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| The four photos below are frequently used on the postcard and other advertising announcing our Semi-Annual H&R Train Shows and other events. | |||||||||||
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| The Upper left photo is the Gazebo which is sitting in the middle of our garden railroad. It is just one of many Gazebos that you will find outside the store on our property. If you look closely you can see some of the wildlife that frequent our Garden Railroad. Upper right is the sign that you will see when traveling past our store on Haines Road or U.S. Highway 19. Lower left is one of the many Historic Railroad signs which are scattered around the outside of the store. It is a cast iron railroad crossing sigh from the early days of the Pennsylvania Railroad.. Lower right is our main entrance from the parking lot on the south side of the store | |||||||||||
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| Above is our welcome sign that you will see as you approach our store North bound on either U.S. Highway 19, or Haines Rd. It has been used in many national adds for our community and even Wall Mart has used it. | |||||||||||
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| We have a Gazebo and new landscaping on the north side of the store where our customers can relax while enjoying the garden railroad. By the way the gazebos are for sale and are custom built for us by the Amish in Northern Georgia. | |||||||||||
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| Above is our Garden Railroad which was being decorated for the Holiday Season. Below there are thousands of lights which help us to usher in the Holiday season. The lights are on every evening until 9PM from Thanksgiving to New Years Eve each year.. | |||||||||||
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| Just outside the store on the North side of the building there are two benches where shoppers can sit and relax even in inclement weather. There are also two swings hanging beneath our oak tree and three gazebos with rocking chairs or table and chairs. If you bring your lunch we also have two picnic tables where you can eat and enjoy our garden railroad and all the railroad artifacts. | |||||||||||
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| There is a railroad bell from a steam locomotive you can ring by pulling the rope just like the engineer did as the train approached the station. | There are many railroad signs in our garden. These were used to warn people of the potential danger that could be coming down the tracks, | ||||||||||
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| The "W" sign alerts the engineer to blow the whistle as the train approaches a grade crossing just ahead. | This cast iron mile marker was used on the Pennsylvania railroad to tell the train crew where they were and how many miles they had left to go. | ||||||||||
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| We have a short section of rail from Horseshoe Curve in Pennsylvania on which we have a speeder from a Canadian Railroad, and a Bogie from a Pennsylvania Railroad freight car from around 1940. | |||||||||||
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| This single axel weighs more than a ton and is similar to one from the bogie in the photo above. There are two of these in our garden. | |||||||||||
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| Most of this railroad equipment was purchased from a railroad salvage yard in Indiana, Pennsylvania. It represents the type of equipment that the Pennsylvania Railroad used along the railroad right of way in the 1940-1950 time frame. | |||||||||||
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| This is a grade crossing signal with cross bucks. Some of these have a bell on the top. We have several of these but this is the only one which is assembled in the garden. | This is a switch stand used to change the switch to another track .We have 3 switch stands in the garden. Two are like the one you see here and one is very short in comparison.. | ||||||||||
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Check back often. New Photos will be added regularly to this page.
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