06-06-2009, 07:07 PM
Just read over this thread...sorry for showing up late to the party! 
Anyway, my own logging outfit, the "Big Tujunga Lumber Co." still has to get on the rails. I have a Bachmann 3 truck shay (unlettered, but destined to be a BTLC engine), a bobber caboose and IHC old time wood tank car as a water car lettered BTLC. And, finally after much searching, I found an MDC 'Twin Pack' of log cars. I kicked myself for not buying some when I had the chance all the way to Victoria, BC before finding these. They are still unassembled.
The BTLC was never meant to be a large outfit, at least not on the layout. It's always just been planned as a connection and branch to staging, never will full-blown sawmill, log camps, etc. So that may not qualify me as a logger, but eventually when I reach the point of developing that line...someday...I may be considerably more active in this vein. I live in the Pacific NW just a short trip away from the Mount Rainier Scenic and Chehalis-Centralia RR's, so it stands to reason that some of this logging stuff is going to rub off on me eventually. OH, and of course I've made a few pilgrimages to Cass and those memories are very rich years later.
Galen
Anyway, my own logging outfit, the "Big Tujunga Lumber Co." still has to get on the rails. I have a Bachmann 3 truck shay (unlettered, but destined to be a BTLC engine), a bobber caboose and IHC old time wood tank car as a water car lettered BTLC. And, finally after much searching, I found an MDC 'Twin Pack' of log cars. I kicked myself for not buying some when I had the chance all the way to Victoria, BC before finding these. They are still unassembled.
The BTLC was never meant to be a large outfit, at least not on the layout. It's always just been planned as a connection and branch to staging, never will full-blown sawmill, log camps, etc. So that may not qualify me as a logger, but eventually when I reach the point of developing that line...someday...I may be considerably more active in this vein. I live in the Pacific NW just a short trip away from the Mount Rainier Scenic and Chehalis-Centralia RR's, so it stands to reason that some of this logging stuff is going to rub off on me eventually. OH, and of course I've made a few pilgrimages to Cass and those memories are very rich years later.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!