log cars

They look great behind your shay. Four make a nice length train. Now for a custom MTH bobber caboose to match.  Thank You for the great transaction.

Jerry,

    Mark does supply real nice skeleton Logging Cars and they do look good behind the Shays, no doubt about it.  They are part of my Wellsville, Addison & Galeton Logging Train also.  Thanks to Mark we both have decent Skeleton logging Cars to pull behind our Legacy Shays.

PCRR/Dave

Dave,thanks for putting me in touch with Mark,he shipped the cars quickly & i am very happy with them.    Jerry

Jerry,

   Glad I could help you out, Mark was nice enough to supply decent Skeleton Logging Cars to both of us, I am also very happy with mine.  I picked up the MTH Cabin Caboose that they used with the logging trains here in our Pa mountains.  Long ago when the major logging came to an end around the Pa Grand Canyon, my Great Grandfather purchased the one off of his WAG Railroad train, and placed it in his back yard in Galeton, Pa.  My mom and her sisters used it as a play house for years, until it fell apart from being left out in the Galeton winters, he burnt the old rotten woodside, and sold the trucks back to the WAG Railroad, just before he passed away. 

PCRR/Dave

Dave,i don't know what a cabin caboose looks like, can you post a picture of one?,also what is bobber caboose?,if you happen to know.   Thanks  Jerry

Nice!  Good layout and nice train, too. 

Jerry,

When I saw your topic 'log cars' I had to take a look.  I am glad I did!  Marks cars look great on your layout and Dave's!  This is the first I read about them.  

My my first venture into O scale was On30.  After a while, I saw O gauge 3 rail, and that was for me.  I still have an On30 Climax and about 4 On30 log cars, but think someday I will get an O gauge Shay and sell the On30.

Mark,

So I take it you make and sell log cars?  If so, I would like to get some too.  I love log cars and Shays.  I will send you an e-mail.

Nice logging train. Try to find some young maple and or poplar trees and cut some real logs for your cars such as  those shown unloaded at the Frick Sawmill......

Dewey Trogdon, I was thinking about what you suggested about getting real logs cut from a tree around here,plus cut some extra's for a saw mill i will see what i can do about that.

I believe these are Industrial Rail items.  I have five of these log cars followed by a custom painted bobber caboose.  They do make for a great looking train.

I have a large box of "logs" I gathered in my yard for my log cars.  I cut them to length using a bandsaw, the cars looks a lot better with real wood in random sizes than the cheap plastic logs that came with the IDR cars.

Jerry,

   The Cabin Caboose is the last car on my logging train in the picture I posted for you below, a smaller type Caboose for 2 men to sleep in, while logging in the mountains.

Farther west a similar small caboose was called a logging bobber caboose.

PCRR/Dave

Mark B,

    The Legacy Shay is one of the nicest Legacy steam engines I have ever seen.  It is well worth owning, IMO it is in a class of it's own.

Andy & the HiRailers had one at the Monroeville Train Show one year, and after watching the working gears and seeing the engine run, I had to have a Legacy Shay, my wife saw me watching that engine at the Train Show, and ordered me one for Christmas, we actually pre ordered it.  I am now glad I added Legacy to my DCS layout, with the Shay Engine and the new Command Control switches, I love it.

I do not think Mark H makes Log cars, he supplied us with some that he had, and I do think he has some nice Meadow River Log Car still available, you will need to contact him via his e-mail.

PCRR/Dave 

I like the commercial log cars and have a few myself.

But they are so easy and cheap to build that's what I do.

Later I added logs from fallen branches in my yard. I rubbed off most of the bark and cut to length. Added cheap jewelry black chain to hold them on. These cost me about $5 each.

AMC Dave,

   I really like you custom made skeleton log cars and have consider using your building technique myself, way cool stuff no doubt about it.

PCRR/Dave

Thanks Dave & Mark for your responses,i will be looking for a bobber caboose to complete my little loging train,& i may even follow Mark's suggestion & have it painted to the color scheme of the Meadow River Lumber Co.,if there is such a color scheme, would anyone know if there is a color scheme for the lumber co.?

I don't see the $5 unless you have a box of trucks handy to use, otherwise they do look simple to build.

I don't see the $5 unless you have a box of trucks handy to use, otherwise they do look simple to build.

 

During my HO days I got to know a guy who owned a company making HO structure kits. We got to know each other via a model car manufacture. 

When I changed over to O 3rail he offered a big box of Lionel trucks and bags of 3r wheel sets removed from cars. I've used a bunch of them....still have a few trucks left. The wheel sets will convert those AHM O cars with plastic semi scale wheels.....but each conversion takes a good amount of work....going slow. Today you can't buy plastic Archbar trucks cheap.....but until I run out.....these cars are cheap to build!!

Love to find more archbar Lionel trucks as cheap as they were 8 years ago......

Poplar, being a very stable wood, was the base lumber of choice for the growing veneered furniture case goods business during the early 20th Century. Thus logging and shipping huge 4'-5' diameter poplar blocks was a seasonal cash producer for farmer/loggers selling to brokers for the Piedmont N.C. Furniture Industry. 

If one strains their eyes at the picture on the wall above my logging train they can see a huge poplar block on a mule-drawn draft wagon waiting to be unloaded at my hometown Depot on the A&Y Ry north of Greensboro[news photo from the Danville [Va.]Register and Bee circa 1915]. Just think, the blocks were cut with two-man crosscut saws.

The key is having the trucks to make the $5.

I still like the cars, I saved the photos so if I get energetic, I may make some.

Dewey, I have a lot of Poplar around my place, I should go cut myself some big logs as well as the smaller ones.

I make logs from the rose of Sharon bushes around my home.

They have a nice bark pattern are smaller in size and dry nice without splitting.