Local Newspaper Captures a Perfect Day at the Garden Railway

Heine invited to another running session and a day out in his garden. The weather was lovely and I thought it was a great opportunity to take my new Maintenance of Way/ Permanent Way Maintenance wagons out for their first ride. Since it's been a while since it's last outing I also included my pioneer ferry load in this rake. Perhaps a train on it's way to repairing tracks over a bridge or river rossing or something? If you want to read more about them you can find more info on these links:

• MOW/ PWM wagon part 1
• MOW/ PWM wagon part 2
• Pioneer Ferry load

Heine's Harz Bahn. In 2022 several member from our model railway club visited the prototype in Werningerode:

"Traffic Jam"

Another member brought his new Live Steam locomotive by Roundhouse. It's an American class, but similar to the type used by early railways in Norway. The wagons are Norwegian though and are kits by Proinor.

"She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain..."

Another American train was running this day; A Standard Gauge by Aristocraft:

"Tyra The Supervisor"

Another LGB Steam engine by Heine. The prototype for this Mallet engine was actually made for the German Military Heeresfeldbahn:

A Swiss EMU from Bernina bahn by another member:

The same member also brought his Swiss 'Glacier Express'. He and other members from out mrc went on a ride with the prototype in 2012:

Here is a YouTube-video showing the trains in action:

It's really 'hard' to run trains in the garden so we needed a break. Later on we also bbq'd:

A journalist from a local newspaper had also heard about this garden railway, and wanted to come on this day out to make an article about it.

It's always interesting when 'outsiders' are going to report on niche hobbies like this, and what kind of view they are presenting. This turned out to be a nice and informative article about the Garden Railway hobby, and this is the finally result on print:

Link: Bymagasinet NÆR nr. 2/26

I'm going to the movie theater later today with my youngest son to see the premier of the new Toy Story 5 movie. I'm wondering if there are any Army Men left amongst Andy's old toys??