Flash Dam-West Fork Interpretive Site is one of many interpretive sites on the forest. Floods and Flumes Transportation was a major cost in the production of railroad ties on the Bighorns. To reduce cost, companies had their ties stacked along nearby creeks. They built “splash dams” such as this upstream. When sufficient ties were stock piled, they opened the gates and flushed them downstream. Creeks carried the ties to small ponds where they could be fed into a system of flumes and loaded into…
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