Sunday, April 30, 2017

A Logging Train Wreck

Train wrecks seem to have held quite a fascination for people back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, with plenty of gawkers showing up, some bringing their cameras. Someone took the time to record at least three photographs of this accident involving a logging train. Unfortunately, they didn't record any information on the back of the photographs. So about the only information that I can glean from from these is that the locomotive was the No. 4.








The tech geek in me finds the underside of the locomotive, especially how the brakes linkage was designed, quite fascinating; one almost never gets to see this view of a steam locomotive. And note that the two center drivers didn't have flanges.


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  1. This is the July 1929 wreck of Brooks-Scanlon Company Baldwin 2-8-2 #4 out of Bend, Oregon on the China Hat line near Camp 3.

    Martin E. Hansen

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    1. Blind center drivers were common on rod-type logging locomotives. This allowed them to negotiate sharper curves on the temporary logging spurs.

      Martin E. Hansen

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    2. Several of these photos have been published before.

      Martin E. Hansen

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    3. Martin, thanks for all the help and info! I'd be curious to know where these were published before, as the copies I have appear to be period originals (not to say that there weren't more than one print, of course!)

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