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Gorgeous Garden Railways |  | Authors: Marc Horovitz, Pat Hayward
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 343353
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 10 x 0.5
MPN: 62326
ISBN: 0871162326
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.19
EAN: 9780871162328
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Book April 25, 2010
K. Brailsford (UK)
This was a gift for my boyfriend. It has lovely pictures and is a very interesting read. Lots of useful information!
He rates it!!!!
Great coffee table book February 17, 2009
Michael Blowfield
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book to thumb through and shows the author's extensive knowledge of garden railways. Perhaps a bit more info on the layouts would be nice but this is a nice addition to those who like railing in the garden.
 A Gorgeous Book about Garden Railroads March 29, 2007
Paul D. Race (Springfield, OH United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Marc Horovitz has edited Garden Railways magazine forever. He has contributed to or cowritten several books on the subject as well. And despite Marc's ability to "get his hands dirty" with a gardening or railroading project, he never forgets that the best garden railroads are more than the sum of their parts.
Marc and his cowriter Pat Hayward have put together the best "coffeetable book" on Garden Railroading ever. The emphasis is on the many dozens of "gorgeous" photographs, which range from the charming to the awe-inspiring.
But nobody, even the newest beginner, should be intimidated by this book. Rather Marc and Pat hope the book will encourage more and more people to get involved when they see what is possible. When you take a close look, you'll see that to the authors, the word "gorgeous" doesn't mean "unattainable by normal people," but "well-conceived, balanced, and attractive."
Marc's overall concern seems to be that each garden railroad should have integrity, that is, it should be designed, built, and planted in a way that is true, not only to the preferences of the gardener/railroader, but also to itself and to the land it occupies. In other words, Marc looks for a naturalistic setting and a consistent vision that is supported by the accessories and plantings.
True, some of the railroads shown in the book border on spectacular, but majority of them are simply well-conceived and well-executed versions of the garden railroads that many thousands of folks have already put into their back yards. Marc includes the disclaimer: "The railways shown in this book were built by experienced, dedicated hobbyists. But don't let that stop you; they were all beginners once."
In other words, nothing in this book has "Don't try this at home" stamped on it.
The contribution of Marc's coauthor, Pat Hayward, is visible, not only in her descriptions of appropriate garden railroad plants, but also in the choice of photographs that show effective use of plantings for each garden railroad.
Although Pat doesn't call out many of the species illustrated, the vast majority of plants shown in the book are readily available to most gardeners in North America. If you see something you like, chances are that if you take the book to a full-service nursery, they will be able to tell you the name of what you want, and whether it will survive in your region.
In short, Gorgeous Garden Railways allows readers to see many entirely different kinds of railroads and to see what is possible. Again, nothing in this book is labeled "Don't try this at home." The inspirational value alone is worth the investment.
Paul Race - Lead Editor for Family Garden Trains
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