Do you have logging on your layout? Please vote. Yes or No.

[SpaceMouse]

Some one recently said that the logging layouts represented a high number of layouts. No one disputed that claim. However, when I went to railimages.com and did a search on the keyword logging, out of the hundreds and hundreds of layouts posted, only a handful of layout were returned. So I'm wondering if logging is indeed as popular it seems or if logging is just a small, but vocal minority.

My layout--in the cleaning up the space pahse--will be a logging layout with an interchange with a regional railroad.

[scubaterry]

Well I just got my 3 Trk Shay in the mail yesterday and wired up the sound decoder so I will be figuring out how I can incorporate either a logging or coal diorama into the layout. Not sure where or how at this point but could not pass up the price on the Shay. We are moving in the next several months so I will not be able to do anything decisive until we move into our new home. I am excited however as I never really considered a Shay or a logging/coal operation. But now I find it opens up a whole new area of modeling. Can't wait. So put me down for a Firm Maybe on the logging operation.
Terry

[RMax1]

I have very little logging but at least some. It comes down to a car or two. a waterwheel mill, a lumber shed and a few misc. pieces of logging things laying around.

RMax1

[Tracklayer]

I have a logging/lumber mill on my layout complete with tree stumps, trucks hauling logs in and lumber out... I've also got a couple of cars with cut logs, pulp wood and lumber loads on them, but don't have a branch line or anything running to the mill. It's mainly for effect, and to employ some of the town folk from the little community so they're not all working at Walmart... (Sorry, but I couldn't resist.)

Tracklayer

[rexhea]

Well, I have a sawmill and sawmills need logs. So, yes I have a spur dedicated to a small logging operation.

REX

[ARTHILL]

One forth of the layout is a mountain with logging as the theme. There are so many interesting parts to logging: camps, trees, track, cars, locos, sawmill and so many more. The other mountain will be for mining, with the interconnecting parts for Minnesota farming and Arizona desert.

[Anonymous]

Upper deck of my new layout will have a logging branch. Three shays, 11 YV log bunks, and a bunch of assorted logging support cars await operations there. The log trains will come down out of the hills to interchange on the lower deck. Haven't figured it out yet because a shay will take a long time in the helix even at full speed. I love the generally beat up look of most logging and Narrow gauge equipment.

[Anonymous]

No logging but my layout reaps the benefits of the loggers, I have a large furniture company that get's car loads of wood products.

[orsonroy]

While there wasn't any logging in my modeled part of central Illinois, there was (and is) SOME logging that goes on in the area, mostly around the Mississippi and Illinois river valleys. Pulpwood was also shipped in large quantities throughout the state, to paper mills around Chicago and St Louis. So while I don't have any logging (which is a shame, considering I really like Bachmann's new 2-truck climax!), I will have an occasional pulpwood gon or box heading through the layout on a mixed freight.

[GN-Rick]

My layout is still in planning, but I do intend to freelance
a logging operation (or part of one anyway) as a traffic
source on my upcoming GN-themed layout set in western
Washington. It might be just a spur between staging and an
interchange, or more, but I've just gotta have a reason for the
geared eingines I have. They are too cool not to run!

[Vampire]

Yep. My layout will have a small sawmill and at least one logging camp. I'm toying with adding a second camp on a shelf extended from the top level mining area.

Like I don't have enough to do already! [:P][:P]

[cacole]

I don't have a home layout, so I obviously don't do logging. The HO scale club I belong to has a coal mine and a couple of lumber yards, but no logging. Despite that, I own 3 of the Bachmann 3-truck Shays and a G-scale Bachmann Shay for my back yard.

You don't have to do logging or mining to use a Shay.

[Anonymous]

Sorta, kinda, other? I have quite a few pulpwood cars, although this is not what you're talking about. Just thought I'd add my two cents in anyway.

uspscsx

[fievel]

My layout doesn't have any logging, but someday I'd like to have a small operation.[:P][8D]

[Anonymous]

I think it's fair to say loging will be the only industry on my layout. I don't know how to count all of the smaller business on my layout. None of the rest of them will be "industries" per say, just business such as a general store, blacksmith shop, ect. I think it's fair to say my layout is logging only. The logging company and Saw Mill/Lumber company will domate the town. Chip, you need to also think about what people call things when you're doing a search. What we may call logging, some might call lumber, or timber. I have changed only one or two words in a search and gotten very different results. It was my opinion, that logging layouts are very popular. On30, and some of the other narrow gauge scales are growing very rapidly. The logging industry was a very prevelant user of narrow gauge equipment.

[jeffshultz]

I'm going to have a couple representatives of the wood products industry on my layout, but no logging... just logs.

[JohnT14808]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Tracklayer

It's mainly for effect, and to employ some of the town folk from the little community so they're not all working at Walmart... (Sorry, but I couldn't resist.)

Tracklayer

Gads!! A layout with a WalMart on it? You must have your layout in an airplane hanger!!?![8D][:D]
The OMRS does have a logging area up in the Hill City area. I haven't posted any pictures of it yet in our RailImages site because the area needs some attention, but tonight is club nite, so I'll take the camera and get some shots of it. We need to finish up the ground scenics, the log pond and misc. scenes around the sawmill.
We also have a major passenger station and yard, a smaller freight yard, a mining location and a scenic waterfront with ferry service to other parts in the NW.

[Tracklayer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JohnT14808

QUOTE: Originally posted by Tracklayer

It's mainly for effect, and to employ some of the town folk from the little community so they're not all working at Walmart... (Sorry, but I couldn't resist.)

Tracklayer

Gads!! A layout with a WalMart on it? You must have your layout in an airplane hanger!!?![8D][:D]

So what... You never saw a layout in an airplane hanger before ?. ([:p])

Actually, I don't have a Walmart on my layout, but rather was poking fun at the fact that when there's a Walmart in a small community, it seems that most of the people that live there are employed there - which I have nothing against at all because I may end up working there myself one of these days...

Tracklayer

[espeefoamer]

I have a small logging transloading facility on my layout,so logging is implied,but no actual logging branch is visible.

[vsmith]

My layout is set in the desert, any trees on it are parched and dry, so..........no

[howmus]

Of course there is a logging component. You can't model 1925 without having some logging! The logging operation is completely hand laid code 70 track put down about 20 years ago. Unbelievably it has stayed in guage and still looks great after all that time. The rails are held down with Walther's Goo..... that's it. The stub end (no point rails) switches were hand made and installed way back then. The only problem is that the frogs are also VERY not DCC ready and the old manual contacts I built to power the frogs have failed. So...... One of these days I may get around to figuring out how to power the frogs for DCC and may be able to actually run some log trains in that area. In the meantime it still makes a very nice static display area. It is actually a very small diorama on the layout and comprises a small part of the entire road.

[Anonymous]

Logging is a very cool industry, but does not fit what I am modeling, whish is the modern UP in Wyoming[8D]

[SpaceMouse]

Hmmmm....

45% of you say you have logging on your layout.

[maandg]

Because I model southern Mississippi - known as the Pine Belt - I pretty much had to have the timber industry represented. My MA&G ships finished lumber for the Tatum Lumber Co., which is named for an actual lumber mill that once existed in the area I model. The MA&G mainline crosses the log pond by way of a low timber trestle. The complex itself consists of the saw mill, planing shed, tramway, finished lumber shed, saw dust burner and shed, drying kiln and backwoods engine house. A Bachmann shay shuttles 12 Rivarossi log cars from the "woods" (hidden storage track) to the log pond through the use of a Circuitron reversing unit on a 90 second delay. This is the only part of my layout that is not under DCC control so I can use the reversing unit. The log train does it's own thing while the rest of the layout is operated.

While Tatum Lumber comprises a small part of my overall layout (2 X 16 feet of a 14 X 32 foot triple decked layout), it is one of the focal points. Once B.T.S. came out with their series of lumber mill kits, things grew very quickly.

I have a photo album for my Tatum Lumber Co. on my website, for anyone who might be interested.

Gotta love those Shays and Climaxes!

[waltersrails]

No i don't have a logging on the layout but will have in about ten years when i have a bigger layout.

[tatans]

100% logging, as soon as it gets put back together after a move, no shays, no climaxii, just a collection of odd steam locos and lots of discards bought from other railroads (just like real logging companies) this was one of the draws toward logging, the diversification of odds and ends of any equipment you want to use, everything was put to use, no time frame, no prototypes, no specific railway to follow, lots of scratch building. What turned me on to logging was a small operative diorama of a section of a small logging operation at a train show, and the keenness of the builder, along with a few( and I mean few) other spectators who were really impressed with the layout, and the realness of the scene(you could almost smell the pines) almost anything you use fits the theme of some logging operations, and I do now know that there are very few 100% logging operations out there,as you have noticed with the above replies.

[Anonymous]

There was lumber on my prototype from the 1880's until the line went out of business in 1936 but it was rapidly declining. There was a small sawmill on my parents farm in the 1960's until the company bought a plot of land to move their operation to. Even back then they did not sell lumber but built and sold pallets. There is just not much demand for timber in south western Ohio in the 1950's.

[mechanic]

I don't have any logging on my layout.
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[Anonymous]

Would you say that's a large percentage? I would.

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse

Hmmmm....

45% of you say you have logging on your layout.

[on30francisco]

My layout is about 85% logging. I have two Porters, a Mogul, and one Bachmann Shay in On30. There is a lot of high quality, reasonably priced motive power, rolling stock, and other supplies available in On30 for logging operations. I also scratchbuild some pieces of rolling stock and structures out of stripwood. Building with wood is easy in O scale and a logging layout is just the ticket for building wooden structures and rolling stock.