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Big Creek & Telocaset Railroad
Equipment

A mill switcher or speeder, apparently converted from a truck chassis, in Pondosa on 7 July 1956. Ivan Ergish photo, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.

Another view of the mill switcher/speeder. Ivan Ergish photo, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.

BC&T's Northwestern speeder on a siding along the line on 7 July 1956. Ivan Ergish photo, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.

An old bunk car, a speeder, and some other scattered shacks at "Jap Camp" on 7 July 1959. Ivan Ergish photo, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.

Big Creek & Telocaset tank car #X-3 in front of the old enginehouse at Pondosa on 30 June 1952. Ivan Ergish collection, reproduced from the Winter 2000 issue of Tall Timber Short Lines magazine with permission.

Big Creek & Telocaset snowplow at Pondosa on 7 July 1956. Ivan Ergish photo, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.

A second view of the plow, this one showing the cat tracks and other scrap steel loaded onto the plow to add weight. Ivan Ergish photo, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.

The following five views are all of former camp/outfit car bodies Collins set up for use as housing in Pondosa after the logging railroad closed, all taken 10 June 1959. Ivan Ergish photos, John Henderson collection, courtesy Pacific Northwest Virtual Logging Data Center/Glen Comstock.