Train Days a great garden idea!
All aboard!
Much to my delight I enjoyed seeing the Model Train Days at a local garden center. A short voyage from the town of Vulcan.
The Train Days are held on the Father’s day weekend in June at the Aspen Crossing Tree Farm and Garden center just a 30 minute drive from Calgary.
Gardening Ideas - What a perfect combination gardening and model trains! Great care and attention to detail is given and the results are fascinating.
The Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders
Featured G scale trains with realistic backdrops
The familiar sounds
whistles and horns
and chugging of the train
around the track
held one mesmerised.
To see the next train coming
and leaving the station.
The owner of Aspen Crossing – Jason Thornhill has a love for trains and preserving the memory of the railroads history and the importance to the area.
At the garden centre which is built as a replica of a train station there is a free museum. Upstairs one will find memorabilia and artefacts of the railway and days gone by.
To end the perfect train day I enjoyed a meal at the newly renovated 1887 Pullman Dinning Car which sits on rails at the garden center.
This beautifully preserved 76’ long car seats as many as 40 people and provides a very elegant dinning experience
After viewing an interesting model train display by the
Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders
and a meal in the dinning car I then purchased a few items at the gift store and returned home.
Reminiscing about my childhood train days and how I need to travel by train across Canada
travel by train across Canada
one more time!
Book your Train trip online
and see what's in 'my backyard'
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