I enjoy a lot of different hobbies, probably to many
Florida's wildlife enjoy my hobbies to!

me

My name is Douglas, I live in Broadview Park, FL. My motto is, if only people who know what they were doing, do things, not much would get done!  And I live by that.

I tell you my motto because I have no clue what I'm doing but I keep working on it anyway. I know this means I'm going to make a lot of mistakes  and do a lot of work two or maybe even three time. The goal is to learn some thing new

Marklin's track standards

Late in the 1880's The famous and still existing Marklin company in Germany set a standard gauges and scales these first three offerings were named gauge 1, gauge 2 and gauge 3. Gauge 1 , at 45mm , was the smallest , and gauge 3 , and 62mm was the largest.  The standards were soon adopted  by virtually all European and some American model train manufacture.
By today's standards even the smallest gauge 1 is fairly large . Few people have enough space to build a gauge 1 railroad indoor so they build them outdoors and more sophisticated builders made terrain through which their trains ran. And adding suitable plants to enhance their lines. eventually  the term  garden railroad  came the used to describe this type of outdoor railroad.
Toy and model train manufacture soon realized that by producing trains that were too large for indoor use and to expensive for more people to afford , they were limiting and market . so a new smaller standardized scale-gauge combination. The new gauge 32mm between the rails was given zero as its designation what we call O gauge.

from Beginners Guide to Large Scale Model Railroading Greenberg Books

Garden Railway

This old fence post is just what you want to find buried in the ground when you are grading the new track. I did find a good use for it !

I enjoy a lot of different hobbies, probably to many
Florida's wildlife enjoy my hobbies to!

me

My name is Douglas, I live in Broadview Park, FL. My motto is, if only people who know what they were doing, do things, not much would get done!  And I live by that.

I tell you my motto because I have no clue what I'm doing but I keep working on it anyway. I know this means I'm going to make a lot of mistakes  and do a lot of work two or maybe even three time. The goal is to learn some thing new

Marklin's track standards

Late in the 1880's The famous and still existing Marklin company in Germany set a standard gauges and scales these first three offerings were named gauge 1, gauge 2 and gauge 3. Gauge 1 , at 45mm , was the smallest , and gauge 3 , and 62mm was the largest.  The standards were soon adopted  by virtually all European and some American model train manufacture.
By today's standards even the smallest gauge 1 is fairly large . Few people have enough space to build a gauge 1 railroad indoor so they build them outdoors and more sophisticated builders made terrain through which their trains ran. And adding suitable plants to enhance their lines. eventually  the term  garden railroad  came the used to describe this type of outdoor railroad.
Toy and model train manufacture soon realized that by producing trains that were too large for indoor use and to expensive for more people to afford , they were limiting and market . so a new smaller standardized scale-gauge combination. The new gauge 32mm between the rails was given zero as its designation what we call O gauge.

from Beginners Guide to Large Scale Model Railroading Greenberg Books