Logging Railroads

thirdrail1

Member since
January 2001
From: Niue
735 posts

Posted by thirdrail1 on Friday, March 30, 2001 10:59 PM

Pulpwood flats go back a lot further than the 1950's, but they were 40 ft. cars rather than 50 ft. cars. Northern railroads used gondolas and still do so for the little pulpwood that still moves. Almost all is either chipped and loaded n hoppers or moved as tree lenght mosdtly by truck, unfortunately. I was TM for a paper mill and its railroad for 16 years.

"The public be ***ed, it's the Pennsylvania Railroad I'm competing with." - W.K.Vanderbilt

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Mickhall

Member since
January 2001
From: CA
20 posts

Posted by Mickhall on Friday, March 30, 2001 5:18 PM

Here's a website about someone's trip to the only currently running logging railroad in Canada:
http://www.travel-library.com/north_america/canada/british_columbia/vancouver_island/hogging.html. There's also a logging operation somewhere in Washington State that's still running.

Mick

I hear a train a-comin.....

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Anonymous

Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:12 PM

OK this is kind of related to logging railroads: Has anyone got any information (or any ideas of web site/news groups) of what kind of cars class 1 railroads used to move pulpwood and logs around the 1940-1955 period?

I've been interested in ng and short lines for a while and know that the Maine 2-footers (for example) used flat cars with a wooden cage for pulp, and logging roads used dis-connects or skelton cars but have no idea what their "big brothers" used. From what research I've done it looks as if flat cars with bulkheads were made (or converted from earlier cars) from the mid 1950's on? Any ideas?