Sidetrack Laser
Manufacturers of Craftsman Model Railroad Kits

Cougar Ridge Lumber Company

                                                                                                                                                              Track, Rolling Stock, Logs & Other Scenery Items Not Included

Many things both good and bad have been said about the Lumber Barons of Yesteryear. But no matter how you feel;  the Timber Industry was one of the major industries that built this country. Cougar Ridge has it's roots in the Saw Mills of the Pine Country of Southern Oregon and  Northern California. These mills were used as a basis for our design. No matter.....Cougar Ridge Lumber Company may have been found anywhere they were logging from Alaska to Florida.

Sidetrack Laser offers Cougar Ridge Lumber Company as a series of kits. This flexibility allows you to plan/model different versions of a Saw Mill Operation. The entire complex; saw mill and planing mill complex with tracks and chip burner/chip hopper can be arranged to tightly fit into a 24" x 30" foot area making it layout friendly. Cougar Ridge can also fit into several eras depending on how you do your scenery & your choice of the optional Kits. 

                    Complex shown in a 23" x 26" area

Cougar Ridge Lumber Company

Cougar Ridge Saw Mill Features:

Laser Cut Real Cedar Roof Shingles & Details
 Wooden Building, Doors, Log Conveyor & Graphics
Grandt Line Windows.
 

Window Plug for later addition of a Chip Burner or Sidetrack Laser's Chip Hopper/Rail Car Loader below... 

"Cougar Ridge Lumber Co. can be the centerpiece of a first-class scene & operating point on your layout."
 Model Railroad News...August 2008

Layout Friendly Footprint.............  7 1/2" x 18"

North, South, East or West........Douglas Fir and Redwoods to Pine, Cedar or Hardwoods..............
Cougar Ridge could be cutting Lumber and/or Box Shook to Shingles.

You Decide.

Cougar Ridge Lumber Company             $142.95   MSRP

Cougar Ridge Planing Mill Complex

Sidetrack Laser's Cougar Ridge Planing Mill Complex is an optional add-on kit designed to be part of a larger Saw Mill operation using our Saw Mill. The Complex includes a Planing Mill, Machine Shop, Boiler Addition, Loading Dock and Kiln/Warehouse.  

You can build it as a designed complex of structures or with some simple kitbashing, set it up to meet your needs. The exterior framed building can act as either a warehouse, general mill building or drying kiln depending on the era you are modeling.

Cougar Ridge Planing Mill Complex  Features:

Laser Cut Cedar Roof Shingles, Buildings, Doors with other details plus Grandt Line Windows and cast roof detail vents.

The Planing Mill also has an upper window plug like the saw mill for later Chip Burner or Chip Hopper additions.  

Footprint: 8" x 24"

Cougar Ridge Planing Mill Complex                    $199.95   MSRP

Cougar Ridge Chip Bin/Rail Car Loader

In the late 1950's, many sawmills discovered a new source for making money. Selling their chips & sawdust to the Pulp Mills to make paper. This new market was helped along by the banning of the Wig-wam style burners long associated with the saw mills. The railroads, some of them reluctantly,  adapted to this new freight traffic with chip cars made to haul the chips from the mills. If they didn't, they stood the likelihood they would loose the lumber traffic that was a prime market, especially in many areas of the West Coast.

Sidetrack Laser's Chip Hopper/Rail Car Loader is designed to fit with our Cougar Ridge Lumber Company kit if you model an era that chip cars moved Chips from the mill to the pulp mill. Our Loader will fit any chip car from the converted gondolas of the 1950's to the new Chip Cars used today. Since we can't plan how or visualize how you plan on using this kit on your layout; you will need to additionally purchase 1/4" Tubing and accessories to plumb it from the hopper to the mill or a factory/mill you are going to use this on or already have.

This kit features Laser Cut walls, structural bracing and cedar shakes.

Chip Hopper/Rail Car Loader              28.95  MSRP

Another Sidetrack Laser  Kit to consider adding to your Layout's Saw Mill Operations: Log Scaling Platform