Normally a tilted track is enough to get logs off the flat cars and into the log pond. Very occasionally a reticent log has to be helped on its way. Here you can see how Frank Davis has created a mini scene showing the last log being helped on its way. [Click on pic to see full size].
Helping the last log into the mill pond
Chuck Whitlock, our club’s president, has been kitbashing Federal truck models that he bottom fished from Ebay. With the assistant of the layout detail maestro Frank Davis one has arrived at the mill and picked up a load of lumber for delivery to a customer.
Federal truck picking up load at the mill
I never knew until I started modelling with our club that old time trucks had chain drives. I’ve “blown up” the above pic so’s you can see the chain drive.
Close up of the Federal Truck showing chain drive
Another bit of mind blowin’ detail on our layout here in Fort Bragg, CA.
Visitors love the detail on our layout. One of the tricks is to transform the mundane into something “special.” It doesn’t take much. In this case Frank Davis has transformed an ordinary flatcar load of lumber into a flatcar owned by the infamous (?) Slash & Burn Timber Company.
Slash and Burn Company’s Flatcar
Of all the “things” we put on for the Holiday season it’s always the Minions that take the biscuit. So, it was no surprise that two little people came in looking for them. I didn’t have my trusty brownie with me that day but, here’s a pic that I took a couple of days before:
The Minion Train at work
This pic shows a tiny bit of the detail on the layout as a result of Chief Operating Officer Frank Davis’s efforts. Interesting the angle for thr shot was pointed out to me by a lady visitor.
Detail from the logging camp
Not bad eh?
When this diorama was first created it was pretty bare. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of what was in front of the enginehouse when it was first put in place. However, since it has been in place our King of Detail, Frank Davis has been working assiduously on the detail. Take a look:
Detail in front of the enginehouse
Whilst it doesn’t show in the photo there is even an arc welder at work on the Shay.