Posted by Jeffery Gale
G'day all,This is my first kit, it's a JV Models, N scale Lukas sawmill.Opening the kit I found that I had many scale size boards, so taking my downsize pill I took up my hammer and nails and got to work, LOL.I have found that here in Australia the worst thing in modelling logging is that we&n...
Posted by Jeffery Gale
This is another way to load logs, hope some find these interesting. Jeff.
Posted by Jeffery Gale
This is a diagram of a Heel-boom loader used to load logs in logging camps among the tall trees, thought some here might find it useful or interesting. Jeff
Posted by Jeffery Gale
homemade cork strip cutter I came across this very easily made cutter whilst tripping across the net, thought that some might like to view this video.Regards Jeff.https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/CJbMdUyoUTE?fs=1&hl=en_US
Posted by Arthur Houston
Signs for your use. http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/17150
Posted by Scott Olson
We had another high velocity day. I took a call to dog catch an ore train at Toland, about 10 miles south of Litchfield Il, bound for US Steel in Granite City Il. When got there the air temp was somewhere near -9 zero -25 windchill and wouldn't you know it the train was cut in 2 pieces around a ro...
Posted by Scott Olson
I was ordered to deadhead to St Louis yesterday, great, quick payday! Only problem is there were plenty of crews in the hotel, we ended up spending plenty of extra time there before getting ordered to dogcatch or relieve a train leaving the TRRA in Madison Il with power and air issues. S...
Posted by Joseph Antosiak
A friend sent me this, apparently copied from a British publication. (quote) MODEL RAILWAYS PROMOTE SEXISM AND ARE AS ADDICTIVE AS COCAINE! A recent American study has concluded that as many as a million people, worldwide, are highly addicted to playing with model railways...
Posted by Peter Wehrhahn
My free Calendar 2014: Logging in the West Thu, 2013-12-19 12:26 — Peter Wehrhahn Same procedure as last year! I like to share my free downloadable calender available at my modellcom-blog. Sorry, but the site is only in german, but you may use the translation function...