Re: Sumpter Valley Railroad track layout for a model railroad: Baker, Whitney. etc.

This is very cool. You can see the spur dropping below the main at the west end of the siding, which connected with an Oregon Lumber Co. logging line. What the blue print map doesn't show is that at the east end of the siding angling away from the main to the west above was a Baker White Pine Spur, which soon splits. Brian Fosback and I followed the upper spur to it's end well up on to the mountain ending in a steep little draw. Just above the end were very large large pines all the way to the top of the mountain that show the area above to not have been logged in the last 85 years or more. SVRR Archives has a set of spur and siding maps produced in the 1930 which show who the switches and spur were put in for. The late Ron Harr mapped this spur and showed a length of rail near it's end. Brian and I found the bent length of rail. Pretty fun outing though we were getting soaked.