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Along The Line:
Kinyon |
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Henry W. Brueckman snapped this photograph of
Camp Kinyon from a passing excursion train in 1962. The main part of the camp is visible to the right, with
the cookhouse just to the left of the railroad cars and the roundhouse at the extreme left. Rail operations
based out of this camp had been discontinued two years prior to these photographs. The two cars on the siding are the cat
doctor cars- a 2000-series tank car that has had one half of the tank body removed and replaced with a
large storage box and a tool car. Together the two cars carried all the fuel, spare parts, and tools needed
to service and make field repairs on the lumber company's fleet of tractors. Jack Neville collection. |
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Another shot of Camp Kinyon taken by Henry W. Brueckman
from a passing excursion train in 1962. The roundhouse and locomotive servicing facilities are on the left.
The railcar in the center of the photograph is the Red Goose, the home-built railbus that once carried loggers
out into portions of the woods inaccessible by rubber tired vehicles. By this late date the railbus had been
long since abandoned, and within two years of this photo the camp would be closed and demolished. Today only
the hulk of the railbus remains, and the thicket of new trees nearly blocks the car from view. |
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Two views of the water tower in Kinyon immediately after its construction and before the spout had been installed.
Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center |
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In 1964 John Cummings wandered around the recently emptied camp and shot some
pictures shortly before the lumber company demolished the structures. |
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Jeff Moore collection. |
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Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center |
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Closer view of the engine house, fuel oil tank, and Red Goose. Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center |
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Kinyon today is mostly a thicket of young trees with a few remnants of the camp still visible, such as this tank. Jeff Moore. |
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The Red Goose in 2011. Jeff Moore. |
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