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At least as of February of 2020, California's Niles Canyon Railway was about the only place I know of where you could see a pair of compound, articulated Mallet Locomotives, both of which are fully operational.
On the left, we see Clover Valley Lumber Company #4, a Baldwin 2-6-6-2T saddle-tanker, built in 1924 for the Clover Valley Lumber Company of Loyalton, CA. She served that owner for over 30 years, before becoming a stationary boiler for a short time at the Tahoe Timber Company near Reno, Nevada. This locomotive was acquired by her present owner, the Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA) in 1973, and about 5 years later, she was in operation on the Castro Point Railway. When that line shut down, she was brought to her present home, the Niles Canyon Railway, which is operated by the PLA. She remained in storage here for many years until she was extensively rebuilt and put into service in 2012. Today, she is one of several steam locomotives which pull the tourist trains at Niles Canyon.
On the right is an even rarer locomotive. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1909, this unusual 2-4-4-2 articulated, compound Mallet was intended for the Little River Railroad in Townsend, TN as their number 126. Unfortunately, that railroad quickly determined that she was too long for the tight curves on their line and she was returned to Baldwin. In 1910, Baldwin managed to resell her to the Columbia River Belt Line Railway in Blind Slough, OR, where she was put to work as a logging engine. That railroad typically named their locomotives rather than number them, and this engine received the name "Skookum", which is apparently a Chinook term, meaning large, powerful or impressive. She served the Columbia River Belt Line from 1910 through 1920, before being sold to the Carlisle-Pennell Lumber Company, where she acquired the number 7. After a four-year stint there, she served 4 other railroads, including the Deep River Logging Company, where her long career came to a sudden end in 1955, when she rolled over with a string of empty log bunks. Since that line was in the process of shutting down, no attempt was made to recover her and she was left in place. In 1956, she was acquired by a man named Charles Morrow, who removed her from her wreck site in pieces....and she's spent the next 60 years in pieces, owned by several individuals and moved several different places. In 2005, Skookum was acquired by Chris Baldo, who had her moved to the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, with the goal of restoring her, a process which took 13 years. The restoration team slowly and methodically restored her major components and re-assembled her into the condition you see here. After running briefly on the Oregon Coast Scenic, she was brought to Niles Canyon by her owner, where she runs periodically, hauling the tourist trains and an occasional photo charter. Although this is her home for the time being, she is still privately owned. It has not been publicly announce how long she'll be here, or where she might go next.
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I ran out of time on this and had planned some lovely bokeh but events stopped that. We closed the curtains on the world and had a cosy fire last night so no bokeh from me but I’ll give it a go later this week. Temperature dropped significantly and is cold again this morning.
We were burning our own ash logs and we are very happy with them. Not happy to have lost the ash but at least we are able to use them in the wood burners.
Colas Railfreight Class 70 70811 heads south between Settle and Settle Junction on 6j37 1257 Carlisle Yard - Chirk Log Train on 12/07/2022
The Carlisle-Chirk timber train - running substantially early - at Smardale, surely one of the UK's most idyllic photographic locations. 60025 does the business. 17th July 2017.
37423 "Sir Murray Morrison" & 37684 "Peak National Park" on OTA Timber Wagons running through Warrington Bank Quay
Sherrardspark Wood, Hertfordshire. (c) Dingo 2012
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70813 rumbles through Cardiff Central with 6M51 Baglan Bay to Chirk with a couple of pigeons pottering around on the platform. A trio of Class 153 units wait in 3b to form 5F61 to Canton Sidings.
Here are Joshua, Jackson, Kellie, and Jessica after the big drop on the Timber Mountain Log Ride at Knott's Berry Farm. Much to their relief, no one got very wet. Fun for all.
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Continuing to purge old autumn pics, I come to this one. There is nothing wonderful about the photo, but I want to show the old, log structure by the trees. There are a lot of these buildings remaining in the Ottawa Valley. I took this somewhere along the backroads of Lanark County last autumn.
Reclaimed logs from an old barn in Canada for the walls, Montana basalt for the foundation, and 500 year old reclaimed Chinese temple stone from Fujian Province for the floors.
An American Elk seen at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in Aldergrove, British Columbia. He was not stuck or in trouble but was playing with this log.
American Elk are the largest of the elk family, weighing up to 500 kilograms. Every spring, male elk begin to grow a new pair of antlers. (24-02-16-0730)
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Posted this as a color shot in June but I have always felt the black and white was more expressive.
This log couldn't of been in a better place, perched right in front of a cascade that had been formed after all the rain we have had.
It's a featherless Sunday!
These four Turtles are fighting to keep their spot on the sunny log. The turtle at the back is pushing and climbing to get the sun while the second turtle is getting squished.
Canon EOS 7D, EF 500 4L IS USM, Canon 1.4X Extender II, Focal length 700 mm, F8, 1/1250, ISO 400
The forecast of some impending wet weather means that I will probably have to curb my weir wading for a while! This was made a few days ago at Beeston Weir, when there was a nice balance of water flowing over it. I managed to reach this stranded log and set up my tripod on some solid ground. That's not as daft as it sounds, because the weir is actually quite spongy from all the plant growth and setting the tripod legs firmly is essential for longer exposures such as this.
Fungi on a fallen tree , log or branch in Bon Echo Provincial Park , Martin’s photographs , Cloyne , Ontario , Canada , September 29. 2019
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