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Anonymous
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April 2003
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Logging Railroads
Posted by
Anonymous
on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:53 PM
I'd like to get information on logging railroads, but don't know where to start. Any Help?
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thirdrail1
Member since
January 2001
From: Niue
735 posts
Posted by
thirdrail1
on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:33 PM
Hvae you ever tried typing "Logging Railroads" - just like that, in quotes, on Google - bet you get hundreds of URL's!
"The public be ***ed, it's the
Pennsylvania Railroad
I'm competing with." - W.K.Vanderbilt
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Anonymous
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April 2003
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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?
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Mickhall
Member since
January 2001
From: CA
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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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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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