The
MOVE... UPDATE: 2 February 2012
Weather: clear skies and
cool today with very wet and soaked ground (muddy). A lot of
trees & branches blew down during the January storms but no damage
to hardware at the museum.
Some local folks eather can not read english
or do not care that the site has been posted a "Demolition Site - Keep
Out" area. We have posted the signs only to have them torn down or
ingored by the public.
We just wish people would follow them for their own safety.
Move activity may resume later this month or
early March as both the weather improves and
time becomes more available in Willits for their crew to return North.
The enviromental clean-up assessement process started this last month and will continue while the move gets back underway. As noted below on this web site you may contact us at camp6museum@harbornet.com for more information.
As things start to move forward expect to receive "Update"
e-mails letting you know of changes. Thanks... RB
16 January 2012
As I write this today Jan 16th., Camp 6 is covered in Snow here in Tacoma and it is still snowing outside. Move and Clean-up operations have taken a Winter Break until around the First of February.
If you wish to be notified when updates are made to this site please e-mail me (camp6museum@harbornet.com) with your e-mail address and I will add it to the 100 plus others that get it now.
I blind carbon copy (BCC) my outgoing e-mails so as
not to advertise to others about whom I am sending to. This service
will run until the 14 acre Camp 6 Site is returned to Metro Parks
Tacoma (September 2012?) and then I will close it down. The domain name
< camp-6-museum.org > will be transfered to the Roots Museum at
that time until it expires in April of 2021.
See you in February! RB
28 Nov. 2011
Camp
6 is being dismantled and being moved to other museums and collections
here in Washington and in California. The 14 acre site must be returned
to
Metro Parks Tacoma by September 2012 (about 10 months from now) with no
sign that we existed in the Park for the last 47 years.
Major
Items to be moved in 2012:
• To Roots
of
Motive Power Inc., a logging
history museum located in Willits, CA. The Lidgerwood Tower Skidder,
Pacific Coast Shay No.7 (Build # 3346), 110'
Spar
Tree with rigging and two of the gray Kapowsin Bunk Buildings.
• To MRSR
at Mineral, WA. The Rayioneer
Caboose
No. 3.
• To Polson Museum in Holquiam, WA. The red Quinault Bunk House
along with the pair of Russel Wheel & Foundry design No. 55
disconnect trucks that it sits on.
• An 1880's NP Flat Car of the 155xx
series (with wood framed trucks) and a 41' Steel Log Car (ex. Box Car)
sn: NP 121143 may go to Toppenish, WA. to the Northern Pacific Railway
Museum there.
• Additionally, the Great Northern 40' Steel Flat Car with
Log Bunks sn: GN 68343 may go to the Northwest Railway Museum in
Snoqualmie, WA.
Major
Items moved in 2011:
Non-Equipment Items:
• Don Olson Paintings returned to his family and placed with
Weyerhaeuser Corporation Art Collection, Federal Way, WA.
• Polson Logging Company Photo Collection placed with Polson Museum,
Holquiam, WA.
• Washington Iron Works records, NW logging railroad records and other
logging company documents in museum collection placed with
Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, Burien, WA.
• All forestry educational materials placed with Green
River Community
College Forestry Club, Auburn WA.
Equipment an Buildings:
• 1
November 2011: Tacoma, WA... Wilkinson Hand Car, FM Speeder, Rockford
Speeder, Red Rail Inspection Bike and No.7 Shay parts (head lights,
number plate, builder's plate, whistle and other assorted parts)
departed for Willits, CA.
• 10 November 2011: Polson Logging Co. wood fired water heater manufactured by the Lamb Co. in Hoquiam, WA. returned to Hoquiam and the Polson Museum there.
Left - Maxed out Load - Disconnect Cars & Rider Car Truck on
trailer. §
Center - Rider Car.
§
Right - Rider Car being loaded for move. §
• 17
&
18 November 2011: Gibson
Speeder Trailer
Rayioneer sn:10-384, four each Nisqually-Russel Steel Disconnect Cars,
50'
Milwaukee Road (CB&Q) Steel Log Car sn: unknown, 40' NP 117504
Steel Flat Car with roof and benches (Rider Car) and 20 ton Whitcomb
Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive, build no. 40133, ex. Boise Cascade from
West Tacoma Mill in Steilacoom, WA. departed for Willits,
CA. Also Rayioneer's Northwestern Speeder sn:10-363, departed to the
Polson Museum in Hoquiam, WA.
Left - 70 ton Crane + Rider Car = Too Much ! §
Right - Whitcomb by
Truck to Willits. §
• 21
November 2011: Ex. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers 8 x 12 steam
powered pile driver engine mfg. by Clyde
Iron Works, Duluth, Minn. sn: 16157 & 16277, with sled sold to
Steve Buck &
moved to
Vancouver, WA.
Left - How to Pick a Cat Up. †
Right - By...
By... kitty Cat, all 25 Tons. †
Left - Is it Snow Time ? †
Center - 220 Hp, a little over-kill ya' think. †
Right - Snowmobile catching
air. †
• 21
thru
23 November 2011, completed the current scheduled moves. To Mt.
Rainier
Scenic
Railroad at
Mineral, WA. equipment moved included: RD8 Cat, Carco Arch, Loden
Snowmobile, four of the red Quinault Camp 14 Bunk Cars
(buildings only)
and one of the gray Kapowsin Bunk Buildings (#17) to MRSR's Elbe, WA
Train Station Site. The Quinault buildings will be set up as a logging
industry exhibit in the area of the MRSR's shop this next year. The
Kapowsin building will be used at Elby by the Green River Community
College Forestry Club to exhibit to the public the history of
Washington's timber industry past, present and future.
Left - Roof tarped for trip after 48 years at Camp
6. § Right - Sets down with
only inches to spare. §
Historic Note: This trailer may
be the one that was used to move Q. Bunk Buildings to Camp 6 some 48
years ago from Hoquiam, WA. Round
trip anyone!
Left - How to make a building shorter for road move. §
Center - Wrap the shingles so they don't fly off on the
Interstste. § Right - Two for the road ! §
Left - Moving
#2 to get at #17. † Center
- Huff
& Puff & a Little Lift - She's Moving. §
Right - Set
down and off to Elby for Kapowsin Bunk #17. §
NEW Point Of Contact for
the following Items:
Troy James, email: tmjames2003@yahoo.com or call:
1-707-972-9168 in Willits, CA.
• Need a Lift ? The 25 ton
Steam Powered Ohio Locomotive Crane, build # 3802 & vintage 1927,
is for sale. FOB C6*. Crane last ran on Steam in 1990's, and
last ran on compressed air
(375 c.f.m. rental compressor) early 2011. Have boiler papers and other
paperwork.
• Your Museum need 7000 feet of 72
pound rail (estimated),
joiners, tie plates, and five (5) switches ? Contact Troy.
• Also must go is 100' long by
12
foot high heavy treated wooden timbered railroad trestle and Engine
House building. Again FOB C6*. You dismantle & haul... contact Troy
for details.
• Disposition of other Major
Items
have not been determined to date. If there is something at Camp 6 that
your Museum or you may like to have contact Troy James, as the first
negotiated & paid price buys it. All sales are final, as-is and FOB
C6*.
Camp 6 Site will be
stripped-clean of all equipment, railroad materials and buildings prior
to End-of-September 2012, so now is the time to act on your needs.
Appointments:
Appointments to visit Camp 6 site to inspect equipment and buildings listed above may be made by contacting Rick Bacon at (253) 241-6476 (cell) or by email at: camp6museum@harbornet.com . Please, serious inquiries only, Thank You.
To
the Public:
Demolition
Permitting and Environmental Clean-Up issues are being addressed by
Site
Staff with advise from the City of Tacoma's Public Works Permitting
Office and other Regional and State agencies. Information requests
about this work may be made and comments addressed to: camp6museum@harbornet.com.
As to what becomes of the
vacated 14 acre Camp 6 site after September 2012... Only Metro Parks Tacoma can
answer that.
Notes: * = FOB shipping
point is Camp 6 Site, Pt. Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA.
† = Photo
Credit: Robert Beaucage, November 2011
§ = Photo Credit:
Rick
Bacon, November 2011
Thanks, and check back
later for the next "The MOVE... UPDATE:",
Rick Bacon, Webmaster
Santa Train this last
year-2011
Update: January 2012
The Camp 6 Santa Train is
alive and well, but not in the Pacific Northwest.
The railroad equipment used here for Santa Train has been relocated to
a
new home in Willits, California. December 2011 the "Roots of Motive Power"
Museum in Willits used the Rider Car in their Holiday Express Train.
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more Info.
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