Garden Railroading   The Beginning -  Christmas, 1999

  Skeena Pacific Railway (in the Garden) actually started out as a 1/87th scale (HO) railroad. Skeena Pacific  developed into Skeena Pacific Data and the computer business. The railway got a little lost when I got thoroughly involved in other things in the community of Terrace, BC, our home for nearly 25 years. Though many pieces of the small scale railroad still exist, it never became an operating railway.

In 1998, my wife, Dari, and I moved to the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. (that's what  the much larger area that surrounds the City of Vancouver is called)

At Christmas, 1999, Skeena Pacific branched back to the model railroad when Dari bought me the beginnings of a Large Scale model railway. A Garden Railway. It runs on Gauge One tracks, about 1.75 inches (45mm) between the railheads, which is really 1/32nd scale for a standard gauge railway. For the long-winded version of how it happened, click on The "Modeling Career"

The original locomotive was an Aristocraft model of a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive.
It's size, at the time, was almost overwhelming. Soon after Christmas it was traded for more track and more electrical power.

What follows here is part of Skeena Pacific Railway's Garden history. 
It's laid out by year, and follows the progress and setbacks, gained and suffered.

I hope you enjoy the Garden Railway Pictorial.