3rd Rail: Sierra logging !

Brad

Thanks for posting that link.  PFM had success with this model years ago and I hope Scott does too.  I would like to see it in diecast (I want one that can pull!) but I don't think the numbers are there.

There were three of those big 2-6-6-2s built by Baldwin.  The Weyerhaeuser 120 would be my first choice of road numbers since it worked its whole life in Washington.  I believe the third of the 51" drivered 2-6-6-2s started with Bloedel Donovan.   

Ted, I am sure you are right----should be a great model!    I sent Scott an email this am...

Both this engine and the P7 are awesome news.

The logger should be scale 1/48 right?

Of course. That is all that Sunset/3rd Rail/Golden Gate Depot produce for the O-Scale market in the US; i.e. Not European or British prototypes, which are 1/43. 

Looks very interesting. What is the length? How many drive wheels. No traction tires I suppose. I couldn't find it in the description.  I also need the weight to pull up some decent grades.  If I remember right the Samson was very small and didn't pull a lot.  I still would like to get one.

Dan

What a stunning opportunity to make the scale match the gauge!  These may be big as logging locomotives go, but they will be dwarfed next to a GS-4.  So they could be made to 17/64 scale, or 1:45, or whatever, and they would still look small on an O Scale layout.

No need to over do it, like K-Line did with that Shay.

This wasn't a narrow gauge loco?

Trevize,

Nope.     Pretty excited to see this launch as Scott and I spoke about this in Feb...    Now the wait......

No.

Not all logging operations were narrow gauge.

Rusty

No. In fact most logging operations in the western US where standard gauge.

I have photographs of the former Sierra #38 under steam at Rayonier Lumber Co., out on Washington's Olympic Peninsular, back in 1963. 

No. In fact most logging operations in the western US where standard gauge.

 

Hot Water is right.  Most narrow gauge logging model railroads set in the west are fantasy.  Six foot diameter logs and 3 foot gauge tracks are a bad combination.  Weyerhaeuser, Bloedel Donovan and Rayonier were big wood operations.

There were a few dozen Baldwin 2-6-6-2 logging locomotives built with 44 inch drivers as tank or tender locomotives.  Weyerhaeuser 110 which is running in the Black Hills is one of them.

There were three larger 2-6-6-2 tender locomotives with 51" drivers built for logging service by Baldwin.  They were designed to haul big trains.  These are the prototypes off of which this Sunset offering is based.  Two were purchased by Weyerhaeuser (#4 and 120) and one by Bloedel Donovan (#14).  The 120 even worked for a Weyerhaeuser owned common carrier for a time.  Rayonier ended up with all 3 eventually.  Smaller rod or geared locomotives would bring loaded cars from the landings into a yard where the big mallet would take the collected loads to the mill or log dump.  Later, trucks replaced the small locomotives and logs were transferred to rail cars at a central location in the woods.  On several operations the mallets survived to be replaced by diesel locomotives.