Last visit to Coon Creek Lumber
It does not take much imagination to hear the noise of the carriage going back and forth, the whine of the band saw’s blade, or smell the fragrance of freshly-cut wood and sawdust in these Greg Komar photos of the CCLCo. mill. Logging companies employed various ways of unloading the logs from the cars,
including slings and parbuckling
(above). The realism is enhanced by the ground cover and appropriate details.
layout featured countless trees, with many large redwoods and Douglas firs. According to Mike, he once accused Lou of being a tree modeler rather than a model railroader. Perhaps. Lou also used the scenery mix to ensure that the trees appeared to be growing in the ground, not sitting on top of it, and the usual “spoon” used to apply the dirt-Hy- drocal mix was really a small shovel. Clearly, this technique produced great results, even though it required drop cloths and mops when an evening’s scenery-making session was over. Greg Komar’s photos of the Coon Creek Lumber Company were taken some months after Lou Ullian died in the fall of 2009. Our thanks go to Greg for sharing them here, as well as to Jon Cagle and Mike Brock, who provided
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information for this text. The railroad was usually open during the annual Prototype Rails meet at Cocoa Beach in January. It was a spectacular layout and Lou was always a gracious host. Fortunately, the Coon Creek Lumber
Company was not dismantled after Lou’s death. Purchased by a professional model builder and moved several hun- dred miles west, it was reassembled and is still telling the story of logging and steam railroading in the Cascades.
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