Trip Around Lauritzen Gardens Model Railroad - pt 2 of 3

Enjoy the trip around the seven levels of Omaha's Botanical Gardens G Scale Model Railway exhibit. Each trip will take between two and five minutes as we chug across covered bridges, through tunnels, and over twenty five foot high trestles! On this edition we will be traveling the Freight Line, Covered Bridge Line, and the Hidden Loop Line. The first two are the middle levels on the upper group, and the third is the lower most level of this beautiful garden railroad.

The garden was meticulously handcrafted by landscape designer Paul Busse and his team at Kentucky-based Applied Imagination. See www.appliedimagination.biz. The garden's structural elements are constructed of natural materials such as leaves, twigs, bark, berries, pinecones, gourds and cinnamon sticks. It includes stunning reproductions of natural landscapes as well as recognizable buildings and landmarks seen in and around Omaha. The flora throughout the exhibit includes live plants, trees and shrubs - all scaled to size - and continuously manicured.

Due to many generous donations, this model railroad garden exists. I'd like to thank everyone who made this possible! It truly is a wonderful place.


All the trains make their own noises. Magnets in the track tell the train when to set off a bell or whistle.



Note*
The Hidden Loop line video does not go all the way through. The flatcar I was using to take the video has a hook and loop coupler. The hook kept getting stuck in the cow catcher on the front of the steam engine. I will try and redo this video at some point.

What was running on the tracks today:
Freight Line - Rio Grande GP40, pulling a mixed freight
Covered Bridge Line - 44-ton switcher moving passenger cars
Hidden Loop Line - C-16 (2-8-0) hauling passenger cars

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[Kyatisback14]

where is part three

[AyTrane]

Sitting on my desktop.

[Kyatisback14]

well put it on youtube then

[AyTrane]

Part three is up!

[PnPrailroad]

Great ride and video post of the trains ! I've added your clip to my "10,000 Garden Train Videos" playlist 1.

Each playslis has approx. 200 G-scale, garden train videos selected from youtube. Again, Thanks for your posting.

[hamlintyler]

i looove trains =D

[howarth004]

that would be nice to have in the back yard

[matt515o]

Wow, that is awesome!

[Freddycoasterman]

Omg thats so cool. I gotto do that with LegoLands train!

[rollercosterfreak92]

they have that in ohio to :)