Re: NNG: Modified Class A Climax
| May 24, 2016 09:18PM |
Chris,
Here are a couple of images I took of a dieselized Class A Climax at the site of the Cabin Creek Lumber Co. Mill a couple of miles west of Easton, Washington. The Cabin Creek Lumber Co. mill was off the Northern Pacific main line on the west side of Cabin Creek. Originally there had been a spur into the mill from the west, but at a later date, this had been changed to a spur off the Boise-Cascade Co. Cabin Creek Reload spur, which was on the east side of Cabin Creek. That required a timber bridge which was decked for both rail and truck traffic. By the time I was there in 1977, the saw mill had quit shipping, but the people who owned the property had several ex NP cabooses and the dieselized Class A Climax there as sort of a private railroad. It was not running the day I was there, and it looked as if nothing had moved for several months.
Here are a couple of images I took of a dieselized Class A Climax at the site of the Cabin Creek Lumber Co. Mill a couple of miles west of Easton, Washington. The Cabin Creek Lumber Co. mill was off the Northern Pacific main line on the west side of Cabin Creek. Originally there had been a spur into the mill from the west, but at a later date, this had been changed to a spur off the Boise-Cascade Co. Cabin Creek Reload spur, which was on the east side of Cabin Creek. That required a timber bridge which was decked for both rail and truck traffic. By the time I was there in 1977, the saw mill had quit shipping, but the people who owned the property had several ex NP cabooses and the dieselized Class A Climax there as sort of a private railroad. It was not running the day I was there, and it looked as if nothing had moved for several months.
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