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Okay...here are a few of my projects. Two fire cars, a derelict Brownhoist crane, and three combination bucker/flanger plows. All are scratchbuilt or heavily kitbashed and are based on McCloud River prototypes. Jeff Moore Elko, NV

I'll be the next to drop in on this thread waaaayyyy too late. If you don't have a mining industry or theme on your layout, then I'd suggest making them into ballast cars. See the cars and information featured in the following link...

To answer your original question...the type of log car in your picture is I assume the log car produced on and off by Walthers. It is based off of a Milwaukee Road prototype. Milwaukee had hundreds of these cars, and when they pulled out of their western extension in 1980 most of the fleet...

Another late response...yes, the log cars you describe did really exist. The ones I am most familiar with were Union Pacific prototypes...exactly as you describe, they were gondolas with both sides removed but the ends retained and log bunks installed on the floor. I am pretty sure that at...

Clint- You are welcome! Glad to be of help... Jim touched on an issue that I did not cover...logging railroads may be basically dead, but moving logs by rail is far from it. Increasing environmental restrictions on harvesting activities in certain regions has caused the value of raw logs...

By the time the diesel era came around most logging railroads were either already dead or on their last legs. Logging railroads made sense only in cases where you had a large number of trees being cut in one place that went to the same destination. By the dawn of the 1950's forestry and...

To second what Jim says...what you provided a link to was only the sawmill area of the West Side Lumber Company. The company built several hundred miles of narrow gauge logging railroad that fed this property. Much has been written about the West Side operations. As a steam powered narrow...

Jetrock- The Annie & Mary would make a great model railroad. While in college my wife and I lived in Blue Lake, and the old A&MR ran literally right outside our bedroom window. Unfortunately the North Coast Railroad had stopped running the line less than two years before. At one point or...

I would echo the advise about turntables...non existant on all but a very small handfull or logging railroads. Most operations used one or two stall shop buildings instead of roundhouses. Many logging railroads lacked any turning facilities at all, which meant that the locomotives would always...

I have to chime in...if you have ever seen pictures of what loggers used to do in the old days...if anything, a modern clear cut is way too clean and nice looking if you are trying to compare it to the way things used to be done. Logging practices have changed a lot since the steam days...and...

The first thing you will need to decide is what area you want to put your railroad in, as that will have a major influence in vegetation types and many other things. As a place to start...I'd suggest seeing if you can get your hands on at least two or more books. The primary two would be...

Sledge- I am a little slow on the uptake on your question about switchbacks... Here are some historical and modern pictures of the switchback still in use today on the McCloud Railway Company in northeastern California: http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/AlongTheLine/SignalButte.html...

Yes...McCloud Rails is my site. I did not include them on the list because they quit hauling logs in 1964. They definately qualify as one of the loggers that survived as a shortline Those SD38's missed the log hauling days by 5 years. The railroad does continue to operate today, under the...

There is only one "true" logging railroad left now...Canadian Forest Products on the north end of Vancouver Island. Pentrex did a good video on this operation a decade or more ago titled "Canfor's Englewood Railway". Buy it if you can. Canfor uses a quartet of EMD SW-1200's, three of them...

A couple of book suggestions for you, if you don't already have them. 1. Southern Pacific in Oregon by Ed Austin and Tom Dill. Great book on, well, the Southern Pacific in Oregon. Fantastic coverage of all lines ever owned or operated by that company in the state except for the Cascade...

What you describe sounds a lot like the Oregon Pacific Railroad- its original route was supposed to run from Yaquina Bay (on the Oregon Coast) eastward across the Coast Range, across the Willamette Valley through Corvallis and Albany, cross the Cascade Range through Santiam Pass, then go...

A logging line would be a good choice...your "industry" could be a sawmill, which would both create a logical destination for the logs your trains haul out of the woods and a major source of outbound lumber traffic to go to the interchange. It was not uncommon for sawmills located away from the...

Perhaps the biggest question you should answer first is where is your model railroad set? In terms of geographic area? That will determine in large part what kind of industries you have represented on your layout, which will then give you a place to start when deciding your mix of rolling...

Thanks for the updates/corrections. I have admired On30 models from a safe distance for quite some time now and have heard a little bit from both those for and against the scale. I do have to say that I like what I see, especially the geared steam models from Bachmann. And that little...

Fishums- You will not find the books I mentioned at Ma Barnes & Pop Nobles. Just about all of them have been out of print for quite some time...you might have to resort to http://www.abebooks.com or some other rare, out of print, or used book websites to get the books I mentioned. On30 is...