I've always wanted a garden railroad in my back yard so when I retired I decided now was the time. I could have spent 10 years building it my self but I decided that one of my goals was to enjoy it sooner rather than later so I took my plans and drawing to Landscape East & West. I had never before designed a garden railroad, so I wasn?t sure I my plans were sufficient. LE&W had never before built a garden railroad, but they were willing to take on the challenge. The project took almost four months to complete. Starting with a basically flat back yard, we mixed in enough rock, top soil and man hours of work to create a six foot tall mountain range, a stream with several train crossings and numerous tunnels ? all accented by miniature trees to match the scale of the railroad. Each day, when their crew would arrive, I would show them pictures I had pulled from the WEB - pictures of railroad scenes I hoped to have reproduced in my miniature garden railroad. In each case, they managed to recreate the requested scene with only the picture to go by.
Shortly after the completion of the project, my garden railroad was part of tour of garden railroads. Attendees repeated commented ? ?It?s less than a year old and yet it looks like it has always been here. How did you get it to look so old so soon?. Others commented on the realistic tunnel entrances or on the miniature trees that matched the scale of the trains. My answer was always the same. The LE&W crews a true artisans. I asked them to create a scene in three dimensions and they did exactly that. I couldn?t be more pleased.
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