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After a record amount of snow in the Pacific Northwest the snowmelt overflowed rovers and cut the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad in two. This is the story of how contractors used two steam engines to shore up the line and re-open operations. “Suburb, Highly recommended!” – Trains Magazine.
Five different examples of steam locomotive technology captured on freights in the woods of the Northwest. Archival B&W footage helps tell the logging story. Interview with the chief mechanic at Mt. Rainier.
This documentary weaves archive black & white and color film, with photos, expert narration and recent film of restored logging steam locomotives working on lines through Northwest Pacific forests. The story follows logging from colonial days through the end of steam logging and into modern logging. NOTE: The narrator discusses logging’s impact on the environment, positive and negative, and on workers.
Authentic equipment on old logging lines. That’s something any rail fan can appreciate.
A forestry-museum orientation film from 1965, with rare film of the early days of logging – carefully and professionally restored.
Explore the sawmill that time forgot. Screaming machines, gut-instinct, quick decisions and steam power. Perfect for anyone who likes to see how things are made! Servicing the mill is a 100 year-old rail line built by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
LOGGING RAILROADS-MODELING THE PROTOTYPEbr>Green Frog Productions continues its well received Modeling the Prototype series with an in-depth look at one of the most popular model railroad subjects – the logging industry. This video closely examines not only the operations of several logging railroads, but also how the trees were cut, loaded and then unloaded at…
The State of Oregon hosts one of the very last steam operated sawmills in the U.S. This huge complex is served by a standard gauge railroad, itself operating vintage GP-9 diesels.
Go deep into mountain logging country. (Ships to USA & Canada only.)
Five days a week trains trek 75 miles from paper mill to Albany.
Green Frog Productions continues its well received Modeling the Prototype series with an in-depth look at one of the most popular model railroad subjects – the logging industry.
What’s more iconic than a backwoods railroad and a paper mill?
See operations on a busy Englewood Railway in 1990…and some of the last video ever shot before the railroad shut down in 2017.
In Taking Care of Business Vol. 2: Logging, Charlie Conway continues his railroad ride-along adventures, this time covering the logging industry.
Take a trip back over 50 years to Rumely, in Michigan’s UP through 16mm color and black and white films .
“Take A Spectacular Rail Adventure deep into the mountains of West Virginia!” Step back in time and journey with us by rail as we take you up scenic mountains, through picturesque valleys and wooded hills, and across the magnificent scenic countryside of West Virginia to see what the Cass Scenic Railroad looked like yesterday and…
4 operating steam loggers, “lokies”, on a railfan weekend.
Shays, Heislers, Climaxes, Articulated rod, Rigid frame. (Ships to USA & Canada only.)
Unique railroads, unique stories. (Ships to USA & Canada only.)
Real steam, working real hard. (Ships to USA & Canada only.)
A real working logging railway, with steam in use on a daily basis. The last steam logger in Europe, possibly the world.
We see all four operating Shays in action, with the signature triple header and side by side run-bys, with lots of close ups of the machinery.
Washington State’s Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad is the location of this presentation which features the two rarest types of geared steam locomotives. Heisler #90, a 90-ton, 3-truck locomotive built in 1930 is joined by the newly restored Climax #10. The Climax is ex-Hillcrest Lumber Co. which operated on Vancouver Island, and was the last standard…
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