BIG ROCK & LONETREE
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Figured it was time to say Hi - I've a compact Garden Railway in the Town of Okotoks, southern Alberta. probably should mention I'm a Brit. by origin & Middlesbrough, emigrated to Canada in '78. My interest in G scale came from a visit to the Colorado Railway Museum in Golden CO in 2007/8. I'm an avid gardener & combining both interests seemed a perfect fit. Railway name: Big Rock & Lone Tree RR comes from the town's name .. a Blackfoot name meaning Big Rock (a local glacial erratic) & Lone Tree - (city s. of Denver where we lived for a couple of years). Theme is late 1870's, albeit very loosely, south western with a silver mine & the Rockies in the background - one of these days I'll finish the fence mural. All my locos are Bachmann Large Scale Spectrums. Spent this winter changing to battery power w/Tam Valley Depot DRS1 Tx/Rx to retain my NCE wireless cab throttle & controls with the whole intent to spend more time operating w/grandkids ... & hopefully much less time cleaning track. The photo, apologies for the poor quality is from 6yrs ago & it's certainly developed since then, newer photos when I have more time as spring time is busy & gardening chores must come first. Currently in the middle of adding strip lights w/decoders to Jackson Sharp coaches but waiting forever for parts, and doing a lot of refurbishing in general. Just like gardening, it's never finished there's always a long To Do list. Cheers... Colin
Likewise converting mine to battery/rc with an ESU DCC card plumbed in to that Bachmann PnP thingie on the PCB in the tender (obscure linguistic terms used by the GSC tribe). Ah yes, the humour. Max.
