Moving a Cadillac on the Little River Rail Road

Garden Railroading
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Moving Colonel Townsend’s Cadillac.

With the Autumnal weather changes coming to the Smoky Mountains, Colonel Townsend decided it was time to leave his summertime mountain retreat in Elkmont and head back to his valley home in his namesake town Townsend Tennessee. In addition to the usual personal and family possessions previously moved over his logging railroad the time had come to move his precious Cadillac. With all of about 1-2 miles of ruts in the Elkmont town limits most of the workingmen muttered about the vanity of hauling a Cadillac up in to the wilds of the woods in the first place.

However they were grateful to have jobs as the economic depression tightened its hold on the men who logged the forest and they did their best to please their boss.

So a special train was made up to carefully move the prized possession back to civilization. It made it without a scratch.

Tom

Doc Tom and the Little River Rail Road in Tennessee

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Hi Folks, A nice little story, I hope the old boys car made it back without the paint work being damaged.[:)]

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Howdy,

Nice looking layout. how did you keep the car from rollin off the flat?..

Regards,

Zak

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Hi Zak,

After posting the picture I realized I should have modeled tie down ropes and wheel blocks. The Cadillac model has wheels that have a degree of resistance in them and are not “free wheeling.” Also the layout has a 1.5% ruling grade and so the car doesn’t move at all when the train is in motion. Thanks for looking.

Tom