Garden Railways

Mountain Trout Logging company

Mountain Trout Logging Company 2

Out House Car

Mountain Trout Logging Company
Here are a few pictures of a small oval G scale layout I built at our summer place at Mountain Trout Camp. The camp ground was the site of a logging operation many years ago. Some of the original log cabins are now being used as summer cottages. Near by are the remanents of a logging chute which drops close to 300 feet from Gillies lake into Georgian Bay near the community of Dyers Bay.

St. Clair River Site 5oth Anniversary Display

View from the road

Wyoming Garden Railway
Steve McLean started into G scale trains around the same time as I did. He is the one who first introduced me to the hobby. Steve had discovered Lavender Gardens Railway near Wiarton Ontario on a camping trip, and suggested it would be a great day trip from our camp for our family to make. We made a vist and checked out the beautiful gardens and railway and I was hooked. We also found a very convenient stop along the way that carried G scale trains, it was the Home Hardware in Goderich. Here are some photos of Steve’s Garden Railway.

The Train Station

Fire Station

Passenger Cars

Steam Engine

The Beginings of a Garden Railway.
This is my layout in its first year , july 2007 . It is very basic, we had a lot of dirt to move to get this much done. The original size is about 10 x 20 ft. I managed to get some stone from the St. Clair tunnel when they dismantled the original retaining wall on the north side where the new tunnel is located. The photos I have posted are of myself, my two daughters Jennie and Katie and a photo of my wife stocking the new fish pond with 3 koi.

Dina, putting plants in the pond.

Bob, Katie and Jennie

Katie, Jennie and Goldy