Logging East Tennessee on the C&S RR

[Doctor G]

Now that the HO layout has drawn to a close it is time to make good on a promise. Seems the East Tennessee boys wanted to grow their program so they bought one of those humongous G (Large) scale beasts to begin to harvest the wood north of Townsend Tennessee on the Little River Rail Road.

They went from Photo #1 to Photo #2 and they started a new Zealot site called The Little River Rail Road in Doc Tom's back yard. Hope you like the new site.
Doc Tom

[Bill Nelson]

A gorgeous machine, photographed on an ungainly trestle (My Dads work- I can tell, my mom did much better work!

It looks mighty clean, and I hope your shop crews can keep this one cleaner than it's HO scale counterparts. any weathering on this one needs to be subtle, and due to it's size and detail, carefully researched.


I have some very dirty machines myself, but my recently finished locomotives are much cleaner than the ones I turned out when I was a teenager. My 0n3 construction # 60 shay is a relatively clean machine.

Two questions


where is the tom's yard thread located?


and what is the radio control conversion going to set you back? I'm thinking I might ought to get that done to the Santa train Tweetsie Ten Wheeler that my dad wanted for his last Christmas. It is a fine running beast, and I retained a coach and combine, as well as some freight cars, so I have some toys I could bring when I come over to visit.


Bill Nelson

[Doctor G]

Hi Bill,

The thread for the "loco in the back yard" is right here on the logging, mining and industrial RR site.

Here is who I am dealing with for the R/C Battery conversion: www.remotecontrolthrottles.com/


I am getting a Phoenix Sound System, long lasting rechargeable batteries, charger for this loco and any others and the transmitter for about $900 installed. That is a lot of $ but I will not have to pay for wiring the backyard, conduits, metal wheelsets for all cars (about $15 a set now), higher voltage power supply, wiring all joints in the track, DCC/Sound modules etc etc. you know I have always felt that Radio Control is the way to control model trains. I still have misgivings about DCC through the rails and apparently this is quite difficult in Large Scale. I also was not about to tear into one of these beautiful engines with my VERY limited electronic abilities. So it is worth it to me to have the pros do it. The locomotive gets shipped this weekend.

In keeping with R/C I will probably use Aristo Crafts "Revolution" to control the future On30 layout. It is radio waves sent to individual receivers in the locomotives. Power is picked up from the track at a constant voltage and the radio receiver does the work that the complex DCC programs do without the signal being carried in the track.

You betcha I am going to keep these nice big models clean. Only weathering I propose so far is painting the track....like that on the trestle in the pictures.

I am really looking forward to all this new ground!!

tom

[Bill Nelson]

hunting around my massive pikes of stuff I found 6 unbuilt MDC shorty flats.


I am going to build these as C&S log cars complete with Barnhardt rails and bark debris (peat moss run through the blender). These will be routed via the Tab on car system to the southern interchange in Harlow. this will increase the log traffic on the valley division, and keep the C & S reporting marks alive in interchange service.


Bill Nelson

[Doctor G]

Originally Posted by Bill Nelson

hunting around my massive pikes of stuff I found 6 unbuilt MDC shorty flats.


I am going to build these as C&S log cars complete with Barnhardt rails and bark debris (peat moss run through the blender). These will be routed via the Tab on car system to the southern interchange in Harlow. this will increase the log traffic on the valley division, and keep the C & S reporting marks alive in interchange service.


Bill Nelson

Thanks Bill for all your help. It is always appreciated.
Dr Tom

[West Virginia Midland Man]

Originally Posted by Doctor G

Hi ytter_man and co.,
Glad you liked the fording the stream scene. Apparently the branchlines in to the woods were so temporary that tracks were laid in shallow creeks without a thought of building a bridge. I am sorry I cannot locate the prototype picture from which this inspiration came from. I do remember Bob Boudreau (SP?) did a similiar scene in MR a few years ago.
Travelling further East back out on the mailnline we reach the Kittom #1 lumber mill complex. Mr. Bubba is getting a stern lecture from the foreman after he dropped the boom of the Brownhoist crane he was operating into a flat car. The boom is bent and will be taken to the C&S carshops over in Railcamp for home made repairs. The foreman is making sure Mr Bubba feels his pain over said incident.
Doc Tom

With apologies for the very late post, the photo was originally of a Shay on the Lily Fork Lumber Co in West VA. You can find the original photo in William Warden's look on West Virginia logging and I think also in the Buffalo Creek and Gauley book as well.

[Doctor G]

Originally Posted by West Virginia Midland Man

With apologies for the very late post, the photo was originally of a Shay on the Lily Fork Lumber Co in West VA. You can find the original photo in William Warden's look on West Virginia logging and I think also in the Buffalo Creek and Gauley book as well.

Hi WVM Man,

Thanks so much for the information. I knew I had seen the prototype picture years and years ago. I also think there was an oil color painting made from that same photo as well.....but not so sure.

Glad this old forum post still gets a little interest now and then.
Doc Tom

[Bill Nelson]

I just got done lettering 6 cars for the C & S, to go into interchange service bringing the Berghausen-Shoemaker Lumber co. logs from Gravestone county via the Southern.


Nelson