RE: [CBQ] Flume for Burlington ties

["'Harold Huber' sarge9@bresnan.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

All,

Since I live in Sheridan I will enlighten you of the tie flume.  Many worked the woods for ties.  Today a few dams that headed up water to keep the flume full are available to to see.  The local museum has a diorama built by a local gentleman of the tresrle that shows in the photos, very well done.

Harold

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From the Wyoming State Historical Society’s site

Tie flume moves railroad ties

A much different kind of pipeline, the Tongue River Tie Flume carried 2 million railroad ties from the Bighorn Mountains to the Burlington Railroad for 20 years beginning in 1893. Ties moved at high speed down 38 miles of flumes across trestles and through tunnels in canyon walls. Workers’ camps were large mountain villages with schools and blacksmith shops. Learn more in writer Rebecca Hein’s article “The Tongue River Tie Flume” at http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/tongue-river-tie-flume

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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