Living in Burnaby as I do, I sometimes head up toward Squamish on my motorbike and poke around the back roads/equipment yards. A couple of years ago I stumbled upon an old tracked yarder (it was yellow) parked down toward the BC Rail yards. It was in the process of being torn apart and so I scrounged the Madill builder plate off of it and it now adorns my basement wall. It reminded me of my first yarder - the J -139 at Sproat Lake, which was also a track machine back in '76. I had the pleasure of riding up in the front end of this thing with the operator when the brilliant idea was made to move it several miles on the mainline on its own tracks. For some reason the low bed wasn't called in. Well, we had this thing just a humming along, with the old pipe swaying in its saddle. We almost made it but managed to blow the transmission and so it spent its last year being dragged around by a cat from setting to setting. I also worked on another tracked Madill that was the J - 121. I don't remember what happened to these two machines in the end. Does anyone have a list of M & B equipment and their fate?
