Research and Inspiration Part 5 - Two Magazines and a supplement

Broadly speaking there would seem to be two magazines on Garden Railways: Garden Railways from the USA, and Garden Rail Garden Rail from the UK (There's obviously German magazines as well but they are somewhat in the future), and I've already mentioned that the Hornby Magazine in July had a supplement on Garden Railways with substantial input from the G scale society.

Lots of inspiration in all of them on different things.  The supplement featured how to build a Garden railway in a day - much of the preparatory work had been done but some handy tips on laying on concrete slabs across the lawn area.  Garden Railways despite being American was packed full of things - I'd managed to have a quick glance through it at the Sunday G scale meet when I saw someone else's layout and I bought the back issue (June 2011) from Glendale Junction because of an article on Freight movements and freight yards.  Another article on on an American touring layout could prove equally important though - making portable track supports, which could be an answer to coping with the 4" step and also getting round the lawn.  My initial plan once I have a layout plan had been to use LGB track joiners to keep track of 3-4 foot in length connected by track joiners - which is what the Americans were doing, but they then provided the next idea of using elastic bands around the sleepers to keep the track tight on the non joined sections. Simple like lots of the best ideas, but should work.