Whitefish, Montana, Spring of 2014:
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Wood Chip Reloads
A simple truck dump style, Fortine, Montana:
Blower style, partial car hood. Olney, Montana:
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Savage Services SW1200RSm #7308 is parked by the Pend Oreille Valley
Railroad shops. Late summer of 2013, this is Usk, Washington:
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Late summer of 2013, Pend Oreille Valley Railroad GP9 #8310 hustles
a short local freight east from Priest River, Idaho:
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At Libby, Montana is the original J. Neils Lumber Company engine house.
Summer, 2013, inside is J. Neils Lumber Company Shay #4, under restoration:
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Spring, 2013, Anaconda Copper Mining Company #97 on display in Anaconda, Montana:
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Spring, 2013, Scoular Grain SW13 #1309 is working their Silver Bow, Montana elevator:
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Spring, 2013, Port Of Montana GP38-2 #3641 is at work switching in Silver Bow, Montana:
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Toppenish, Simcoe & Western Railroad ALCo MRS1 #B-2070 (ex-U.S. Army #B-2070.)
A mid-summer morning, 2010, at Royal City, Washington:
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Rayonier #23 is far from the woods of the Olympic Peninsula, where she had served that famous logging company for many years. Summer of 2010 in Issaquah, Washington:
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We used to see visitors from this company more often than today.
Norfolk Southern C40-8W #8425, back in 2010. Whitefish, Montana:
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A sunny late 2009 summer day, Fort Missoula, Montana.
Willamette Shay #7, of movie "Timberjack" fame:
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Tacoma Export Marketing Company SW1200 #219 is out of service. Baking in August, 2008 sun,
she is shoved into a spur just east of their elevators at Tacoma, Washington:
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CSX SD40 #8317 in the summer of 2007. A quick grab before this
train disappeared into the Whitefish, Montana yard:
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A TrackMobile owned by Cenex Harvest States. A snowy winter day, of late 2006.
Parked by the now demolished CHS grain elevators in Kalispell, Montana:
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(Scanned views below. This is the best I can do with my old pictures.)
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A cold, dark, rainy winter day in 1989. This special train was operated
as a part of the Washington State Centennial celebration. En route to
festivities in Wenatchee, is Extra SP4449 East at Monroe, Washington:
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Another of those famous area muggy days, summer of 1986. US Plywood
Corporation #11 departs Snoqualmie, Washington and ambles westward
toward Snoqualmie Falls, where riders will have quite a view.
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In 1981, I accompanied my grandfather, (a native of Washington State's
Olympic Peninsula), on a quick trip back to visit his roots. Even though
that Spring day was gray and cool, it was all wonderful. One very important
stop, this is Last Spur Park in Hoquiam:
The large sized donkey shown below was used for yarding:
My grandfather silently views an old friend. Many memories... He got his
start with Polson Brothers bucking & splitting wood for locomotives & donkeys.
Then worked up to where he even did some time firing aboard this lokey.
Originally a wood burner as Polson Brothers Logging #45, then Rayonier #45:
Another from days far in my past. Rayonier Shay #10 is on display in Forks, Washington.
Before she was sadly hidden from view in her present day shelter:
From my long ago file is this view of Rayonier Shay #3. This scene is from those
days when she was displayed at Promised Land Park (Humptulips), Washington:
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