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.
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- Trestle building – Smith Creek, Union Lumber Company. 1923.
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- Pile driver extending main line of Union Lumber Company’s logging railroad. Ten Mile River, Mendocino County, California.
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- CWR track by Noyo River with Pile Driver
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- Kinsey Photo of Pile Driver
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- Pile Driver Crew posing
