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Railroad Camp by Adolf Hungry Wolf Soft Cover SIGNED
Railroad Camp by Adolf Hungry Wolf SIGNED
Soft Cover
80 pages
Copyright 1992
CONTENTS
Polson Brothers Logging Company
Growing Up in a Railroad Camp
A Railroad Camp Gallery from the 1920s
Scenes Along the Line
Polsons Ten-Wheelers
A Shay and Two Climaxes
The Rayonier Era at Railroad Camp
Three Old Timers at Railroad Camp
With the Hostler at Railroad Camp
Steam in a Foggy Forest
No 70 as Camp Switcher
Structures from another Time
One Last Look at Railroad Camp
Railroad Camps Lokeys: Mikado No 2
Railroad Camp Lokeys: Prairie No 45
Railroad Camp Lokeys: Mikado No 90
Railroad Camp Lokeys: Consolidation No 99
Railroad Camp Lokeys: Mikado No 101
Shay 191 & Mallet 3100
Mallet Mo 120
Mallet No 14
Sierra No 38
Out on the Line with No 120
Camp 14 Lining History in the Woods
Meeting of the Mallets
The Camp 14 Cookhouse
ITT-Rayonier in the Diesel Era
Stars on the Birthday Train
A tribute to the Final Logging Trains
They Were Still Built by Baldwin
Final Seasons on the Grays Harbor Line
The Clallam Line Rayoniers Other Logging Railroad
Dedicated to Jim and Pete
Two Canadian brothers from Nova Scotia named Alex and Robert Poison went to the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s to look for land and timber opportunities. They first formed the Hoquiam Timber Company, purchasing vast stands of immense trees in an area north of Grays Harbor, which were then cut down and processed through their Poison Brothers Logging Company. The Railroad Camp of this book became headquarters for their operation, a unique place deep in the woods where workers and their families lived right by their jobs, a village where boys played on trains they grew up to run.
Initially, logging was done by men using axes and handsaws, then pulling the immense logs through the forests with teams of oxen. The machine age soon brought steam-powered "donkeys" and skidders, followed by locomotives that hauled the trees aboard long, winding trains. By 1903 there were seven miles of standard gauge tracks from the Poison's river-front log dumping site at New London (a few miles by water from their mill at Hoquiam) to a clearing in the forest known as Railroad Camp.
The first engine bought by the Poison's still exists today, a little 0-40 saddletanker built in 1880 by Porter. Poison crews called it "01' Betsy," but history knows it better as the Northern Pacific Railroad's "Minnetonka," first locomotive to come west over Washington's Cascade Mountains. After 30 years of logging service, the engine went back to the Northern Pacific in 1933 (for cash and a bigger engine). It's now in Chicago, kept by Burlington Northern for historical purposes.
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