Trains of Two Sizes at Children's Garden

In the MSU Children's Garden next summer, probably on Thursday afternoons again, there will be trains operating in the garden for everyone to see. The trains are g-scale which means they are about one-thirtieth the size of a real train. Sometimes, if you are lucky, while you are watching the g-scale, a real train will actually go by! For me, the record was seeing a train 142 cars long! The g-scale trains will usually run as long as it is not raining and is not unbearably hot. They are run mainly by the train club I belong to, the Capital Area Railway Society. I am the staff photographer for ELi and I have been helping run the trains at the MSU Children's Garden for several years. I took the picture shown here.