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Be sure to read the sales pitch below the photo. Hope you enjoyed the logging show. Time to check the balance in your train fund account. Cheers.........Ed L. Here is the last of the photos for now. Shown here is a single stall engine house, a machine or blacksmith shop, a small office building, assorted vehicles, horses, etc. Smaller stuff just to complete the scene and make it more believable. The round horizontal gray tank is an HO model by Campbell Scale Models. Looks right at home -- at least to me. How big is a tank anyway? Here is the sales pitch: The entire logging corner is for sale. Everything in the photos is included in a package deal except trees which are not included. Trees are available at extra cost. I'd prefer one person to purchase the entire corner if possible. Otherwise, individual pieces are available if that is what you want. As usual, please provide me with your best reasonable price for what you want. I'd suggest you check on the prices of individual unbuilt kits and use that as a guideline to your starting offer price. How much does a BTS sawmill kit cost? Go check it out. Contest quality stuff does not come at a discount. You won't find better anywhere else. If I like your offer, I will smile and a box will head your way. If not, the model remains here in California in my home. The tradeoff for something like this is a humongous number of manhours spent building kits (when you'd rather run trains) versus having everything you need in a matter of a week or two. Trust me, you will not miss the money one year from now, but you will enjoy the sawmill and logging operation on your layout for the rest of your life. I hope Bill Lane feels we are back on track now. Not one word about my retirement plans since I have already been retired for over 25+ years. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley, the high-tech capital of the world, is an experience that is almost unbelievable. I wouldn't consider moving, but then again, my house is all paid for and that makes a HUGE difference. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying life. Make me some offers and let's see where this leads. Email preferred, but phone works. Loizeaux aht SBC // Global daht net 1-650-962-1577 Make me smile and I will make you smile....................Smiling Ed L. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Here is a wagon taking finished boards off to a local customer. No need for a train for this order. The horses are up to the task. Every steamer needs water sooner or later. Even ducks (baby swans?) appreciate a drink once in a while. Pardon the dust, but it can be blown off easily. A backup BIG WHEELS just waiting to be called into action. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Sawmill employees (on my layout) need to take the train to work each day. Thus, a need for a small RR station shown here. Don't ask me why it is made from stone (ground floor) -- I have not a clue. Note the milk cans on the baggage wagon. Yep, the milk train just delivered them. But it is cute as a button. (opinion, questionable fact.) Here is the finished goods loading dock where cut lumber is loaded onto standard gauge flat cars for delivery to customers in the far away city. As business increased over time, the more modern gray dock was built to handle the additional volume. The brown dock was board-by-board constructed by Don Leger of Arizona fame. Each board has fantastic wood grain and nail heads. Don't ask about the frog number of the turnouts -- they are sharp, but the small crane handles them very well. Here is a close-up showing the wood grain, nails, turnout frogs, small crane (yes, it rotates), etc. A true work of art. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Here are some pix from the other side of the logging corner. Cannot show both sides in one image unless I stand so far away that nothing can be seen close-up. Shown here is a freight station for receiving supplies used by the sawmill complex. In the background is a steam donkey used for dragging logs up hills and over the ground to move them closer to the RR tracks for transportation to the sawmill. Steam donkey close-up. This is a really cool hunk of machinery. (opinion, not scientific fact) Shown here is a spar pole used to lift logs onto skels or flat cars after they have been dragged close to the RR tracks. The spar pole on the left is painted onto the wall and I cannot sell it -- but I could include a photo of it enlarged. You could glue the photo onto your wall. How's that for some creativity? The spar pole in the foreground is made from two HO spar poles mounted one on top of another. Works great for S scale like a lot of HO stuff which is commonly oversized for the scale size printed on the box. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Here are some more pictures: Shown here is a sort-of crane-like device which lifts logs off skels and rolls them over onto the ramp where they splash down into the water. The cable is fitted beneath the logs and the crane pulls up on the cable and the logs roll right off the skel and gravity does the rest. It does one car at a time which makes for lots of switching moves to unload an entire train. Sure beats watching Bachelor on TV. Right? Here is the sawdust building which holds all the sawdust for future sale to animal feed manufacturers. Maybe sold to other folks as well -- I really do not know. Also shown in the foreground is BIG WHEELS which is used to drag logs through the forest when there is no road, river or RR tracks available for transportation. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Gents.......... Here are two images reflecting wise decisions by two or three people who figured that building kits for the next five or six years was not worth the time and effort when the structures they wanted were already built and readily available from Smiling Ed L. It is only money and one year from now it will not be missed. First up is the former Coal Mine corner. Following that is the former City corner. Both corners were purchased more-or-less intact by single individuals. The layout is starting to look a bit bare as you can see from the photos below. Next up is the Logging Corner which should appeal to all those folks who bought my Shays, Heisler, Samson and skels quite some time ago. Even standard gauge folks can have a vibrant logging industry without much trouble. Shays are not required. Photos of the Logging Corner are shown in the following email coming in just a few minutes. Get ready to spend some money.....................Cheers.....Smiling Ed L. IMG_2514.jpg 1009.2kB IMG_2515.jpg 883.1kB -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org

Whatever the three axle truck is it has sprung journals. $25.00 includes USPS Advantage Mail shipping Rusty

A known long time S Scaler left the group. Sometimes they announce why, sometimes they do not. We have been way off topic for a while. That could have been why. Let’s pull it back to be on track. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Models.htm Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL

Got my new American Models Baldwin S12 today. I had requested a undecorated model and inquired if they would paint it black. The model was painted black by AM. Now let me say this, I am a brass steam pro painter and to have someone else paint one of my models was really a second though. The paint job they did on this loco shell is grade A. Perfect finish, no dirt, drips or runs. Evenly covered and not over covered along with the finish being cured. I am so impressed with this factory paint job that I recommend to all of you that if you want colored unlettered rolling stock give them a call. And by the way it did not take much longer for me to get the loco than if they would not have painted it. The model it self runs so smooth on address 0 on a Digitrax layout. Yes, the darn LED is blue but it will be going away soon when I get the Soundtraxx Baldwin decoder. In the mean time I am going to start on Missouri Pacific diesel switcher decals. The brass hand rails cost me a little more than I thought they would have cost but they are very sharp. I have no regrets, they are well worth the extra cost. I know they will look good and hold up during my man handling of the loco in the future. I recommend them also. A was pleasantly surprise to find the Kadee 802 in with the model. I have been really unhappy with the fact that Kadee 802 couplers have doubled in cost in just the last decade. -- Mike Swederska Meramec Valley Lines Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16 https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149 Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!

I have some SHS (AF) Freight/Diesel couplers available for TRADE . I will trade all the AF couplers seen in the first photo for TWO PAIR of SHS 70 Ton Friction Bearing Trucks (as seen in the second photo) with or without wheels. If all attempts to trade fail, I will SELL the couplers outright for $20 + $8 for postage cost. Contact me privately to arrange a deal.

The Hennepin Overland Club is hosting operations this Sunday. it is a fun layout to visit and fun to run trains. -- Ken Zieska 1/64th Scale Modeler

Fresh from the paint shop and working hard. -- Mike Swederska Meramec Valley Lines Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16 https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149 Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!