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| Title | Mess hall crew and train crew in front of a rod locomotive at a railroad camp, Polson Logging Company, ca. 1930 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1930 |
| Notes | Caption on image: C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 46
PH Coll 516.2809 |
| Contextual Notes | Polson Brothers Logging Company began business in 1895 in Hoquiam. In 1903, the name was changed to Polson Logging Company. Polson was bought out by Rayonier in 1948.
The city of Hoquiam began as a manufacturing and export center for forest products, including pulp and paper, on the Hoquiam River on north side of Grays Harbor a dozen miles from the Pacific Ocean adjacent to Aberdeen in Grays Harbor County. With Aberdeen it continues to serve as the business and commercial center of southwestern Washington.
The conventional "rod" locomotive gets it's nick name from the side "rod" or metal bar that connects all of the drivers (driving wheels) to the steam cylinder. The drivers were fixed one in front of the other and could not rotate like the drivers sets or "trucks" on the the geared locomotives. This limited the sharpness of curves the rod locomotive could travel through on the railroad. The more drivers a rod locomotive had, the less it could tolerate the sharper curves on the railroad. The rod kept the drivers on one side moving in unison. The size of the drivers (sometimes taller than an adult person) was great for speed, but reduced the load carrying power of the engine.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Women--Washington (State)
Men--Washington (State)
Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Polson Logging Company--People--Washington (State)
Polson Logging Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
Polson Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Cooks--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Waitresses--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Locomotive engineers--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Locomotive firemen--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0524 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 2809
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
