A mini tug pushes a load of waterwood into position for the claw to retrieve and place into a bunker car. There will be no further work done for the year - next week is vacation - and the crew wa... (more)

At MP 4.5 the railroad abuts Carman Road for ¼ mile. On the end of the log train two switchers pushing roar past and disappear into the woods on the trip up to Mill 5, five miles away.

Late in the afternoon Stick has his train of A-frames backed into the Mill 5 lead and waits for it to be loaded with fresh cut lumber to take back to town. Permission to be on Simpson property.

Jerry Miller waits to hop off and line a switch. The job was switching Mill 5 on a cold December afternoon. Permission to ride.

With the last inbound loads for American Plastic Toys whose switch is in the foreground, MAL 1512, a former Grand Trunk unit of the same number rolls by on its way to Walled Lake to run around the... (more)

Pictured is a moment of weather drama I will never forget! I was driving through the west part of downtown Salt Lake City where both UP and D&RGW had passenger mainlines that ran down the middle o... (more)

The gravel and cement trucks will have to wait for the log train to clear the crossing while on its way out of Shelton with waterwood destined for Mill 5, some 8 miles west of here.

Coming back down the hill from Mill 5, the three Simpson 1200's travel light rounding a curve above Goldsborough creek in the woods west of Shelton, WA.

The inner sanctum of the operation. The old girl waits for her next assignment. Sister 900 sits in the wall-side stall.

Another trip up the hill and the rear helpers separate. The 1200 continues with the log train into the property while the 1202 waits behind with a mud load at the Hanks Lake Road crossing.

Keeping the logging trucks off the streets of downtown Shelton, another trainload of logs passes Knights siding and is moments away from entering the Simpson Timber Company mill complex on the Oak... (more)

CBR 1203 leads the first revenue train westbound out of Tunnel 14 on the Coos Bay Rail Link main line. Other than a work train in September 2011, this is the first train over this line since Sept... (more)

Simpson Timber Railroad SW1200's # 1201 & # 1200 exchange empties for loads at the Dayton Dry Sort Yard about 10 miles west of Shelton, WA. You may have heard rumors that it rains often in wester... (more)

Simpson Timber SW1200 # 1201 shuffles empty log bunks within the sprawling mill complex in Shelton, WA. Picture taken on mill property with permission.