MGRS now has a Facebook Page

The MGRS Facebook page can be seen

at https://www.facebook.com/groups/664924060879765

You will need to have or create a Facebook account to view it, and the Sign In Screen for that will appear when you open the page.

Jim Jenkins Garden Railway Open House on July 28-29

Jim Jenkins invites MGRS Members and families to a Garden 

Railway Open House on July 28-29.  Rain dates are July 30-31.  

The hours are 11am-5pm. Please wear a mask, bring trains to run 

and your own drinks.

Address: The A&J Railway is located at 11 Adler Drive, Gray, ME 04039-9720

Directions:  Take the Maine Turnpike north or south to Exit 63 in Gray Follow either Route 26 or 26A (merges into 26) north to the traffic light where the Hannaford Supermarket is on the right.  Then take your third right onto Adler Drive. Jim’s house will be on the left. He can be reached at 207-657-9218. Be ready for big coal car trains!!!

Greetings to MGRS Members - Doug Johnson invites you to communicate about your G Scale hobby activities

Greetings to the Members of the Maine Garden Railway Society. 

How many of you have trains running and plants growing? 

Let/s talk ,,,communicate with each other. What have you done, what is new, what problems have you solved? or not?

Flat Car with Lumber Loads

I think that my layout is about done. No more expansion.  Sawmill is in, I have a dust house,

The planing mill has been partially enclosed.  The name of the lumber operation is *Twin Falls Lumber, Ltd.  My granddaughter helped with the design of the logo.  I don’t have a pipe to the dust collector yet.

Saw Mill and Dust Shed

The idea of making a tunnel out of hardware cloth to have a tunnel made by flowers seems to be working. The taller plants took a beating from the rains last week, But we will keep trying.    The small garden can get really colorful.

Hardware Cloth Tunnel

Photo of egg liners

I have more equipment than I need and want to sort out some steam engines and have them all with sound. 

 I like the Heisler, but I found that geared engines with drive shafts have become a pain.  So my Heisler, (Bachmann) goes,

For the saw mill I have looked at the USA trains Camelback with sound.  Does anyone have experience with their products? This one has the Maine Central logo.

USA Trains Camelback Maine Central

Remote Control Systems

I am disgusted with the Revolution .  Does anyone have any knowledge of Piko’s new system. It sounds like the old Aristo track power controller.  I am not into DCC.  But I want something I can understand.

I have Hartland’s Doozy and the sound has stopped. Can anyone help me fix it?

I have an Aristo C-16 that I don’t want anymore. It has sound.

I bought a Piko Barn  Big , heavy. Need to get more cows.

 

Piko Barn

And I got a Piko water tank.  Didn’t realize it was so big.  Water comes out of the pipe, but there needs to be something to hold it.  Piko’s extra glue, not in the kits, is the kind that really makes 
the plastic parts weld together.

Piko Water Tank

I need to find someone with a pad printer so that I can have some scale size lobster trap pots made.

There is a pile of rocks in my pond designed after a pile of rock I saw in a pond in Kazakstan a couple of years ago. 

So what is going on with your layout?

Can we help each other.? 

There is nothing wrong with talking or e-mailing.

Let’s find a way to do it.    Doug

Best wishes, from

Douglas R. Johnson

(207) 839-2946
drj1me@yahoo.com

8 Lawn Ave.
Gorham, ME 04038
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man"    Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

Another Cancellation

Mill Field Festival has cancelled