Page 37 - All Scale Rails Magazine Issue 4 September October 2015
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              As we head west, the trees get taller and

         something begins to peak through the pines.
         A behemoth of a lumber milling complex
         comes into view, bustling with activity; man-
         ufacturing raw wood materials for our ex-
         panding country.  Both the sawmill and the
         filling station we passed on the way into
         town have intricate inner details.








                                                                  View 9








                                                                     The main body of the layout, including the
                                                                peninsula, is an incredibly detailed replica of
                                                                what a lumber milling town would look like.
                                                                There’s the mill complex, where logs begin
                                                                their journey in raw form to where they are
                                                                pulled into the complex where they are cut,
                                                                cleaned, dried and prepared for commercial
         View 7
                                                                use.  The finished boards are stacked behind
                                                                the massive complex, along the back rail
                                                                lines.  Tracks spider web between buildings,
                                                                the inner workings of the mill never stopping.


























         View 8                                                    View 10
         Here you see a Santa Fe surveyor hung
         from the trestle by the loggers for trying
         to buy the railroad.

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