2025 GTA Annual
It’s easy to start your first garden railway, combining rugged model trains and beautiful landscaping in your own backyard. The Garden Trains Annual from White River Productions is the only annual publication dedicated exclusively to outdoor garden railways! We’ll show you how to use your favorite large scale trains combined with appropriate live plantings to make the outdoor railway of your dreams. Each edition contains fabulous layout tours, detailed modeling projects, great prototype information, fresh product reviews, and more. The all new Garden Trains Annual is edited by Chris Lane, the guiding force between the popular On30 Annual and HOn3 Annual. You’ll enjoy the engaging and informative style brought to you by White River Productions, a long-time leader in the prototype railroading and hobby publishing field. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned veteran, or just looking for a new modeling challenge, you’ll find it in the pages of GTA!
2025 Garden Trains Annual
Volume 5
Make It Our Own!
Ideas to Customize Your Equipment • by Ray Buteux
10 Years of the Woodlock Railroad
What’s Better Than an English Garden? One With a Railway! • by Paul Duncan
A 3-D Printed Barnhart Log Loader
A Complete Build of an Iconic Backwoods Machine • by Randy Mower
Dressing up the Porter
Making a Good Model Better and Distinctive • by George Riley
Pine Ridge Railroad
North Woods Wisconsin Narrow Gauge Logging Railroad • by Lawrence and Jodi Ginnow
Carry The Freight
Crates and Cranes and Pallets, Oh My! • by George Riley
Steve’s Gas
Modeling Jone’s Gas Station from the 1950s • by Steve Lennox
Building & Operating the SJR&P Garden Railroad
This Extensive Line features Switching and Operations • by Deb and Stan Ames
Craftwagon…
An Industrial Rolling Stock Construction Project • by Mike Nanaluk
From the Archives: Lost in the Woods
The Mostly True Story of the Missouri Locomotive Company • by George Riley
Cheap Telegraph Poles
A Easy Scenic Detail for Your Large Scale Railroad • by Ray Buteux
Design a Garden Railroad: Part 4
Model Memories as Metaphors — Art! • by Nancy Norris
East Meets West
“Klondike Kate” arrives on the Tuscarora Railroad • by Kevin Strong
Make Your Own Corrugated Panels
You Don’t Have to Drink During this Project (But it Helps!) • by Jim Kottkamp
A Blacksmith Car For Your Loggers
Unstocking a Stock Car • by Ray Buteux
A Doodlebug Diversion
Another Scrap-Box Project • by Jack DiSarro
The Blue Plantation Build
Live Steam Symposium + Sidebar: Speed Reduction Gears • by George Riley
Live Steam Corner
Modifying the Roundhouse Sammie • Conducted by Mike Nanaluk
Denver & Rio Grande Caboose 20
Collectors, Turn Away. Kitbashing Ahead • by Dylan Hutson
Edaville Railroad
History and Inspiration • by Joseph Scolastico
Getting Started in Large Scale
Great Entry Sets for Aspiring Large Scalers • Conducted by George B. Riley and the GTA Staff
Garden Trains Annual Locomotive Review
Large Scale Motive Power • Conducted by George B. Riley and the GTA Staff
Observations
Get Together With Friends… • by George Riley