Planning Mill

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Hi everyone,

This whole conversation was extremely valuable.  This is what I am thinking
from a model standpoint.  The Planing Mill will receive raw materials
locally, with the railroad probably being used to export finished
products.  I may not make the sawdust rail-served.  I will make the
material/product differences by exaggerating wood grain on the material
side and using a dark wash to make it stand out.  The product storage will
appear more light colored and perhaps more finished (or perhaps stored
indoors and not there). Having something other than hopper cars on my
layout is a priority, as the main focus is on my 5 compressed tipples.

I am doing a proto-freelance combination of the Bluestone/Buchanan
Branches.  I like prototype, but i just don't view selective compression
as prototype enough for me. I prefer to build something that could have
been using representative practices (e.g., you will find standard depots on
my two towns...).  This conversation probably gave me enough to dig in.

Thanks so much!
David

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:17 AM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Bob,
>
> If I have your question right, it would be hard for someone with out
> knowledge to tell the difference between a regular “sawmill”  and a
> “planing” type mill.  Most big facilities would have had both.  At one end
> the mill would take in logs to be sawn into dimensional lumber, once sawn
> they would be planed downed to the correct size and be smooth much as you
> see lumber in Lowe’s and Home Depot.
>
> Rough sawn lumber would look much like it was cut with a chain or
> carpenter’s saw.  One way to tell by the railroad would be the car types
> the sawn lumber is loaded/unloaded.  Rough lumber might travel by
> centerbeam or flat car without protection from the weather.  Planed lumber
> would travel by boxcar(such as the Thrall all door type), centerbeam or
> flat car but on the open cars this lumber would be wrapped in some way as
> protectin from the weather.  Reason being is most planed lumber has been
> dried naturally or kiln dried and exposure to weather will hurt the
> finished product.
>
> I would say a railroad would take in rough lumber for car repairs if they
> own the planing mill in the photo.
>
> James Wall
> Rural Hall, NC
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