Have you considered Kadee?

Kadee offers a couple of log car designs, both a skeleton car and a disconnect.

If you go to the Kadee web site:  http://www.kadee.com

If you go to the site and click on "all products" on the menu on the left, you will get a lisitng of products.  "Log Cars" are listed about half way down the page between "detail parts" and  "trucks & wheel selts."

Yah But

Thanks Russ for the thought. Seems to me that Kadee are sort of Oregon back woodsie such as one would find on a dedicated logging line.  I do have four of the Rivarossi cars that are similar that I was planning to use on my now demolished version of the "Lilliput Logger".  I kind like the Walthers cars though because they look like they would function well enough in the branch line scenario that my Lumber mill fits into.

As I envision it a train comes out of hidden staging and exchanges four or five loaded log cars for empties and disappears back into staging.  The same train could also do the same with grain hoppers in the same town (Red Bluff).  My inspiration is a version of the Camas Prairie that I was impressed with in a Great Model Railroads magaizine a number of years back.

Another train would emerge from staging pickup finished lumber on 60' bulkhead flat cars  and grain in covered hoppers (or possibly boxcars) and haul them to the big city of Bay Port. A train in the opposite direction would deliver empties and head off to staging.

I'm in the process of going through my accumulation, sorting it out to things that I can work into operational scenarios and things that just don't fit.  Some of this stuff I sell off on Ebay and search for the stuff that I wish to incorporate.   Progress is being made.

Details West Log Bunks...

Aran,

Have you looked at the log bunks offered by Details West? You can take any flat car paint up the log bunks and CA them to the deck add some coffee grounds, sawddust and weathering and you have neat looking log car.

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/235-171

Best of luck!!

Log Bunks

Thanks for the thought.  I actually mention them in the first post. The next time I'm in the Bay Area, I'll search some out. BTW Greg, I really like your backdrop paintings.

Hmm..."F" for reading comprehension

Aran,

Whoops...I tried...guess I should slow down when I read.

Not sure of your era but the intermountain 60' flat makes a neat modern era log car. Get undec kits and skip adding the wood decks. Place the DW log bunks on add paint. Nice custom looking cars and prototypical.

For older stuff I would look at Tichy and Red Caboose cars. I know GN and NP had very similar cars.

By the way thanks on the backdrop!!