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- čas přidán 10. 11. 2012
- Weed & Tenant - last of the steam railroad days - rescued from Black Butte Dump years back from a Video Cassette and converted to digital. Shows logging train leaving Weed to Tenant, rail construction, cutting trees with electric chainsaw, taking logs via tracked arch behind a bulldozer to landing, loading with McGriffert loader, and hauling to Tenant, some camp scenes including meal, train of logs heading to the Long-Bell Sawmill in Weed California. There is NO SOUND, as it was originally recorded with a 16mm camera.The years and seasons are unknown. It is understood the company photographer died and the family took all his films to the dump. Had I known that those reels of 16mm film contained the information they did, I would have grabbed them too but it was too late when I discovered what was there and the landfill bulldozer had buried them that night.
Memory Lane, my dad worked at Long Bell Lumber and we lived in Weed and Mt. Shasta from 45 to 55. Great place to grow up.
My dad logged at Tenant in the early 60's - the roundhouse was being used as a repair shop and the big Buda diesel was still there to provide electricity. The houses were being repaired for retirement homes.
Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada, resident , great film what a treasure, the age of steam power!. First growth logs,a thing of the past! No sound needed come from generations of rail road Engineers and Trainmen brings back many childhood
memory's of steam engine rides with my Grandfather and father! Such a loss to end up in a dump.
This is incredible. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you so much for sharing this glimpse into the logging world. What a great film!
Stephen thanks for sharing this video. What a gem. As a current home owner in Tennant this really shows the history of the area.
Amazing video.. All my life I've head my mom and dad talk about living in Tennant, CA during the late 40's and early 50's. I stumbled across this film clip and showed it to my 89 year old dad today. He and many others came to Tennant from Missouri for work back in those days. He said this video shows the bunk houses and mess hall at camp 1 where the loggers would stay during the week. The other clips are from the areas they were logging out of camp 1 that was about an hour or more down the track. The workers would ride the train back home to Tennant for the weekend then back to the camp on Sunday evening for the next week of logging. I sat and watched it with him as he named every piece of equipment they were using, he also was looking intently at the video to see if he could recognize any of the workers. He said it was hard to tell from the quality of the video. He mostly skidded logs with a bulldozer to the train track to be loaded using a jammer, the large crane like machine that straddled the train and lifted the logs and stacked them. The train I guess was called a mallet but he called it malley, so I'm guessing the T is silent. My dad ended up moving from the timber to the roundhouse as a blacksmith working on steam locomotives. The roundhouse is where the trains would come into Tennant and turn around to go back to the logging camps or to Weed, CA. They had a big shop there where a lot of the equipment repairs would be done. He ended up working for International Paper at the Weed location as a welder and blacksmith until they moved back to Missouri in the 60's. Thanks so much for posting this, I have been sharing with many friends and family here in Missouri who had family members who lived and worked in Tennant back in the day. I was born in Mt. Shasta but lived in both Weed and Mt. Shasta until we moved to Missouri when I was a child.
By the way, my dad worked in camp 1 from 1947 to late 1950 and in then in the Tennant roundhouse in 51' and 52'. He is convinced this video was taken during the time he was skidding logs in the late 40's. He had friends, cousins, and a brother all working in or near camp 1 during that time. They all lived in Tennant
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What a cool old film! I grew up in Klamath Falls and hauled logs over many of those former Long-Bell railroad grades. In many places along the right-of-ways the ties are still lying in the brush where they were thrown when the rails were pulled up in the 60's. The loader they showed on the film was a swing-boom McGiffert. They were built by Clyde Iron Works and were popular on both Long-Bell's and Weyerhauser's operations. The film showed the loader arriving on a flatcar, but they also had lowerable chain-driven railroad axles so they could move along the tracks under their own power. They were really slow though, so any movement longer than a mile or two meant moving them by flatcar just to save time. I love this old stuff!
Ron I can tell you Tennant is still there. I worked for the Forest Service near Tennant 1977-1981 and fell in love with the area. In 2013 my Wife and I purchased one of the original homes and use it as a vacation cabin. This video was phenomenal and gives me a flavor of those hardworking loggers back in the day when Tennant was thriving
I worked with a 70+ year old guy, back in 1994, during the election. He called them Mallay's also. I even asked him if he meant Mallet, and he said no. They called them Mallay's. The railroad he worked on in the '30's & 40's had 3 of them. He also ran a landing craft (LCVP) during WWII.
My blood froze when I read "landfill bulldozer had buried them that night." Absolutely heartbreaking.
Very nice footage!
I remember living in Tennant in the early 50s. And going to school in the 2 room school house. Grades 1-8 with the older students going to Dorris via bus. The teachers were a married couple, Mr. (grade 5-8) & Mrs. (grade 1-4) Chronister (I can remember then but not last week!). The Catholic priest had mass on Saturday mornings. My Dad was working there in the late 40s and met my Mother in Klamath Falls; she was a waitress at the Pelican Cafe. They moved to Oregon for a while where I was born (I think there was a strike or something like that) and then moved back. I remember picking choke cherries for 10 cents a quart from the older ladies and we learned the berries were better cooked. We kids bicycled everywhere as we were free range kids and playing cards with a clothes pin made a lot of neat noise from the spokes. We made neat stuff in the Cub Scouts for our Moms. I had my first library card when I was 8 as my Mom was the volunteer librarian. I remember the bar at Bray that we kids had to wait outside while our Dads had a beer there; the generator there had no muffler. And, best of all, was the train ride from Bray to Dunsmuir on the Shasta Daylight. Our house was right next to the railroad tracks and the engineer and others would toss apples or oranges to us as we watched from the back yard. Heat was by propane tanks in the yards. Later we moved to Weed where we lived on Rabbit Flat Street until the company moved the houses so my Dad moved us to Mount Shasta rather than purchase the company house. So a little history from a kid's perspective. Oh, yes, first aid was the nearest house where the lady had bandaids and Merthiolate, lots of Merthiolate, for us.
Ahhh man! I was born in the 80s but sure would of love living in does great days!
Thanks for posting. I picked cones and worked on ponderosa pine test plantations for the USFS in the 1990s around Tennant and McCloud. I still remember the thick dust from that volcanic soil when it dried out in the summer.
amazing seeing those giant trees being tossed around by the crane!
Thanks for sharing. Great piece of history!
Thanks! Sad to hear how much was buried needlessly and thoughtlessly.
Wow! What an awesome find and rescue... Makes we wonder what other fine video pearls of Siskiyou History has been lost in the trash piles? Really neat to see the old ArchBars and McGriffs in action. Brave Tough Men, too. Had to keep your head on a swivel and your wits about you at all times working around that stuff. OSHA would have a meltdown if that was the logging technology of today.
Would like to make a small correction on the chain saw
The saw is hydraulic operated the hydraulic pressure is provided by the dozer kinda rare honestly
Amazing video my friend
Great vid ! Thanks !
How have I not seen this sooner????
06jan2022, quinta, 15h44
Assistindo primeira vez hoje.
Four whacks to drive a spike.
Drycreek Dave, In the early 1970's I worked for the USFS and we stopped in at the general store "cafe" on occasion. It was much like Galice Oregon was like in the early 1960's when I worked for the Oregon State Forest Service out of Soldier Camp Guard Station. No places like that anymore, to my knowledge.