(Yet another Atlas refugee!) Hello folks, what logging cars are available? The MTL single gigantic log doesn't look so good to me. Can't really find any others. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Remember when you could search the atlas forum for the answers? Alan Curtis Models makes some good ones but hes in the middle of moving. http://www.alancurtismodels.com Republic Locomotive works sells some also. http://www.republiclocomotiveworks.com http://www.republiclocomotiveworks.com/show_item.php?ItemID=610&CategoryID=search
Paul, How long you had those mate,dont remember seeing them last time was there.I'm still considering buying some of these,they look real nice! Should have known,MRL colours too lol.
http://www.blwnscale.com/DISCONTINUED.htm I have 5 each of these so far! Sweet.... [ 09. June 2004, 12:09: Message edited by: virtual-bird ]
Years ago Quality Craft, then Gloor Craft, made an eastern 25' log car with the loader rails on it. I have many of them. They are no longer available. When Alan Curtis was researching the eastern log car project, I sent him a ton of drawings, and the new version he came up with is a slightly larger version of the smaller QC-type car, only Alan's includes wood-grain detail. He also managed to get the frame height to the point where the body-mounted couplers actually WORKED, which they didn't on the QC car. I'm pretty happy with Alans - they run better than the QC's, particularly pushing with body-mounts. I don't have Alan's finished yet, but here's a side view of a QC with the 28-ton shay: http://gustafson.home.westpa.net/shay2808.jpg and here's a view of the QC cars, converted to MT's, with what God intended them to have on them (the reason for the rails) -- a Barnhart loader: They look good loaded, too!
Hey Randgust, Thats great I just noticed you built the logging loader on one of the logging cars,mmmm giving me idea's for Nn3 logging loader!
There were two 'flavors' of on-car eastern loaders, the Barhhart and the American. The Barnhart had multiple wheels on the carriage and could move between cars like a little tank; the American had 4 and needed bridge plates. The American had a moveable boom with an A-frame, the Barnhart had a fixed one with guy-wire supports. 36" gauge was narrow enough that it was common practice to set the loader in place with blocking and actually 'swing' the empty cars around the loader and rerail them rather than try to travel from car to car and risk tipping. I've seen pictures of this in the "Logging Railroads of Pennsylvania" series by woo woo woo, Casler, etc. Here's my favorite postcard of eastern logging cars with an American loader - the operation is Wheeler & Dusenbury in northwest PA. OF COURSE I discovered they used only Americans after I scratchbuilt a Barnhart! If you think this looks very much like Alan's car, you're welcome! EDIT: Also notice a lot of detail there; light rail, no ballast, no tie plates, NO AIR BRAKES, and link & pin couplers! Date of the photo is actually like 1920. [ 09. June 2004, 13:27: Message edited by: randgust ]
