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Our next operating session will be from 9:00 am to 11:30 on Saturday, July 18. Take a look at the PowerPoint presentation mentioned below to see what an operating session is all about. We will have an open house from 1:00-5:00 on Saturday, October 24, as part of the Piedmont Pilgrimage, a tour of Atlanta-area model railroad layouts sponsored by the Piedmont Division of the National Model Railroad Association. We hope to have another open house sometime this summer. Send email if you want to be added to our email list for operating sessions or for open houses.

 

LT&S regulars Omar and Patrick take a break during a work session.

 

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5/3/2009 - Operating Sessions in the Garden.
This is a PowerPoint presentation used in a clinic at the 2009 Southeast Garden Railroad Show, Dalton, Georgia, May 2, 2009.

A Railroad in Middle Earth?

If you've read J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classics The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings trilogy, you know that travel in Middle Earth could be both dangerous and difficult. Since Sauron the Necromancer and the goblins and orcs he commanded were destroyed, travel is much less dangerous. And since the Middle-Earthers began importing discarded steam locomotives from our world by magical means, travel has also become less difficult. One of the many railroads that have sprung up is the Lake Town & Shire connecting Hobbiton in the Shire with Dale and Esgaroth (Lake Town) on Long Lake.
Donald and Jane Nute, shown at left with Civitas de Bagnoreggio, Italy, in the background, are building the Lake Town & Shire in their garden in Athens, Georgia. This 1:20.3 scale narrow gauge railroad serves Mirkwood Lumber Company and the Mines of Moria as well as Hobbiton, Bree, Rivendell, Lake Town, and Dale. Don and Jane are members of the Georgia Garden Railway Society.

 

Also be sure to check Donald Nute's Steam Locomotive Photos.

And see the article on the Lake Town & Shire in the Athens Banner-Herald.

 

The Lake Town and Shire is one of 17 garden railroads featured on Garden Railways of Central Georgia. Check out the Creation Trek Productions Website and preview this exceptional video tape.

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