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REPLY TO logsNtrains Hello logsNtrains. Since we are going to be trading some info that is probably not of interest to most of the forum members, let's go ahead and do it by Private Message. Please check your PM Area (I think I got the name right--still a little new to this! )...

Reply to logsNtrains Of the books that I own, the one I find most useful and find myself referring back to again and again is Minnesota Logging Railroads by Frank A. King (Golden West Books, c.1981, ISBN 0-87095-076-2). Very little was published in railroad books about Wisconsin logging...

Reply to Summit Hey Jeff. That McCloud site is terrific! I really like the pine trees hugging the right of way in the photos. Also, I clicked on the 1920-1940 time period and liked the description of the combined logging and common carrier operations. The biggest knock on logging model...

Spectrum HO Climax I bought a pair of them when they first came out. We test ran them on the hobby shop's layout just to see what they'd do. The store manager and I watched in amazement as the loco c-r-a-w-l-e-d around the layout at its maximum speed of about 15 scale miles per hour. When it...

Great Websites for MRRers new and veteran Hello. Two really great and informative sites for anybody in the hobby are maintained by the National Model RR Ass'n (NMRA). They are: www.nmra.org , and (my personal favorite) http://www.cwrr.com/nmra/nmralink.html I got started in HO in...

A History Link Here is a link I came across sometime back. Every logging operation has or had a history ... so I began to formulate a "history" for my very-much-under-construction Crandon & Northern RR. The following link details the actual histories of Wisconsin logging railroads county by...

Shamus, how did you color/weather the siding and, especially, the porch? They look GREAT !!!:cool:

Have you thought of patterning your cars after the Climax log cars? There are some great photos, plans , and dimensions in Oso Publishing Co.'s recent release "The Climax Locomotive" by Dennis Blake Thompson, et al . I started out a number of years ago with MDC's log cars, just like so many...