Some one recently said that the logging layouts represented a high number of layouts. No one disputed that claim. However, when I went to railimages.com and did a search on the keyword logging, out of the hundreds and hundreds of layouts posted, only a handful of layout were returned. So I’m wondering if logging is indeed as popular it seems or if logging is just a small, but vocal minority.
My layout–in the cleaning up the space pahse–will be a logging layout with an interchange with a regional railroad.
Well I just got my 3 Trk Shay in the mail yesterday and wired up the sound decoder so I will be figuring out how I can incorporate either a logging or coal diorama into the layout. Not sure where or how at this point but could not pass up the price on the Shay. We are moving in the next several months so I will not be able to do anything decisive until we move into our new home. I am excited however as I never really considered a Shay or a logging/coal operation. But now I find it opens up a whole new area of modeling. Can’t wait. So put me down for a Firm Maybe on the logging operation.
Terry
I have very little logging but at least some. It comes down to a car or two. a waterwheel mill, a lumber shed and a few misc. pieces of logging things laying around.
I have a logging/lumber mill on my layout complete with tree stumps, trucks hauling logs in and lumber out… I’ve also got a couple of cars with cut logs, pulp wood and lumber loads on them, but don’t have a branch line or anything running to the mill. It’s mainly for effect, and to employ some of the town folk from the little community so they’re not all working at Walmart… (Sorry, but I couldn’t resist.)
One forth of the layout is a mountain with logging as the theme. There are so many interesting parts to logging: camps, trees, track, cars, locos, sawmill and so many more. The other mountain will be for mining, with the interconnecting parts for Minnesota farming and Arizona desert.
Upper deck of my new layout will have a logging branch. Three shays, 11 YV log bunks, and a bunch of assorted logging support cars await operations there. The log trains will come down out of the hills to interchange on the lower deck. Haven’t figured it out yet because a shay will take a long time in the helix even at full speed. I love the generally beat up look of most logging and Narrow gauge equipment.
While there wasn’t any logging in my modeled part of central Illinois, there was (and is) SOME logging that goes on in the area, mostly around the Mississippi and Illinois river valleys. Pulpwood was also shipped in large quantities throughout the state, to paper mills around Chicago and St Louis. So while I don’t have any logging (which is a shame, considering I really like Bachmann’s new 2-truck climax!), I will have an occasional pulpwood gon or box heading through the layout on a mixed freight.
My layout is still in planning, but I do intend to freelance
a logging operation (or part of one anyway) as a traffic
source on my upcoming GN-themed layout set in western
Washington. It might be just a spur between staging and an
interchange, or more, but I’ve just gotta have a reason for the
geared eingines I have. They are too cool not to run!
Yep. My layout will have a small sawmill and at least one logging camp. I’m toying with adding a second camp on a shelf extended from the top level mining area.
I don’t have a home layout, so I obviously don’t do logging. The HO scale club I belong to has a coal mine and a couple of lumber yards, but no logging. Despite that, I own 3 of the Bachmann 3-truck Shays and a G-scale Bachmann Shay for my back yard.
You don’t have to do logging or mining to use a Shay.
I think it’s fair to say loging will be the only industry on my layout. I don’t know how to count all of the smaller business on my layout. None of the rest of them will be “industries” per say, just business such as a general store, blacksmith shop, ect. I think it’s fair to say my layout is logging only. The logging company and Saw Mill/Lumber company will domate the town. Chip, you need to also think about what people call things when you’re doing a search. What we may call logging, some might call lumber, or timber. I have changed only one or two words in a search and gotten very different results. It was my opinion, that logging layouts are very popular. On30, and some of the other narrow gauge scales are growing very rapidly. The logging industry was a very prevelant user of narrow gauge equipment.
Gads!! A layout with a WalMart on it? You must have your layout in an airplane hanger!!?![8D][:D]
The OMRS does have a logging area up in the Hill City area. I haven’t posted any pictures of it yet in our RailImages site because the area needs some attention, but tonight is club nite, so I’ll take the camera and get some shots of it. We need to finish up the ground scenics, the log pond and misc. scenes around the sawmill.
We also have a major passenger station and yard, a smaller freight yard, a mining location and a scenic waterfront with ferry service to other parts in the NW.
So what… You never saw a layout in an airplane hanger before ?. ([:p])
Actually, I don’t have a Walmart on my layout, but rather was poking fun at the fact that when there’s a Walmart in a small community, it seems that most of the people that live there are employed there - which I have nothing against at all because I may end up working there myself one of these days…