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Climax locomotive to move to Lumber Museum
What’s the timetable on the extensive new exhibit plan at Strasburg?
What an excellent idea? Never been to the Lumbermen’s Museum? You’re missing a lot including a Shay and a steam shovel/crane. A Climax added to the collection and display will fill in the story of equipment and how logs were moved in the woods of Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Yes, it is out of the way…but in a nice way…PA route 6 between Galeton and Coudersport. If a fan of trains, steam, and history, you cannot miss this museum. The scenery is fantastic no matter what time of year and the area just wreaks of oily coal smoke and sweat railroading and lumber hicks.
Henry Sommers, as an unintentional student of logging slang, co- worker , then pal, who had North End of the NWP engine service seniotity, i was educated enough to be able to talk “spar trees, lokeys, yarders, whistle punks,” but,Henry,
What is a “lumber hick(s)?”
Henry Sommers,
Unintentionally educated, worked on the NWP, engineer, Ican speak in “woods” lingo, I know the meaning of “spar tree, yarder , lokeys, whistle punk…”
Like that, but, Henry,
What are "lumber hicks?"i
Yes. Lumber hicks. A term applied to those who worked the forest camps in Pennsylvania and NY from the mid 1800’s to the virtual end of the hay day. Actually “wood hick” or “hic” was the more common term and also is the origination of the slang term “hick”.
Wait is it being restored there or just on display.