Just asked the local hobby shop to hold a new aethern 1920’s snowplow when it comes out. now, i can’t decide what do do next! i’m planning my logging road in the 1930’s/40’s. any suggestions?
Define the space you have to use, design your track plan, plan the bench-work, then start building.
Hate to be a complete party p**per here but that plow is a huge mainline rotary. WAAAAY to large for a logging railroad, which, by the 30’s could hardly afford something like this…or need it. Besides logging RR track, was - at best - a dubious affair laid directly on the sod.
The White Pass Railroad took passengers through to the Yukon from Skagway Alaska. Now that was a small railroad, back then as was as today. Yet they have a full rotary plow.
So a logging company having a plow of somekind would not be entirely inconceivable.
Not entirely, but I don’t know that the WP&Y is a good example. The Cumbres & Toltec has two rotarys too, but once again that isn’t a logging road either. I would think if there was too much snow for trains, there would probably be too much snow for logging.
To me a true logging railroad has a tiny Shay, Climax, JHustler, or other geared type locomotive. The track is laid temporarily (usually without balast) up to the current “cut” site. When that site is all cut the track is moved to the new place. On the other hand more modern railroads used for logging have places where trees are brought to the railhead by truck and loaded onto the train. They have regular graded roadbed with balasted track . The 1970s Oregon California & Eastern comes to mind. So perhaps we are just not clear on what the OPs definition of a logging railroad is. Are we talking a logging companies own railroad, or are we talking a railroad who’s primary cargo is logs for one or many lumber companies?