Amidst the poinsettas

at the Botanical Garden was the most amazing small train display. This covered a huge space and even had the Village People outside of the Hollywood sign. The theme was St. Louis: Gateway to the West. There were farms and ski resorts and old time motor home courts. The fishing village was one of my all time favorites!
Here is one of the many trains; this one going through the Rocky Mountains. What was so very cool was that all the bushes, shrubs, flowers etc. were real...very tiny but real! This must have taken months to set up!
My son use to have an N gauge railway and I loved hooking it up. He and I would spend hours creating new ways for the tracks to run and finding models for him to build for his train town. He still has the train set but I believe he needs a new engine. Amazing isn't it, what memories something like this can trigger.
E has been inspired he says and thinks he can redo our Christmas Island (tiny houses and shops all lit) and work in an N gauge train that runs through out! YEAH!