The Miami Valley Garden Railway Society

Dayton, Ohio

Rio Grande Railroad

Bud And Nancy Hunter

Railroad Featured in the 2008 Four Club Bus Tour

The Rio Grande Railroad has a total of 325 feet of track featuring a mainline narrow gauge, plus a seperate logging line. The water features include a waterfall and two ponds stocked with gold fish. Two Railroad stations (Chama, NM and Willow Creek CO), give illusion of a busy railroad serving across State Lines (much like prototype).

Visitors usually notice the manicured landscape of scale-like trees and groundcovers. Another focal point is a 8-foot railroad bridge crossing Willow Creek.
Having been in HO fo 40 years, developing a railroad theme was important to me. Hence, most of my locomotives and rolling stockhave been re-lettered for the Rio Grande Railroad and are fitted with Kadee couplersfor realistic operation as well as looks.
Motive power is all steam: 3 Moguls, 1 Forney and a K-27.

The Rio Grande Railroad was the featured cover story for Garden Railways magazine in June of 2000.

Photo By: Jerry Humston

The MVGRS Memorial

The MVGRS Memorial was designed and built from scratch by Art Gebele in 1997.
Art built the memorial to recognize members of the Miami Valley Garden Railway Society and the Greater Cincinnati Garden Railway Society who had passed away. The initials of the deceased member are added to the left side of the memorial for the Greater Cincinnati Garden Railway Society and to the right side for the Miami Valley Garden Railway Society.
In 2004, Art donated the memorial to the MVGRS. The memorial is included as part of each display the MVGRS presents.
A Photo of the Memorial is located at the bottom of each Web Page located though out the MVGRS Web Site.
Photo By: Peter Wine