Circular 8.10 Maintenance of Way - Log Salvage Operations

Western Washington Short Line
Office of the General Manager
100 Railroad Avenue
Monetesano, Washington

CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8.10                                                               DATE: January 1, 1955

MAINTENANCE OF WAY

Log Salvage Operations

BY AUTHORITY OF:


S.B.Clinard
President and General Manager ___________________________________________________________________________________

Log salvage is a critical type of work train contained a crane car with a timber hook, as well as several gondola cars. It went along the right-of-way after some logs had fallen off of flat cars etc, . It picked up anything metal along the right-of-way I may have seen one of these one time. If both gondola cars on either side of the crane car got full, the train would have to go to some siding somewhere, and get an empty one or two next to the crane again. Like the other work trains, it was not much work for the train crew other than the engineer.