Dan,
Type in on Google....''1940's Sawmill Images''....must include Images..100's of photos for You to view....just did it...would give You a link, but all My personal info will show.
Take Care!
Frank
Maybe try a Google Pictures search first?
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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I have a space along a wall on my layout about 13 feet long, (over 1,100 scale feet), ranging from 9 to 10 1/2 inches deep that I want to build the "track" side of a sizable sawmill on, the side from which finished product would be shipped. I won't model the pond or slip, that will be assumed to be on the other side of what is to be seen here.
I want something that would be typical of the Pacific north west, 1940s into the late 60s. Many large mills built in the early half of the 1900s still operated up into the 80s and later. I won't be detailing the interior. Even the mill itself can be modeled as the narrow end, and utilize the remaining space for the other buildings. If anyone has any reference info on larger mills, planing sheds, drying kilns, other storage buildings associated, I could sure use a link. These building will be kind of on the order of backdrop flats, but I do have 65 to 75 scale feet of depth to work with.
Any google searches and such that I have done only results in modern little portable sawmills, or ancient backwoods or waterwheel type operations.
I believe Walthers had a book out some years ago on the subject of sawmills. If anyone here has that, would it have any good pictures and reference on a good large mill? I could probably hunt one down if so.
If nothing else, knowing the arrangement would help. Did the lumber go through the planing plant or drying kilns first? Exterior pictures of either would help. In fact interior pics would help too, to get an idea of whats going on in there.
I am already construction a 49" long building, a large "crane" shed for the storage and loading of lumber at the end furthest from where the mill will go.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Dan