Balcony Peat Railway

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Balcony Peat Railway

Post by Allu » Mon Jun 08, 2026 12:25 pm

Tryng to sort out my dilemma of having a garden railway without a garden, I decided to setup something on my balcony which measures roughly 3 x 2 meters and has glazing which is nice considering the rough finnish weather for the most part of the year.
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Basically looking originally like this. Just a rectangul space. The glazing can be opened if needed and the space does not have any heating.
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Purchased and installed a 3 meters long steel cable tray. It is quite narrow, only 30 cm but still looks like I can even have some parallel tracks. Trying out the setup with some Peco track.
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Re: Balcony Peat Railway

Post by LNR » Mon Jun 08, 2026 1:25 pm

Two tracks seem to have good clearance looking at your second picture Allu. Hope you can work out a plan that your happy with.
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Re: Balcony Peat Railway

Post by ge_rik » Mon Jun 08, 2026 6:28 pm

An impressive start Allu.

A previous member of the forum had a similar balcony railway - Egor in Russia.
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Not heard from him for a while. I hope he's OK, given the current situation in Russia - your near neighbour - though I do realise they are not your closest friends at present

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Re: Balcony Peat Railway

Post by Allu » Mon Jun 08, 2026 6:43 pm

yes i saw the topic from Egor sometime ago, it was in fact an inspiration for my project although my plan is smaller without continous run. But something to operate, do some shunting and also to have some background for photos. lets see how this works out
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