Getting the logs out of Elkmont by rail.

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Moving logs from Elkmont

When we bought this place I really liked the shed “out back.” It reminded me of the set off houses on the Little River Rail Road in East Tennessee.

 

So I slapped the LRRR logo on the door and I have been using the shed as the “shops” of the Little River RR in the back yard ever since.

Internet research led me to consider using the shed to store rolling stock and locomotives as well.
I went to my Large Scale hobby shop…….Lowes and got a doggy door and some latches and a piece of wood.

What you see here is the beginning of the Elkmont yard the first indoor track I have placed in several years.

Hopefully I can recreate the real Elkmont yard on the Little River Rail Road high in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

Here is the first load of logs out of Elkmont heading downgrade to the sawmill in Townsend Tennessee.

 

 

 

It should be interesting to have ready made trains that I can take out on the layout whenever I wish.

Doc Tom

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Doc Tom and the Little River Rail Road in Tennessee

 

[kstrong]

Great start! A storage shed is on my "to-do" list as well. No question, rolling a train out of a shed beats the pants off of carrying cars out piece by piece. 

Related question - in one of your photos, you've got wires that look like they're threaded through the rails. Is that to tie the tracks to the trestle?

Later,

K

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kstrong

Great start! A storage shed is on my "to-do" list as well. No question, rolling a train out of a shed beats the pants off of carrying cars out piece by piece. 

Related question - in one of your photos, you've got wires that look like they're threaded through the rails. Is that to tie the tracks to the trestle?

Later,

K

Hi Kevin,

You are very observant. I read about the use of wire ties to trestle bents in my preliminary research when switching from an HO logging outfit to the Large Scale creation I am building. I read about in either in GR or one of their "how to do it" books.

 

Basically a small hole is drilled in the web of the rail and a wire is used to tie the rail to the stringer below. It has worked well for me so far.

I really should paint the wire as I did the rail (I am using batteries in the lokies) to make it less noticeable. I did paint the attachment wires on  earlier trestle work.

Thanks for looking.

Doc Tom