Thomas & Friends – visit the “” Bull Moose” Railway Garden on Saturday June 9, 2012. The Isle of Sodor’s famous railway rolling stock featuring Thomas theTank engine and his friends, Percy, in full green livery, and the powerful Mogul, James the Big Red Engine, will run all day long from 10:00 A.M. untill 4:00 P.M.at [...]
The Eggliners age comming… The Eggliners are comming…. The Eggliners are comming…. Eggs-actly on June 23, 2012 there will be a plethora of Eggliners zipping up and down and all around the right-of-ways on the IGRS Bull Moose Outdoor Layout. It’s a summertime Eggs-perance for everyone, and you are invited to participate in the [...]
George Janjecic 1943 – 2011 As many of you know George Janjecic has passed on. He leaves behind a legacy of G Scale service, having been a mentor, a friend and a confidant to many of us. He owned the slowest moving Accucraft Ruby engine I have ever seen. George had a unique approach to G Scale [...]
History comes alive at the Hesston Steam Museum as real steam locomotives take you on a spectacular two and a half mile journey through deep woods, past lakes and farm fields. Ride the 1/4 scale and 1/8 scale steam railroads. Both meander over bridges and through an enchanting wooded landscape. The Hesston Steam Museum is filled [...]
The White Creek Railroad is a private 7.5-inch gauge track constructed by Russ and Mara Eldred and is located in a rural country setting in Western Michigan on approximately 120 acres of land. The track meanders through densely wooded hills and open fields, across marshy lowlands and nearly encompasses two picturesque lakes. The first section [...]
Illiana Garden Railway Society Membership Application The Illiana Garden Railway Society (IGRS) is a not for profit group of G-Scale enthusiasts from the states of Illinois and Indiana. Membership Application: You may download a copy of the membership application by clicking on the “Download” link. Society members are interested in all areas of garden and [...]
ALL ABOARD!!! Rock Island, Illinois, has a rich and colorful railroad history. Join some of us IGRS Members for a special journey to Rock Island for America’s largest celebration of railroading, Train Festival 2011. Steam locomotives are not only unique time machines, but uncommon in their ability to appeal to people from every background. They [...]
Tom Kreiger and his son Ed made excellent progress on the turntable base on Sunday, November 14, 2010. The bottom is completed, track base installed and three layers of sidewall glued and screwed in place. Rex Appel and Dave Casey visited with Tom and his son to assist in the assembly. A wee bit of [...]
The IGRS, it’s More Than a Hobby – Jun 30 2010 - by Carl Kurek – The Chronicle All Aboard! Atop a 2000 square foot raised layout, more than 600 running feet of track, dubbed the Bull Moose Line, makes up the Illiana Garden Railroad Society’s outdoor G-scale railway. .The IGRS is a not-for-profit group of [...]
ILLIANA GARDEN RAILWAY SOCIETY BRINGS TRAIN ENTHUSIASTS TO VALPARAISO – By Christine Bryant – Times Correspondent – NWI Times – May 22, 2010 Traveling across bridges and trestles, the Bull Moose Line winds past cascading waterfalls and through a country setting full of ponds, gardens and green pastures. It’s a setting straight out of Americana, [...]









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