me with a few options. One, I could be an armchair modeler. I
could read, learn, dream, and plan. Or I could put to use the G
scale equipment I ‘d been collecting in hopes of having a gar-
den railroad someday. I picked option two. I figured this would
be a good time to start a small garden railroad. This way I will
develop the skills needed for building a larger garden railroad.
After all, most of us didn’t start with large layouts, no matter
what our chosen scale. We started small, learned the skills of
the hobby, then built larger layouts.
Getting started
For my first project I decided to detail the interior of a
Burlington Northern caboose [lead photo] and [2]. I began
by turning to Google to find images of caboose interiors and
2. USA Trains extended-vision caboose.
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