Every year the garden railroads of South Jersey hold an open house. You can visit these wonderful garden layouts and enjoy their diversity and the creativity of their owners. This year the garden layouts of Delaware have been added. Anyone in our club who is interested in garden railroading can come along.

All pictures on this page Copyright © 2006 by Jules Heiliczer

Jim and Nick watch as a train crosses this long bridge.

Ben and Abbey wait for the train to pass before crossing.

Here Doug, Frank Anchor (the railroad owner) and Rob talk in another more shady area..

Lunch came next at this Pizza restaurant that featured a lot more than just pizza. and a unique passport paying system.

Here we are on the Comodore Barry Bridge to Pa.

Our first layout in De. was Ken Donahue's in Wilmington. He features many prototype crossing gates, signals and signs. He has these set up all over his property.

To me the biggest attraction on Ken's garden railroad were these actual locomotive airhornes set up and attached to a compressor. They were all lined up and could be blown by pulling the proper rope. Once the kids discovered these toys it was hard to keep them quiet. There was everything from a GG1 horn to a more modern diesel.

Here is a shot of the G guage part of his setup.

A final shot of this father-son team's layout..

Now on to my favorite layout of the day. Paul Welsh's Wasatch Mountain Railway. It is built on a terraced hill with very steep grades and lush beatifull landscaping.

Here you can see the way the terracing is setup. as Jim Judge takes pictures from the top terrace area.

This shot is looking down on the end loop and yard area.