Farmland/ Meadow/Mellinger Lumber Logging

This area of the layout began as the location for a large oil refinery. That idea was changed later to a logging line, which would include a logging industry along the Reading Branch, as well as a connection between the Reading Branch and an old shay switchback spur. This area includes the wye junction where trains from the PRR mainline at Chickies can access the Reading Line.

A Few Photos

Cab view near the farm

Mellinger Lumber

Mellinger Lumber Mill

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Life down on the farm

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Circus train on a siding

abandoned factory

Factory on the Reading Branch

enginehouse

Reading Branch enginehouse

backroad

Let's get lost on a country road