It’s a hobby one Shawnee couple has been doing together for more than 25 years. It started out as an idea to work together doing what they love but it turned into so much more.It’s her garden and his train set.”I put flowers where I want to put the flowers,” said Mary Kay Riehle.Together it’s the perfect combination of a backyard garden locomotion.It’s part of a marriage that’s worked out well. They worked together to assemble over 200 feet of train track. It runs all around the backyard and right through the garden.”We got the garden hose out and lay down a track line of where we’d like to go,” said George Riehle.That line passes a waterfall, multiple tunnels, a bridge, and a small city built by hand.”I always enjoyed trains,” George Riehle said.He said his love for trains came from watching his father and grandfather work on them when he was a boy.”We enjoy working on it together. It’s something we can do together,” said Mary Kay Riehle.The garden railway left the station for the first time in March 1999 with a lot of grandkids helping with the build. Many of those grandkids are now in their 30s and they still come to watch it run.”We’ve been married 60 years now, and it’s just one of the things we do. We like being together,” Mary Kay Riehle said.
It’s a hobby one Shawnee couple has been doing together for more than 25 years. It started out as an idea to work together doing what they love but it turned into so much more.
It’s her garden and his train set.
“I put flowers where I want to put the flowers,” said Mary Kay Riehle.
Together it’s the perfect combination of a backyard garden locomotion.
It’s part of a marriage that’s worked out well. They worked together to assemble over 200 feet of train track. It runs all around the backyard and right through the garden.
“We got the garden hose out and lay down a track line of where we’d like to go,” said George Riehle.
That line passes a waterfall, multiple tunnels, a bridge, and a small city built by hand.
“I always enjoyed trains,” George Riehle said.
He said his love for trains came from watching his father and grandfather work on them when he was a boy.
“We enjoy working on it together. It’s something we can do together,” said Mary Kay Riehle.
The garden railway left the station for the first time in March 1999 with a lot of grandkids helping with the build. Many of those grandkids are now in their 30s and they still come to watch it run.
“We’ve been married 60 years now, and it’s just one of the things we do. We like being together,” Mary Kay Riehle said.
