Let's go logging in comfort.....

These were built to run behind my new (first issue) Shay so you know they've been around a while. They rarely get out of their box and I ran across them the other day and thought someone might be interested in seeing them. They are my version of line shacks that a logging crew would haul up into an area they were about to cut and then pack them up and move them to the next area.


Here's a pic of the first three that I made. It's a scanned shot because all of this happened BDC (before digital photography). They were all sitting on flats at this point.


These two were four man shacks. There is a window on the back wall.


This was an eight man shack. It sits on a couple of disconnects.


This eight man job was mounted on a flatcar but proved to be too tall to go through the trees, on some of the modular club's layout displays.


This eight man unit was also too tall so it too got dropped onto disconnects.


The four outhouses were necessary because the lumberjacks had seen the Monty Python skit and were very suspicious of each other and didn't want to be caught out in the open.








The camp dining room and kitchen came in two sections. When the camp was set up, one of them was turned around and they were joined to create a rather large building. They travel facing outward so the spectators around the modular club's layout so they could see the insides.
Aside from the wooden skids and the Bachmann trucks, these were all made from Precision Products sheet styrene and their structural foam center material. They are all very light weight and make an interesting train behind a Bachmann geared locomotive.