Hello, Some times ago I found a nice photo about a log cabin from scandinavian immigrated farmers before their home. Roy Bergauer, a german kit maker who sell also bicycles and other stuff in Z scale decided to etch it in brass, and here is the result. http://www.roybergauer.de/aetzteile/index.html The price of the kit is about 16,50$ (12,50 Euro) and he takes orders from today on.
I think i might buy one of theese, not because i need one, but just for the nostalgia, 1000's of Norwegians immigrated to america in 1800 ( i think it was araund that time ) i acually think some of my ansectors emmigated
Hello Henrik, It was perhaps even a little bit later, may be about 1890 that there was a wave mostly from scandinavia, about this time also part of my family immigrated to the states, some return, like my grandmother from my mother's side and my grandfather from my father's side. But some stay in the states. I found all the ships and passengers records in Ellis Island, crazy. To come back to the Log Cabin, this should be later date, because of this historical text that I read somewhere : "Later log buildings were frequently constructed with only metal stacks to accommodate wood stoves"
Armand, Thank you for the info! Great cabin! I will order one - it will be perfect on my 1890 layout. John
Looks like a great kit. Might have to get one of these. I'm a little consused though, it looks more like a clapboard house than a log cabin. Are those actually supposed to be squared off timbers? Randy
Lots of Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns stayed in the Pacific Northwest. If you go through our phonebook you can see the names. For a long time it was hard to find workers at a logging camp who weren't what people then called Scandi-who-vians. You can find all sorts of "Scani-who-vians" in RR history, too. Simon Benson, who was a Norwegian immigrant originally of the name Bergerson, came to the Portland area and started logging companies and they used several Willamette logging trains (basically a Shay ripoff). He made so much money that he started a polytechnich high school and built a big house and bequeathed money to the city to install drinking fountains so that people didn't have to go into the numerous saloons to "wet their whistles."
Yes, The story of immigration is absolute fascinating. And most ships came from Norway, Finland, and they make halt in Antwerp, Belgium, to take on board other middle-europeans, Belgian, Luxembourgish, French and also a lot of German. The names of the ships was often related "Lapland", "Finland" and so on. Finally without the help from the immigration, Europe die by hunger. Some of my ancestors made the voyage up to 6 times ! They carry goods and money from the new world to their people at home. I own still some colorized lithos from this time, one with Pr. Washington. Difficult to imagine today that this people must, after long days on sea travel by horse carriage half Europe, and to go back, do the same after some weeks.
