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Florida Garden Railroads

While vacationing in The Villages of central Florida, Harlan Nye took me on a tour of garden railroads in the area. Unfortunately in the excitement I forgot to takes pictures at Harlan’s.

Harlan took us to visit Bob Allen for a tour of his Paradise Valley Railroad. It is a large railway of three, large, independent loops. The loops are track powered and controlled with an Aristo-Craft Train Engineer. There are no switches, as Bob enjoys just sitting back and watching the trains run.

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Bob also enjoys building his own buildings, and there are plenty of them on his railway.

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On the day we visited Bob, he was running his recently purchased LGB Mikado.

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The last railway we visited was built by Tom Higgins who has a detailed railway in his backyard.

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1 comments

    • Daniel Bailey on May 29, 2024 at 8:35 pm
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    We live in Goose Creek SC. My son lives in Ormond Beach. Would like to start visiting some of the layouts that are in the area.

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