Sunday, March 15, 2009

Nostalgia



On a rainy Saturday, March 14, 2009, Ken took me to a Logging Modelers Conference held in the basement of the Camp 18 Restaurant on Highway 26 about twenty-five miles east of Seaside.  The restaurant has about 5 acres of old logging equipment which was awesome because of the size of the machines.  Ken entered his diorama into the competition; it was the Hull-Oakes steam powered saw mill.  Ken modeled the 3 rail spurs that service the lumber shipment area.  Ken had a poster board explaining the model and his computer was playing some footage of the actual train (the line is now shut down permanently).  Ken placed 3rd in his division.  I won a door prize of a 1925 equipment catalogue of Willamette Iron Works steam boilers.

1 comment:

brenda said...

Great pictures, dad. What a fun weekend! I'm enjoying the Legend of Colton H. Bryant. (I'm assuming you lent it to me?) See you Friday!