Has anyone asked the percentage of modelers that operate "logging’’ specific operations, I wonder if theses statistics are available from the NMRA, logging seems to be very rare on this forum and only occasionally do we see any mention about it- - -I’m asking about 100% logging operations only.
I’ve been watching, to see if anyone would chime in. I don’t remember any specific member in her with a logging only layout.
Some have a narrow gauge logging ops as I side to their main layout.
I think the guy from Denmark has a loggin layout, Grafen? Not sure.
Mike.
100% logging operations on a model railroad are pretty rare. Many of us have a significant logging footprint on our layouts, but not 100%.
Fo 100% logging Modeling, I suggest you try modelers who do the Westside as their railroad of choice - two names to google are Bob Poli and Steve Anderson. Both of these guys are Westside modelers. Steve was featured on the cover of model railroader @ 2000 and Bob is a regular contributor to the Gazette.
Guy
David Popp has another.
Don’t get me wrong, anyone is free to ask any question here, but if it’s 2%, 6% or 15% does that change your modeling plans? If logging railroads are everyone’s favorite by a Landslide, did we not learn anything in 2018?
That´s Graffen and he is from Sweden, I think. His layout is based on the D&RGW NG lines.
Thanks Ulrich.
Mike.
nope, not logging only … maybe 2/3 or so …
rest is mining, needed someplace for the beams to be used rather than just ties, lol
I think the late Paul Templar (Shamus) was known for his logging layout.
The first couple of rows of images in the link ‘should’ be examples of his layout. If it’s all unrelated garbage, please accept my apologies.
I’ve got a layout that’s almost 100% logging. The exception is a mine train with trackage rights, which runs from staging to the interchange, swaps consists, and runs back again.
My layout’s operations focus on taking supplies and picking up logs from log camps.
Nice, tbd, I took a look at a few of your blog pages. Nice layout!
Mike.
100% logging on a home layout would not be terribly exciting from an operations perspective. But I have seen portable layouts at shows like that. No need for loops, just end to end just like the real thing.
Simon
I have seen a logging road layout in Maine and it was a pretty busy operation, lots of switchbacks and lots of back and forth with logging traffic, but as the above comments logging is NOT up there with the top 5 ( or 25) layout systems- - - so back to hiding our logging layouts in the dark abyss away from you highliner guys and we may also be banished at train shows with a large ‘‘L’’ on our foreheads.
Logging is suggested in my layout plan on the branch run to Great Divide. Nothing on the layout.
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-Kevin
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I’ve found it interesting, although that may be a question of personal taste. I’ve also got regularly scheduled supply and MOW trains, that take supplies to the logging camps and check the tracks.
I wouldn´t necessarily agree to that. Trains hauling loggers in and out of camp, supply trains, empties up to loading site, loaded trains down to sawmill and the Friday night train taking the lumberjacks into town to spend their hard-earned cash leaves a lot of room for an operation session.
I run trains of pulpwood, off to the paper mills. Both the paper mills and the forest operations are off the layout, but I do have the pulpwood traffic.
I must confess to being less than 100% logging, but I’ve got lots going on. We serve several logging camps, as well as the extractive inductries associated with logging. Since I model mostly Colorado narrowgauge, my logging ops tend to be more ambitious than prototype. Camp 13, for instance, has a loader that’s considerably larger than anything that worked in Colorado.
While split apart at the loader above, lots of the traffic consists of longer poles that will be treated for powerlines applications. I adapted known Rio Grande rolling stock to suit my needs.
We even recently acquired a Shay.
Most of the logging cars are Micro-Trains HOn3 cars, plus a couple of Keystone ones. I recently added a pair of Michidan-California cars, but they are so dainty I’m not sure how they’ll holdup being banged around here.
This is Camp 10.
Processing takes place in several locations. This is the tie mill at Crater Lake. Ties cut here are sent to Alamosa, along with most long poles, for treatment at the plant there.
After a line-haul of varying length, many logs make their way to the big mill at Rockwood, a major shipping point for lumber and beams.
Mine’s not exactly a logging railroad, but it does carry a fair bit of pulpwood logs from different loading points.
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I must confess to being less than 100% logging, but I’ve got lots going on. We serve several logging camps, as well as the extractive inductries associated with logging. Since I model mostly Colorado narrowgauge, my logging ops tend to be more ambitious than prototype. Camp 13, for instance, has a loader that’s considerably larger than anything that worked in Colorado.
While split apart at the loader above, lots of the traffic consists of longer poles that will be treated for powerlines applications. I adapted known Rio Grande rolling stock to suit my needs.
We even recently acquired a Shay.
Most of the logging cars are Micro-Trains HOn3 cars, plus a couple of Keystone ones. I recently added a pair of Michidan-California cars, but they are so dainty I’m not sure how they’ll holdup being banged around here.
This is Camp 10.
Processing takes place in several locations. This is the tie mill at Crater Lake. Ties cut here are sent to Alamosa, along with most long poles, for treatment at the plant there.
After a line-haul of varying length, many logs make their way to the big mill at Rockw
Thanks. Logging is a lot of fun because the open loads most frequently involved help keep it real, even if you go beyond the prototype as I have with my exaggerated level of logging ops vs history, at least in Colorado. I also have somewhere north of 7,500 trees on the layout, which helps set the stage for cutting some of them down. [;)]