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Logging Railroads of the Lincoln National Forest by Glover Soft Cover SIGNED
Logging Railroads of the Lincoln National Forest by Vernon J Glover SIGNED
Soft Cover stapled
65 pages
Copyright 1984
CONTENTS
FIGURES i
TABLES ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv
HISTORIC OVERVIEW 1
Introduction 1
The Main Line 1
Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway 3
THE LOGGING COMPANIES 10
Alamogordo Lumber Company 10
Sacramento Mountain Lumber Company 18
Southwest Lumber Company 19
CLoudcroft Lumber and Land Company 29
George E. Breece Lumber Company 31
Epilogue 36
LOGGING RAILROAD TECHNOLOGY 37
The Nature of Logging Railroads 37
Civil Engineering 37
Facilities 39
Shays, Heislers and Rod Lokeys 40
Locomotive Rosters 48
CONCLUSION 55
APPENDIX 56
REFERENCES CITED 63
FIGURES
1. An interesting early view showing most of the railroad between Toboggan and Cloudcroft. . . .4
2. The steepest part of the A&SM was the last five miles to Cloudcroft 5
3. SP 2507 charging up the grade at Bailey's with a string of empty log cars, ca. 1936 6
4. A train of empties passing over the "S" trestle, ca. 1936 6
5. The Cloudcroft Lodge was rebuilt as seen here in 1910-1911 7
6. Engineer F. M. Weldy was killed when locomotive 184 ran away 8
7. The last scheduled train stopped briefly at Wooten tank, September 12, 1947 9
8. Railroads in the vicinity of Cloudcroft 12
9. Water tank and engine house in James Canyon, ca. 1900-1902 13
10. Alamogordo Lumber company steam log loader at work ca. 1899 14
11. Alamogordo Lumber Company Shay geared locomotive and train loading logs 15
12. Alamogordo Lumber Company logging camp, probably in Russia Canyon, April 21, 1907 16
13. The A&SM ended at Russia Canyon 17
14. Sacramento Mountain Lumber Co. camp at Hudman's, 1.8 miles north of Russia 19
15. Sacramento Mountain Lumber Co. railroad through Douglas fir cutting on Benson Ridge 19
16. Sacramento Mountain Lumber Co. logging railroads south of Russia 20
17. Louis Carr, owner of Southwest Lumber Company and Lincoln N.F. Supervisor Arthur 21
18. Southwest Lumber Company railroads around Penasco Canyon show sidehill construction 22
19. Logging crew with horses going into the woods from Water Canyon 23
20. Caterpillar tractor and hydraulic arch hauling logs 25
21. Skidding logs to railroad landing with Caterpillar tractor 25
22. The SWLCo extension south of Penasco Canyon used a series of switchbacks 26
23. The SWLCo railroad climbed out of Wills Canyon 27
24. Aerial photo of Hay Canyon switchbacks 27
25. Southwest Lumber Co. yards at Alamogordo 28
26. Lumberyard and sawmill of Penasco Lumber Co., four miles south of Russia 30
27. Log train passing the wye track in Cloudcroft 31
28. Logging camp at confluence of Brown and Cathay Canyons 32
29. George E. Breece Lumber Co. sawmill and Texas-Louisiana Power Company steam power plant . . 33
30. Skidding logs with hydraulic arch and Caterpillar tractor 33
31. Log landing and cut over slope on Mescalero Apache Reservation 34
32. George E. Breece Lumber Co. loader working at landing on Mescalero Apache Reservation . . . 34
33. Cooper's logging camp in Silver Spring Canyon, Mescalero Apache Reservation 35
34. Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Railroad S-curves to gain elevation below High Rolls . . . 35
35 Typical rail section 39
36. Typical turnout design 40
37. Detail of Mexican Canyon trestle, ca. 1936 41
38. Log train on the "S" trestle below Cloudcroft, ca. 1910 42
39. Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Railway locomotive in its original wood burning condition. 43
40. Shay patent geared locomotive, number 105, pulled a 334-ton train of 41 empty log cars. . . 44
41. Southwest Lumber Company log train near Russia hauled by Shay locomotive number 1 45
42. Southwest Lumber Company loading logs in Water Canyon 46
43. George E. Breece Lumber Co. log train leaving landing 47
44. Loads of twenty foot logs on the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Railway 50
45. Dedication Day of the A&SM, celebrated at Toboggan on November 16, 1898 51
46. An excursion train ready to leave Cloudcroft, ca. 1909 52
47. A down-bound EP&SW mixed train on the Mexican Canyon trestle below Cloudcroft 56
48. SP 2506 standing on the "S" trestle below Cloudcroft, ca. 1936 57
49. Locomotive SP 2507 pulling upgrade at Bailey's Canyon ca. 1936 57
50. Picking up Logs at chute terminal in Hubbell Canyon on Southwest Lumber Company railroad. . .58
51. Unloading logs at Southwest Lumber Co. mill pond at Alamogordo 59
52. Log chute or skidway in action, with boy "greasing the skids" 60
53. Log skidway along Southwest Lumber Co. railroad in Hubbell Canyon 61
54. Mule team skidding logs in winter on the Alamogordo Lumber Company 61
55. SP 2510, derailed as a result of a broken lead truck axle 62
TABLES
1. Standard Rail Weights and Dimensions 38
2. Locomotives of the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Railway 49
3. El Paso & Northeastern Railroad El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Southern Pacific Company. . .50
4. Logging Locomotives of the Alamogordo Lumber Company, 1898 - 1916: Sacramento Mountain Lumber Company, 1916 - 1920: and Southwest Lumber Company, 1920 - 1945 53
5. Logging Locomotives of the Cloudcroft Lumber and Land Company, 1924 - 1926 and George E. Breece Lumber Company, 1926 - 1940 54
Publisher's Note
LOGGING RAILROADS OF THE LINCOLN NATIONAL FOREST by Vernon J. Glover
This volume represents the third printing of this work originally published by the United States Department of Agriculture. This work has been reprinted with permission of the Forest Service and the author. This third printing is being co-sponsored by the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Inc., a New Mexico non-profit organization, and the Toy Train Depot, Inc., in Alamogordo, New Mexico, a private museum.
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