Steam & Excursion > This Crew Believes There's No Sense Wasting A Lovely Spring Day!

The brakemen on this log train could have ridden in the hot cab of the engine or the dark confines of the doghouse on the tender, they decided this beautiful spring day was too nice to waste and they simply took up their perch on the top of the tender for the best seats in the house.

Glenn Beier Was on hand on this fine June in 1958 day to record Southwest Lumber Mills mallet #12 as she powered her long string of loaded log cars back from the re-load in the woods to the mill at Flagstaff, Arizona.

#12 started life as Hammond Lumber #6 in Mill City, Oregon before being transferred to Hammond's redwood operation in Samoa, California where she was renumbered as #12.  IN 1956 she was sold to SWLM and spent the rest of her career pulling log trains in the pine forests above Flagstaff.  She was finally retired and today sits on display in a park in Flagstaff.

We can only imagine that each spring she longs to return to the woods so she can give her crew a wonderful ride like this one.

Martin



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/16 03:19 by LoggerHogger.

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And she looks great on display too Logger!

I wonder how much use that dog house got on hot Arizona summer days!

Oh Boy !   Wouldn't OSHA love this pic ?

C.Hanson
Vay , Id

sixbit Wrote:
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> I wonder how much use that dog house got on hot
> Arizona summer days!
Around Flagstaff, summers are beautiful. Cold weather would be more of an issue in fall, spring, and winter if the mill was running.