Tie Hack Memorial

The bronze is dated 1946, though the carving above it was set up and dedicated in 1948. It is a three-and-a-half-ton block of Indiana's Bedford limestone, cut in relief by Boris Gilbertson, then 37 and the son-in-law of Ricker Van Metre, president of the Wyoming Tie and Timber Company that paid for it: a hack with broadaxe and saw, a skidding team behind him, a river man with a pike pole. In the war years before it went up, about 140 German prisoners of war from a camp on Little Warm Springs Creek also worked as tie hacks.

What the plaque says

Erected to perpetuate the memory of the hardy woods and river men who made and delivered the cross ties for the building and maintenance of the Chicago and North Western Railway in this western country Wyoming Tie & Timber Company 1946

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Union Pass — 7.8 mi
• Union Pass — 7.8 mi
• Dick Turpin — 22 mi