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Fish Camp Co. Store/ 2014 LSC Challenge Build Log

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#21

Mine is also RC/battery but I didn’t know about the pickup issues until after the conversion.

#22

Tom Grabenstein said:

Would it do that all that pencil scratching done by the surveying team was done on the back of a “recycled” printer page from the trash can??

Doc Tom

We’ll have to run that by the judges and get back to you…:wink:

#23

Ken Brunt said:

Tom Grabenstein said:

Would it do that all that pencil scratching done by the surveying team was done on the back of a “recycled” printer page from the trash can??

Doc Tom

We’ll have to run that by the judges and get back to you…:wink:

So the guy in the blue shirt is holding a giant pencil? :wink:

#24

Bruce Chandler said:

Ken Brunt said:

Tom Grabenstein said:

Would it do that all that pencil scratching done by the surveying team was done on the back of a “recycled” printer page from the trash can??

Doc Tom

We’ll have to run that by the judges and get back to you…:wink:

So the guy in the blue shirt is holding a giant pencil? :wink:

Nawh. That is a posed shot with one of the workers holding the surveyor’s stick. It took ALL THREE of those guys to scribble out the dimensions and plans and hold on to the 1:1 pencil. You should have seen them getting the recyled printer paper out of the trash can!!

Doc Tom

#25

Construction of the Commissary required techniques and materials that were cheap and could be used outdoors.

In January 2013 an experiment was undertaken on a simple foam insulation core covered with craft sticks treated with Thompson’s wood sealant. The craft sticks were affixed to the foam core using Titebond III glue.

This simple outhouse was constructed using this technique and placed out in the elements at the Tremont and later Wildcat logging camps.on the Little River RR.

It survived snow, a lot of rain and a whole lot of Tennessee sunshine. It held up very well for an entire year. I was ready to try this technique out on a larger structure. The commissary will be built with foam insulation “innards” and a skin of treated, stained and cut craft sticks secured with Titebond III glue.

#26

I’ll bet those guys are suffering. There’s no hole in the floor!

#27

That’s why he’s running.

#28

The store will be a great addition to your layout. I love those old pictures but man oh man do those camps look like miserable mud holes to live in.

Terry

#29

Tom, I don’t see a ruling by the judges yet. There are many napkin plans so to save any delay why not go one better and do your drawing on vellum?

Ken Brunt said:

Tom Grabenstein said:

Would it do that all that pencil scratching done by the surveying team was done on the back of a “recycled” printer page from the trash can??

Doc Tom

We’ll have to run that by the judges and get back to you…:wink:

#30

Terry Burr said:

The store will be a great addition to your layout. I love those old pictures but man oh man do those camps look like miserable mud holes to live in.

Terry

Hi Terry,

It was a very hard and primitive existence. Here is a picture of a child at play “on the porch” of his family’s “Set Off” house in the Tremont logging camp along the LRRR.

While it seems like a rather forlorn place to grow up Mr Roy Olver’s memories of childhood in the logging camps (incl. the Tremont Camp) are really interesting.

He writes fondly of some amazing adventures growing up with the logging families.

Doc Tom

#31
Alan Lott said:
Tom, I don't see a ruling by the judges yet.  There are many napkin plans so to save any delay why not go one better and do your drawing on vellum? 
 
Whoa.......what in the English World view is vellum???
Doc Tom
#32

Parchment is a similar thing Tom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment

The thing is that your plans would last for centuries; paper napkins soon deteriorate. lol

#33

Another nice choice Doc. Looking forward to the finish

#34

Somehow they were able to ship these big blue pieces from a plastic factory up “nawth.” They were a whole lot easier to cut than the old growth oak and poplar that comes through the mill at Townsend. They are going to be used for the walls of the new store.

Col. Townsend even got a special made door from out New Mexico way for the build of this company store. Very “high quality” don’t you know. It’s made from some peculiar kind of New Mexican wood. Very light, yet very strong. We’ll have to get some cipher writing sent off New Mexico way and find out what it is and thank em’ a heap for sending it to rural Tennessee. Never seen such wood before.

Boss Crumb’s been day dreaming and picturing just what this new Company Store is going to look like. He’s also been wondering how much money are they going to make selling tobacco, overalls and such to the wood hicks working for the Company.

Doc Tom

#35

Looking good Tom

#36

The fancy New Mexican door was centered and measured. Using the prototype pictures and the dimensions from the HO model the outlines of the windows and freight door were applied to the blue foam in their appropriate positions.

Doc Tom

#37

That store will be cheap for heating with those nice thick insulated walls. You’ll have to set up a few tables and chairs in there for the winter crowd to sit a spell. Nice work Doc

#38

Goshdarn those clearances look mighty tight, especially the corner one… You sure you’re ok with that?
I like the way that outhouse model survived a year. Neato. Bears thinking about…

#39

John Le Forestier said:

Goshdarn those clearances look mighty tight, especially the corner one… You sure you’re ok with that?
I like the way that outhouse model survived a year. Neato. Bears thinking about…

Hi John,

Thanks for being observant.

What is interesting, in the prototype, is the “right hand corner” of the front deck is angled to provide clearance for the diverging route going up to Fish Camp Prong.

I will be cutting an angle off the front deck too and pushing the whole model back a couple of inches when it is nestled in its site.

Yes, I was happy that the craft stick and foam model survived its year long experiment without dissolving in to so much mush.

I can handle the cost of craft sticks and foam and I am using all hand tools in these builds. So far I think they will hold up…I have a future big sawmill to build. If this store holds up that’s the next project.

Thanks for the input.

Dr Tom

#40

At least the undertaker will only feel the rattle when a train goes by. When a log train goes by your building you’ll be able to count the tree rings!