Yup, just bringing in next winters firewood supply.[:-^]
Brent[C):-)]
Yup. And that’s just two trees - or, maybe, three - after using the limbs to build trestles so the tracks could reach 'em…[:-^]
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - second-growth cedar nowhere near that size)
That was a poor havest on the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company’s lines. It wouldn’t last till December. [swg]
Here are some pictures of some great logs I got from my friend Lloyd … I filled up 20 log cars, replacing a lot of poor log scraps …
Gidday, Ex New Zealand Railway 0-6-2T Fa250, originally built in 1881 as a 0-6-0ST, worked the Matahina Tramway until retirement in 1966. A pencil drawing done when I had the time.
The New Zealand native Kauri was certainly not as big as those redwoods, but for those who’re interested here’s a link to “Bush Trams” in New Zealand.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/bush-trams-and-other-log-transport/1/1
Cheers, the Bear.
If that’s just a quick sketch, that’s really good.
You know there’s someone out there just dying to tell you it’s not prototypical or the logs are out of scale! [(-D]
Wonder if they loaded them in the order they cut them so they could put them back together someplace else…
This photo of 2 foot gage 0-4-0T SD Warren #1 was probably taken around 1900. Built in 1895 by Baldwin, the 3 small locomotives were used to transport logs from a MEC connection to the SD Warren paper mill in Westbrook, ME. The logs were transported in those odd shaped cars. The 3 steam locos at the mill were eventually replaced by a conveyor system in the 1930s. Sister loco #2 is presently being rebuilt from the frame up and restored to full operation at the shop at the Boothbay Railway Villlage.
For more information on this project:
http://www.railwayvillage.org/sdwarrenloco-boo.html
My flat car train with logs on the Rogue Valley Model Railroad Club.
Yup! The rivet counters were all over me on this one. Some people just don’t seem to realize trees this big exist. In Canada we roll these trains into the factory and the logs are put back together and Canadian sized Hockey Sticks come out the other end. The rivet counters really took me to task when it took four flat cars to carry one finished Hockey Stick.
Brent[C):-)]
LOL! [(-D] I asked for that one!! Down here in the states, this is what we do with them…
these cars remind me of the containers UPS uses to load their planes. Each one designed & built to fit a particular model of aircraft
[tup][(-D][tup][B]
Here are a few in the Feather River on my Feather River Route
And a few logs being hauled from under the Keddie Wye
Logs from dowels:
Mike Siggins versions:
Visit:
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/logs/
Thank you if you visit
Harold
This is what happened to all our timber in Western Australia…
You may note that this picture was taken in Brighten in the UK.
At least we have nice grassy fields now.
Gidday, I see I dated that drawing '99 and do not recollect how long it took except that it certainly wasn’t quick [:)], I had to be in the right frame of mind. The original is 17" x 20".
Cheers, the Bear.
Trees cut from the forest (logs) have bark, and the large end has a section of broken wood where the saw did not go all the way through, look closely at the ends on large logging photos to see the breaking point. Small branches or twigs are exact miniatures of the larger tree, the bark is even scaled down.
Nah! Look at most pictures in logging there is usually no jagged edge.
Twigs usually don’t scale down.
Harold
OK, an old logging car I put together about 25 years ago… Posing on “the Bridge to Nowhere” now long gone.
Logs are, uh, logs… made from a small branch of a maple tree in my yard also long gone…