Nothing but propaganda and lies for the most part anyway. Definately with all the national outlets!! If they say the "sun is out today", we best look out the windows if we want truth!!
A lot has happened to this former Milwaukee Road trackage since this was shot. In 1980 MILW retreated from the west coast and while its mainline was abandoned and scrapped, trackage sound of Tacoma, WA was purchased by the Chehalis & Western RR. A portion from Fredrickson, WA south to Morton was purchased by the City of Tacoma. The C&W was a much larger Weyerhaeuser operation and featured 60 log trains operating between Western Junction (the enginhouse in this film) to the Tide Flats in Tacoma. Eventually this operation tapped out logs and the portion of the line which reached south to Chehalis, WA was also sold to the City of Tacoma. The operations feature in this film appear to be post sale clean up work. The line still exists and is currently operated by Rainier Rail out of Chehalis..
Unfortunately, a lot has changed since the times of this industry and the commercial market has taken a toll on the industry which is a Lost Era in time. And because of the commercial market and that of the logging industry have been lost to the times. That of over logging and the demand of the marketable timber is going to be gone forever. And now because of the demands for land and for development of the housing market and the commercial industry's. This trade of logging will be gone forever and I am glad to have been a part of the logging and tree cutting trade. We are a dieing breed. And they will have to go back in time and make structures with concrete and whatever else is available to build house's out of new materials, because of over cutting the timber. Soon they will be cutting down anything standing and the old growth forest will be gone to ravages of time. And lost just for the demand for building materials or for the export market. And if we don't stop the export market of trees? we will not have anything left for our country. I'm not against exporting, but we will not have anything left for our future and the future of our children and their children And so on. And yes we can grow more trees. But the demands will be so great. We will be marketing trees that are not able to reach full maturity because of the demand. I don't know why I went on to say this about the industry? But it is just a reminder of the past and how we came to be in this great country of America 🇺🇸. I really enjoy watching these videos. And we should preserve this history as much as possible and I hope that this makes sense for anyone who reads this text. Thanks again for sharing this with us
Chad Darrah took us kids out camping on a train out of Ashford for his son Zebs birthday, one of the best memories I’ll ever have. Absolutely love this video as I am a modern day logger, alot respect for that shovel operator too, so smooth!
Define "luxury goods"... Back in the day, not as many kids went to collage. I think you're misremembering the "good old days"... Not many working class families had all that.
Alco 684 is on display at the Fife WA historical museum. Simpson Timber RR was the last logger in the US; Canfor on Vancouver Island was the last operating on the continent.
Hi I have seen the prototype C415 in action in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. It was used and abused. Its usual job was to haul 100 car trains of empty iron ore cars from the port back to the 7 mile yard. maintenace facility. As Hammersley Iron used to push their locomotives hard, they failed regularly. There are two incidents which stick in my mind. The first was seeing the C415 at the head o a 20,000 ton ore train dragging the train to port. Flat out for 7 miles at walking pace. They were aided by a down grade out of the yard for about 2.5 miles. The other was the push job of 45 miles from Parabadoo to Wombat Junction which still exists today. This job took four plus hours, with two Alcos C630/C636/M6s6 on the head and three of the same mix at the rear pushing. Notch 8 was the story for the whole distance. Job could be done with four locos but five were used because of loco failures. If you saw a triple header coming into Dampier, it was a Parabadoo train because usually the lead loco was a failure and had to come in for repair. An extra loco would be added to the next train out and if a Tom Price empty, the extra loco would be dropped off at Wombat Junction where the Parabadoo crew would be waiting. From Wombat to Parabadoo was only about 40 minutes. the C415 is in the custody of Pilbara Railway Historical Society and is still roadworthy. There are a number of Alco's at Dampier mostly in mauinline working order.
Just for the context on proper identification on correct terminology of what each machine is, that’s called a log loader or we loggers. Call it a shovel. By golly bum. Loghard
Yerp, this video definately speaks my language! Alcos, railroad logging and rocking things old school. Thanks for the upload, absolutely a new instant favorite for me.
Used to meet these guys at Western Junction when I was working for the Milwaukee Road back in the 70's. And we handed off trains with them in Chehalis too.
I could watch this for a solid WEEK! I learned to run a crane in the Army in the early 70's and always wondered how a shovel was setup. I started on a clam feeding an asphalt plant and then spent time off and on slinging a drag bucket but how a shovel was set up without a 3rd drum was beyond me unless it used the boom hoist for it. And the CHUG of an Alco makes my heart flutter. Puts me in mind of the old D-7's, 8's and 9's of years ago. I ran the 7's and 8's but no 9's. And I like EMD's a site along with their 2-cycle cousins but an Alco will make you grin! And those were REAL operators. S M O O T H ! And tying that shovel on that car was interesting too. I've had to sling the bucket over the end of a drop deck and pull to help them walk up on the trailer. Metal to metal and slick pads. So THANKS for all this! And my Uncle had an old Chevy like that one for a log truck. God Bless Yall!
Boy, this brings back memories of my first job as a choke setter in Oregon where I grew up. I went to Squim, WA in 82 where we logged out a few old growth trees on Ken Novak’s property, had to double choke those monsters! Those trees were HUGE!
Squim => Sequim , WA... either way the last time I heard that town name spoken was mid-70s. Other peninsula towns like Seiku, Clallum Bay, Neah Bay. Grew up in Chehalis, WA back in the day.
Very cool film. The crane operator describing his part of the operation was my favorite part. Didn't need yellow safety vests to get a days work done without killing anyone either. Like it should be.
Except that lots of guys got hurt and killed doing these jobs over the years. If you’re rugged enough to do the job, wearing a little bit of hi-vis shouldn’t hurt your job performance. I’ve never heard any of my co-workers say, “Nah…I don’t wanna be safe.”
Interesting/informative/entertaining.. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. 1st time seeing felled trees loaded onto a flat bed rail car. Viewing this presentation from the comfort zone of my computer room. Along the "Space Coast " 🚀of Florida 🐊🐊. Wishing viewers/train loggers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉😉.
I was loaded many a load from that shovel and Bill. Some of the best memories I have are of hauling under that shovel and ol Joe as the chaser. Wish those days were still around. Bill was a true master with that machine.
Awesome video!!! A much simpler way of life and a group of great hard working guys. I come from a logging family in Se Louisiana and everything is completely mechanized. We shut our job down because of fuel prices and the loggers these says barley stop long enough to eat lunch.
I’m a big fan of our loggers,y’all certainly get the most from the equipment ya have.Watched the hydraulic guys seems they spend a lot of time diagnosing high tech problems.We use the old iron ,it’s strong and pretty easy to work on.Good Job
I live in SE Oklahoma,retired conductor. The TO&E/DQE were originally logging railroads own buy derik's coal and lumber later it changed parent name to weyerhauser. In the early 90's they still ran a full crew and caboose....been retired for 7 yr's and was an amazing experience...
trucking is the most expensive form of transport (if you ignore flying). I dont know why the US is so in love with it when they have great river wavs and had an extensive rail network (for the sheer size of their country) which are all cheaper.
Eveywhere I've ever lived there has been trains 2 blocks away from my childhood home. Would walk the rails to school in one direction then into the woods in the other. i have lived at 6 differnt locations thru out my life and there was a train within 1 mile or across the road. I love trains the older the better. In this crazy world you can't even walk the tracks without the police showing up acting like your the uniboomer sad to say. Alot has been lost to prgress an time worset is the trust and respect for things. Great video thank you for all the good memories it brought to mind.
That is some really unique rigging and cleverness on the loader operator's part. Have seen all kinds of yarding and loading, but not this set up. Many ways to skin a cat, one might say!
Thank you for the virtual ride-along. Very interesting listening to the shovel operator. Also enjoyed the comments of the narrator. Very enjoyable video.
When men were men and women knew when to stfu😂..seriously though sitting here watching this on my phone it hits a nerve,life was so much simpler then,might be easier now but id rather be doing what they are doing right now than watching it from the comfort of my home,,,easier life has made us soft,,nostalgia buzz for me for the rest of the day..thanks for uploading
It's funny this looks like it was shot in the 80's or early 90's and they keep calling the locomotive antique but it was built in the late 1960's and at that time there were still 40's built RS2's in use on short lines and an F7 was used on the ELS until a couple years ago. Class 1's were using older GP35's and non -2 38's&40's well into the late 90's. GT and CN ran GP9's well past this time.
This reminds me of the old Englewood Railway on Vancouver Island, that was operated by Canfor and Western Forest Products before its closure and scrapping in 2017.
I sure enjoyed this video. Brings back alot of memories when i drove a logging truck in Northern Arizona. At one time train logging was done here in the late 1800s early 1900s. Still evidence of the track bed in certain area of the forest. The old steam locomotive named 2 spot sits on display in downtown Flagstaff Az.
That shot with the mountains in the background was breathtaking. Thanks so much for this video. I could watch it for weeks and not get bored with it👍👍👍
And I thank God the creator of all things, and for Jesus dieing for all to be saved, and for the times that I was given to be a part of this industry and the trade in the tree cutting profession. Because we truly are a dieing breed.
I feel like I'm going to see a video in the next couple days from Edison Motors talking about how these were the best of the best of logging, back in the day.
My dad had a cable shovel like this, but it was a Lima and truck mounted. What was almost the same was the big grapple and oversized heel boom common to those machines. As the operator said, they were versatile as can be seen tossing the grapple out and attaching a choker if it won't quite reach a log. I got to run it a bit, but never was allowed to load a truck. The lack of outriggers must have made that a lot of fun.
They sure don't make men like that anymore. Now, they make them like girls, dreaming up FRA and OSHA violations, to where a man can hardly complete a job in a timely fashion. But, I have got to say, that the shovel operator had extreme talent. Thank you very much, for sharing this gem of a video. It was truly a pleasure to watch.
Great Video! I've always been fascinated by the Alco C415 I think mostly just because of how rare they were and still are. I've heard stories of guys that ran them and said that they were horrible engines to run 8 to 12 hours a day but they're like the unicorn of the railroad world. One of the 25 or so units previously Rock Island #423 it's parked a couple miles down the street from my house it was purchased by a local branch railroad but it's been sitting there for probably 20 years or more I doubt it will ever run but it's still cool to see one up and close.
With the cost of fuel, labor for 3 men, and equipment upkeep, I'm having trouble understanding how they make that work from one carload of logs a day. Loved the video regardless!
I was thinking same thing. It looks fantastic, but some amount of people and infrastructure required for this task, which can be done by one truck with a boom loader
I’m pretty sure these rails and tresseles still exist in northern WA. These spots look familiar to some of the rail I’ve seen up there north of Spokane and Moses lake towards the Canadian border
I wonder if there were an abnormal amount of derailments in this line of work due to debris on the track? I imagine they thoroughly inspect things after using the loader, but we all know sometimes people get lazy!
You know complete deforestation hurts future forests after logging, right? Being intelligent about forest management, logging amounts, and land use, is not "being a crybaby."
California the state I live in sure could have used timber management pre 2005 and crybabys wouldn't allow it .... what did we get ---- the worst forest fires in recorded history of the state. So please bring back well managed logging and railroads in the future we won't be needing them for the next 20 or so years because of the devastation as of late...
The more I watch the news, the more I like watching train videos
Same here!
Me too.
Man, I hear ya on that.
Nothing but propaganda and lies for the most part anyway. Definately with all the national outlets!! If they say the "sun is out today", we best look out the windows if we want truth!!
This
A lot has happened to this former Milwaukee Road trackage since this was shot. In 1980 MILW retreated from the west coast and while its mainline was abandoned and scrapped, trackage sound of Tacoma, WA was purchased by the Chehalis & Western RR. A portion from Fredrickson, WA south to Morton was purchased by the City of Tacoma. The C&W was a much larger Weyerhaeuser operation and featured 60 log trains operating between Western Junction (the enginhouse in this film) to the Tide Flats in Tacoma. Eventually this operation tapped out logs and the portion of the line which reached south to Chehalis, WA was also sold to the City of Tacoma. The operations feature in this film appear to be post sale clean up work. The line still exists and is currently operated by Rainier Rail out of Chehalis..
That is amazing and wonderful to hear thank you!!❤
Thank you so much for an update on this awesome video. I appreciate it very much. I love learning about railroad history👍👍👍
Thank You Kindly
I wish I was around for the Milwaukee, I'm only a student of their history now as they died the year I was born...... I missed a golden era
Unfortunately, a lot has changed since the times of this industry and the commercial market has taken a toll on the industry which is a Lost Era in time. And because of the commercial market and that of the logging industry have been lost to the times. That of over logging and the demand of the marketable timber is going to be gone forever. And now because of the demands for land and for development of the housing market and the commercial industry's. This trade of logging will be gone forever and I am glad to have been a part of the logging and tree cutting trade. We are a dieing breed. And they will have to go back in time and make structures with concrete and whatever else is available to build house's out of new materials, because of over cutting the timber. Soon they will be cutting down anything standing and the old growth forest will be gone to ravages of time. And lost just for the demand for building materials or for the export market. And if we don't stop the export market of trees? we will not have anything left for our country. I'm not against exporting, but we will not have anything left for our future and the future of our children and their children And so on. And yes we can grow more trees. But the demands will be so great. We will be marketing trees that are not able to reach full maturity because of the demand. I don't know why I went on to say this about the industry? But it is just a reminder of the past and how we came to be in this great country of America 🇺🇸. I really enjoy watching these videos. And we should preserve this history as much as possible and I hope that this makes sense for anyone who reads this text. Thanks again for sharing this with us
Chad Darrah took us kids out camping on a train out of Ashford for his son Zebs birthday, one of the best memories I’ll ever have. Absolutely love this video as I am a modern day logger, alot respect for that shovel operator too, so smooth!
Back when you could feed a family of 4, have vacations, cars, luxury goods, kids, college. All on a single hard working paycheck.
And buy a very nice house now it takes 2 people making very good income to afford to buy a decent house it sucks
Define "luxury goods"... Back in the day, not as many kids went to collage. I think you're misremembering the "good old days"... Not many working class families had all that.
@@ffjsb Now a days I define luxury goods as food, clothing, electricity, a roof over my head. Luxuries on the single working mans paycheck these days.
@@CriticoolHit But yet you have a computer and the internet...
I remember when a color TV was a luxury...
Well. CPI has increased a lot while real wages have not increased by nearly the same amount...
Alco 684 is on display at the Fife WA historical museum.
Simpson Timber RR was the last logger in the US; Canfor on Vancouver Island was the last operating on the continent.
Yeah it looks runnable
this really makes me want to convert and upload a lot of the old VHS RR movies I have.. Great film, I wish I had it in my collection!
Do it! It would be a service to the community.
I would greatly appreciate watching them I'm gonna go ahead and sub to you just in case lol
Hi I have seen the prototype C415 in action in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. It was used and abused. Its usual job was to haul 100 car trains of empty iron ore cars from the port back to the 7 mile yard. maintenace facility. As Hammersley Iron used to push their locomotives hard, they failed regularly. There are two incidents which stick in my mind. The first was seeing the C415 at the head o a 20,000 ton ore train dragging the train to port. Flat out for 7 miles at walking pace. They were aided by a down grade out of the yard for about 2.5 miles. The other was the push job of 45 miles from Parabadoo to Wombat Junction which still exists today. This job took four plus hours, with two Alcos C630/C636/M6s6 on the head and three of the same mix at the rear pushing. Notch 8 was the story for the whole distance. Job could be done with four locos but five were used because of loco failures. If you saw a triple header coming into Dampier, it was a Parabadoo train because usually the lead loco was a failure and had to come in for repair. An extra loco would be added to the next train out and if a Tom Price empty, the extra loco would be dropped off at Wombat Junction where the Parabadoo crew would be waiting. From Wombat to Parabadoo was only about 40 minutes. the C415 is in the custody of Pilbara Railway Historical Society and is still roadworthy. There are a number of Alco's at Dampier mostly in mauinline working order.
Nice you guy's have some bad ass train's over there in the Pilbara them iron ore train's are mostly American power out there right...
Sitting here like a 7 year old boy in complete awe. Thanks for sharing this!
WOW that crane opperator was a true artist grappling those logs
Just for the context on proper identification on correct terminology of what each machine is, that’s called a log loader or we loggers. Call it a shovel. By golly bum.
Loghard
Yerp, this video definately speaks my language! Alcos, railroad logging and rocking things old school. Thanks for the upload, absolutely a new instant favorite for me.
Used to meet these guys at Western Junction when I was working for the Milwaukee Road back in the 70's. And we handed off trains with them in Chehalis too.
I could watch this for a solid WEEK! I learned to run a crane in the Army in the early 70's and always wondered how a shovel was setup. I started on a clam feeding an asphalt plant and then spent time off and on slinging a drag bucket but how a shovel was set up without a 3rd drum was beyond me unless it used the boom hoist for it. And the CHUG of an Alco makes my heart flutter. Puts me in mind of the old
D-7's, 8's and 9's of years ago. I ran the 7's and 8's but no 9's. And I like EMD's a site along with their 2-cycle cousins but an Alco will make you grin! And those were REAL operators. S M O O T H ! And tying that shovel on that car was interesting too. I've had to sling the bucket over the end of a drop deck and pull to help them walk up on the trailer. Metal to metal and slick pads. So THANKS for all this! And my Uncle had an old Chevy like that one for a log truck. God Bless Yall!
One heck of an operator
I 100% Agree 👍
Boy, this brings back memories of my first job as a choke setter in Oregon where I grew up. I went to Squim, WA in 82 where we logged out a few old growth trees on Ken Novak’s property, had to double choke those monsters! Those trees were HUGE!
Squim => Sequim , WA... either way the last time I heard that town name spoken was mid-70s. Other peninsula towns like Seiku, Clallum Bay, Neah Bay. Grew up in Chehalis, WA back in the day.
My grandfather was a telegrapher for a logging road in Missouri in 1906 when my father was born. It was a division of the MoPac line I think.
That is a really cool operation. Im glad someone was able to document it before it got lost to history
My dad was a logger we loved watching them load us up at 4:30 in the morning and haul to town mill 3 loads a day long days lots of coffee hard work
Very cool film. The crane operator describing his part of the operation was my favorite part. Didn't need yellow safety vests to get a days work done without killing anyone either. Like it should be.
It’s a heel boom loader.
Except that lots of guys got hurt and killed doing these jobs over the years. If you’re rugged enough to do the job, wearing a little bit of hi-vis shouldn’t hurt your job performance. I’ve never heard any of my co-workers say, “Nah…I don’t wanna be safe.”
He did an excellent job running the loader I'm sure he had decades of experience running it
@@johns3106I dont want to be safe.
@@frydemwingzyou speak for yourself, which is good, because the rest of us want to be
Thank you for uploading all of this stuff, your channel is a treasure trove!
Interesting/informative/entertaining.. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. 1st time seeing felled trees loaded onto a flat bed rail car. Viewing this presentation from the comfort zone of my computer room. Along the "Space Coast " 🚀of Florida 🐊🐊. Wishing viewers/train loggers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉😉.
How beautiful, T/Y for sharing this treasure of western Washington..
Video is made right. Reminds me of when I spent about $2000 in 1981. Cut and sold pulp wood. 1952 Chevy 2 ton with a working winch.
Very kewl video... Thanks for the upload
Looks much older than 1995!
Superb……I love the center cab alcos thank you
2:59 Alco built 26 C415s between 1966 and 1968.
I was loaded many a load from that shovel and Bill. Some of the best memories I have are of hauling under that shovel and ol Joe as the chaser. Wish those days were still around. Bill was a true master with that machine.
Awesome video!!! A much simpler way of life and a group of great hard working guys. I come from a logging family in Se Louisiana and everything is completely mechanized. We shut our job down because of fuel prices and the loggers these says barley stop long enough to eat lunch.
I’m a big fan of our loggers,y’all certainly get the most from the equipment ya have.Watched the hydraulic guys seems they spend a lot of time diagnosing high tech problems.We use the old iron ,it’s strong and pretty easy to work on.Good Job
I live in SE Oklahoma,retired conductor. The TO&E/DQE were originally logging railroads own buy derik's coal and lumber later it changed parent name to weyerhauser. In the early 90's they still ran a full crew and caboose....been retired for 7 yr's and was an amazing experience...
That was great. Loved every minute of it!
I'm pretty sure those tracks are what is now the Chehalis and Centralia tourist railroad.
It's kinda sad at 10:52 the very thing that put the logging rail road out of business just happened to drive under it....
Agreed, but a lot of families are supported by those truckers wages today.
@@nateholt4588 I agree to it was just odd how they got that shot with the train going over the top ...👍👍
trucking is the most expensive form of transport (if you ignore flying). I dont know why the US is so in love with it when they have great river wavs and had an extensive rail network (for the sheer size of their country) which are all cheaper.
Eveywhere I've ever lived there has been trains 2 blocks away from my childhood home. Would walk the rails to school in one direction then into the woods in the other. i have lived at 6 differnt locations thru out my life and there was a train within 1 mile or across the road. I love trains the older the better. In this crazy world you can't even walk the tracks without the police showing up acting like your the uniboomer sad to say. Alot has been lost to prgress an time worset is the trust and respect for things.
Great video thank you for all the good memories it brought to mind.
Outstanding!
I have always been an Alco fan.
That is some really unique rigging and cleverness on the loader operator's part. Have seen all kinds of yarding and loading, but not this set up. Many ways to skin a cat, one might say!
Thank you for the virtual ride-along. Very interesting listening to the shovel operator. Also enjoyed the comments of the narrator. Very enjoyable video.
My grandfather used to paint Alco,s in Schenectady NY in the 60s and 70s.
The city that lit and hauled the World.
I truly hope that Alco has been preserved.
Someone commented it's in a museum and it looks like it's still in operable condition 👍
That was really interesting! Thanks for posting.
Great job on this piece of history..😊
I remember when the CW ran Fairbanks -Morse locomotives. I remember when the Center Cab made it first run.
When men were men and women knew when to stfu😂..seriously though sitting here watching this on my phone it hits a nerve,life was so much simpler then,might be easier now but id rather be doing what they are doing right now than watching it from the comfort of my home,,,easier life has made us soft,,nostalgia buzz for me for the rest of the day..thanks for uploading
64 1/2 yr old still hauling forestry products every day
It's funny this looks like it was shot in the 80's or early 90's and they keep calling the locomotive antique but it was built in the late 1960's and at that time there were still 40's built RS2's in use on short lines and an F7 was used on the ELS until a couple years ago. Class 1's were using older GP35's and non -2 38's&40's well into the late 90's. GT and CN ran GP9's well past this time.
Credits show 1995.
Summer of 1994.
What a Team !!!!! Ill bet if you put a new crew on all that gear it would look like a Circus lol
This reminds me of the old Englewood Railway on Vancouver Island, that was operated by Canfor and Western Forest Products before its closure and scrapping in 2017.
What a fantastic video
I sure enjoyed this video. Brings back alot of memories when i drove a logging truck in Northern Arizona. At one time train logging was done here in the late 1800s early 1900s. Still evidence of the track bed in certain area of the forest. The old steam locomotive named 2 spot sits on display in downtown Flagstaff Az.
That shot with the mountains in the background was breathtaking. Thanks so much for this video. I could watch it for weeks and not get bored with it👍👍👍
Love the video. I felt like I was there watching from the ground.
And I thank God the creator of all things, and for Jesus dieing for all to be saved, and for the times that I was given to be a part of this industry and the trade in the tree cutting profession. Because we truly are a dieing breed.
Great to see proper men at work not being supervised by children who think they know it all.
I feel like I'm going to see a video in the next couple days from Edison Motors talking about how these were the best of the best of logging, back in the day.
That opening shot goes so hard oh my god
We have a C415 abandoned behind our factory in Quincy Illinois.
My dad had a cable shovel like this, but it was a Lima and truck mounted. What was almost the same was the big grapple and oversized heel boom common to those machines. As the operator said, they were versatile as can be seen tossing the grapple out and attaching a choker if it won't quite reach a log. I got to run it a bit, but never was allowed to load a truck. The lack of outriggers must have made that a lot of fun.
That's my uncle Joe. Such a hard working man. I love him so very much. Ps. He's cooler than...😊
Watching these videos makes me so depressed, knowing the current state of the rail road industry.
Great show very unique way how they haul lumber in to and on the train 👍
Shoutout to the engineers, operators, and millwriters who made this happen, this is dope
They sure don't make men like that anymore. Now, they make them like girls, dreaming up FRA and OSHA violations, to where a man can hardly complete a job in a timely fashion. But, I have got to say, that the shovel operator had extreme talent. Thank you very much, for sharing this gem of a video. It was truly a pleasure to watch.
Great Video! I've always been fascinated by the Alco C415 I think mostly just because of how rare they were and still are. I've heard stories of guys that ran them and said that they were horrible engines to run 8 to 12 hours a day but they're like the unicorn of the railroad world. One of the 25 or so units previously Rock Island #423 it's parked a couple miles down the street from my house it was purchased by a local branch railroad but it's been sitting there for probably 20 years or more I doubt it will ever run but it's still cool to see one up and close.
They have a yellow Weyerhaeuser logging locomotive at the Northwest Railway Museum.
I worked for the BNRR. They had 2 of these Alcos. #4010 & 4011.
The Chehalis Western ran by my house when I was a kid. Good memories.
Thank you for sharing this with us
Good narration, first-class editing.
Great video.
Thank you for feeding my fascination for trains! Great video for us foamers.
I worked for Bill when him and Leroy Justice had Latimer Justice Logging in PeEll Wa. Drove truck.
The last logging train in SE Oklahoma ran in 1973
Great to hear the old ALCO running!
Never seen this before, thanks!
Thar Grapple Operator was the bomb, very talented.
Such skill!
That locomotive (anbd I believe that caboose as well) are not on display at the Dacca Barn Museum in Fife WA.
I don't see how that crew worked with out federal gov an federal government telling them what an how to do an work
With the cost of fuel, labor for 3 men, and equipment upkeep, I'm having trouble understanding how they make that work from one carload of logs a day. Loved the video regardless!
40 years ago, things moved a lot slower back when
1995
The good old time….
Nice indeed watched from down under .
The yarder is really cool
I wish I could have been around to see the early days of logging
This is so awesome!
Any one interested Bowser MFG are doing an HO scale Alco C415 centre cab..
This one may be included in the run
Pre orders are due April 2024..
Mt. St. Helen sure caused a massive timber harvest.
How wonderful ! Very nice video ! 👏👏👏👍👍👍
Geat program! Thanks.
How did that operation ever make a dime? Inefficient as hell.
I was thinking same thing. It looks fantastic, but some amount of people and infrastructure required for this task, which can be done by one truck with a boom loader
I’m pretty sure these rails and tresseles still exist in northern WA. These spots look familiar to some of the rail I’ve seen up there north of Spokane and Moses lake towards the Canadian border
Lookin' for logs in all the wrong places, lookin' for logs in too many faces, lookin' for logs...
C-415s are just plain cool!
Hey, this man is a skilled operator.
Once the shovel had loaded cars on either side of it how did it load the rest farther back?
I wonder if there were an abnormal amount of derailments in this line of work due to debris on the track? I imagine they thoroughly inspect things after using the loader, but we all know sometimes people get lazy!
You just can't beat train video's!!😅
I'm sure this would make a great tourist railroad today.
That old train runs pretty good.
classic pre crybaby work !!!!! Great video
I wouldn’t call forest conservation “crybaby work”
deforestation is not a good thing and so forth shouldn't be called "crybaby work", but it does hurt foamers to see the past go i agree to that
You know complete deforestation hurts future forests after logging, right? Being intelligent about forest management, logging amounts, and land use, is not "being a crybaby."
California the state I live in sure could have used timber management pre 2005 and crybabys wouldn't allow it .... what did we get ---- the worst forest fires in recorded history of the state. So please bring back well managed logging and railroads in the future we won't be needing them for the next 20 or so years because of the devastation as of late...
Loghard. Never should have let the crybabies get in the door. Worst management in our PNW forest history is going on now.
Ima guess this was made between 1996 (when the BNSF H1 livery was adopted, as seen in the beginning) and 2003 (when VHS fell out of style)
Credits show 1995
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb darn it
Summer of 1994.
I just googled it and google said the last railroad logger didn't happen until 2015, so it lasted a little bit logger than expected?
With so many bad news stories nowadays we can all use some more train videos