Three of Simpson's locomotives are visible. In a switch move the 1200 has come out of the siding after holding for the 1202 to pull up with the dump car. After grabbing the mud load Jerry Miller... (more)

In addition to hauling "waterwood" up the hill there was a mud load this morning. They have just emptied the Difco side dump into a huge mud puddle. The 1201 idles nearby on the main.

Stick and Jerry take a break to check business orders while today's power, the 1201 idles just outside the window.

The machine is removing banding from the logs before grabbing the loads off the train. This is at the west end of the railroad, a little over 9 miles from Shelton where the logs came out of the w... (more)

With available "waterwood" in the bay the railroad has been busy hauling logs up the hill to Mill 5. The mid-day train is beginning a return to town with empty log flats.

Starting up the lokie first thing in the morning before sunrise. After the air pressure builds up they'll roll her out on the turntable and onto the railroad to do some switching at OPP and Mill ... (more)

Simpson hogger Stick, seen in the glass, leaves the cab to line the turntable into the 1201's stall. The 1202 and 1200 are at rest on a day when Mill 5 was not operating.

Viewed from the cab, workers apply the finishing touch of securing a center-beam "Home Depot" load of plywood while the 900 waits to move it over to the PSAP spur. Permission OK'd to be on the pro... (more)

Conductor Jerry Miller puts together an afternoon lumber train of A-frames at Mill 3. Shortly after we will take the cars up the hill to Mill 5. Permission OK'd to ride.

The 1202 was moving center-beams to storage at Knight's Siding. Spring blossoms are finally beginning to appear on the trees.

Beautiful spring day for a train ride on the Simpson Railroad! We have just come up the hill from Shelton bringing a forklift-on-flat-car. Doing a run-around at the south pass to shove the load in... (more)

No logs have come in from the water for awhile and the only train today was this move to bring a forklift up the hill from Shelton on a flat car. Here engineer Stick gets ready to unload the carg... (more)

It was a slow day for the crew and the stable was full early in the afternoon. The 1202 is the first engine, then the 1201. Just in from the rain is the 1200, and the 900 occupies the stall next... (more)

Snow is falling in Shelton today. The Shelton turn idles near the Olympic Panel plant waiting for the Bangor job to return with the garbage train.

In an area where the railroad runs through deep woods STC 1200 steps into a sunlit corner on its way back to Shelton from the Dayton dry-sort yard. The afternoon was a very pleasant respite after... (more)