Simpson, STC 1200 switching the yard at Shelton, WA on March 29, 2013. The STC 1200 was on the way to pick up 5 car loads of lumber for interchange with the Puget Sound and Pacific later on this d... (more)

The #1200, named "City of Shelton", sits cold inside the old brick roundhouse next to her stable mate #900 since her "fire was dropped" nearly one and a half years ago after Simpson Lumber Company... (more)

The 1200 called in sick today, so it's staying in the roundhouse waiting on the mechanic's attention. Something is causing it to regularly blow a fuse.

Setting out center beams for the shipping department downtown last October. The railroad is currently (January, 2014) in a holding pattern since an incident on December 26th, 2013 in which a load... (more)

Moving through an ess curve at the lower end of the Sand Cut grade, the 1200 begins to dig in for the last couple miles up the hill with thirty one loads. Two other engines were helping the effor... (more)

Pulling down the grade, leaving the Dayton Dry Sort behind and returning eastbound to town in the morning. A cool fog layer has lifted, allowing some colorful lighting all around! Note the turno... (more)

The train consisted of three Simpson units and "Flat Car Willy", carrying a forklift on a return from Mill 5 after taking 31 log cars up the hill. They were holding at the low end of Knights Sidi... (more)

The morning turn is crossing First Street in Shelton, interrupting a section crew who are busy replacing a guard rail on the wye track. Nice old speeder!

At the vast dry sort facility located at the west end of the railroad a Simpson conductor guides the 1200 to a hook with the waiting 1202 after the train had delivered logs to be cold decked. Ano... (more)

A split screen view: Simpson power idling on the left, center beam flat sitting on the Mill 5 lead, right. As seen from an empty log flat car.

If while you wait for the stacker to unload the log train you get bored, then get busy with clearing debris from the bottom of the bunkers.

The lumber train was augmented this morning by several empty bunkers. The centerbeam flat loads were on the rear half of the train with the 1201 on the rear. Someone who lives at the intersectio... (more)

After helping to shove a log train up the 2.2% "Sand Cut" these two switchers have cut off at the top and are returning light to town. The railroad passes through sections of deep woods with a fee... (more)

Hoggers Sterling and Brandon shoot the breeze while waiting for the log train to be unloaded. Mill 5 is just beyond the fence, and South Mountain is shrouded in clouds. When they leave, the 1201... (more)

The stacker has finally removed the last load of logs and the 1200 winds up for the return to Shelton.