Garden railroads can combine a love of trains with a love of plants. Maintaining these railroads can be time consuming, and special care is needed in the initial design, but railroads can be designed to be a very pleasant part of the landscape.
At this railroad show these large scale trains were especially popular with children, as they can be the same scale as several popular toy trains and play sets.Garden railway clubs function all over North America, weather and terrain appear to be no obstacle to success.