I filled in the ladder-work with soil and screwed down the fence boards.





The track was then laid flush in the groove so it would not be a tripping hazard.





Now the railcars can easily be taken out the garage door and into the layout.