Logging East Tennessee on the C&S RR

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:wave:

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

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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

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more C&S cars

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
 

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gbwdude

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Doc,

Did the C&S ever have a herald? I didn't see anything and being the hard working railroad it was I could imagine that they didn't have time to be creative.
 

Doctor G

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Doc,

Did the C&S ever have a herald? I didn't see anything and being the hard working railroad it was I could imagine that they didn't have time to be creative.
Hi Tyler. No it never had a herald. I never was too artistic in designing one. fun to look at these old posts again. Tom
 
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