#minimal-gauge

Hello, hivers! It's been a bit of a struggle for me to come up with something to write about lately. It's not so much that I had nothing to write about, it's been more a matter of end of winter blahs and

Hello, hivers and do-it-your-selfers! In this post, I'd like to show you how I made railroad rails for my 7-1/2 inch gauge garden railroad. I made this video back in the last week of October, but apparently

Hello, hivers! This started out with me buying some 12 inch patio paver blocks to use inside my greenhouse for stepping stones in the back area. With all the snow that we recently got, I was thinking about

Hello, hivers! It's time for another post about building my garden railroad! In my last post about my garden railroad, I talked about moving some of the track, and doing some ballast work. In this post,

Hello, hivers! In my last post, I talked about rebuilding the back curve on the railroad, and hauling ballast gravel to fill in between the ties. By the middle of July, I had a fair amount of the railroad

Hello, hivers! In my last post about building my garden railroad, I talked about putting weed barrier cloth under more of the railroad, and putting ballast rock between the ties on the railroad. In this

Hello, hivers! Welcome! In my last post about building the garden railroad, I talked about working on the big curve at the back of the garden by the alley. For this post, I'll be talking about working

Hello, hivers! For this post, I want to show you a short video that I made of moving patio paver blocks with my garden railroad. My regular followers are familiar with my building of this garden railroad,

Hello, hivers! Welcome! In the last post about building my garden railroad, I talked about putting weed barrier cloth under the track, and working on the curve at the back of the garden. In this post,

Hello, hivers! In my last garden railway post, I talked about getting the turnout set up, and connecting the track from the greenhouse to the turnout. In this post, I'll be talking about working on the

Hello, hivers! Continuing from the last post about the garden railroad, after the turnout was more or less finished, It was time to connect the rest of the track to it. In order to connect the turnout

Hello, hivers! For part 3 of my series on building my garden railway, I'll show you how I make the track, and building a turnout. The first part of making the track is the rails. You can buy 1 inch tall

Hello, hivers! In part 1 of this series, I talked about moving my 7-1/2 inch gauge railroad from the side yard fence line to the garden, and starting the process of laying out the railroad. That was done

Hello, hivers! As most of you who follow my garden posts know, I have a small railroad in my garden. This is a 7-1/2 inch gauge railroad. That means that the rails are 7-1/2 inches apart. 7-1/2 inch gauge