Welcome to the Vines Garden Railroad!

Headlines. August 10th. 2008.

Sometime shortly after 8.30 pm Saturday evening, a tornado touched down at Vines City and destroyed two city blocks!

It may look as though this is what happened but no, this is not what occured.. Vandals struck again that same night. Armed with bricks the perpetrators destroyed approximately twenty buildings valued at over $2000.00 with half of these being considered as beyond repair.

Witnesses observed a number of youths in that area, about this time, throwing objects and making general mischief. The incident has been reported to the police.

Come and enjoy our ‘G” Scale garden railroad featuring:

Over 1,000 feet of track

25 foot bridge, tunnels and viaduct

Airport, towns and villages

Beautiful garden setting

Picnic facilities

Dining at the Vines Restaurant

You can sit back, relax and watch our trains or bring your own ‘G’ Scale engines to run on our track. [45mm Gauge 1]

We have train representatives on site to answer any train, track or train configuration questions.

If you would like to visit the Vines Garden Railroad for a school field day or any other group related outing, you may contact us at vinesrr@bellsouth.net or call us at (770) 554-9697 to make an appointment. We will be happy to work out a day and time to fit in with your schedule.

Please Note:
Due to limitations imposed by the present number of operating staff, our hours of operation are being reduced for 2008. Open days are scheduled for the following Sundays:

May 4th.	May 18th.	June 1st.	June 29th.
July 13th.	July 20th.	Aug. 3rd.	Aug. 17th.
Sept. 7th.	Sept.21st.	Oct. 5th.	Oct. 19th.

11:00 am until 3:00 pm [Weather permitting.]

Oct. 19th will be the last date of operation for the season. After which, the Vines Garden Railroad will be closed for the winter months.

It is possible one or two of our volunteers will be at the railroad on some of the days not listed. When known, additional opening times will be posted on the notice board located at the Vines Garden Railroad clubhouse.

We would like to extend our hours of operation, however we do need more volunteers to operate the trains before we can do this. If you would like to join us in this interesting hobby please call Lawrence McFall at (770) 554-9697. There are no rules and membership is free.

2007 has been a year of sadness and loss for the family, friends and staff, of the Vines Garden Railroad. This being the departure of one of our associates, Hubert “Hub” Evens who passed away on November 7th. 2007. A memorial fund was posted on this site to which a number of people contributed. On the left hand side of this page you will find a link to Hub. Here we recognize Hub’s contribution to the Vines Garden Railroad and to the individuals who have donated in his memory.

As a registered non profit organization in the county of Gwinnett we primarily operate on donations made by you the general public and individual sponsors to the Vines Garden Railroad. For this reason we would like to keep the PayPal donation access on this website. Your continued support will help us offset the running costs and maintain this public garden railroad.

Thank-you

Once again, we would like to express our gratitude to all of YOU who donated monies, material and equipment. In order that we continue to maintain and add to our rolling stock, buildings vehicles and scenery found in the area.

With special thanks to our “Corporate Sponsors”.

North America Security, Clarkston, GA.

Loganville Rotary Club.

Additional details for 2007 may be found behind Here .

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