Backyard railroad
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A backyard railroad is a privately owned, outdoor railroad, most often in miniature, but large enough for one or several persons to ride on. The
garden railroads. Some backyard railroads use full-size rolling stock, such as the former 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Grizzly Flats Railroad owned by railfan and Disney animator Ward Kimball
.
Hundreds, even thousands of backyard railroads exist, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom. Walt Disney's 7+1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauge ridable miniature Carolwood Pacific Railroad, located at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills, was a notable example. It inspired Disney to surround his planned Disneyland amusement park with the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Disneyland Railroad.
Track
dual-gauge
track (i.e. 3+1⁄2 in (89 mm) and 5 in (127 mm) gauge) may be used to allow locomotives and rolling stock of different gauges to run.
Locomotives and rolling stock
Bud Hurlbut, who also built and operated the mine train ride and log ride at Knott's Berry Farm.[1][2]
Rolling stock is often modeled after real railroad equipment, as far as being painted with
center of gravity
for safety.
See also
- Children's railway
- Model railway scales
- Ridable miniature railway
- Model engineering
- Train ride