Of course there is a logging component. You can’t model 1925 without having some logging! The logging operation is completely hand laid code 70 track put down about 20 years ago. Unbelievably it has stayed in guage and still looks great after all that time. The rails are held down with Walther’s Goo… that’s it. The stub end (no point rails) switches were hand made and installed way back then. The only problem is that the frogs are also VERY not DCC ready and the old manual contacts I built to power the frogs have failed. So… One of these days I may get around to figuring out how to power the frogs for DCC and may be able to actually run some log trains in that area. In the meantime it still makes a very nice static display area. It is actually a very small diorama on the layout and comprises a small part of the entire road.
Logging is a very cool industry, but does not fit what I am modeling, whish is the modern UP in Wyoming[8D]
Hmmmm…
45% of you say you have logging on your layout.
Because I model southern Mississippi - known as the Pine Belt - I pretty much had to have the timber industry represented. My MA&G ships finished lumber for the Tatum Lumber Co., which is named for an actual lumber mill that once existed in the area I model. The MA&G mainline crosses the log pond by way of a low timber trestle. The complex itself consists of the saw mill, planing shed, tramway, finished lumber shed, saw dust burner and shed, drying kiln and backwoods engine house. A Bachmann shay shuttles 12 Rivarossi log cars from the “woods” (hidden storage track) to the log pond through the use of a Circuitron reversing unit on a 90 second delay. This is the only part of my layout that is not under DCC control so I can use the reversing unit. The log train does it’s own thing while the rest of the layout is operated.
While Tatum Lumber comprises a small part of my overall layout (2 X 16 feet of a 14 X 32 foot triple decked layout), it is one of the focal points. Once B.T.S. came out with their series of lumber mill kits, things grew very quickly.
I have a photo album for my Tatum Lumber Co. on my website, for anyone who might be interested.
Gotta love those Shays and Climaxes!
No i don’t have a logging on the layout but will have in about ten years when i have a bigger layout.
100% logging, as soon as it gets put back together after a move, no shays, no climaxii, just a collection of odd steam locos and lots of discards bought from other railroads (just like real logging companies) this was one of the draws toward logging, the diversification of odds and ends of any equipment you want to use, everything was put to use, no time frame, no prototypes, no specific railway to follow, lots of scratch building. What turned me on to logging was a small operative diorama of a section of a small logging operation at a train show, and the keenness of the builder, along with a few( and I mean few) other spectators who were really impressed with the layout, and the realness of the scene(you could almost smell the pines) almost anything you use fits the theme of some logging operations, and I do now know that there are very few 100% logging operations out there,as you have noticed with the above replies.
There was lumber on my prototype from the 1880’s until the line went out of business in 1936 but it was rapidly declining. There was a small sawmill on my parents farm in the 1960’s until the company bought a plot of land to move their operation to. Even back then they did not sell lumber but built and sold pallets. There is just not much demand for timber in south western Ohio in the 1950’s.
I don’t have any logging on my layout.
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Would you say that’s a large percentage? I would.
My layout is about 85% logging. I have two Porters, a Mogul, and one Bachmann Shay in On30. There is a lot of high quality, reasonably priced motive power, rolling stock, and other supplies available in On30 for logging operations. I also scratchbuild some pieces of rolling stock and structures out of stripwood. Building with wood is easy in O scale and a logging layout is just the ticket for building wooden structures and rolling stock.
No logging, only coal. But I may add a lumber mill. I want one of them cool beehive burners, sawdust, and stacks of 2X10’s.
I have a lumber yard on my layout, but no actual logging is modelled. However, I do have a rather extensive forestration project underway (I’m making a lot of trees), so perhaps the loggers will move in next. I guess my current answer would be “other” --more of an unlogging operation.
I have a logging area. We load up log cars with real logs, haul them down to the interchange, then main line to the far end of the line to the sawmill.
Then, we bring cut lumber loads back to the retail outlets.
Fun in the rain with traction loss.
Fortunately, heavy loads are downhill.
We cut out one area, abandoned the grade and line, and moved the show to Highpoint.
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I have a model of “the Olde Log Inn” does that qualify?
To be fair, let’s have a poll: Do you have any other industry on your logging layout other than logging? Obviously by the above responses a few people have a very small percentage of their layout dedicated to logging, if any at all, so your comment on very few logging operations is true, very, very, very, few people have dedicated logging operations on their set-ups, an engine and 2 flatcars with logs really doesn’t constitute a logging operation. The poll would seem to give an untrue amount of true logging scenes on existing layouts.
I just have a few pulpwood cars, nothing more.
Id really like to have a shay for when I build a GR though