Dr. Who and his Tardis visit the Train Layout

This morning Bob and I put in 2-3 hours of work, finishing emptying the grass of dirt and moving that to another location and weeding the radish garden, turnip garden and moving around some bushes/trees.

Bob decided early on to incorporate a veggie garden into the layout - you can see are radishes are ready.

Bob wanted to build a drainage basin, he got a little silly with this piccie.

As part of Bob's birthday gift last year I had someone create a Dr. Who Tardis ship and so Bob incorporated this into his photo shoot today. lol

Current Photos of the Outside Train Layout

Work gets in the way of fun -- isn't that always the way. Too bad we didn't win one of those One Million Dollar Prizes in the lottery - LOL

It's taking a long time to get all the grass removed, we were hoping it would be done by now, but alas it isn't.

Here is our progress so far. These photos were taken this morning.

GP38 Train Engine comes Rolling Into Town

Two weeks ago we found a classified ad. for a GP38 Train Engine up in Pickering. We made arrangement and drove 1 hour 45 minutes to the gentleman's house to look at his wonderful collection of trains and Bob fell in love with this GP38.

We plan to save up and get a sound card installed along with a battery pack. It's smaller than other other Engine (SD70).

The Beginning of our Layout

This photo was taken approx. a month ago - and it has somewhat changed as we decided to take out grass and plant a garden, trees, bushes, etc....... etc......... but I wanted to post what it looked like them for a comparison photo when I take a new one.

ALL ABOARD - Is this Train 48?

These photos always make me laugh. Bob took some G-Scale People and stuck them in some passenger cars he had. Well, what we didn't know at the time was some of the little people fell over. As you can see in the following photos, it looks like some of those little G-Scale people came alive and were hitting on each other or something. LOL!!!!!! What is this? Train 48? LOL!!!

FREEZE POP - Bob painting Job on G-Scale People

Bob really likes the music group named FREEZEPOP. He decided he would paint three G-Scale People like them.





Of course when he took a photo he had to stick a robot Christmas Ornament in with the group (since he loves robots too) along with his train car with graffiti on it. lol

We placed this photo on Facebook and some of the band members responded to it. He was thrilled!

We LOVE Tanker Cars

When we watch the freight trains go by, we always admire the TANKER cars and one we see all the time is the Black Procor.

We are in luck, they make such a train car and we rushed up to purchase one from Winona Garden Railway but unfortunately, they only had white in stock.

No worries, hopefully one day we'll get our black one.

Bob tries to make G-Scale Look REAL-Scale

Bob loves trying to take photos of our G-Scale Engine to make it look like the real one we see go by in the backyard. These aren't Photo-Shopped - he would line them up so it would look like they were on the train tracks, etc....