I got the tunnel portal at an estate saleScratch built trestle, truss bridge is from a kit. I cast the upper retaining wall from Hydrocal in a scratch built form. Lower timber wall came with the truss bridge kit but I expanded on it
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Thank you! Hope to get it working good too!Looking Really Good SPlog !
Thanks, this forum is a great resource.Welcome!
That does sound interesting! I’m modeling California/Oregon in the 50s but I’m located in JerseyWelcome SPlogs. Seems like an interesting concept, logging in Jersey.
Gotcha.....Any particular road in mind? There was a train load of them around here. I'm in Southern Ore., I can see Cal. from my door step. In Northern Cal. I've explored the old road beds of the McCloud RR, the Long Bell RR and some of the branch lines that came off the (ex) SP's Modoc Northern line.I’m modeling California/Oregon
2 Tracks, wow, thank you!Gotcha.....Any particular road in mind? There was a train load of them around here. I'm in Southern Ore., I can see Cal. from my door step. In Northern Cal. I've explored the old road beds of the McCloud RR, the Long Bell RR and some of the branch lines that came off the (ex) SP's Modoc Northern line.
In southern Ore, there are almost too many to mention. Back in the hey-day of logging railroads in the Klamath area, many of the roads were owned by California fruit companies. They were harvesting the great stands of Ponderosa pine to make crates for shipping their produce. To name a few....Ewauna Box Co., Big Lakes Box Co., Lamm Lumber Co., Algoma Lumber Co., Pelican Bay Lumber Co., etc. etc. Those were the lesser known RR's, as the OC&E (Oregon California & Eastern) is more well known, as is the Weyerhaeuser Co., Medco on the west side of the cascades as well as logging RR's on the Oregon coast. A few more in Cal. are the Pickering Lumber Co. Feather River Lumber Co. & the Yosemite SugarPine Co. to name but a few.
I'm going to model the Pacific Lumber Co. located at Scotia Cal., as I had picked up equipment for that RR, a few years ago.....in HO.
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Right? That's one of the neat things about model railroading, you can make it how you like it. I kind of split the prototypical/protofreelance model railroading. Like a million others, I like the transition era, so I'm pretty defined on acquiring equipment specific for the period. But, I have no problem acquiring a particular car or whatever that is era correct, but that never ran on the RR I'm modeling. Like the cinder hauling cars I made for the Pacific Lumber Co., they're era correct, but the PLC never had any.I’m not a “rivet counter”
Nice! Hope to make it up there one of these years. Interesting info 2 Rails! Thank you!Right? That's one of the neat things about model railroading, you can make it how you like it. I kind of split the prototypical/protofreelance model railroading. Like a million others, I like the transition era, so I'm pretty defined on acquiring equipment specific for the period. But, I have no problem acquiring a particular car or whatever that is era correct, but that never ran on the RR I'm modeling. Like the cinder hauling cars I made for the Pacific Lumber Co., they're era correct, but the PLC never had any.
You had mentioned the SP at Dunsmuir, They pulled many a log train here in southern Ore. The box companies I had mentioned above all came together at a station named Kirk, from there, the SP pulled the trains to Klamath were the vast majority of the mills were located.