The EG&SNNR

[tetsudofan]

I've been meaning to start posting here for some time but never got round to actually doing it.

 

The EG&SNNR (The Ever Growing & Still No Name Railway) started in 2003 and has slowly grown since then. The journey started with a visit to Tim at Arcadia when I ended up buying a LGB digital starter set, a Harz 2-6-2T and some other bits and pieces.

 

From the beginning there was no real plan so a patio at the end of the garden was used and looked like this:

 

 

More will follow...…..

 

 

[tetsudofan]

Realised that I have not posted since I started this thread last year, but bearing in mind what has happened on the railway since 2003, thought the best way is to start is to show what the garden looked like at the beginning and what it looks like now.

 

The following pic was taken before construction started:

 

 

and what it looks like now:

 

 

Keith

 

 

 

[tetsudofan]

The railway started with a loop at the top right-hand end of the garden and extended down along the right-hand side of the garden. 

 

During the next couple of years the line was extended along the back wall out the other side of the garden and then down the left-hand side of the garden towards the house and then taken across the back of the house to connect with the original line down the right-hand side of the garden.

 

The next development was to build a couple of "mountains" on the left-hand side of the garden involving a couple of spirals to get up and back down to the original line.

 

Nothing much happened for a few years until it was decided to create a "big mountain" in the middle of the garden which involved starting another loop off the original ground-level loop. This started in the bottom right hand corner of the garden climbing up to another spiral, back to ground level, across the garden and then another spiral up the big mountain and back to ground level before re-joining the original loop at the start of the original loop at the top right-hand corner of the garden.

 

No written plans were made for the development of the railway, it just happened with the result that I have a complex roundy-roundy that goes round and round the garden. 

 

Keith

[Martino]

Good grief Keith, that’s amazing. What a transformation. Well done Sir.

[Edwardian]

Good Lord, I could count my life expectancy in seconds if I suggested something like this to my wife. 

 

Most impressive.  I feel we should see more pictures of it.  

[tetsudofan]

Luckily I don't have a wife or partner so no life expectancy problems .

 

As Spring is just starting thought I would show some pictures taken around this time last year:

 

 

 

 

 

…. and finally a posing pic taken a couple of days ago:

 

 

 

[Edwardian]

Stunning!

 

Love the mountain curve and the bridge

[tetsudofan]

53 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Stunning!

 

Love the mountain curve and the bridge

 

Thanks for the compliment, much appreciated. Later I'll post some pictures on how I built the first two mountains (those on the left-hand side of the garden). You may be interested to know that all the "rock" that I used on the mountains came from my neighbour's concrete driveways when they had the concrete broken up to be replaced by block paving.

 

Keith

[Edwardian]

Great recycling!

 

Hardcore!

[outcastjack]

Wow! Do you have any more photos of this? 

As the others have mentioned the mountain is stunning and the LGB stuff looks right at home on it. 

 

[tetsudofan]

Hi OCJ,

 

Yep, have many pictures but the problem is where to start.....

 

Better start by saying something about the garden and the railway. The garden itself is about 100ft x 60ft and, as you can see in the pictures above, the railway is gradually taking over the garden but it has taken over 15 years to get where we are now.

 

Rolling stock is predominately LGB together with some KISS, Piko, Aristocraft, Accucraft and Bachmann of which the majority is German and Swiss Narrow gauge with some standard gauge German and American outline thrown in for good measure. Policy, though, is not to mix things when I'm running trains - one day could be RhB metre gauge, next day East German narrow gauge and another day could be Amtrak!!

 

In the meantime here's a mountain pic from the early days. It was taken just after the basic work had been completed but the top of the mountain was yet to be landscaped.

 

 

Keith

[tetsudofan]

Hi there,

 

Nearly two years have passed since I first started posting pics of the EG&SNNR, I'm still here and the railway is still here. Survived last year's lockdown most of which was spent working on the railway and keeping the garden looking neat and tidy. Don't know what I would have done if the railway and garden wasn't there.

 

Thought I'd start again with some more pics taken during the last few years. Let's start back in 2017 when one of the first trains to run that year was this to ensure that the track was clear:

 

 

followed soon after by this:

 

 

and moving over to Switzerland this was found tip-toeing through the tulips:

 

 

with a Krokodil making its way through the daffodils:

 

 

A year earlier the azaleas were out in full force:

 

 

..... and to bring us up to date, this is what the railway looked like a week or so ago:

 

 

Was going to get this out to clear the track but it turned out to be the wrong type of snow:

 

 

 

[tetsudofan]

...and maybe you might like to know what became of this:

 

 

Keith