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When looking for industries for my Oregon Trunk Shelf layout of Redmond Oregon I came across the Tum A Lum Lumber company. The location in Redmond was one of their first ones and it lasted until 2006, which was around the time frame of Home Depot coming to town. The building has a inclosed lumber yard and reatil store for general hardware. Although the building in Redmond was not rail served it was only a few blocks from the tracks and I really liked the company logo. I am essentially taking the company name and function of the building and adding rail service. The small two story building will act as the Hardware store with the offices and commercial sales offices upstaris. The rest of the scene will be of the two lumber sheds set at a 90 degree angle with the addition of an otside loading platform and a ramp. This will allow them to unload the occasional boxcar or flat car. I would think they would mainly recieve Redwood from Califonria and Douglas fir from Western Oregon and Washington. If their was a BIG project in town they may recieve a boxcar of products for a single customer but most likely service would be spotty.
I will post some pictures of the buildings I am using and an overview of the location later today.
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Sounds like a marvelous idea for an industry, Greg. What period are you modeling with this?
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Gary,
I am modeling from 1960 to 1970 in Eastern Oregon.
Here are some photos of what I have been wokring on..
![[Image: Redmond+Shelf+077.jpg]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TSEaMgO8iA0/TGiIIHdNnNI/AAAAAAAAAeA/QQBVG4W2lMw/s1600/Redmond+Shelf+077.jpg)
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![[Image: Redmond+Shelf+076.jpg]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TSEaMgO8iA0/TGiH3c-S5jI/AAAAAAAAAd4/5AZf76RkRA8/s1600/Redmond+Shelf+076.jpg)
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Interesting lumber company.
And what are the round white dealies on the front of your under-construction layout?
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...And I was thinking the same thing about those white things on the fascia....
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Bil,
Those are made by Andale Tool Company and have a DPDT switch inside them. They are made from 1" pipe caps turned down with a lathe then the switches are mounted to inside. When the are done they will sit flush with the Fascia which is why they stick out a little bit
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mountaingoatgreg Wrote: Bil, those are made by Andale Tool Company and have a DPDT switch inside them. They are made from 1" pipe caps turned down with a lathe then the switches are mounted to inside. When the are done they will sit flush with the Fascia which is why they stick out a little bit
O.K. ... so the next question is, why did they have to be turned down? :?
Followed by ... the DPDT switches do what ... control turnouts?
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They have flash on the interior and they are cleaned out and made uniform so you don't cut your fingers. Yes they control my Tortoise switch machines.
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I think the rail-served lumber yard will fit right into a sixties era layout. Looks to be a fun build, make sure you share plenty of photos with us!
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I did some slicing and dicing of the Walthers building. I have most of the walls figured out but still need to do some rearranging to make sure things fit properly. I am still trying to figure out what to mount the building on to work on it...I am thinking maybe ceiling tile?? I was thinking plywood but that would be kind of heavy and foam would be to thick...guess I really didn't plan that out when I built the layout...oops
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Great looking kit-bash Greg!
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A foam board from a hobby/craft store should work, think they around 1/4pm thick
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Great start on the project. I have heard of people using ceiling tile as a base, have seen large projects on ceiling tile in a couple of the mags. Still, it seems that ceiling tile can be a touch flexy.
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Guys,
Thanks for the comments!!
I think I am going to use the ceiling tile with a 1/4 piece of plywood underneath for support.
I have been slicing and dicing on the models and even hit them with base coat of white.
![[Image: Redmond+Shelf+088.jpg]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TSEaMgO8iA0/THCqAQ-vQnI/AAAAAAAAAe4/W2C7-ebTPPo/s1600/Redmond+Shelf+088.jpg)
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If things go well I should have more to post tomorow!!
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Some good work you are doing there, Greg. What colors are you planning on using for the building?
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