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Train Days a great garden idea!

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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.

Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders sign

The Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders

Featured G scale trains with realistic backdrops

Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders picture

The familiar sounds

whistles and horns

and chugging of the train

around the track

held one mesmerised.

Model G gauge train

To see the next train coming

Model G gauge engine

and leaving the station.

Model G scale rail cars

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.



1887 Pullman Dinning Car

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!

Model train around garden pond

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and see what's in 'my backyard'



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