Let me share with you the projects that are on the hobby bench or those that may have just been completed. It might be a new structure for the railyard, a new business for one of the towns, a bridge, a new locomotive, or a new piece o rolling stock. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I promise lots of pictures and few words. See project details below.
- New Sawmill is Operational
Hubert “Hugh” Mungus, President of the Hugh Mungus Timber Company, I.B. Sawyer, Superintendent of the Hugh Mungus Sawmill, and I.M. Cutter, Sawmill Foreman, are pleased to announce that construction of the new Hugh Mungus Sawmill has been completed and it is now fully operational. The new sawmill with the capacity to process 40 logs per day replaces the mill formerly on this site that was destroyed by fire last spring. - Mill Pond Log Dump
Logs are loaded onto specially built log cars and transported by rail to the sawmill. When the loaded railcar arrives at the sawmill a cable and chains are passed under the logs and attached to a heavy beam. The cable is drawn tight and the logs are lifted up and dropped over the side into the waiting mill pond. - Bridge Over Mill Pond Creek
This bridge will cross Mill Pond Creek. It’s a ballasted timber trestle. It’s constructed from scratch following the plans in an old 1960s Campbell kit. I modified it by adding nut, bolt, and washer castings and by hand-laying the crack to include the guard rails commonly found on bridges of this type. The pilings were weathered to resemble creosote-treated wood that has seen better days.