Also, the ground all over the place was covered ankle deep in wood chips. On 8/3/2022 7:42 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Scott In Wyoming I observed a loading track for woodchips at a sawmill. There was an overhead bin, and the car was tied off between two winches on the ground, and they moved it

I think it'll still work for your needs, Scott. __________________________________ Drew Bunn drew.r.bunn@... Cell - (905) 483-0758

Scott, Most pulp mills had a small storage area for cars - maybe 15 to 20 - so you could model that yard and put the entire mill "on the backdrop" ... perhaps even do some selective compression of

My mistake, Drew. I googled Knight Hardwood Flooring' before I saw your Attachment. They have several locations in HC. Scott Haycock

Rayon fabric is made from wood pulp. That's why in Washington state we had the logging company Rayonier. They also used the tree for making lumber and other purposes. Rich Wilkens

And they're in North Carolina! I'll research them. Thanks! Scott Haycock

In my case, this industry has to be in the isle of a near-eye level layout, so all I could include is a dock and a loader. But what a great place to display model freight cars for close-up viewing!

One of the industries on my future layout is Knight Flooring. Manufacturer of hardwood flooring for over 100 years, they had two seperate spurs that could be modelled with building flats using DPM

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 05:53 PM, Scott H. Haycock wrote: A spur with a loading dock for a couple of double door furniture box cars with a loader at the end! I don't have room for the factory itself.

Hi Jeff, I've thought about a chip loader, but it seems to me that a sawmill would need more rail service than just a chip loader. For instance lumber loading. I would

Scott, What about only modeling the woodchip loader on your layout? These often were away from the main lumber mill buildings with a pneumatic conveying pipe to the loader. The mill could be “off

That would work for pulpwood racks, but what about woodchip hoppers? I've got a photo of a beautiful(?) three bay hopper with wood extensions I'm dying to build, but these cars were loaded at

I did a little research online and found out that the recapping rubber was impregnated with the sawdust so such railroad cars would go to a rubber factory, not a recapping shop.

We called them "sawdust tires"

Scott park one at your depot or team track that’s where many of them were loaded then it can go to an off site paper mill Fenton

I remember clearly when our snow tires had bits of wood chips embedded in the rubber (I am pretty old). Seems the rubber wore faster than the wood chips, and little wood chips would be sticking out

Folks, The recent photos of pulpwood unloading has spurred a question. In the 1950s, were there any other uses for pulpwood and wood chips aside from paper manufacturing? I have some freight car

The improper securement of tracked equipment on flat cars was the cause of a serious wreck on the CB&Q. On April 3, 1947 at 10:40pm a International Harvestor TD-18 fell off of Southern 51327, a

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Other than the blocking the crawlers don’t seem to be secured by and cables or chains." I have made this point numerous times on this list; other than to secure logs chain