Small Logging/Forest Industry Help!!??

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Magnum,

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Thanks Tom; New Laptop!

I run a HO layout and looking to fit in a small Logging/Forest Industry in a 6’ x16" space. My Main Line Runs in the Front Area.

I have seen a 8’ x 12" with a GP38? |(CP Rail) in the magazines but unable to find it if anyone could help?

I also love the N scale Danica Forest Products but unable due to space.

If anyone has any links or Pics of their Logging/Forest Industry I would be very Grateful.

Thanks Again, Cary

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A had a very small logging scene by having the actuall logging somewhere else and trucking the loags to a reload at the closest place a spur could be built off a mainline.

My operation was based partly on the Kirby Lumber Co. tram operations near Silsbee, Texas. They had trackage rights to run their log trams over the Santa Fe mainline to their reload spur.

I designed a humonous lumer mill for a 6 foot by 10 inch space…and it also had the staging for the opposite side of the layout under the long mill sheds.

Not exactly logging but forest-products related… A creosote treating plant for poles, posts and ties in 10" x 20" in N scale.

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Sierra Logging on the Feather River Route, a small area under the Keddy Wye

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Likely an earlier era than what you are looking at, but here is an overview of the Piney Flats log loading area (representing deep Southwest Virginia just prior to WWI):

This is one end of a shelf layout in HO. The shelf is two feet deep at this point, and the sawmill is at the other end of the shelf layout on the other side of the room.

Bill

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You may be thinking of Mike Confalone’s shelf layout in Model Railroad Planning 2007. The layout’s a bit larger than you describe, but the photos include CP Rail locomotives (though not GP-38s that I remember) and the industries are logging, wood chips and similar.

His much larger overall layout plan is described in the current Model Railroad Planning 2012.

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Thanks for All the Info; Found that Railroad Planning 2007 and that was what I was looking for. (put 2008 and beyond in the Garage when we moved & had to find the Right Box amongst the kids toys!![*-)] Thanks for all the other pics and ideas also; you guys have be Great with input & knowledge.

I’ll definatley have to compress as I don’t have16’ to play with; can go behind my mountain scene a few more feet to extend if I have to and Kitbash the Building against the Wall and (mirrors) for that extended look?

Cary

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Last summer Sheepscott Scale Products came out with an excelent stake truck with a load of pulpwood
http://www.sheepscotscale.com/site/2011/07/20/new-pulp-wood-load-castings

To get this truck, you will need to order:
1940s Autocar C-100 (kit 3 95106) with a diesel engine, or any other heavy truck in their product line.
#95802 Stake Body
#26299 Pulp Load castings

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I have always likes the Possum Valley layout, the website is:

http://jean-louis.simonet.perso.neuf.fr/Poss_us.htm

Its N-Scale but of course can be built in any scale, It would be great for someone with a lack of space. It has a loop and point to point, with operations servicing the logging camp and sawmill. The scenery is great, and done so it appears to be a much larger layout. The beauty of small layouts is you have time to super detail and still a life left to enjoy it.