Simpson Railroad SW1200 No. 1200 waits on the main as No. 1201 pulls out of the siding with loads of forest debris.

Former Simpson Railroad power now works the Western Washington with a former SP caboose.

Keeping the railroad useful during the last month of operations with various section work chores - picking up around 40 yards of fill dirt on a drizzly afternoon provided one of the rare last oppo... (more)

One lone Simpson switcher puttered around the Shelton waterfront at Mill 3 on one of the remaining last days before the railroad would become a fallen flag.

Simpson switch job races the PSAP Bangor turn (seemingly) side by side on adjacent track at 6:30 AM. After 125 years in existence the final day comes Monday for this lumber railroad. The mill it ... (more)

The last log train highballs Dayton during a special move to and from the Dry Sort yard with the purpose of retrieving remaining rolling stock which had been stranded since the end of 2013 after t... (more)

Log cars headed for the storage line. Today was billed as "The Last Run to Mill 5" for Simpson Railroad. It was the last time anyone would see a log train run the mainline of this soon... (more)

Today was billed as "The Last Run to Mill 5" for Simpson Railroad. It was the last time anyone would see a log train run the mainline of this soon to be defunct logging road. Two runs ... (more)

Looking out the back door, playing around with a slow shutter resulted in this frame at 1/10sec. Heading out-a-town with a load of dirt in a Western "difco" side dump car, pulled by the ... (more)

Spreading dirt over an old, unfinished stream bank restoration project near MP 2½ along Goldsborough Creek with a Western "difco" side dump car.

In a scene which could date from the 1950s we see a log train positioned for unloading at Simpson Lumber Company's dry sort yard up at the end of the line. The log trains haven't made the trip to... (more)

These are the last days for this lumber railroad, soon it will be gone, but the work continues until the mills run out of wood. One of this day's tasks was to retrieve caboose 201 from the weeds ... (more)

These are the last days for this lumber railroad, soon it will be gone, but the work continues until the mills run out of wood. Stick and Josh hold at the wye track, waiting with their carloads w... (more)

A Simpson conductor sitting in the 1201 watches us pass by in the nine-hunnert while switching carloads of lumber to interchange. With the closing of the mills in Shelton, Washington there will so... (more)

By the time these lupines fade the railroad may be gone. The end is near for Simpson Railroad operations. The owner, Simpson Lumber, LLC, has sold the mills in Shelton to Sierra Pacific Industrie... (more)