Upde Designs

Happy Friday!  I decided to post some more of the train garden pictures this morning.  (since I didn’t get anything shot yesterday) It is a very interesting story and I wish I could remember more about it.

The image above shows some of the members of Rotary listening to the daughter  of the train master talk about some of the highlights of the train garden.  I don’t remember her name either.  Sad to say as I look at this image many of these fine gentlemen have since passed.

What was amazing to me is the level of detail captured even in the little things, including the people, trees and the fine detailed work on the buildings.  Most of which the owner built himself.  The more remarkable thing is it all worked.  I can remember I was lucky to get a train to go around in circles more than 5 times without something going wrong. 🙂

These are some of the houses and stores in the town.  He even had a lake built on the setting and some fishing boats that were on the water with people in them.

This turn style (not sure that is what it was really called) actually worked  and each of the engines sitting in the repair bays worked.  He could bring them out and just like a real train yard hook them up with a variety of cars (he didn’t have to touch them) and then send them on their way.

Yes he even had a tunnel through a mountain in the garden.  To the left you can see one of the lakes he built.  This is the smallest one, the larger one had boats on it.

This is the Train Master.  I’m sorry I just do not remember his name or much of anything about him.   This is a very interesting story and I wish I could remember more about it.  Here he has his console flipped down so you can see some of the wiring.  He was a very humble man I remember that.

He was running the trains from his control building and I went in to compliment him on his craftsmanship and attention to detail and he just looked at the ground (embarrassed by the compliment) and all he said was, “It is fun.”

Hope you have a great Friday and have a wonderful weekend.  I have a big project to do this weekend that is going to take a lot of work but I’m determined to get out and shoot some images so I will have some new things to show on Monday.

Thanks for stopping by.