Next to the Pile Driver – see previous post – is the Caspar Lumber Company’s loading area. Here, logs hauled in from where they are cut and loaded onto flat cars for transportation to the Caspar Mill some twenty miles away. Here’s a gallery of action in the loading area.
Thanks to Frank Davis we have a Pile Driver on the layout as you can see from the picture below. Not the rail truck to the right of the pile driverbring in wood/fuel. This was built by Mike Aplet.
Pile Driver at work building a trestle bent
Like everything else on the layout we draw on historical photos to make our modelling as accurate as possible. Here is a gallery of photos of pile drivers showing the “real thing” at work.
This picture shows the Lineman’s Shack that Chuck Whitlock constructed. The materials were a door and a window from some other project and “planks” made using a bandsaw.
Lineman’s shack and outhouse
The outhouse does have a history. It was constructed by me whilst I was incarcerated in Stanford Cancer Clinic. I was bored out of my skull whilst in isolation for six weeks. To keep me from climbing the walls the doctors kindly allowed me to build the “biffy”. I made it all except the toilet holder and the toilet roll. These were made by the head of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit who followed the construction process with avid interest!!!!!!! The minion? Well they are everywhere on the layout – donated, bought, made with a 3D printer. We do have a sound card for the Minions singing. Alas we do not have a sound card for the Outhouse.
These pics arrived on a USB. The postmark was New Orleans. And that’s all I know. Any road – here are the pics:
