Bruce Chandler said:
Shawn, Woodland Scenics makes a rural sawmill kit. It’s in HO, but you could get it for dimensions, if needed.(http://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/images/d243b.jpg)
Let me know if you want more pictures.
Looks like you found yourself an adopted RR son! 
Now if I could just get “my” adopted RR dad to wire me more than 2cents I would be good!
That HO sawmill kit is a good price. Under 10. That should work great in helping me get the details better. I started getting my lumber ready for the building. Im hoping to get started on it tomorrow.
Garden Textures sells plans for a small lumber mill that sits on a raised platform. This is the one I’m building but, as of yet, have no place on the layout to put it. Maybe in the spring…
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/kenbrunt/_forumfiles/lumbermill05.jpg)
Whats lying in the floor of the mill n the picture?
Ken Brunt said:Spring? It's not even Winter yet. The platform looks interesting. Looks like it could be adapted for several different uses. Do they also offer it as a kit, or just the plans? Ralph
Garden Textures sells plans for a small lumber mill that sits on a raised platform. This is the one I'm building but, as of yet, have no place on the layout to put it. Maybe in the spring..............
Ralph I think they offer it as a kit. Some buildings they do, some they don’t. OK, just dug out my Garden Texture Catalog. Drawing set:#30194 $11.75 Kit: #31194 3bays wide $164.00 This was from 2003, so the prices made be different. Dan The stuff on the floor is a rough outline of a saw and the roller bed for the logs. It’s still in the construction phase, but the plans include how to make the log carriage, holding table, carriage rail, and other paraphernalia that would be found inside a backwoods sawmill like this. Stuff like this:
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/thejoat/Structures/Sawmill/IMG_4364.JPG)
Here’s a pic of it from the Cat.:
(http://www.gardentexture.com/images/biy1.jpg)
And here’s a link to the Garden Textures site: http://www.gardentexture.com/home.htm
Excellent work Sir.
A few of ya’s keep saying you want to build one but no place to put it. Just build it and I will find a nice place on my layout for it LOL
I got started on my sawmill. Im starting with the building first. AFter looking at pictures I came up with this. Its basicaly going to be a simple structer like Bruce posted. The roof is going to be different rather then slope it on both sides im going to slop it one side. That way when the crew is unloading the logs into the mill on rainy days all that water coming off the roof will go to the low side were the guys wont be. (Plus its easier to do a roof that way) Everything is going to be glues and nailed. I really like the simple dirt floor look but agin the guys will have to work in mud and worry about runoff. I might raise it a little with a wood floor, unless I could fins a nice paver block as a base that will blend in. The building is going to be open in the front and enclosed on the low side but only about halfway up. The size is 19 inches long by 7 inches wide.
Here is a picture of an old sawmill with a floor plan (if thats a decent way to describe it) like you have going there. Quite a nice start! Can’t wait to see the progress…
I hope this picture shows. If not, I’ll need some direction in life on how to post a pic.
http://www.lscdata.com/users/don_pearson/_forumfiles/Old Sawmill.PNG
Looks like it may be here this time
Don Pearson said:
http://www.lscdata.com/users/don_pearson/_forumfiles/Old Sawmill.PNGLooks like it may be here this time
Nice 
It’s the space in the file name. LSC dislikes that. I fixed with an ASCII code for a space… [code]
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/don_pearson/_forumfiles/Old%20Sawmill.PNG)
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Thats a really cool shot. I like the stone piers they used. Good stuff Thanks
Last couple of issues of NG&SL Gazette show a number of saw mill and lumber camp buildings. Ther is even a floor plan of a saw mill and connecting buildings.
Ric Golding said:I just subscribed to that. Thats a great magazine especially for ideas. Their are others as well. I think one is Logging , mining and industrial RR. Basically the same as the one you mention aboved but gives more real photos in begining and all modles in the back. Who publishs that magazine and what is the web site for it? I have been trying to find it but cant.
Last couple of issues of NG&SL Gazette show a number of saw mill and lumber camp buildings. Ther is even a floor plan of a saw mill and connecting buildings.
Shawn, you might be thinking of the “Industrial Annual”, which is one of three annuals published by Westlake Publishing. The other two are the Narrow Gauge Annual and the Modeler’s Annual. These annuals are all that’s left of the former Finescale Railroader magazine.
Here’s the link: http://www.finescalerr.com/subscribe.htm
I thought the general design was alot like Shawn had going.
I pulled that pic from the Washingon Library. They had extensive information on all of the logging history there. I was giving the stone piers some thought and suppose that the best way to approach them would be by breaking up ceramic floor tile into pretty small pieces, then being a ‘mini stone mason’ liquid nails or mastic as mortar or the like. with a coat of paint and weathered it should come of nicely. I personally don’t have the talent to carve somthing like that out of foam with any convincing level of detail.
Thanks for the help with the pic Jon!
Don Pearson said:
I thought the general design was alot like Shawn had going. I pulled that pic from the Washingon Library. They had extensive information on all of the logging history there. I was giving the stone piers some thought and suppose that the best way to approach them would be by breaking up ceramic floor tile into pretty small pieces, then being a 'mini stone mason' liquid nails or mastic as mortar or the like. with a coat of paint and weathered it should come of nicely. I personally don't have the talent to carve somthing like that out of foam with any convincing level of detail.Thanks for the help with the pic Jon!
I got the roof supports done on the mill and cut out a few coffee cans for the metal roof. Going to add some of those cross braces to the main beams and then start thinking about the floor. Wont get too much done I go back to work today (2PM-12Am shift for the next 4 days and a holiday weekend).
And the pictures of the progress?
