TRAIN LOGGING

[chris berlin]

...logging along the right of way......and great footage of a link belt Loader working from the train....

 

[mowingman]

Nice video. Thanks for posting. THere is a little incorrect info about the engine, given here. The Alco C415 was the last model built by Alco in the states, before they went out of the loco business. There were a total of 26 units built over about a 3 year period. It was not a very successful model. At least 5 are preserved in museums, including the one in the video. At least one is still in occasional operation today. That one is at the Burlington Jct. Railway, in Iowa.

 

[chris berlin]

Nice video. Thanks for posting. THere is a little incorrect info about the engine, given here. The Alco C415 was the last model built by Alco in the states, before they went out of the loco business. There were a total of 26 units built over about a 3 year period. It was not a very successful model. At least 5 are preserved in museums, including the one in the video. At least one is still in occasional operation today. That one is at the Burlington Jct. Railway, in Iowa.

thanks...great info !

 

[Jumbo]

The reason there was a fire truck and not a fire car in the train was a result of this being a last minute plan. Weyerhaeuser about a month before turning over the line to Tacoma Rail got the bright idea of cleaning out the ROW. Everything had pretty much been scrapped by then. All the fire cars were gone, the Speeders were gone, everything was pretty much off the property. They rounded up what they had and made a few dollars more. Tacoma Rail was a bit perturbed because they had bought everything including the timber on the ROW. At the end, Weyerhaeuser gave most of the scale back to Tacoma Rail and wrote it off as a dumb idea. The very end saw everything go into Tacoma and to Tacoma Metals the scrapper. The C415 and the Caboose went to CEECO on the tideflats where they sat for several years.
If, you are interested in prototypical, take a look at the shovel at 42:14. The horns are broken off and hanging by the airlines. Now, that is real logging prototypical.

 

[chris berlin]

The reason there was a fire truck and not a fire car in the train was a result of this being a last minute plan. Weyerhaeuser about a month before turning over the line to Tacoma Rail got the bright idea of cleaning out the ROW. Everything had pretty much been scrapped by then. All the fire cars were gone, the Speeders were gone, everything was pretty much off the property. They rounded up what they had and made a few dollars more. Tacoma Rail was a bit perturbed because they had bought everything including the timber on the ROW. At the end, Weyerhaeuser gave most of the scale back to Tacoma Rail and wrote it off as a dumb idea. The very end saw everything go into Tacoma and to Tacoma Metals the scrapper. The C415 and the Caboose went to CEECO on the tideflats where they sat for several years.
If, you are interested in prototypical, take a look at the shovel at 42:14. The horns are broken off and hanging by the airlines. Now, that is real logging prototypical.

Thanks for the info! it is little tidbits like that that give a better look at the circumstances....this stuff generally is not out there.