Garden Model Railway – “Romantic Road.”

WDW, EPCOT Theme Park.

This outdoor garden model railway is based on the 261 mile “Romantic Road” from the central German city of Würzburg to the town of Füssen in southern Germany at the Austrian Alps through the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Romantic Road (Deutschland’s Romantische Straße) can be defined as: charming, attractive, nice, eye-catching.

A panoramic view of model railway at the EPCOT German Pavilion in Walt Disney World, Florida.

The layout was created in 1995 for the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival to represent the culture of Germany’s oldest holiday route. This route includes nature, art, culture, culinary traditions and the hospitality of the “Romantic Road.”

This 1:22.5 scale garden model railway has detailed Bavarian Villages with European Piko buildings. Scale figures and animals, “real live” miniature trees, well maintained by the Disney Horticulturists, the Main River and rock work representing Austrian mountains. The layout has been built with standard section track. The layout is located at the German Pavilion in the EPCOT Theme Park World Showcase in Walt Disney World, Florida. I took these pictures in January, 2021, to created the following rough schematic drawing by looking at the pictures. The drawing is shown from the side seen by visitors. I stayed double masked during my visit to EPCOT during the Covid epidemic.

I created the below video of this layout on my Android phone. https://youtu.be/2MTESCD2c1k Filming was done on two different days, the reason for the different consists and engines. Look closely and you’ll see a couple small Brown Anole lizards scampering over buildings. No lizard was hurt during my filming!

In 2014 Jack drove the actual length of the Romatic Road. Click the below link to view actual photos of these towns.


Click the above to view buildings offered by Jack to build a model Railway.

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Driving California’s Redwood Coast – 2022.

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Scenic Corridor – Gold Beach to Brookings, Oregon.

This is my last blog from traveling along the Oregon Pacific Ocean Coast — U.S. 101, for a week since leaving Vancouver. Those previous photos are typical. I have no regrets from those adventure visits, except, to spend more time hiking and viewing several of them.

Weather and available time resulted in better photographs from this Scenic Corridor road trip of Gold Beach to Brookings. If you only have a limited time to explore Oregon’s coast, I’d recommend just exploring along U.S. 101 between Gold Coast and Brookings!

Click the below photo to view Uncle Jack’s California’s Redwood Coast Road Trip, which was his next September, 2022 adventure.

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Rogue River, Gold Beach, OR.

Photo of Rogue River taken from the Cougar Lane Lodge Deck at Agness.

Sunday afternoon, September 25, 2022 I drove over the Rogue River on the Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge into the port of Gold Beach. The weather was nice with perfect visibility that Sunday afternoon as can be seen below.

I found one nice restaurant I felt comfortable in for dinner on the south side of the Rogue River, west of the bridge. It is next to Jerry’s Wilderness Whitewater Boat Tour Gift Shop and Museum.

Rogue River Whitewater Adventure.

I had initially booked the 7 hour, 104 Mile white water round trip, thru the most beautiful section of the Wilderness zone which is only accessible by Hydro Jetboat of the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest, to the Paradise Lodge.
The lower Rogue River water level was too low to reach the Paradise Lodge in September, so I took the shorter 64 Mile round trip adventure to Agness. (The first cartographer misspelled “Agnes.” So, it has been spelled Agness, ever after. The Pilot of my boat named his daughter Agness!)
The first mail boat was an 18 foot, double-ended craft made of cedar. By 1930, the mail-boat fleet consisted of three 26 foot boats, equipped with 60-horsepower Model A Ford engines and designed to carry 10 passengers. By the 1960s, rudderless Hydro Jetboats powered by 280-horsepower engines, began to replace propeller-driven boats. These Hydro Jetboats can safely negotiate shallow riffles, and the largest could carry nearly 50 passengers. As of 2010, Hydro Jetboats, functioning mainly as excursion craft, still deliver mail between Gold Beach and Agness. (The Rogue River mail boat company is one of only two mail carriers delivering the mail by boat in the United States.)

Click the below photo to view Uncle Jack’s next Oregon’s Coast Road Trip, from his next September, 2022 adventure.

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