Visiting the Gate Hill Railway
system. These models come with a wealth of detail and really make a model come to life.
The actual gathering of the logs is done high on a mountain behind the sawmill, and the company’s Shay trans- ports the logs down the rugged terrain to the sawmill. The main town is
Crayville, where loggers and miners buy goods and find ways to recreate on their day off. The town has a lumberyard, hardware store, diner, firehouse, bath- house and saloon. As you leave town you will come to the stock pens, which were scratchbuilt, followed by a complete en- gine facility with a coaling tower, sand
tower, water tank, ash pit and turntable. The engine house is scratchbuilt and has a complete interior. A track runs be- hind the coaling tower and is used to supply the tower with coal. As you go around the bend, behind the engine house you come to the min- er’s village that has both kit and
The Gate Hill Railway has a great variety of equipment, with Porters, Climax and Shay locomotives and gas mechanicals and maintenance-of-way equipment. The railcar No. 14 (left) was built
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from parts from the passenger compartment of a Galloping Goose, a Porter cab and a lot of extra parts from the junk box. The snowplow (right) was scratchbuilt based on a magazine article.
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