I found small Dwarf Alberta Spruce cheap at Lowes. I used bonsai-like pruning techniques to make the shrub-like spruce look more like a scale model of a full-size mature tree for eventual planting in my garden railway. Exposing the main trunk and reducing the foliage density accomplishes that. Here is before pruning on the right and […]
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Russell Shilling
Track & Bridges Part 1 of the RCGRS Tour is here. As one can tell from other posts, I particularly like track and bridge-work, as that has some of the most interesting complexity and engineering that is not motive power or rolling stock. A nice trestle on the Whisky Creek & Bear Mountain to the […]
RCGRS Annual Tour Part 1 Plants A couple of nice examples of mini-scenes from The Underground Railroad. I’ll have to do a little research to identify the species. These are from the Whisky Creek & Bear Mountain. To the right is a Chamaecyparis obtusa MEROKE TWIN, I think. Below are nicely trimmed Chamaecyparis pisifera TSUKUMO. The […]
The Rose City Garden Railway Society hosts an annual tour, where members open their home garden railways to the public. This year there were 13 railways on the tour. We didn’t have time to see them all, but visited seven. All-in-all it was a very enjoyable day. My goal for this trip was to look […]