Log Piles

Although, not technically structures, these log piles serve as a big industry on the Lake Superior Northern Railroad. They are cut from branches of White Pine trees growing on my property in Northern Michigan. Each piece of a pine branch is cut to an inch and a half in length to represent an eight foot long log in S scale. The logs are held together with wood glue and when dry, the piles are sprayed with Testors Dullcoat to seal the natural wood. As you can imagine, it can become quite tedious cutting all of these logs but the use of a Northwest Shortline Chopper greatly speeds up the process.

Here is an in-process photo of one of the log piles being built. I used wax paper on the kitchen table to prevent the finished log pile from sticking to the surface once completed. Tite Bond wood glue was used to hold the logs together. Each row of logs was put in place and then allowed to dry before the next row was applied. Once the full log piles were complete they would occasionally break in two large pieces. When that happened, I just used a hot glue gun to put the two large chunks back together.

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