John, Camas Prairie. Sierra. South Pacific Coast. Cal Western. Trona RR. NWP. McCloud. Santa Maria Valley, Pacific Coast (Washington), Chelatchie Prairie, Goldendale Branch, Ilwaco (The RR

On our way home from the St Louis RPM we took a side trip to follow a portion of my favorite railroad. While traveling the back roads we caught a glimpse of a Milwaukee ribside box car used as a

Suggest looking at the Montpelier &Wells River,Barre& Chelsea , the White River,or the St J & LC. and of course the short ,short line the Bristol Railroad.Armand Premo

John I was looking for a book to include on my last post. However take a look at the Cement region in Pennsylvania. Lehigh and New England was the first company with covered hoppers Matt

John Ma and Pa in Maryland and Pennsylvania. St Johnsbury and Lake Champlain in Vermont. Get a copy of Mixed Train Daily lots of good ideas. Even take a look at smaller class 1's. Rutland, north end

New York, Ontario & Western. Lots of small to medium steam engines (biggest was a class of 4-8-2s built with the NYC L2s) but mostly consolidations, camel backs (double cabs in O&W parlance), ten

Athearn has announced for January 2014 delivery its RS-3 in Interstate (pre-Southern Ry. takeover) paint scheme. Ken Montero

Hi John To confuse you even more, the Unadilla Valley Railway could fit your needs. They ran ran an array of small steam engines throughout the years ending up running one 70 ton G.E. unit until their

I will second Ben's suggestion about the Rutland. While there was not logs, there was cordwood, paper, and of course lots of granite loads. The line had a fair amount of bridge traffic from Norwood,

Schuyler has a good point. There are numerous branchlines that can be very interesting. I am doing this with the Missouri Pacific in the Southern Illinois coal fields, another that I am familiar

If you like coal roads, give a look to the Interstate Railroad, lots of great books that almost detail the road tie by tie, and someone (Atlas?) is coming out with an RS3 in Interstate colors.

The other short line is the Ma & Pa which ran from Baltimore to York, PA. It was once called a prototype model railroad. Some of the engines have been issued by Bachmann with sound and DCC. It ran a

Hi John, Check out the AC&Y, Akron, Canton and Yongstown Railroad, although a small class one it meets most of your criteria. The exception being log cars. There was a historical society and a

Is the Sierra Railroad too big for you ? Fits a lot of your description. Phil Morrow ... I need help in discovering a short line RR set in the early to mid 1930's (depression era). I would like to

John C. La Rue, Jr. wrote: I don't know the T&G, but the OP&E hauled very little BESIDES logs. Thus it would hardly meet ANY of John Miller's criteria. Tony Thompson Editor,

<One obvious possibility is the Yosemite Valley. Sure meets some of your <criteria. Of course in the 1930s covered hoppers were VERY rare, on the <YV or anywhere. < <Tony I couldn't have said it

Common carrier railroads that hauled logs would be mostly in the South (Tremont & Gulf) or the West (Oregon, Pacific & Eastern, Oregon, California & Eastern), and were mostly at least partly owned by

The Original Norfolk Southern, a Class 1 (just barely) bridge line that ran between Norfolk, VA and Charlotte, NC would fit your description. This road has a Historical Society and a Yahoo

Not short lines . . . But branches. The Lackawanna had two branches that offer a lot of what you're seeking, first the Bangor & Portland branch (which is NOT in Maine, but in

The california western might work for you they started out as logging operation and have since had freight and passenger service,they have interchanges with other rr's.Most known for skunk trains.