Lumber mills layout plans

[wiarau kiwi]

I am building a lumber saw mill on my layout and I am looking for some site plans as to where the various buildings wold be sited and linked to the track.

[leighant]

    Crane, overhead for handling logs, _Mod RRer_ Aug66 p.29

    Fire hose shed for lumber mill, pix,plans _RMC_ Oct95 p.80

    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 truck showing method of steel strapping, ad for Acme Steel

_Business Week_ Sept 17, 1955 p.147

    Logging camp, British Columbia, pix _Mod RRer_ Mar90 p.104

    Logging camp structures, _Mod RRer_ July66 p.20

    Lumber kiln, Charlie Wyman's sawmill, Massachusetts

        plans, pix _Model RRer_ Mar78 p.62

    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, 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

    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

    sawmill, backwoods 3-man gasoline-powered, construction article

            Model Railroader Oct 2005 p.58

    Southern Pine Lumber Co sawmill, Diboll

            Journal of TX Shortline RRs_ FebMarApr98 p.15-21, 30,31

            Diboll track map 1910 p.41

   steam donkey for logging KMP N scale kit, 1916 proto pix

            N Scale magazine MarApr07 p.35

    "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

 

[MarkUW]

There are probably other sources, but you may want to look at Matt Coleman's "Trains, Tracks and Tall Timber" published by Walthers in 1996. It has some useful notes and sketch plans, and (as I recall) a bibliography that would give some good starting points. There was also information on available structures, specialized freight cars, etc - keeping in mind the publication date.

Mark

[ericsp]

An internet search is helpful.

http://images.google.com/images?q=%22lumber+mill%22&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Look at this one on the first page. Interesting way to spell aerial (too much time at a word processor?).

http://www.kerstenlumber.com/photogallery/Arial%20view.jpg

[PASMITH]

I am building a lumber saw mill on my layout and I am looking for some site plans as to where the various buildings wold be sited and linked to the track.

Saw mills like locomotives have evolved over the years. Old growth vs tree farms and Pacific NW vs the SE all have their differences. What era/location are you modeling. I model steam logging in the Pacific NW in the early 1900's.

Somehow however I think you may be from NZ. if so there is a great model logging RR just outside of Auckland. I think it is located at the Aerospace museum. I have visited many saw mills in both the north and south island.

Peter Smith, Memphis

[Anonymous]

Trains, tracks and tall timber is a good book for lumber industry operations in relation to railroading. It covers all types from west coast logging to midwest and southern pulpwood operations. Check it out if you can.

[wiarau kiwi]

Peter,

thank you for your answer.

Yes I am from NZ. Auckland's North Shore to be exact.

I am modelling freelance around the transition era and wish to include a saw mill among other industries. I have a Cornerstone saw mill kit along with the other auxillary buildings but I am not sure of the correct layout of an american saw mill.

I have since downloaded some articles on saw milling and logging that give me a good idea of how they should look.

Is the photo from your layout?

Thanks

Colin Black

Kiwi land

[PASMITH]

Peter,

thank you for your answer.

Yes I am from NZ. Auckland's North Shore to be exact.

I am modelling freelance around the transition era and wish to include a saw mill among other industries. I have a Cornerstone saw mill kit along with the other auxillary buildings but I am not sure of the correct layout of an american saw mill.

I have since downloaded some articles on saw milling and logging that give me a good idea of how they should look.

Is the photo from your layout?

Thanks

Colin Black

Kiwi land

Yes, the photo is from my model railroad. It is scratch built with interior detail. It is an early 20th century steam powered band saw mill. The scene also includes a three boiler boiler house, A power house with a steam engine powering a line shaft in the basement of the mill, a sawdust burner, an oil storage shed, a drying yard, a sorting platform, a dry kiln, a company office, a company mercantile store, and a beer joint ( Billy's beer). Eventually I will add a narrow gauge and standard gauge engine house, a blacksmith shop, company houses, a cook house and a mess hall.

Peter Smith, Memphis