SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAWMILL & SEMAPHORES
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024
- These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments! Witness 100 car lumber trains with Manned Helpers and Cabooses snaking around "S" curves in a stellar power show never to be repeated. Then we take an in depth look at the Huge Saw Mill Operations in Scotia, CA . Watch the intensive wood processes not often seen, as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads
and Presto Logs!
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If it was Southern Pacific, it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's, GP-9's, clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating and interesting railroad. Combine this action with all of the locations that made SP operations so difficult on a day to day basis. The rugged Siskiyou Mountains and there lofty 3.6% grades are highlighted. Shots from in the cab, lineside and on the train help to bring every angle to life. Also featured is a lengthy journey to the NWP Railroad when they were in their prime with matched sets of SD-9's and even mid-train helpers!!! Plenty of quarter century old vintage views of the SD-9's shoving trains over Ridge Summit and then descending in brake-shoe smoke into the Redwood Valley.
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yes I miss all of that , I grew up in Springfield , OR . the good ole days.
I recall touring the Pacific Lumber Mill around this time and a little earlier. Scotia was a "company town" owned by the mill.
That territory is certainly rugged. I always considered Donner Pass to be the glory route for SP. I seems to pale by comparison to Siskiyou.
Thanks for another fine video, Charles.
Fantastic footage of the Siskiyou Sub. Thank you for sharing. Brings back the memories.
I grew up in the '70s in Creswell, Oregon, where the Siskiyou Sub (and Hwy 99) ran right through town, as it still does today.
As kids, we'd be fishing down at the mill pond (still there) and when the nearby pair of semaphores creak to life we'd drop our gear and run over and lay spare change on the rails.
Depending on the manifest, it'd be about another 5-10 minutes before the ground would start shaking and you'd hear the EMDs approaching and we were treated to a big lumber and freight drag headed for points south. After what seemed like an eternity, the caboose would slip by and after waving at the friendly man inside we'd go searching in the ballast for our flattened nickels. The semaphores would once again start their creaking sounds and we'd go back to fishing.
The last pair of Siskiyou semaphores stood at MP634, at Davisson Road, about a quarter mile south of our mill pond. They were finally retired by CORP in about 2009.
Grew up a little farther down the line( Roseburg area) and remember those same trains. Tunnel motors, SD 45's and lots of SD 9's. Sure miss those days. Was fortunate enough to purchase one of the semaphores from SP just before they pulled out. It still stands tall near my house reminding me of days long past.
@@davidmihevc3990 What a cool reminder you have of those days gone by. It's amazing those signals performed their duties through many decades of harsh Oregon weather.
That switcher sounded really good with each cylinder having it's own exhaust..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 awesome video
Nice to see some SP in Oregon. I'd love to see more. Grew up in central Oregon, Bend, where SP&S prevailed. GN, SP&S, and SP are my favorites.
Oh man! That exhaust ❤
And that was a beautiful joint done by that caboose 👍
One of the only times we have seen that captured on film. They nailed it! What a really cool railroad Pacific Lumber used to be. Just hang out at Alton all day and you could see NWP and Pacific Lumber! Might even run into a Mad River and Arcata train a little further to the north!
Fascinating stuff - thank you. Inclusion of the lumber works was a great extra.
We agree, the lumber works is our favorite part. Even though they let visitors film the process back then. Very few shot it the way these guys did.
They really took there time to show the complete process, and they were shooting with film which is pretty crazy. Those men handling the wood look pretty fit!
As,always superb video's
Thanks danielepelaia, we appreciate the compliment! Have a super weekend!
I always thought those tall and long wood chip cars (aces) weren’t allowed on Siskiyou Pass because of the tunnel clearances and sharp curves. I grew up near Grants Pass and don’t remember seeing them that far south….of course I was also a kid so maybe I missed them. Edit: now that I think about it, maybe it was the centerbeams that weren’t allowed on the pass