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)

The afternoon job coasts around the corner near the Olympic Panel Plant gate. Seven units on the head end today from the hodge-podge roster include two FEC GP40s, the DGNO 4018, PSAP 2099, the tw... (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)

CFNR 106 switches boxcars at "The Pass" for the PSAP, downtown Shelton. The Bridge crosses Goldsborough Creek.

The 1201 shoves a cut of centerbeams down the Olympic Panel spur while PSAP power waits to move up the main to put its train together. The Simpson mainline crosses the PSAP main just this side of... (more)

On a westward afternoon job to return empty A-frames to Mill 5, the Simpson switcher "lumbers" around a corner just before crossing bridge 2. The 10 mile trip to Dayton will take around 40 - 45 m... (more)

The 3876's crew is switching lumber loads out of the Shelton spur tracks then will back down and couple to the rest of the train at the pass before heading back to Elma.

It's a hot August afternoon and the 3876 is crawling up Maxwell Hill with two other GP38s on the return trip to Elma pulling loads from the Shelton Mill and garbage stacks from Belfair.

The mid-day job emerges cab forward out of the forest about 2 miles out from its return destination in Shelton.

In the first month of resuming normal operations after a line closure the mid-day log train nears Mill 5 at the end of the line. The 1201 is on the end of the train as a helper coupled behind two... (more)

It's been a while since this track was used. Simpson lost a bridge in 2008 and it was finally rebuilt in early 2010. #1201 is dragging a string of empty flat cars to the mill at Dayton. Off in the... (more)

High speed running! Simpson 1201 is delivering a string of empty flat cars to the mill at Dayton and is running around the cars in order to shove them into the mill. Is walking speed too fast? ... (more)