Sawmill plans

[twosaint]

Hi:

I am looking for plans to scratch build a small sawmill for an ON30 logging module. Any help or pointing in the right direction would be appreciated.

twosaint
austin, texas

[jrbarney]

Twosaint,
Welcome to the MR Forums !
I hope some of the loggers will chime in with a better reply, but for starters, go to the Index of Magazines button just to the right of the Trains.com at the top of this site. Then select Keyword on the left margin of that page and enter sawmill as the search topic. You should get a fair number of hits.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[leighant]

My own file of lumber mills may be heavy on Texas prototypes.

Carter Lumber Co. office at Camden/later U.S Plywood
_RMC_ Dec71 p.35
Crane, overhead for handling logs, _Mod RRer_ Aug66 p.29
Fire hose shed for lumber mill, pix,plans _RMC_ Oct95 p.80
Gerlinger carriers used by lumber industry, manufactured Dallas
_Business Week_ Aug 20, 1955 p.104
Kirby Lumber Co Silbee mills _Santa Fe Modeler_ 2Q87 p.8-11
log decks _NMRA Bull_ Aug83 p.26
Log dump, model animation _Mod RRer_ Nov93 p.92
Log loading boom w electronmagnet _Mod RRer_ Nov93 p.92
Log pile at PFI Mill, East Lewiston, Idaho _ModRRer_ Feb98 p.78
log pond at St.Regis Paper Co., Tacoma Washington with "floating bulldozer' boat handling logs _BusinessWeek_ Aug4,1956 p.42
Log skidder "Big Wheel" in N from O scale popcorn wagon wheels, plans, model article. _N Scale_ SeptOct98 p.26
Log skidder "Big Wheels", _The Loggers_ (Time-Life Books) p.99
log truck showing method of steel strapping, ad for Acme Steel
_Business Week_ Sept 17, 1955 p.147
logging truck, crane lifting logs at rail reload
_Marvels of American Industry_ p.58
Logging camp, British Columbia, pix _Mod RRer_ Mar90 p.104
Logging camp structures, _Mod RRer_ July66 p.20
Logging camp, Mormon Lake, AZ
_Refrigerator Cars, Ice Bunker 1884-1979_ p.71
Logging figures, old time, kitbashed from modern construction
workers, _Mod RRer_ Apr88 p.110
Logs, how to model, _RMC_ May78 p.53
Lumber kiln, Charlie Wyman's sawmill, Massachusetts
plans, pix _Model RRer_ Mar78 p.62
Lumber loads from 1940s and 50s _Mod RRer_ June92 p.79
Lumber load, banded unit on DRGW flatcar #22080. pix in Acme Steel Co ad for strapping _BusinessWeek_ Jan.14 1956 p.81

Lumber, veneer & plywood mills in Texas w 50 or more employees,
by counties:
Austin 1 Montgomery 2 Liberty 5 Hardin 3
Orange 1 Jasper 1 Newton 1 Tyler 2
Polk 3 Walker 2 Houston 2 Angelina 3
San Augustine 1 Shelby 5 Nacogdoches 1 Cherokee 2
Rusk 1 Cass 1
from _Atlas of Texas_ p.71

Lumber mill, prize model by Fred Wadleigh,_RMC_ Jan67 p.24
Lumber mill. Manning,TX, Carter-Kelley Lumber Co.
_Journal of Tx Shortline RRs_ MayJuneJuly98 (Paris issue) p.55
Lumber mill, Camden TX, W T Carter & Brother.
pix, _Journal of Texas Shortline Railroads_ NovDec96 p.54-58
Lumber mill. HO construction article, special focus on log chute
_RMC_ Jan65 p.22
Lumber mill, Fostoria,TX aerial view
_Montgomery County History (1981)_ p.48 town map p.50-51
Lumber mill, Southwest Forest Industries, west of Flagstaff AZ
story, mill aerial pix, _ModelRRer_ p.70, 73
Mill office (Portland OR prototype) pix, plan,.model
_Mod RRer_ Mar75 p.42
N scale Sawmill N Walthers #933-3236 _ModRRer_ Oct98 p.43
N scale sawmill scene by Randy Gustafson (18" x 36" layout)
_MR_ Jul95 p.104
Pennsylvania sawmill, ground plot, bldg elevations & plan, flow chart. _NMRA Bull_ June76 p.30
Pine mill (?) Harris Pine Mills 3 mi N of Cleburne 1969, in bg of "Texas Chief" pix _Santa Fe in the Lone Star State_ vol.1 p.113
Planing mill, plans,model based on PA prototype _RMC_ Sep79 p.62
Planing mill, Carolina _Mod RRer_ Ju;82 p.66
Planing mill at Charlie Wyman's mill. proto pix, plans, model
_Model RRer_ Sept76 p.46
Sawmill crane: clamshell crane at Riverbank Sand & Gravel could be used as basis for Big Piney crane NMRA Bull Aug78 p.30
Sawmill- dry roll ramp into sawmill on Coon Creek mill HO ModRRer March03 p.100
Sawmill drying kiln & lumber storage yard w tramway N model pix in Republic Loco Works ad
N Scale NovDec02 p.8
Sawmill equipment, model animation _Mod RRer_ Nov93 p.94
Sawmill, layout size. Cutaway diagram & theory, details.
_Mod RRer_ June68 p.28
Sawmill machinery & sites, _Mod RRer_ July68 p.50
Sawmill machinery _NMRA Bull_ Jun76 p.60; Jul76 p.32
Sawmill, modern, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, pix _Mod RRer_ Jan91 p.104
Sawmill, Northern Michigan, N scale model. _Mod RRer_ Mar90 p.114
Sawmill complex, use of Walthers kits for NW Timber Co.
HO project layout, _ModRRer_ Jan98 p.86
Southern Pine Lumber Co sawmill, Diboll
_Journal of TX Shortline RRs_ FebMarApr98 p.15-21, 30,31
Diboll track map 1910 _Journal of TX Shortline RRs_ FebMarApr98 p.41
Texas Forestry Museum, pix & article,_Texas Hwys_ Jan93 p.22
"Timber to Tidewater, From" how products handled on a lumber RR
_Mod RRer_ Aug66 p.20
Tools for logging, _The Loggers_ (Time-Life Books) p.92
Trees, comparison of western tree species logged
_The Loggers_ (Time-Life Books) p.24-27
W T Carter & Brothers, Camden TX, company store
_Eyes of Texas Travel Guide, Dallas/East Texas edition_ p.198

Hope there is something there you can use.

[Anonymous]

What era are you intrested in? Click on highlited words below.
Someone's saw mill in action
Camp 6 Logging Museum
logging cars
logging photos
general saw mill info
Timber Times
saw mill CDs
band saw and more to come
Hull-Oakes Lumber Co.1
Hull-Oakes Lumber Co.2
O scale craftsman kits
Links to more links
Neet stuff
Plans
B.T.S. Coon Gap Sawmill

[Anonymous]

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Wayne