Planning Mills

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David
The purpose of a planning mill is to take rough cut lumber and mill or plane the surface to a finished size and smoothness.  This for the use in making furniture, flooring, etc. that requires a smooth surface.  The mill was usually in close proximity to a sawmill or mills on the raw material side or furniture factories and other wood users on the output side.  You might find more of them on the N&W located either in Virginia or North Carolina.
Rail traffic at a planning mill would be small, boxcars for finished wood shipping or incoming wood, kiln cured, or flat cars with open air cured wood.  hopper cars for the wood chip and sawdust residue.  Most all other requirements would be procured locally and not brought in by rail.
There are two very good kits for planning mills.  BTS makes one as part of their McCabe sawmill series and Campbell makes a two part kit to make a planning mill.  The Campbell kit(s) were based on a mill in North Carolina.
Hope this helps.
Larry Smith  
 


     On Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:39 AM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
   

 HI all,
I am working on an N&W town, but i am striking out on any prototype photos of a planing mill that was served by the N&W.  In addition, I have never seen a planning mill in real life and do not know the complete purpose and what would be rail served (what cars are provided to the mill from the N&W).
Does anyone know of some photos and info to help with this?
David
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