Not prototype modeling!
So the only place the C&S exists anywhere is on cyberspace.
So sadly the HO logger is history but part of the fun with the move is the nice fenced in backyard perfect for a "large scale" Garden RR at the new place. It is here that †he next model of a logging RR will take shape. I will be modeling the prototypical Little River Rail Road which was the inspiration of the C&S.
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Doc Tom
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Time for a reality check Tom!. Large scale in the garden gets you a long long way from prototype modeling. With the large scale stuff the modeler is forced into even more bad compromises than the HO scale modeler is. So much so that prototype modeling becomes nearly impossible.
You may be operating equipment that might have Little river painted on it, but that is all. You are not likely to find a 2-4-4-2, or a little pacific. The Little River's pacific was the smallest standard gauge pacific operated in the U.S. Nothing aproaching it has been produced in any scale.
You also have to realize that that cool Bachman large scale stuff are all models of 3 foot narrow gauge stuff. the more recent offerings are in 1-22.5 scale, in which the track correctly portrays 3 foot narrow gauge. Bachman originally made thier large stuff to the same scale that LGB used. That scale 1-24? was started by LGB to use that gauge of track to model European meter gauge narrow gauge trains. When LGB introduced American prototype equipmet, they used the same scale as thier European stuff, so the models might be correctly scaled in every feature, except the gauge of the wheels.
Thus the large scale models produced can create all kinds of strange combos. the old Bachman stuff, and the newer stuff, are made to different scales. Some companies make stuff that runs on the same track that are models of american standard gauge equipment, so an ungodly hodgepodge of scales three or more, show up occasionaly on the same track. Most of the buildings available are made to the LGB scale, so unless you have deep pockets, or do some scratchbuilding, large scale modeling is going to force you into compromises you wouldn't even consider calling prototype modeling in HO.
So when you take that into account, allong with the fact that in garden railroading , whe are forced to use the terrain we have, we can't alter it without a lot of work or $$, when we play with trains in the yard, that is what we are doing. We will be better of if we realize that to start with, and plan for it, so we don't let the concepts od prototype modeling, learned in the HO world contamanate your new efforts in the yard.
and the C&S Isn't gone, it looks like it's rolling stock and locomotives have been aqurred by th J. E. Patterson Coal and Lumber Co. < which now has enough log cars! So C&S equipment will be operating again sa sood as we can dig out of the current reconstructions at the Club!
Bill Nelson
