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Active Member 45 posts OREGON LOGGING SUPPLY Active Member 45 posts
OREGON LOGGING SUPPLY

     Last year my wife and I moved from our large home of 28 years in Newberg, Oregon to a much smaller rental in Garibaldi Oregon. Our new coastal house is only 2 bedroom , our old house was much larger with a 13 foot by 35 foot train room in the basement. My current available layout space is 13 feet by 13 feet and must be shared with a substantial collection of historical research and previously built models built for my old layout(s).

     In addition, as this is a rental (which we hope some time to buy), I needed to design a layout that did not fasten to the walls. I also needed to build a substantial area that would allow me to follow one of my primary interests in the hobby which is scratchbuilding and individual model construction.

    When I first moved here I told myself that my model rail days were probably numbered. But as is usual in these matters, after I did some thinking, I realised I could build more than I originally thought.

    So, it's the beginning of Summer and I not only live at the coast, I live in a town that is home to one of the going-est historic railroads in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon Coast Scenic. As the active season is going full swing I may not add to this much until Fall. Hopefully I'll be too busy firing ex-McCloud #25 to sit indoors and build a layout.

    So I'll ad a trackplan and hopefully guide you through the building of this layout - but not today. I've thought about this for some time but realised if I didn't commit now I might get sidetracked.

    Those of you who might recognize my name, my intent was to serialise this in Timbertimes magazine, but my old friend Phil Shnell stopped publishing recently. Online is probably the wave of the future, though.

    By the way, I generally hate waves of the future.

Lon Wall

Nelson Brothers Lumber Company

http://www.pacificmodelloggercongress.com
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Photo Bud Frequent poster 992 posts
Photo Bud

Whoops, URL wrong

Left the 's' out. http://www.pacificmodelloggerscongress.com/

Cool site!

Bud (aka John), The Old Curmudgeon

Fan of Northern Pacific and the Rock Island
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Neil Erickson NeilEr Moderator 5,773 posts
Neil Erickson NeilEr

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Today I received a nice gift of some framed magazine covers from the estate of the late Boone Morrison. It’s been years since I modeled timber or logging lines but have a passion for geared locos and articulateds (if that is a word). There are some talented modelers on this site with similar interests so hope you will catch the wave with the rest of us. 

Neil Erickson, Hawai’i 

My Blogs
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AVT Active Member 43 posts
AVT

Looking forward to this.

As a huge fan of TimberTimes and your contributions to it, I'm looking to this. 

Cheers,

Anthony
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Tim Latham Regular poster 489 posts
Tim Latham

Following

Following

Tim Latham

Mississippi Central R.R. "The Natchez Route"

HO Scale 1905 to 1935

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/timlatham

 
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railman28 Regular poster 194 posts
railman28

me too

I'll like to follow

Bob Harris
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oldcup Regular poster 199 posts
oldcup

She is a beauty

" I'll be too busy firing ex-McCloud #25 "

Enjoy Lon.

I thought 25 was a ripper till I saw No.7 which is just beautiful Enjoy the season.

Kenn in Australia
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railandsail Prolific poster 8,762 posts
railandsail

I'll be following your

I'll be following your discussions and planning. I have a need to design some logging scenes for a portion of the upper deck on my new layout. I've reserved some spaces for it, but have not put together a plan yet.
 

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Logging Interchange vs Logging Tracks

Fri, 2019-04-19 08:42 — railandsail

Even though both of these 'scenes' are interconnected, they both require individual design attention, particularly as related to the logging tracks servicing the lumber mill.

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On this upper level I am proposing to put some logging tracks and trains down that peninsula. There might be a very tight loop at the free end of the peninsula for the short logging locos to run. Or it might be just a back and forth operation for them. They will bring logs out to the saw mill scene at the trunk end of the peninsula (logging interchange). I have the whole Walthers saw mill kit(s) and would like to make this scene some sort of transfer of logs to cut product that would be loaded onto mainline log cars and center-beam loaded cars, and a number of other wood carrying cars ( I have quite a variety).

Yesterday I was visiting my metal scrap yard and noticed a new piece of that 'sign post' metal beam I've utilized on other portions of my 'metal benchwork'. My thoughts turned back to this logging train trackage I had been contemplating down an elevated strip over my central peninsula.

Could this beam be the backbone rib of that logging trackage? In other words it would exist strictly as a stiff backbone of approx 8-9 foot of length. Various pieces of 1-2" thick foam attached to this backbone would provide for the scenery and roadbed all along this length. The backbone might well be attached to the ceiling beams of the shed via 2 long all-thread rods, so no support structure required from the bottom. And these rods can be placed such that the ceiling fan is still usable.

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector
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2tracks Regular poster 320 posts
2tracks

A Logging Railroad is

the second "Track" on my layout. Will be following with interest...….

Jerry

"The Only Consistency Is The Inconsistency"
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