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Garden Trains are the fastest growing area of Model Railroads. Plus home gardeners are finding out that it is something exciting to add to their gardens. Garden Trains.com is your best resource. We provide you useful information at our site and references to the best sites on the Internet for Garden Trains. Welcome to the perfect family activity.

Tips for Getting Started
If you are new to the idea of Garden Trains it may be hard for you to get an understanding of what this hobby is all about. The most important thing to remember is that there is no one right way to build a Garden Railway.
Watch out for the "professionals" that try and tell you how to do it, and don't teach you how things can be done. Writing about Garden Trains and Railroads is one thing -- doing it is another.

The best way to get started is to watch a video and read all you can. Find or make a friend who already has a Garden Railroad. Finding a local club is a great way to get started and you can check out a complete database of clubs - online right here

Using Metal Wheels on your Large Scale Garden Trains
Jeff Crotty: The garden trains are more stable on the track because of the added weight and lower center of gravity. This translates into fewer derailments. The garden trains have a much more realistic sound when rolling. A garden train with all metal wheels is heavier, but you can pull longer trains if you have metal wheels, due to the lower center of gravity. They are easy to install.

Robert Grimsley: I use metal wheels because of the added weight, the sound, and it just makes them look nicer. It seems that I don't have to clean the track as often and that is a plus. I bought Bachmann wheels to start but soon started to replace with Aristo. Some packages of Bachmann had "Chips and pits" in the flanges and that was when I changed over to Aristo. Give me "Metal Wheels" anytime.

John Heath: I've been switching to metal wheels lately and found they track better than plastic. On a tight S curve into a switch I was getting a derailment almost every time the train got to that point. Not so with metal wheels though. They also look better when colored with a brown marking pen.

Richard Alan: Railroading outdoors with garden trains requires a better quality wheel to withstand the elements like the extremely hot rails that I have seen melt plastic wheels in the Texas sun. The noise a metal wheel produces, is like having a free sound system in ever car.

Mike Evans: Metal wheels are extremely easy to install. I found several plastic wheels were out of round. Zero derailments is a plus and no residue on the track when the rail gets hot in the sun. Many cars roll better with the heavier weight that metal wheels provide.

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Important Topics
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  • Buildings
  • Couplers
  • Garden Train Photos
  • Getting Started
  • Grades
  • How Garden Trains Work
  • Live Steam
  • Wheels