It's really weird to bike past the woods one day and the next see a big empty lot with a bunch of felled logs. Yes, I know that where my house stands there was once trees, but it's still pretty dramatic.

The location is on Division, south of Walnut. Anyone know what's going in? Probably a new housing development.

Libertarian from across the dock...

Logs near the West Bay log yard

Park near the 4th ave bridge on West Bay Ave

I had a dyslexic moment naming this one...  should have been "Looking North" :-)

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.