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Quinn Mountain G-scale Outdoor Model
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Summer 2007. Quinn Mountain Railroad begins its 3rd year. New infrastructure in foreground extends rail line into year around event building at east end of the garden. |
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West end of Quinn Mountain Railroad is landscaped with western Washington features, including fir trees, ferns, hostas, and river rock. |
East end of Quinn Mountain Railroad features the topography and plants of eastern Washington, such as volcanic rock, coulees, and grasses |
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Frances the Cat (middle of picture) loves to watch the trains pass by from a really close up viewing point. |
But viewing from the track isn't the most relaxing place to be, especially when the Pennsylvania locomotive comes barreling down the line. |
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Winter 2007 - Real engines run in snow! |
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The summer of 2006 saw big changes to the Quinn Mountain railroad. A new 140 foot loop now encircles the original east loop, which has become an independent line. And many, many small plants, trees, buildings, people, and animals populate the towns and countryside along the RR line. |
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In October 2005, Quinn Mountain hosted the Rose City Garden Railroad Society (RCGRS) Annual Halloween Train Potluck and Ghost Train event. Landscaping groundcovers and small trees had not been added to railroad. |
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Frost was on the pumpkins, but clear skies
prevailed for running the Halloween trains. |
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Quinn Mountain
offered a beautiful forested setting for the annual Ghost Train
event; Rose City Garden Railroad member Bill Dippert makes some adjustment to
the Halloween train cars. |
Rose City Garden Railroad member Jeff Lange (L) holds an unusual boom car constructed by member Dennis Ediger (R). Dennis and Sharon own Cobbler's Shoe Service and Train Shop in Camas, WA, which offers many items for the garden railroad enthusiast. Call the shop at 360-834-3183. |
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Jan Zweerts concocts a suspicious smoky Halloween brew in his garden railroad tank car during the Halloween train event. |
Many garden railroad cars were spectacularly decorated and crafted in the Halloween theme by creative, talented Rose City Garden Railroad Society members. |
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Many outdoor garden rail cars were decorated for Halloween, including those in this Ghost Train. Some were even animated with lights, ghoulish creatures, sounds, and ghostly howls. |
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One of the outdoor garden railroad Ghost Trains passes over the other on the western loop of the Quinn Mountain outdoor garden railroad. This temporary crossing super structure will be replaced by a trestle and tunnel in 2006. |
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BUILDING THE Quinn Mountain OUTDOOR GARDEN RAILROAD |
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The first step after leveling the ground was
laying PVC pipe |
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Bud Quinn makes final adjustments to newly laid
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Bud Quinn is watching for the train to come around
the bend |
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GARDEN RAILROADING IS NOT JUST FOR
GROWNUPS...
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The youngest visitors to
Quinn Mountain love to
watch the new Columbia River Gorge |
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Outdoor garden railroad enthusiasts are welcome run their trains on Quinn Mountain's G-scale outdoor garden railroad tracks while guests of our Bed and Breakfast in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge in the west end of Skamania County, nine miles east of Washougal, Washington, |
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For more information about the Rose City Garden Railroad Society, visit their Web site at http://www.rcgrs.com/ |
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Garden Railroad, Garden Railroads, Garden Railroading Directory of garden railroad layouts, garden railroads and garden railroad clubs. Find others who enjoy garden railroading. |
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SJR&P Garden Railroad Incorporated in 1985, this small freelance narrow gauge garden railroad was ... The garden and the railroad are being designed to complement each other. ... |
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Rose City Garden Railroad members line up for
lunch around
Quinn
Mountain's kitchen island. The
food, which featured roast turkey, dressing, scalloped potatoes, chili, devilled
eggs, and many other creative side dishes and desserts, 
