"Back in the Day"

[Hank R]

That would of made for a long day in Terrace hauling those poles.

 

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[Trainman]

I am really enjoying these old pictures, thanks for all those able to share. Times have certainly changed!

 

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[RonG]

I am not paying attention no doubt but are those buildings in post #511 barracks with a chow hall or is the cooking done in each building and does a family live in each building or how do they handle that?Thanks again for all these wonderful pics,one could spend forever looking at them.Ron G

 

[kshansen]

Sometimes it seems that so much of the wood cut was used to build roads, trestles, and camps there was not much left to be sold!

 

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I am not paying attention no doubt but are those buildings in post #511 barracks with a chow hall or is the cooking done in each building and does a family live in each building or how do they handle that?Thanks again for all these wonderful pics,one could spend forever looking at them.Ron G

I doubt that families were housed in those camps at all. Employees only. Earlier in this thread were mess hall pics and there were no women or children.

 

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Most Logging Camps of that era would have a main Cook House with Dinning area close to a group of Bunk Houses surrounding or along side a central Wash House , most often connected by Plank Walk ways . Some Camps were set up to be easily moved to keep crews close to work area . Some Camps were more centrally located in a larger stands of Timber and were more permanent and would have an area away from Bunk Houses where Married Quarters houses would be set up for " Staff and Key Employee's ". If you look at #511 you can pick out the Bunk Houses in center behind large buildings the Cook House is the large building off to the right . To the far right is the Houses of the Married Quarters along the hill above the RR tracks .
The Bridges and Trestles would be built with the best of materials ( some larger camps had their own Saw Mill to cut Planks & Timbers ) , but the logs they used for Cribbing to cross hollows and shore up side hills would be low grade logs that would have been left in the woods in that era of logging . A lot of the Ties and materials would be reused when an active logging area was logged out and tracks pulled up to be laid down in new logging area's , Main line RR tracks would be better built and maintained .