Garden Trains Annual 2025

Magazine, 116 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., color photographs and illustrations.

This fifth issue is packed with building and how-to projects along with exceptional layout tours and is loaded with great shots from readers like you! It's brimming with 116 pages of large scale and outdoor railroading, everything from prototype trains and information and fine scale modeling to free-lanced flights of fancy and whimsy. Whatever your large-scale modeling style, you'll find the Garden Trains Annual is for you!

Table of Contents:
• Make It Our Own! — Ideas to Customize Your Equipment/by Ray Buteux,
• 10 Years of the Woodlock Railroad — What’s Better Than an English Garden? One With a Railway!/by Paul Duncan,
• A 3-D Printed Barnhart Log Loader — A Complete Build of an Iconic Backwoods Machine/by Randy Mower,
• Dressing up the Porter — Making a Good Model Better and Distinctive/by George Riley,
• Pine Ridge Railroad — North Woods Wisconsin Narrow Gauge Logging Railroad/by Lawrence and Jodi Ginnow,
• Carry The Freight — Crates and Cranes and Pallets, Oh My!/by George Riley,
• Steve's Gas — Modeling Jone’s Gas Station from the 1950s/by Steve Lennox,
• Building & Operating the SJR&P Garden RR — This Extensive Line features Switching and Operations/by Deb and Stan Ames,
• Craftwagon… — An Industrial Rolling Stock Construction Project/by Mike Nanaluk,
• From the Archives: Lost in the Woods — The Mostly True Story of the Missouri Locomotive Company/by George Riley,
• Cheap Telegraph Poles — A Easy Scenic Detail for Your Large-Scale Railroad/by Ray Buteu,
• Design a Garden Railroad Part 4 — Model Memories as Metaphors — Art!/by Nancy Norris,
• East Meets West — “Klondike Kate” arrives on the Tuscarora Railroad/by Kevin Strong,
• Make Your Own Corrugated Panels — You Don’t Have to Drink During this Project (But it Helps!)/by Jim Kottkamp,
• A Blacksmith Car for Your Loggers — Unstocking a Stock Car/by Ray Buteux,
• A Doodlebug Diversion — Another Scrap-Box Project/by Jack DiSarro,
• The Blue Plantation Build — Live Steam Symposium + Sidebar: Speed Reduction Gears/by George Riley,
• Live Steam Corner — Modifying the Roundhouse Sammie/Conducted by Mike Nanaluk,
• D&RG Caboose 20 — Collectors, Turn Away. Kitbashing Ahead/by Dylan Hutson,
• Edaville Railroad — History and Inspiration /by Joseph Scolastico,
• Getting Started in Large Scale — Great Entry Sets for Aspiring Large Scalers/Conducted by George B. Riley and the GTA Staff,
• Garden Trains Annual Locomotive Review — Large Scale Motive Power/Conducted by George B. Riley and the GTA Staff,
• Observations — Get Together with Friends…/by Associate Editor – George Riley