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 © 2007 by Jules Heiliczer and Robert John Davis

A look from the top terrace of Paul Welsh's hillside garden layout.

and one looking up.

Here is a shot of Paul Welsh talking with Bob Judge.

Here I am with a locomotive passing by on the top step.

Here is our group shot. This is a must for every trip. Bottom row: Jim Geddis (son), Jonathan Natale, Jules Heiliczer, Nick Natale, James Brown & Abbey
Top row: Jim Judge, Bob Judge, Jim Geddis, Doug Natale, Rob Davis with Ben

The final layout we visited was Gene Bergey's Pike Creek Valley Line. It was also in Wilmington and in a beautifully shaded backyard. It was cool under the trees.

Another shot of Gene's layout.

and another

Rob's son Ben- the budding photographer.

After dinner at the original Charcoal Pit in Wilmington, we started home and stopped at Claremont Steel in Claremont Delaware. Here we found this Alco S2 that was in the colors of one of the Bethlehem Steel railroads.

And finally as we got back in New Jersey we stopped at this shortline that used Baldwins almost exclusively. I was able to get only one shot in the fading light. It was a long but great day and I think we all had a lot of fun.

The 3 Amigos - Jonathan Natale, Jim Judge and Ben Davis

A good shot on Paul Welsh's layout

and another