Steam & Excursion > Oklahoma Logging 1959

Little known and rarely photographed were two logging operations by Dierks Forests, Inc.  One ran north from their mill in Wright City, Oklahoma, and the other ran north from their mill in Mountain Pine, Arkansas.  Both lasted until the early '60's and at least at the end both consisted only of a single line from a loading point 20-30 miles to the mill.  I recently had my 8mm movies transferred to DVD and this is my first attempt at editing and uploading a portion.  If successful, I'll do more, including more sequences of this operation.  This is real amateur stuff, but with a fixed-focus, wind-up Kodak 8mm camera you didn't have quite the flexibility that you have with today's videos, to say the least!

Gordon 

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IS this engine on display someplace?  Seems like there was an engine on display in DeQueen ,but I can't remember the number.

The 227 was reportedly donated to the city of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, in 1963.  I have no personal knowledge of this, however.

Gordon

Bring in more of this! It finally brings to life the dormant Prairie on display at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds I've seen all my life.

gbmott Wrote:
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> The 227 was reportedly donated to the city of
> Broken Bow, Oklahoma, in 1963.  I have no
> personal knowledge of this, however.

You are correct. Two photos of her can be found by typing in Surviving Steam Locomotives of Oaklahoma in your search engine. Photos of 207 will be found their as well.

Cheers,
Jack

Thanks, Please post more of your movies as time permits.

To quote others, MORE PLEASE!

Great video. Had no idea logging railroads lasted that late in Oklahoma.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

I sure do miss cabooses.  Logging in Oklahoma.  Who'd a thunk it?  

There seems to be an issue with the profile used to encode this video for general browsers.  It will not play on the webpage in Safari on a Mac.  Downloaded it will not play in Quicktime, but VLC handles it just fine.  Very historic video.

This played fine in linux (slackware64-14.1)

Goodness! What a machine and operation. Thanks!

John.