Given the Lost Hollow Railway’s logging theme, some log hauling rolling stock would make a good start. Rather than building a simple set of flatcars, I thought I might go for more of a big logging look by getting some disconnects. A single disconnect simply supports the cut tree at one end and relies on the tree to be its own support. Finescale Railroader‘s March 2006 Issue has some excellent pictures of Michigan-California Lumber Company’s disconnects. I especially like the hand-painted car numbers and I will try to do something similar on the Lost Hollow Railway cars.
After doing some Internet searching, I purchased two Hartford Product 1:20.3 narrow gauge logging disconnect kits. The level of detail in the kits is very high and it took me some time to build the four disconnects up. I did leave some of the more fragile parts off the models (brake details mostly) as I was afraid they would not survive the rough handling these models can sometimes get.
In the end, I ‘m very happy with the way the disconnects turned out. They definitely moved some big logs around the Lost Hollow Railway.
