CARNIVALE ON THE GREEN

This is a carnival themed 1/24 scale G gauge garden railroad running on a simple raised deck roadway. THE GREEN refers to the artificial turf sporting green and the raised deck roadway, along with viewing benches and a 'snack shack'.  

The train is the layout. Everything that would be a part of a layout is built as, or on a rail car, not on the ground.

Having seen better days, with aging rides and stale attractions, CARNIVALE has taken to the dark side of the carnival world to survive, hoping to attract a more 'diverse' crowd. Rides are now more extreme, shows increasingly illicit, ' Believe it or Not' attractions are now becoming beyond strange and the games are more enticing but increasingly  rigged.

Now the fun part. Take a current subject of interest, scratch build the rail car, make it realistic, ridiculous, dark, whatever works, but make it unique.

Now the really fun part. Every rail car has to have a story. It might be just descriptive or historical, but more likely than not it will be strange and somewhat dark, and I will always refer to it as........True

This is a running collection of monthly articles of the cars and their back stories that I write for the SACRAMENTO VALLEY GARDEN RAILWAY SOCIETY 'S newsletter, the VALLEY FLYER. and the BAY AREA GARDEN RAIL SOCIETY''S newsletter, the TRELLIS & TRESTLE. I'm an active member of both clubs.