Websites for Logging, Mining, & Narrow Gauge

Magazines
Timber Times - http://www.timbertimes.com/
Model Railroader - http://www.kalmbach.com/mr/modelrailroader.html
Model Railroad Craftsman - http://www.rrmodelcraftsman.com/
Model Railroading – http://www.modelrailroadingmag.com/
Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette - http://www.ngslgazette.com/
NG&SL Gaz Plans - http://www.urbaneagle.com/slim/NGSLGplanlist.html
Finescale Railroader Magazine - http://www.finescalerr.com/
AW NUTS Magazine - http://www.awnuts.com/
Maine Two Foot Quarterly - http://www.maine2footquarterly.com/
Magazine : Features : The Evolution Of West Coast Logging -
http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/canadianreflections/97-11.asp
Amazon.com: Books: Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0878424210/002-0765894-5516817

Logging Locomotives
Climax Locomotives - http://www.trainweb.org/climaxloco/index.html
Keystone Shay Kit - http://www.mrollins.com/geared.html
Shay locomotive - http://www.mrollins.com/shay.html
Logging/Shays - http://www.railroadextra.com/lgpage.Html
Shay Geared Steam Locomotives - Geared Steam Locomotive Works - http://www.trainweb.org/gearedsteam/shay/shay.htm
Shay Locomotives.com... - http://www.shaylocomotives.com/
Mallets in the Tall Timber - http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/
Geared Steam Locomotive Works - Shay Heisler Climax Dunkirk Baldwin Willamette - http://www.trainweb.org/gearedsteam/

Sawmills & Logging
Sawmills - ~http://www.fewpb.net/~evasser/sawmills/
Sawmills, Logging - http://www.twrps.com/ccor/loggin.html#benson
Asam Bros steam powered sawmill - ~http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/sawmill/asam.html
Sloat Lumber Co - http://sloat_lumber_co.tripod.com/REFERENC.HTM
Eastern Logging Links - http://www.narrowtracks.com/eastern_loggers/ELoggingLinks.htm
Hull-Oakes Lumber - http://www.armstrongblue.com/Articles/hull_oakes.htm
Sawmills – Climaxes - http://www.trainweb.org/climaxloco/sawmills/index.html
Red Stag Lumber Co - http://www.nmra.org.au/RedStag/RedStag.html
CAMP 2 - ~http://www.spiritone.com/~camp2/index.html#anatomy
My McCloud Railroad Page - http://www.mindsync.com/raillink/
The H.O. McCloud Railroad - ~http://home.earthlink.net/~mccloudrailroad/index.html
Logging ops - http://www.rbadesign.net/logging.html
Loggers, Railroads and Pine - http://members.aol.com/lassenlogger/
Buildings, Skeleton Cars & Trees for Logging Camps - http://www.csg-enterprises.com/

Narrow gauge
2003 Narrow gauge Convention @ Denver - http://www.23rd.nngconvention.com/
Links related to Taplines - Shortlines, Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railroads -
http://www.greenspun.com/boohoo/related.tcl?page_id=Taplines

The Virtual Narrow Gauge Model Railway Exhibition –
http://www.ngrail.co.uk/index2.htm

Projects
Making Pine/Spruce/Cedar Trees - http://www.trevinocircle.com/sippin/index.html
Misc
America's Age of Steam - http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/steam/
Steam Era Freight Cars Web Site - http://www.steamfreightcars.com/
The Voice of the Iron Horse - http://www.steamwhistles.com./
RailroadData.Com Railroad Links Directory - http://www.railroaddata.com/
Forest History - http://www.forestshop.com/history.html
Dictionary - the Tree Industry - http://www.arborists.com/dictionary/terms1.htm
Mountain State RR & Logging Historical Association, Inc. - ~http://www.seidata.com/~jreid/msrlha.html
Durbin and Greenbrier Valley and West Virginia Central Railroad - http://www.mountainrail.com/
VanNatta, Robert - Logger, Attorney, - http://www.vannattabros.com/homepage.html
 

Some Links for Great Lakes Area Logging
http://www.landolakeshistory.org/
~http://members.tripod.com/~sassmaster/
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/search.cfm?bhcp=1

Here is a link to 137 diferant articles and records including interviews with those who were there.
To model your subject well,here is a chance to live it through thier eyes (many hours worth of reading here and some are better than others so chooseing which to read can be difficult :)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/searchResults.asp?adv=yes&mhd=Industry&shd=Logging

Next a great lakes shipping article including much on logging lumber etc from 1886 during the hey days of the Lumber schooner
http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/DT86/default.asp?ID=c016

A Collection From Univ of Michigan of various Railroading material inc digital photo collection, articles etc
~http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/mhchome/railroad/rrtp.htm


Digital collection from western and central Ontario mostly logging and railroads courtesy thunder bay library
http://nextlibrary.com/tbpl/home.html

 

Not sure where I got the above info, but many thanks to the person concerned.

Mario

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