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Logs could arrive at the log pond by rail or by flume. Logs could arrive by rail in several different ways depending on time chosen and how flush is your logging operation. The simplest was logs chained together and dragged by a locomotive. Flat cars, disconnects, skeleton cars and bunk cars were other types. Flat cars were used through all eras, disconnects were discontinued when safety regulations demanded non-manual brakes, skeleton cars were first used with hand brakes, then steam brake, and finally air brakes. Bunk cars came in several flavors and lengths as flat bunk or skeletel bunk. Log removal from flat car was as simple as having a log layed at a diagonal across the rail above flat car height and the logs would be smeared off the cars. Mark Pierce mentions one method using a cable used for flat , disconnect and skeleton. The cable could also be pulled by the locomotive. Loco would position car by unload point, diconnect from train, attach cable and back up. Other popular methods included a steam powered kicker, a super elevated rail (two sets of track, the elevated for unloading cars and a parallel level set for the locomotive) and jill poke. A jill poke was a 2 or 4 spoke merrygoround arrangement. A spoke would interfer with a log, and as the train advanced it would move with the train and progressively pu***he log. Final method was crane that would straddle load, swing over pond and release. <br />Early power boats would have a single cylinder Atom gas motor attached in conventional method. Earlier methods included rowboats to nudge logs toward loggers burling in the pond. <br />The 40's is after depression and during the WWII when the industry was recovering. But operations still ranged from small operators (for their time) and big operations with all the bells and whistles. <br />Lots of options, many available in Walthers, just need to pick the time and money.
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