Comments on: 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. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jacob Patterson http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=53462#comment-59475 Jacob Patterson Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:25:03 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1979-08-29_cfp301-eastward-empties-along-hoomak-lake_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x1910-pixels.jpg#comment-59475 Great shot. This is a line I wish was still in operation. Great shot. This is a line I wish was still in operation.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=53462#comment-59474 Stephen C. Host Mon, 11 Dec 2023 01:53:13 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1979-08-29_cfp301-eastward-empties-along-hoomak-lake_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x1910-pixels.jpg#comment-59474 Nice photo. The railway has been completely lifted except the north end at beaver cove where these cars are stored. Nice photo. The railway has been completely lifted except the north end at beaver cove where these cars are stored.

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