New Orleans Power Pass: New Orleans Botanical Garden Features Historic New Orleans Train Garden

The New Orleans Botanical Garden, a New Orleans Power Pass participating attraction, includes a Historic New Orleans Train Garden that Power Pass customers may be interested in viewing.

Visit the New Orleans Botanical Garden page on the Power Pass site for more details about this New Orleans attraction.
Visit the official New Orleans Power Pass attractions pass site for more New Orleans sightseeing pass information.

The following Historic New Orleans Train Garden information is from their website - http://neworleanscitypark.com/traingarden.html

The Train Garden, located inside the Botanical Garden, features buildings made entirely of botanical materials in a layout approximating the layout of the city itself. As visitors walk on a pathway representing the water surrounding New Orleans, they overlook over 1,300 feet of track carrying streetcars and trains like those that traveled the city in the late 1800s to early 1900s, at 1/22 of their actual size.

The garden layout and its buildings were designed and constructed by nationally renowned designer Paul Busse…

The Train Garden is open during normal Garden hours, but trains operate only on a limited schedule…

 

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