Train Tracks in your Garden Show

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Enthusiasts from the New Mexico Garden Railroaders Club (NMGRR) will demonstrate how to bring backyard gardens to life with motion and sound through the use of miniature, G-scale trains and their unique, complementary landscape.

Special displays for this fun annual event will include electric trains, live steam trains, and character trains. Including permanent and new displays for the event, there will be 10 trains running simultaneously on 2000 feet of track this weekend!

Club members will showcase their personal collection of model trains in active displays and share pictorial displays of set-ups in local backyards. G-scale experts from the club will be on hand to answer questions and offer advice on how to get started. The members of the NMGRR Club have over 200 years of combined experience, and some individuals have been "railroading" for over 20 years!

The Botanic Garden's Railroad Garden has 1,200 feet of permanent track and is the biggest G-scale layout in the state. Club members will make the complex come alive for visitors by sharing background stories about the Botanic Garden's permanent garden railroad display, with its villages, tunnels, trestles and mining scenes.

Note: Sunday's event will end at 3 p.m. on May 18, 2025.

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