Gardening and building model railroads have been popular hobbies for ages. But a recent trend combines these two hobbies: garden railroading. Garden railroading can be as simple as a railroad track ...

Milpitas photographer and filmmaker Robert Burrill showed another side of himself March 18 at the annual meeting of the Bay Area Garden Railway Society, aka BAGRS. The model train enthusiast brought ...

Want to work on the railroad? Then become a gardener. Many families are crossing gender and generational lines to make model railroading and gardening into one year-round landscaping project. "It ...

Does your garden include engines, rolling stock, turntable pits and switchstands? When you visit a garden center, do you ignore the towering magnolias and mop-head hydrangeas in favor of plants with ...

Don't look now, but is that a locomotive steaming through the lantana? A boxcar rolling past the begonias? More track curling through the thyme? If so, it could well be another backyard depot that ...

When Clair and Joan Shearer opened their Lancaster home for a garden tour several months ago, only a couple of their 300 visitors had ever seen a garden railroad. The century-old European hobby, where ...

Thomas Murphy is enjoying his retirement from the New York State Police, which started in 1993, but don’t think he’s spending his free time on the golf course. Instead, you can find him outside in his ...

Blaine believes that garden railroading is growing in popularity because more public gardens are adding them, "and as more people see them, they are inspired and want to do something similar for their ...

Like jumbo shrimp or military intelligence, the Fairplex Garden Railroad is a study in contradictions. The beloved LA County Fair attraction is believed to be the oldest and largest such railway in ...

The Columbus Garden Railway Society’s free annual self-guided tour of 22 backyard garden railroads will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. next Sunday. • Back-in-Time Railroad, 2791 Alder Vista Dr., Minerva ...