THE GREAT TRAIN THREAD!!..

[medicmike]

On September 15, 1958, the West Side Lumber Company ran it's last log train out of Camp 45. Shay #15 did the honors.

 

[fal762]

Here's #2

 

[medicmike]

 

[fal762]

 

[gunner30]

At the scrap yard....

 

[alphadog58]

Who was this Martin Hansen guy? Many photos here from his collection. Was he the photographer or just the photo collector?
Maurice Rosenfeld was the the hands down finest photographer of racing sailboats starting in the late 1900's. I have two books of them.
Larry

 

[fal762]

Who was this Martin Hansen guy? Many photos here from his collection. Was he the photographer or just the photo collector?
Maurice Rosenfeld was the the hands down finest photographer of racing sailboats starting in the late 1900's. I have two books of them.
Larry

If only there was an omline resource where one could input data to find out more information on a subject of interest.

 

[fal762]

 

[medicmike]

Who was this Martin Hansen guy? Many photos here from his collection. Was he the photographer or just the photo collector?
Maurice Rosenfeld was the the hands down finest photographer of racing sailboats starting in the late 1900's. I have two books of them.
Larry

He's a photo collector, primarily northwest logging stuff.

 

[alphadog58]

If only there was an omline resource where one could input data to find out more information on a subject of interest.

You mean, like here? I find that the 'Files is a source for all sorts of esoteric information online, not omline...
Larry

 

[fal762]

 

[gunner30]

 

[12v71]

Ran across a cool map of the Hanford Nuclear reservation in 1949.

 

[gunner30]

 

[fal762]

 

[gunner30]

 

[medicmike]

 

[medicmike]

Hillcrest Lumber Company #1 Shay locomotive - Shop Views

Locomotive shop views of the Hillcrest Lumber Company #1 Shay locomotive, with its multi-year rebuild project getting closer to completion. Seen by me on April 15, 2023 at the BC Forest Discovery Centre, at North Cowichan on Vancouver Island. Some of the photos have some blur; sorry about...

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[medicmike]

 

[12v71]

1967, Stampede station on the Northern Pacific line over the Cascade mountains. The operator is handing up new orders to a helper engine string that just shoved a freight through the Stampede tunnel.

 

[gunner30]

 

[jimmbob]

1967, Stampede station on the Northern Pacific line over the Cascade mountains. The operator is handing up new orders to a helper engine string that just shoved a freight through the Stampede tunnel.
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Cool pic, Lester Washington...I used to work around the town of Lester just west of Stampede pass in the Tacoma Watershed in the late 70's, 80's and nineties when there was only ONE person still living up there in the middle of nowhere, an old lady who was grandfathered in to be able to stay there till she died. I remember her young female relative headed in and out to bring her supplies on the twisty windey 30 some mile long dirt log road full of chuckholes, dust and log trucks, she was always on the CB calling out milemarkers as to not get run off the road by the trucks. She was the ONLY rig (other than the lowboys) on that road that got the full rightaway from the trucks, she was treated well on that road

Truly Gods country in the high Cascades as when I was there the public were forbidden as it is a watershed and only the Watershed Police, people who worked up there and the one old gal and her relative were allowed in after the railroad quit using Lester as a last stop for trains headed over the pass

 

[12v71]

Cool pic, Lester Washington...I used to work around the town of Lester just west of Stampede pass in the Tacoma Watershed in the late 70's, 80's and nineties when there was only ONE person still living up there in the middle of nowhere, an old lady who was grandfathered in to be able to stay there till she died. I remember her young female relative headed in and out to bring her supplies on the twisty windey 30 some mile long dirt log road full of chuckholes, dust and log trucks, she was always on the CB calling out milemarkers as to not get run off the road by the trucks. She was the ONLY rig (other than the lowboys) on that road that got the full rightaway from the trucks, she was treated well on that road

Truly Gods country in the high Cascades as when I was there the public were forbidden as it is a watershed and only the Watershed Police, people who worked up there and the one old gal and her relative were allowed in after the railroad quit using Lester as a last stop for trains headed over the pass

Pretty cool history, thanks. In the late 90's a friend and I would snowmobile up to the east portal after the BNSF reopened the line and watch a train or two enter or leave the tunnel. Stopped by Meany's lodge for a snack a couple of times too.

 

[jimmbob]

there's hot springs next to Lester. Lester founded in late 1800's by the RR..... had its workers enjoying the hot springs and tossing their empty booze bottles into the brush surrounding the springs

I remember a few people snuck in from the East side (easier access n much closer to sneak into then) to go collect the bottles from around the springs. The unseen watershed police watched them the whole time from when they entered the shed and while collecting the bottles. Little went un-noticed in the watershed as the POlice had multiple hilltop vantage points where they had good observation of most areas. They waited till the tresspasers had collected a buttload of rare bottles and attempted to leave. Then the watershed police stopped em on the way out and confiscated ALL the bottles for their own collection

 

[12v71]

there's hot springs next to Lester. Lester founded in late 1800's by the RR..... had its workers enjoying the hot springs and tossing their empty booze bottles into the brush surrounding the springs

I remember a few people snuck in from the East side (easier access n much closer to sneak into then) to go collect the bottles from around the springs. The unseen watershed police watched them the whole time from when they entered the shed and while collecting the bottles. Little went un-noticed in the watershed as the POlice had multiple hilltop vantage points where they had good observation of most areas. They waited till the tresspasers had collected a buttload of rare bottles and attempted to leave. Then the watershed police stopped em on the way out and confiscated ALL the bottles for their own collection

Yeah, we could ride over the top to the west, but some friendly BNSF guys warned us against that. Just for that reason. Kinda sucked, the maps showed some good places to explore.