Today and the last couple of days I've started building and trying out ideas for our logging operation area of the layout and adding some trees. I still have a way to go.
Hi WP, Do you have any particular circa in mind for the logging site or are you doing this from memory, if I may ask.
FrankM.
Hi Frank: I am more or less free styling this to 30's to 40's. My inspiration (although I am not copying the real source because not enough space) is the Pickering Lumber Corp. Thanks,
John
Hi John, I asked because this city-boy from metropolitan Pittsburgh, who moved to NYC years ago, found himself very, very enthusiastic about modeling (what-the-heck did I know about logging?!) after seeing a modest operation in-progress while visiting Upstate NY. Subsequently, I crafted numerous logging scenes, after conferring with folks at a John Deere dealership on Rt.11, near Cortland, NY. I purchased logging machinery models from them, and once I had finished my first several scenes, I took them back to the dealership for their inspection. Allowing for some compacting due to practical space limits, they pronounced my work very realistic and accurate.
Also, after some research, I custom-modeled an 1890's logging site for a client, and he was pleased. It was great fun learning about such things as horses, oxen, and mules being involved, not to mention such special features as "steam-donkeys" and "skid-roads" and laborers' temporary cabins.
I have no idea what features would be included in the era you intend, but I offer these shots for you because they demonstrate what I found successful, and what machinery is available as models/toys for contemporary logging scenes. I hope this helps, or at least, interests you and, perhaps, others.
I have several more shots of my work...![harvester and skidder harvester and skidder](https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/12129987997660671/filePointer/57883406198827925/fodoid/57883406198827915/imageType/MEDIUM/inlineImage/true/harvester%2520and%2520skidder.jpg)
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if you care to see them.