Simpson hogger Stick, seen in the glass, leaves the cab to line the turntable into the 1201's stall. The 1202 and 1200 are at rest on a day when Mill 5 was not operating.

Viewed from the cab, workers apply the finishing touch of securing a center-beam "Home Depot" load of plywood while the 900 waits to move it over to the PSAP spur. Permission OK'd to be on the pro... (more)

Conductor Jerry Miller puts together an afternoon lumber train of A-frames at Mill 3. Shortly after we will take the cars up the hill to Mill 5. Permission OK'd to ride.

The 1202 was moving center-beams to storage at Knight's Siding. Spring blossoms are finally beginning to appear on the trees.

Beautiful spring day for a train ride on the Simpson Railroad! We have just come up the hill from Shelton bringing a forklift-on-flat-car. Doing a run-around at the south pass to shove the load in... (more)

No logs have come in from the water for awhile and the only train today was this move to bring a forklift up the hill from Shelton on a flat car. Here engineer Stick gets ready to unload the carg... (more)

It was a slow day for the crew and the stable was full early in the afternoon. The 1202 is the first engine, then the 1201. Just in from the rain is the 1200, and the 900 occupies the stall next... (more)

In an area where the railroad runs through deep woods STC 1200 steps into a sunlit corner on its way back to Shelton from the Dayton dry-sort yard. The afternoon was a very pleasant respite after... (more)

The 1202 is on the end of a log train moving through the back yards of downtown Shelton at the beginning of a trip uphill to Dayton. The bridge is the new one which, in February 2010, replaced th... (more)

This location is where the railroad runs adjacent to the Shelton - Matlock Highway. They've been using three locomotives lately to move logs to the dry sort yard at Dayton, one up front, two on t... (more)

The 900 returns to town, long hood forward, with a train of empty log cars. The location is just beyond city limits near a gravel mining operation.

Two Simpson Railroad employees direct a wheeled log loader in reseating the wheel-set on an a-frame lumber car which had taken a hard hit during switching. The operation turned out to be successf... (more)

The crew of the 900 have brought a loader up from Shelton on a flat car and will off load it with a cargo ramp at the end of a spur. They are just about to Hanks Lake Road at the dry-sort yard. I ... (more)

The mail must get through! View from the cab of Simpson's #1200, stopped while waiting for the 900 to clear the line. The 900 has brought a log loader up the hill on a flat and is backing up to ... (more)

View from the cab of Simpson's 900 while switching lumber loads in the morning at the mill. Having just eight cylinders allows room to set the dynamics underneath the hood, allowing for a sweepin... (more)