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I have to step in here for a moment... 1. The Willamette steam locomotive was indeed made by someone other than Lima...specifically, the Willamette Iron & Steel Works in Portland, OR. Willamette had been making replacement parts for Shays and doing other major work for many years, and as a...

Your typical modern sawmill out there today would take up more room than most layouts contain to model them properly. They are huge operations. That being said, one of the benefits of sawmills is that railroad tracks that serve these sawmills generally run alongside the very edge of the...

Here's a link to a page on a website of mine. These pictures are of the log dump at the Edward Hines Western Pine company sawmill in Hines, OR, which is just south of Burns, OR. http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/onw/HinesPond.html Check out how steep the unloading track next to...

Correct. If you have an odd number of switchbacks, then a train that enters the first switchback running engine first will exit the last switchback engine last, which would put the cars first into a loader. Switchbacks with an even number will mean that the locomotive will be leaving both...

I would say it depends on the track arrangements at each end of the line. Here are two "real world" examples of switchbacks and how they were handled: The Mount Hood Railroad has a switchback a few miles out of their base of operations in Hood River, OR. The switchback is near the...

Logging in Colorado...yes, there was some. There were a small number of lumber mills located in the north end of the state, along the line that dropped down from Laramie, Wyoming (originally built by a railroad called something like the the Laramie, Hans Peak & Pacific (I know that's wrong...

Most states in the U.S. had laws requiring the use of cabooses on all trains. Starting in the early 1980's the railroads were able to get all of those laws repealed...this happened about the same time that union contracts were re-nogitated so that brakemen were no longer required on through...

As far as I know all the models are oil burners. Atlas encountered some problems with the model binding up on sharper curves, and as a result the model was delayed for a long time. There was some news last week that the model finally shipped to retailers around the middle of last week...

Jetrock- in all the layouts that I have been involved with this has been called the "Hand of God" approach...Divine Intervention also works... Jeff Moore Elko, NV

I like Jetrock's plan as well. The only suggestion that I would make it to put two sidings in at the sawmill, the one pictured plus maybe one more running parallel to the mainline. This would give you two tracks for the sawmill, one for the logging train to dump logs on and another to hold...

Too add onto a couple things that jetrock said... 1. One of the biggest problems in modeling logging railroads is space for a sawmill, if you want to include one. Like many other U.S. industries, sawmills started out small and became much larger as the markets for finished lumber and the...

Connor- Not a problem! There's no crime in changing your mind... I'm not an electronics expert by any means, but you should be okay with your electronics with a converter. What part of the world are you from? As to steam locomotives...You will want to set your sights (and price limit)...

Connor- Welcome to The Gauge. Feel free to ask away here. Here's my take on your question. There were very few logging railroads that survived into the diesel era. Those that did generally fit a single mold...a reload center at one end of the line where logs were brought in from the...

I knew it was one of those _______ Mining companies, but Erie was the only one I could think of....thanks for correcting that. Summit Elko, NV

Erie Mining, if I'm not mistaken...or at least one of those private mining roads in the north woods... Summit Elko, NV

I'm pretty sure the NWP never had a SD50 on it. The last operator of the line, Rail-Ways, did have two leased SD40-2s that were blue. One was numbered 6412, I was not able to find a number for the other, or the heritage of the units. Perhaps this is what you saw? The units did not move far...

The McCloud railbus is standard gauged. Doesn't mean you can't build one in narrow gauge, however. Summit Elko, NV

Here's an idea for you...this was a homebuilt railbus, built around 1927 in the Pondosa shops of the McCloud River Lumber Company. It was used to move loggers, supplies and equipment into the early 1960's. More photos on my website at...

Irongoat- First off, I second Marc's recommendation that you join the 4L list. Great group of people. Second, I recommend that you try to get to a Northwest Logging Modeler's Convention. This year's convention is happening in Tacoma either this weekend or next...but look into it next...

What is the part # for those plastic GP38-2 handrail sets? Thanks much. Summit Elko, NV