Re: Was 50 years ago on this date!
Author: Al Stangenberger
Date: 11-11-2013 - 08:28
Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> ...The logging seasons of
> 1964 & 1965 had a rail operation that was
> shortened up to a point at the top end of Lyons
> Dam and it was done with M/U operation of the
> diesels, but there would be no more camp out in
> the woods.
I saw the Lyons Lake reload operation in 1964. It was impressive - Pickering converted the railroad grade east of Lyons into a private haul road. They used off-highway log trucks with 10-foot wide bunks on the private road. At Lyons, they had a big LeTourneau diesel-electric wheel loader which could pick up a whole truck load of logs at once. Not a railroad operation anymore, but still impressive.