SKU: 0050E Rails in My Garden by Helmut Grosshans, Collection Item

"The Lehmann-Gross-Bahn (LGB) is almost unique in its suitability for outdoor operation.  Those with leisure time, whose skills have been untapped, can enjoy themselves with a creative and craftsman like activity in the open air.  Out in the garden, where the problem of finding enough space doesn’t exist, a model railway has a naturalness about it which an indoor layout surrounded by walls can never achieve.  Helmus Grosshans has been involved with model railway sin various scales for more than forty years, sixteen of which have been with layouts out in the garden.  Pure chance first brought him to LGB.  If the pictures of his layout are all added up, one might be forgiven for thinking that there was an enviable amount of ground available.  But this is not the case.  A total track length of only 90 meters is divided over 140 square meters of surface area, just about the size of a small garden.  And yet the attraction and charm of the garden is retained.  Nothing of the hustle and bustle of the tracks impinges.  In this book the author gives us something of his wealth of experience gained over years as a garden railway enthusiast.  The extensive illustrations, most in full color, show every aspect of his outdoor layout and its rolling stock.  This lovingly prepared book is an extraordinarily informative and valuable stimulus to running an LGB system at any season - out in the garden."

Copyright 1991