STUMP
CITY
A logging layout in HOn3
Created
by Dave & Midge Grassing
WATCH OUT FOR OUR NEW HOn3 LAYOUT FOSS LANDING
In the 20s and 30s in the last
century there were even vaster forests than there are now in the
United States. Many companies were set up to harvest this
bounty needed for furniture in the big cities across America, and the
Stump City Lumber Company was one of the most successful.
In Colorado they built their twin saw mills with small camps for the
use of the lumberjacks and mill workers. In the beginning logs
were hauled away with oxen. Then came heavy horses and as the
business grew the bosses threw down narrow gauge rails and brought in
the iron horses. Beautiful, noisy, heavy and very effective
were the Shays, Climaxes, Heislers, C16s, K27 and logging Mallets
along with Porters, even though occasionally sparks belching out from
their busy chimneys set trees alight! Later the Galloping Goose
was also brought in with tourists to boost funds and to carry mail
and provisions.
The trains can run
automatically, but are normally
controlled manually.
All buildings have been built as
they would have been, with joists and rafters etc. with tiny scale
planks which have been weathered and distressed. Some have been left
open for you to see. The main sawmill and its surrounding buildings
were built using over a quarter of a mile of scale cut strip timber
Goose
No 5 outside the Machine
Shop
The Boiler House
The Water
Tower
General View
The Hoist
Car
One of Stump City's Heislers
A logging Mallet waiting to
proceed
A long shot of the
layout
The name Stump City came from the lack of trees around the sawmill
and is a result of all the available trees being
cut down for lumber and the logging
camp being built adjacent to the mill to house the mill workers .All
the buildings
are built using the board on board
construction mostly from Sierra West's kits.The track is HOn3 (10.5mm)
the buildings and scenery are to a scale of 3.5mm to
the foot.
The diesel pulls the repair wagon
A Shay leaves with a load of cut timber
A K27 passing the freight
house
The work train C16 outside Quincys scrapyard
Stump City is
fully booked for 2007 but we have a few dates still available in
2008 Our NEW LAYOUT Foss Landing a multi layer Dock and Mountain
scene made its first appearance at Shenfield in September .
E-Mail
Links of interest.
009
Society Web Pages.
Kingston
Regis
Buccabury
Group
Britannia
Creek Logging Company
The
UK Model Shop Directory
Country
Gate L&B 009 Layout
Click
this link to view a 10 minute video of Stump City
Click
on this link to view a 8 minute video of Foss Landing
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