ner-city industrial layout. The complex trackwork Simpson Timber is required to cross includes two sets of adjacent 90 degree diamonds, crossing the Puget Sound & Pacific main and their lead. Nearby sharper approach diamonds cross the PSAP again to allow access to interchange tracks and a partial wye leg. Although the Simpson may be small in stature, it stands tall with a robust traffic flow along its railroad. The in- flux of logs that are barged out of Cana- da in Puget Sound are loaded onto log bunk cars, and then hauled by the rail- road upgrade to Mill 5 at Dayton where they are rough cut into 2×4’s. The rough cut boards are then hauled by the railroad back downgrade to the main mill at Shelton for the dry kiln and planing. The finished lumber is then loaded onto center beam cars that the Simpson then interchanges with PSAP to interchange with BNSF or Union Pacific at Centralia, Wash. The Simpson operates up to three round trips per day between the two mills to provide water logs and rough- cut lumber and to shuttle empty center beams back to Mill 5 for loading. The
RIGHT: Rusty from a day without trains the Puget Sound & Pacific main line through Shelton is temporarily blocked as a Simpson switcher bangs across the diamonds. BELOW: A train of rough cut timber is inbound to the main mill at Shelton while Simpson 1202 waits its turn.
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