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Submitted by security_six on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 7:06pm.
Went out past Matlock to play with guns near the old Simpson logging reload area. Rail tracks long torn out and gone, but an old, old railroad log car still sitting and rusting/rotting away in the brush, partly buried. Couldn't get a pic this time, but will try next time I go out there. It was pretty cool to see an old piece of history like that sitting in and out of context. I didn't get out of the truck to examine it closer, but I'm guessing it had been sitting for at least 30-50 years based on the dirt and brush around it. Anyone know much about the old Simpson logging rail operations? EDIT Just got some pics from this morning's session, and a vidclip. The video shows me shooting an M38 Mosin Nagant carbine, a Soviet WWII rifle. Unfortunately the huge muzzle flash didn't show in the video :-( The first pic is me with a New England Firearms "Buffalo Classic" in .45/70 with peep sights. The second is me with a M38 Mosin Nagant carbine.
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Simpson
Submitted by stevenl on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 9:20pm.is one of the last, maybe even the very last, logging company to have its own railroad. Check out this site.
That track you saw probably went to the now defunct Grisdale camp.
Simpson cooperated with the train scene in the 1961 feature film, Ring of Fire.
The book "Gone But Not Forgotten: Abandoned Railroads of Thurston County, Washington" by James S. Hannum is worth locating in your local library.
Here's a link to an authentic ride on a logging train in Capitol Forest back in 1905.
Cool
Submitted by security_six on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 9:34pm.Thanks for the info. Now I really want to get a pic of that old railcar to post...
"Safety is a tyrant's tool; no one can be against safety."--Unknown
You may have to give some more specifics
Submitted by Norm on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 9:53pm.My Grandpa was superintendent of the railroad, for simpson timber, until his retirement in 85 or 86. We actually weren't that far away this weekend
the pics I took while shooting were at my Grandparents place up in Matlock. Do you know where the beevile loop is? or Kelly Hall Rd?