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Can it be something else. I find it interesting, that I suggested a homebuilt motor car. On the Red River Lumber Company's line out of Westwood California they did just that, also commercial outfits built motorcars for logging railroads. We were not talking two man jobs here, we were talking...

It could be made into a very nice homemade woods motor car. Many outfits had them and some where home built. They were used to haul loggers from camp to the cutting area, also would haul supplies around. Just a thought. Jimmy "B"

Me thinks that this bestest gess that you kan do with that lerned stuff from skool seems ok, love them big enjeneering wurds! If I was a loco engineer, running over these cribwork trestles, I'd feel much better about doing the job with the BIGGER braces instead of those broom stick sized...

Re: Got a Question - My Speculation. Bob, That trestle is what many loggers would call cribwork and it may be associated with a crib bridge or trestle or it may be a cheap method of taking the railroad over a depression, without the expense of fill work. I’m just guessing here, but the...

Big Wheels, High Wheels or Logging Carts. That photo of the "Wheels" got my attention. Those are what were called “Slip-Tongue Wheels" as opposed to a "Perry" type or “Michigan Wheels.” The slip-tongue wheels where developed in the south as early as the late 1880s and where improved upon into...

A couple of weeks ago (26 May '04) I got to take some time off work, one of the days I used to fan the Quincy Railroad at that railroad's namesake town in California. Its a little less than a two hour drive from Reno, NV where I live, we arrived just as the No 5 was shoving a cut of cars into...

Marc, Good to see and hear from you. Have you found anything more out about the Moon Lumber Company? Jimmy "B" Reno, NV

Thanks to those that worked so hard to get "The Gauge" back online! I thought this general description of the lumber milling process would help modelers better understand the sawmilling practice, thus, making it much easier to model a realistic lumber mill operation on a model railroad. I...

jon-monon and camelot, Thanks, I've been told by the TO owner, that he will keep the "Audio/Video" sharing area open to outsiders until summer. Can I post other clips that will help folks understand lumbering? Like log dumps, jack slips, log cut-off saws, log decks, head saws and such...

Two More Clips Added For those that are interested, I've uploaded two more clips to the TO site mentioned in the first posting to this thread. The first clip from the mid 1920s features a rail landing that shows the action of Cat 60s skidding logs to the landing. The second clip from the...

I thought I’d share this photo of Fruit Growers Supply Company - Lassen Operation’s (Susanville Operation after the 1944 purchase of Red River’s Westwood) No. 4, a 90-ton three truck shay locomotive, a former McCloud engine. I purchased the “Real Photo Post Card” on E-bay a few weeks ago from a...

Goattee, Thanks for the "heads-up." I found this movie data base a couple of years ago, and it is good for getting the details on movies. Link to site follows: http://www.imdb.com/search Lumberjack (1944): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037030/ GOD'S COUNTRY AND THE WOMAN (1937)...

For those that may be interested, I've posted 3 video clips of steam logging during the 1920. They are posted on TrainOrders.com's web site. Although this is a fee site, for right now non-members can view the clips. TO's link is: http://www.trainorders.com/ After the main page loads...

Logging Photos-Wet Side WA/OR I had some time to post larger scans of the above posted photos to my web server. Here is the link: http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/4foto-01.htm The page will load and show 6 thumbs. Click on the thumb you want to view. These are LARGE files and with...

The small file size doesn't do these photos justice. If there is an interest, I can post a larger file of these on my web server and post the address once done. They'd be 1000 pixels wide by whatever high and somewhere around 200 KB I'd estimate the date of these photos sometime during the...

No, problem. I got the joking. I just thought they might stimulate some discussion, which they didn't. So I jumped the gun, Tyson it was my problem not yours. I'm not an expert but this is what I think: The bucket hanging in the air is a donkey powered drag line hauling dirt to above the...

Most of the pine loggers of the west where from the middlewest, snows different, ice roads just didn't work for westerners mostly. The Red River Lumber Company was overcome by deep western snow, something they had never faced before. Mississippi has pine, but no snow! And the trees...

I'm not sure what your point is... I purchased these photos, thinking they could be dry side Oregon, pine loggers. I knew that they were not Oklamoma loggers, once the photos arrived, and I could take a good look, I saw they where wet-side photos. Somehow, I thought someone on this list...

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