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You don't mention what scale you are building in. So that makes it a bit rough on where to tell you to find scale drawings. Do you have any drafting skills? Can you look at a picture in a Walther's catalog and get the footprint size and then draw a building to the footprint dimensions? You can generalize the doors and windows as they are fairly standard in size. Using the doors and windows as guides you can get pretty close to figuring out the size of a building.You mentioned logging. That makes it a lot easier as they built their buildings to suit their needs. Saw mills, water towers coaling and sanding facilities were built to serve a purpose and no two were probably the same.I use all sources plans, pictures catalogs and magazines. The scale makes no difference to me. I built a gas station fron a N Gauge magazine. I model in G scale.Go to the hobby shop and get the names of kit manufacturers. Get on your computer and look up these manufactures web sites. When you see buildings you like, print a picture and draw up a rough sketch to build from.
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