Logging Flat Cars? - Page 2

Summit · 02-10-2008, 10:45 AM

To answer your original question...the type of log car in your picture is I assume the log car produced on and off by Walthers. It is based off of a Milwaukee Road prototype. Milwaukee had hundreds of these cars, and when they pulled out of their western extension in 1980 most of the fleet went to the Chehalis Western, an intra-state common carrier owned by Weyerhaeuser that took over a couple hundred miles of former MILW track in and around the Tacoma area, or the St. Maries River Railroad, a common carrier shortline owned by Potlatch that also took over a bunch of ex-Milwaukee track. Simpson also got some of these cars, possibly after the Chehalis Western quit in 1990.

Here is a link to a picture of the prototype:

Milwaukee Road Freight Car Photo Archives - Open Top Hoppers

More pictures can be found by looking around the web for the Chehalis Western or St. Maries River Railroad. Oso Publishing published a book about two years ago titled Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser's Vail-McDonald Operations that has a good many pictures of these cars.

Jeff Moore
Elko, NV

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02-10-2008, 10:45 AM	#16 (permalink)
Summit Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Elko, NV Posts: 76	To answer your original question...the type of log car in your picture is I assume the log car produced on and off by Walthers. It is based off of a Milwaukee Road prototype. Milwaukee had hundreds of these cars, and when they pulled out of their western extension in 1980 most of the fleet went to the Chehalis Western, an intra-state common carrier owned by Weyerhaeuser that took over a couple hundred miles of former MILW track in and around the Tacoma area, or the St. Maries River Railroad, a common carrier shortline owned by Potlatch that also took over a bunch of ex-Milwaukee track. Simpson also got some of these cars, possibly after the Chehalis Western quit in 1990. Here is a link to a picture of the prototype: Milwaukee Road Freight Car Photo Archives - Open Top Hoppers More pictures can be found by looking around the web for the Chehalis Western or St. Maries River Railroad. Oso Publishing published a book about two years ago titled Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser's Vail-McDonald Operations that has a good many pictures of these cars. Jeff Moore Elko, NV