Many people don't have one or more entire rooms to spare for a model railroad layout. Garden railroading, however, takes that layout and reimagines it outside, where you're much more likely to ...

This weekend it’s all aboard at the Electric City Trolley Museum for the Garden Railway Society’s 26th annual Winter Meet. When walking into the museum, visitors could hear recognizable “choo choos”s ...

Portland urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River; Garden railways combine model railroads with imaginative outdoor landscapes; Small acts of kindness are an ...

I’m building the railroad on the knowledge that what I need to operate it actually exists, and I’m assuming that some day I will have that missing piece. I can see a number of parallels between this ...