The Chron has a great, in depth piece on the The Conservatory of Flowers‘ Golden Gate Express Garden Railway show that we featured last month.

The article goers into great detail on exactly what discarded items (aka garbage) folks from SF Recycling’s Artist in Residence program used to construct the SF landmarks featured in the model railway. Such as:

The “Painted Ladies“: cereal boxes
Palm trees: pencils with tillandsias on top
City Hall: dome is a colander decorated with Muni tokens, front steps a computer keyboard

Palace of Fine Arts: magnifier boxes and mineral specimens from science kits

Fire Engine Building 37: the roof is a Pong circuit board, old rulers are baseboards, bullet shells are light sconces, 35-millimeter slide frames are windows

AT&T Park: shower racks

You can check out the railway during Conservatory hours until April 18, see more details here.

Photos and video: Tim Ehhalt

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Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.

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