Garden Railroading Fact Sheets from Family Garden Trains(tm)Garden railroading is attacting new hobbyists literally ever day, and many of them need information that isn't readily available in the books at hand. We started the Family Garden Trains(tm) resource in 1996 and have been helping beginners with questions ever since. Of course, our most obvious communications are the Family Garden Trains(tm) web site and its affiliated sites.One advantage of a web site over printed copy is the ability to embed "photo blow-ups" and other links that help people use each article to get just what they need. The disadvantage is that it's hard to take into the garden when you just need a reminder of something you saw on the web - if nothing else, they print out differently on just about everyone's computer. These fact sheets are condensed outlines of some of our most-read articles. These publications are in .pdf format, so you'll need Adobe Acrobat's free Reader or similar software to read or print them. They are also big, so they will take a while to download. (While you are waiting, you might remind yourself that many resources would charge you several dollars up front just to access similar information at their web sites. :-) Please contact me if you have anything to add or express an opinion about. Note: All of these fact sheets are copyright (c) by Paul D. Race, all rights are reserved, which means you're not allowed to publish them (or any photo or text from them) on your own web site, or to print them to sell, or to make changes to them. If you want to print them to give them to friends, or to pass out at a Garden Railroading club meeting or something, you may. But please remember, that each page of fact sheet represents about 40 hours of work on our part (including the time it takes to condense a long article to a page or two), so we ask that you respect our efforts on behalf of the hobby and avoid republishing our ideas and our text. In addition, I would like to hear about any time you've used these fact sheets in a club meeting or other special event. If I can find out what folks are finding useful, I can plan the next set of fact sheets better. List of Fact Sheets we have so far:
In addition, we have a pdf that describes very briefly how we began installing our own raised platform railroad: |
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