Search results

Ooops- I meant to put in that those RMC issues were from 1984...guess I missed that, thanks for picking it up. (It was late and I was tired...) The seven roads covered by the CTC Board issues were: St. Maries River Railroad (St. Maries, ID, Potlatch) Chehalis Western (Tacoma, WA...

First off, welcome to the wonderfull world of logging railroads. The first step in determining how you want to proceed with your layout is to decide where you want your operation to be (what part of the country). By that I mean west side of the Cascades, east side of the Cascades, West...

I grew up alongside the McCloud River in northeastern California, and that has influenced my modelwork heavily... However, as fun and as much of a challenge as it would be, I am not willing at this time to modeling a specific prototype. So I have created a fictional railroad that will...

To all- Drew Toner of this board provided a number of photographs of his Ash Creek Lumber Company for my McCloud Rails page. Drew's photos, along with a narrative on his layout, are posted starting at the following page...

About those "cap" spark arrestors that were talked about that you requested a picture of...here is a link to a page on my website that has a pretty good shot of this type of spark arrestor on top of McCloud River #14. The McCloud used the larger "balloon" type of stacks in earlier, wood burning...

Marge- If you can find a copy, get The Red River Lumber Company, Paul Bunyan's Own Lumber Company and it's Railroads by Robert Hanft. Currently out of print, but should be available through used book websites (www.abebooks.com, a few others). The Red River operated for several years in...

Wish I could respond to the first and the third subjects in your post, but at present I live around 180 miles from the nearest hobby shop (of any kind) and 230 miles from the nearest club (of any kind), so I don't get to experience the people in railroad garb or know-it-alls in hobby shops...

Thanks for the welcome, and you're welcome for the info. Anything futher you need, don't hesitate to ask! -Jeff Moore Elko, NV

Drew- Mailing address and phone number for Dunsmuir Hardware Store: Dunsmuir Hardware, 5836 Dunsmuir Ave., Dunsmuir, CA, 96025 (530) 235-4539 I pulled this information off of the visit Siskiyou website (http://www.visitsiskiyou.org). To my knowledge this store does not have...

Can't help you with the DCC part...haven't got that advanced yet. I also have one of the McCloud River heislers...very, very good model. All you need now is one of the Bachmann 4-wheel cabooses painted up in McCloud colors...the Dunsmuir hardware store (if you ever get that far south) sells...

Red River Lumber Company Something I didn't see in this thread (unless I wasn't looking hard enough...) Paul Bunyan and Babe were used heavily by the Red River Lumber Company to advertise their products. One of the marketing people in Red River came up with drawings for both, and Paul and...

While not online, perhaps the best sources for information on the POTB as well as most of the lines that the P&W operate on are as follows: 1. The Southern Pacific in Oregon, a book by Ed Austin and Tom Dill. Published about 1990, contains very detailed information and lots of photos of...

Thanks Stu Stu- Thanks for the kind words. It has been fun putting the site together... Even if logging railroads were basically "one commodity" they generally had a lot of interesting equipment that more than made up for the lack of variety in their traffic. But you are right about the...

Another site Nice list of sites that have been compiled here... Wanted to put in a plug for my site about a northern California shortline that was born a logger... www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails Still have a lot of equipment left over from the logging railroad days... Jeff Moore...

Caboose #300 In case anybody is still following this thread...I saw some discussion of Oregon & Northwestern caboose #300 and how it looked like an old C&O caboose, and I thought I would toss in some information about the origin of the #300. The #300 started life as a Norfolk & Western class...