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Tom at some point I would like to build a log loader on a flat car. I will lookin forward to seeing how you do it. I have not ven got as far as looking for pictures of what I want to model. Do you have the book “Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains” Timber Times publishes the book. It is a great book and would be very helpful for your RR builds. There is a Volume 2 coming out soon. http://www.timbertimes.com/
Shawn said:
Tom at some point I would like to build a log loader on a flat car. I will lookin forward to seeing how you do it. I have not ven got as far as looking for pictures of what I want to model. Do you have the book “Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains” Timber Times publishes the book. It is a great book and would be very helpful for your RR builds. There is a Volume 2 coming out soon. http://www.timbertimes.com/
Hi Shawn, My buddy Bill Nelson was by today and dropped of these plans from Sierra West Models for an HO AH&D loader.
(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/ahd1.jpg)
These will be helpful to “scale up” to 1:20.3 and start the build. We will post pictures as we build the loader. I do not have the book “Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains” It looks like it would be an interesting future read. Doc Tom
I think I got these from Bart many, many moons ago. These are plans for the Barnhart Log Loader that I haven’t gotten around to building yet. The appeared in the NG&SL Gazette.
Tom and others,
Andy C. and I went to a New Year’s Day Open House at a friends HO Layout. As part of his railroad he did have a narrow gauge section working a logging staging area. I was quite impressed with some modeling he did of a modern day logging operations. An impressive part of his modeling was a loader lifting a log for loading on a flat.
Might need to work a little harder on the KVRwy to display some of the equipment loading logs. I keep most of the equipment prepared for rail travel as part of the operations, but the simple adding of the logs in the equipment jaws was quite impressive. Just thoughts.
Thanks Ken and Ric for the input. I really like Barnhart loaders and had several on my old HO show. Our HO RR club also has my old model Barnharts and multiple others scattered about the pike. I remember seeing a kit release of the Barnhart in Large Scale in the past. The Little River RR appears to not have used Barnharts, at least not in the pictures I have seen so far. I am hoping to eventually find a picture of a Barnhart in use on the LRRR so maybe I can build one in the future. Agree that modeling a logging landing can be really interesting. Here is an aerial view of my Camp One logging landing on the old HO pike. A spar tree, Barnhart, and a steam powered loader on a modified flat car are all in action moving the “toothpicks.”
(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/Aerialviewofloggingcampone.jpg)
Doc Tom
Tom,
Happy New Year. Nice picture and that is what I’m talking about. I just don’t have things like that outside. The new pup has made quick work of what detailing I did have outside and just “Natural Nature” is just sometimes too much, let alone and over zealous pup. Always to busy maintaining the line and keeping things weeded and usable to progress much further. Great picture!
Ric Golding said:
Tom,Happy New Year. Nice picture and that is what I’m talking about. I just don’t have things like that outside. The new pup has made quick work of what detailing I did have outside and just “Natural Nature” is just sometimes too much, let alone and over zealous pup. Always to busy maintaining the line and keeping things weeded and usable to progress much further. Great picture!
Hi Ric,
I agree Ric, I doubt I will make these kind of scenes in the great outdoors like I did in the very controlled environment of my HO logging layout.
I like your idea of having the equipment on the flat cars “headin somewhere” for work off stage. I could stage a few pictures using the log loader, when built, picking up logs along the line, but I doubt I will construct a full fledged log landing with all the equipment as I did in HO scale. The large scale experience has a whole lot of different variables to contend with including the “out of scale” real life weather and critters ( the squirrels in my yard like pushing cars off track) that roam our railroads.
Doc Tom
Tom thats what Im trying to creat on my outdoor layout, although it wont be super detailed because of mother nature. Here is what I started playing with this past summer. I hope to work on it more come spring. Still a work in progress. I want to add a roof to the steam donkey, put an outhouse up and work on the lines for the loader and add a high line.
Hi Shawn.
So it can be done…hmmmmmm. I might give it a try after a few more months of basic rock/dirt moving and track laying and ballasting. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Doc Tom