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Log train at Headquarters, Idaho, ready to leave for the Lewiston Mill, some 120 miles away, January 29, 1943. It had stopped snowing (temporarily) and a big rotary plow had finally completed plowing out the railroad between Headquarters and Orofino after a several days plug-up because of too much snow. P.F.I. Railroad crews were not so fortunate and the wing plows used to push snow from the tracks leading from Headquarters to camps 27, 29, 14, 51 and 52 were unable to keep the snow off the rails. Camp 14 was finally closed early n February. Snow between the rails rolled up ball-like to derail locomotives, forcing one delay after another, and many are the stories related by lumberjacks of log flats that failed to take a curve because of packed snow between the rails and simply continued out into the timber instead of down the railroad right-of-way.'
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Title:
Log trains
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1943-01-29
Description:
Log train at Headquarters, Idaho, ready to leave for the Lewiston Mill, some 120 miles away, January 29, 1943. It had stopped snowing (temporarily) and a big rotary plow had finally completed plowing out the railroad between Headquarters and Orofino after a several days plug-up because of too much snow. P.F.I. Railroad crews were not so fortunate and the wing plows used to push snow from the tracks leading from Headquarters to camps 27, 29, 14, 51 and 52 were unable to keep the snow off the rails. Camp 14 was finally closed early n February. Snow between the rails rolled up ball-like to derail locomotives, forcing one delay after another, and many are the stories related by lumberjacks of log flats that failed to take a curve because of packed snow between the rails and simply continued out into the timber instead of down the railroad right-of-way.'
Donor:
Billings, C.L.
Subjects:
flatcars logs (wood) snow (precipitation)
Location:
United States;Idaho;Clearwater County;Headquarters
Latitude:
46.63007
Longitude:
-115.809332
Source:
Potlatch Corporation Historical Archives, 1900-2007, MG 457, University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives
Finding Aid:
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv40829
Source Identifier:
457_202_18_024
Type:
image;stillimage
Format:
image/jpeg

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"Log trains", Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/plcphotos/items/plcphotos1201.html
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