Doug Arnold said:
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!
Agree. Can you imagine raising a family right next to a logging RR??
The squealing brakes, the whistles, the shifting logs…what a bunch of racket.
Doc Tom
I would have rather grown up there, then next to an Air Force base. 
David Maynard said:
I would have rather grown up there, then next to an Air Force base.
Good point. Jet engines can really howl.
Tom
Nice prototype pics Doc!
Old Number “1” was used to bring in materials to build the railroad way back in 1901.
So it was fitting that Number “1” would be used to haul the recently cut wood from the mill in Townsend up to the work site of the new store 20 years later. While not as strong as the big Shays this old guy can still do a day’s work.
The wood (cut down craft sticks) is off loaded for construction to begin.
Doc Tom
The wood pieces are from the Lobby of Hobbies and you get about 150 for 3 bucks. The curved ends are trimmed off and the pieces are carefully glued to the blue foam board using Titebond III. Weights are applied to limit warping of the craft sticks as the glue gets in to the wood fibers and drys.
Here is one of the side walls ready for staining and water repellant.
Window frames and “glazing” still to come.
Doc Tom
Love the historical photos and I really like how you incorporate the old photos with your layout. Lots of fun…
Tom Grabenstein said:
David Maynard said:
I would have rather grown up there, then next to an Air Force base.
Good point. Jet engines can really howl.
Tom
I knew a guy who while stationed on an airbase, said one day a group of planes “buzzed” the base barracks, he said the first flyby was high but very noisy, he could tell another plane also going to pass so as he stepped out onto the second floor stair landing to watch, the plane flew by over a parade field right next to the barracks so low, he said he swears he was looking DOWN into the cockpit at the pilot as he flew by, he was 17 or 18 at the time, so take that as it may.
Shawn (napkin builder) Viggiano said:
Love the historical photos and I really like how you incorporate the old photos with your layout. Lots of fun…
Thanks Shawn. I love the historical research on attempts at prototypical rail roading. Sometimes i think I am seeing my Garden RR totally in black and white.
I am also getting a very healthy respect for the folks who worked so hard in the woods both then and now.
Doc Tom
Vic Smith said:
Tom Grabenstein said:
David Maynard said:
I would have rather grown up there, then next to an Air Force base.
Good point. Jet engines can really howl.
Tom
I knew a guy who while stationed on an airbase, said one day a group of planes “buzzed” the base barracks, he said the first flyby was high but very noisy, he could tell another plane also going to pass so as he stepped out onto the second floor stair landing to watch, the plane flew by over a parade field right next to the barracks so low, he said he swears he was looking DOWN into the cockpit at the pilot as he flew by, he was 17 or 18 at the time, so take that as it may.
Love it !! A thrilling story. Wonder if the pilot “got written up” or congratulated for flying so good.
Doc Tom
Was it Maverick and Goose, by chance???
I like your building Tom with the high porch it looks like a real “Company Store” ready to sell over priced goods to the workers on credit just like in the song " I owe my soul to the company store" Don’t know by who or the proper name of it.
Todd Haskins said:
I like your building Tom with the high porch it looks like a real “Company Store” ready to sell over priced goods to the workers on credit just like in the song " I owe my soul to the company store" Don’t know by who or the proper name of it.
That would be Tennessee Ernie Ford “16 tons”. While he was singing about coal miners. It was the same for the logging camps.
Take a listen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tWwHOXMhI
Doc Tom
Tom Grabenstein said:
That would be Tennessee Ernie Ford “16 tons”. While he was singing about coal miners. It was the same for the logging camps.
Take a listen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tWwHOXMhI
Doc Tom
Bless your little pea picking heart, Showing your age there, Doc. I remember watching his show when I was kid…
Ken Brunt said:
Tom Grabenstein said:
That would be Tennessee Ernie Ford “16 tons”. While he was singing about coal miners. It was the same for the logging camps.
Take a listen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2tWwHOXMhI
Doc Tom
Bless your little pea picking heart, Showing your age there, Doc. I remember watching his show when I was kid…
The song was released I believe in 1956. I was all of four years old. My dad had a great HO layout. A choo choo seed was planted in my brain.
Doc Tom
The diamond shaped windows on the front and back of this structure just begged to be modeled.
I thought they were rather unique for rough cut wooden structures.
I framed them using 1/4" poplar sticks and small wooden coffee stirrers.
Still to come glazing and muntins.
Doc Tom
Doc Tom,
Nicely done. Really enjoy your work and the history lesson with pictures I hadn’t seen.
Tom Grabenstein said:
Doug Arnold said:
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!Agree. Can you imagine raising a family right next to a logging RR??
The squealing brakes, the whistles, the shifting logs…what a bunch of racket.
Doc Tom
way better than next to a freeway, thats one I can personally attest to…
A good cheap source of frosted window glazing is plastic milk bottles. The plastic can be cut to size and made in to a slightly opaque window.
After fitting in to the window frames muntins are made from thin scrap wood and carefully glued in place .
Now the characteristic diamond shaped windows seen on the back wall of the commissary are completed .
Doc Tom
Not to mention milk/bottled water jugs are almost indestructible. I use them under the ratchet straps on sharp edges when tying down heavy items on my flat trailer.