- Title: V-5625
- Summary: END OF AN ERA: STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN & THE LUMBER-LOGGING INDUSTRY. SOON TO BE REPLACED BY NEW MODERN HIGHWAYS AND TRUCKS.
- Description:00:01:19 - LUMBER FLAT CAR TRAIN AT RAILROAD CROSSING, CARS WAITING FOR TRAIN TO PASS. 00:01:38 - LOGGING INDUSTRY. TREE FALLING IN THE FOREST. WASHINGTON STATE. DOUGLAS FIR TREES. CEDAR TREES. LUMBERJACKS CUT THE LOGS DOWN. 00:01:57 - TRACK LOADER LOADS THE LOGS ONTO TRUCK. 00:02:07 - TRUCK ARRIVES AT TRANSFER STATION, OFF-HIGHWAY TRUCK. CRANE QUICK TRANSFERS TRUCK LOAD & PLACES ONTO THE RAIL CAR 00:03:21 - LUMBER FLAT CAR TRAIN CROSSES THE PRAIRIE RIVER BRIDGE. 00:04:10 - TRAIN ARRIVES AT CAMP 14, LOGGING CAMP. BUNK HOUSES BUILT ON RAIL CARS FOR TRANSPORT. 00:04:57 - LUMBER TRAIN ON INCLINE AT COOK CREEK HILL 00:06:43 - HEAVY MACHINERY TILLS SOIL, FLATTENS DIRT, WHERE RAILROAD WILL RUN THROUGH 00:07:09 - LOW ANGLE GRAVEL TRAIN, SPREADS GRAVEL ON NEWLY CONSTRUCTED GRADE. CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROAD LINE 00:07:29 - HS TWO TRAINS MEET AT HUMP TULIPS RIVER PASSING TRACK 00:07:55 - STEAM TRAIN ON GRAVEL RUN 00:08:22 - TRAIN HAULING LOGS OVER OLD PILING BRIDGE, NEW PRAIRIE RIVER BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BESIDE IT 00:09:06 - TUGBOAT PULLS BARGE CARRYING ENGINE ON RIVER. SNOW FALLING. BARGE PULLS UP TO DOCK, GRAYS HARBOR. HELD IN POSITION UNTIL TIDE RECEDES. 00:09:52 - WORKER ADDS RAIL CONNECTION. MALLI PUSHES IDLER CAR TO HOOK UP WITH THE DIESEL, PULLS ENGINE FROM BARGE 00:11:34 - MASTER MECHANIC WALKS THROUGH THE SNOW 00:11:50 - LOCOMOTIVE UNCOUPLED FROM TRAIN. ENGINE PUSHES IT INTO BIRTH FOR SERVICING. 00:12:10 - TWO TRAINS IDLE IN YARD DURING SNOW STORM 00:12:20 - MARCH, 1962. STEAM TRAINS MAKE THEIR SYMBOLIC LAST RUNS. PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKE PHOTOS. DIGNITARIES RIDE IN THE CAB. 00:13:54 - CURIOUSITY SEEKERS LINE UP ALONG TRAIN TRACKS TO WATCH STEAM TRAIN'S LAST RUN. TRAIN STOPS, 00:14:39 - BOY CLIMBS ON TRAIN, PEOPLE ON BOARD TRAIN 00:14:46 - DIGNITARIES ON DEDICATION STAND. SPEAKER AT MICROPHONE, MOS. 00:15:00 - STEAM ENGINE UN-COUPLED, NEW DIESEL ENGINE HOOKED UP TO LUMBER FLAT CARS. INTRODUCTION OF DIESEL ENGINES. 00:16:11 - ANOTHER STEAM TRAIN ARRIVES. CU PRE-TEEN WEARING ENGINEER'S CAP WATCHES. STEAM ENGINE UN-COUPLED, DIESEL ENGINE HOOKED UP 00:17:00 - HIGH PAN RAILROAD CAMP STEAM ENGINES ON DISPLAY 00:17:25 - TOURISTS WALKING AROUND RAILROAD CAMP SIGHT SEEING. REFRESHMENT STAND. TRIO OF BOYS WEARING ROLLED UP JEANS AND FLANNEL SHIRTS EATING ICE CREAM. TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF STEAM ENGINES. 00:18:07 - CU RETIRED STEAM ENGINE NUMBERS 120, 110, 111, 2, 70, 38, 14 & 90 ON SIDE OF TRAINS. 00:18:31 - STEAM TRAIN LOGGING FLATBED NEARING CAMERA, PASSING
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: V-5625