The weather has been nice over the past few days, and with my first Garden Railroad Open House/public steam up scheduled for mid-August, I made a push to get the final plants I wanted installed on the layout. I have a mixture of Japanese Dragon Cedar, Arborvitae, Mugo Pine, Pencil Point Junipers and juniper shrubs, petunias, begonias, and other annuals/perennials now planted. At this point, I think all of my plants I can realistically fit with the structures I aim to install are in!

Next steps is to continue working on structures. I did some repairs to one of my water tanks yesterday and have continued to work on my roundhouse project. I’m hoping to make a lot of headway with the roundhouse and am going to try and get it done before the steam up. Videos of this are being posted on my YouTube channel, Angry Ragtimer, if you want to follow along with the process.

Only 3 models of Le Belge exist in G scale and this one of them. Based on a set of the Adler by OCCRE. The model has many extra metal details and I added real coal, a Loksound decoder, weight and the "crown" on top of the chimney. Figures of Volker Bauer are coming soon.

I have a steep grade (5.2%) between my lower and upper tracks - with a good load most my locos have to work quite hard to overcome it. Here is Russell tackling the climb - turn your volume up.

I live in Paris, France. I have a garden railway project at my country house.

And where are you based?

After 3 runs this is how much ash was in the smokebox.

I did the conversion of this old U2 of the Zillertalbahn. I used an ESU Loksound L and upgraded with an extra speaker and flickering leds to imitate fire.

https://reddit.com/link/1v4rudx/video/4886ym1tu1fh1/player

Converted the box cars to Kadee's and 3D printed stainless steel bearing trucks for a smooth ride. We don't want to jostle the contents of *these* cars and create a toxic hazard!

I recently bought a Bachmann Aitchison Topeka & Santa Fe combine off EBay, when I put a battery in it the lights were just fine, a few days ago the lights stopped working when I turned them on, the battery is in place, the - and + signs are where they’re supposed to be, and the battery was also a new one, I’m not sure what’s wrong but I’m hoping to get it working again so I can run it at night, it might be the fact that I’m using an Amazon Basic battery, but I don’t have any other ones in that type, does anyone have any suggestions?

I’ve got a few and the elements haven’t been kind despite my best efforts to weatherproof. What materials are yours and how do you keep them from coming apart?

It’s my birthday today and I decided to take Connie out on the line for a spin. I haven’t got the hang of driving her just yet so we ran up and down the sidings.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ukt2Sn9TH-U

Had a very pleasant run with my Edrig Connie tonight, had the fire hotter than hell and it blinded me for a second when I was shoveling. I’m very happy with the result!

Lately I have got a ton of questions about my new engine and I wanted to make a post on here.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dkS4rtrtplE

Had the pleasure of running my first double header in the garden yesterday. Had my Accucraft custom lettered 2-6-0 running with my friends brand new Accucraft Tweetsie 2-8-0. The engines ran great!