Caption: On northern Vancouver Island, Canadian Forest Products had a spur eastward from Woss to a road-to-rail log reload at Crowman Lake (which CFP spelled Croman), passing along the north side of Hoomak Lake around the halfway mark, thus the H-Line name of that spur. On Wednesday 1979-08-29, dynamic-brake-equipped SW1200 301, new to CFP in 1956, handled a long string of skeleton log empties by Hoomak Lake enroute the Croman reload, with Mount Markusen prominent in the background.
This H-line spur is the same line where a multiple-fatality runaway of loaded log cars occurred closer to Woss on 2017-04-20 (https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2017/r17v0096/r17v0096.html) which resulted in the total shutdown of that railway (then the Englewood Railway of Western Forest Products) as announced on 2017-11-07.
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Nice photo. The railway has been completely lifted except the north end at beaver cove where these cars are stored.
Great shot. This is a line I wish was still in operation.