Weyerhaeuser Pacific Northwest Slideshow
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Among its many railroads nationwide, Weyerhaeuser had some very distinctive operations in the Pacific Northwest. From pure logging lines to Common Carriers, each had features that made them unique. Virtually everything seen in this slideshow is either gone or out of service.
What a great slideshow! I grew up in Klamath Falls, so this brought back many fond memories of when I worked in the woods in the '80s and early '90s. We were still hauling to the 500 reload, the 700 reload, the Camp 6 reload, and reloading at the Bly yard until 1990 when Weyerhaeuser ceased railroad operations. The Klamath Falls mill took 90 railcars of logs daily, in addition to several hundred log truck loads. It was a busy place! I'm fortunate to have been a part of it.
Cool Vid! I grew up in KFalls, and My dad worked for OC&E. This takes me back to simpler times.
Really great presentation. BTW, in the 1970's, the Milwaukee Road was a big player with the Columbia & Cowlitz RR. I remember seeing countless C&C boxcars go by on the Chehalis Sub where I lived as a child during the Milwaukee days. Also, the Chehalis Western that ran on the old Milwaukee Road only ran the Chehalis Sub but never got a train rolling out of Morton or Mineral. Also, the CWWR on the Milwaukee rails sported 4 brand new GP38-2's and I think 4 brand new International Wide Vision cabooses purchased in 1981. Some time in the latter part of the 1980's, 2 of those GP38's went south to another Weyerhaeuser operation as the Curtis reload was converted to a pole plant. This left only the Vail operation to yield just 42 daily log loads, leaving them with 2 surplus 38's.
Stephen Saasen I remember those log trains making the
Grade up to Mineral/Morton from Elbe. The rumble of those engines was impressive.
@@ronwasmund5247 I sure wish I would have been old enough to make it up that way to hear them pull the hill out of Elbe. I heard that sometimes they had to double the hill, leaving the 1st half at New Reliance and coming back to Elbe for the 2nd half. I sure wish Weyerhauser would have run log trains from Morton\Mineral. They sure spent enough cash rebuilding the bridge that burned over boxcar canyon on the Little Mishael River near Eatonville. Maybe they just felt they had spent too much already getting the Chehalis Sub up to par. They spent a lot of cash replacing countless ties between Tacoma and Chehalis and about 1982 replaced all the rail. I'm just not sure if it would have cost that much to get trains rolling to Morton. During the Milwaukee Road years, the traffic was much lighter that way and the track there didn't get the pounding that the Chehalis Sub did with 3 or 4 heavy Portland bound trains daily. Of course, it's all water under the bridge as all the cars are long gone and there isn't a single logging railroad in the area.
The CLC interchanged with the GN and NP as well at Rocky Point and with the NP and UP at Longview Junction. The latter-day (~1980) Chehalis Western utilized former MILW/Tacoma Eastern tks from Chehalis to Tacoma Tideflats to with export logs.
Wow! Great slides,thank you again the roll by with the FM pulling an may log train was amazing. Thank you. Mark
Awesome picture sideshow liked 🚄🚄👍
Great video! Enjoyed everyone’s comments.
Liked all the mow and other equipment pics.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the excellent video. Ive been looking for photos of the logging U25B’s
Best yet!! I love it
My dad is working on a project where this is
Epic music
Their fantastic ❤️🚂
Do you know if any of the equipment still exists ?
I believe the Alco C415 numbered 684 was part of a rebuilding program and ended up in a museum. Not exactly sure what the rebuild was about or which museum it may be in now. Perhaps someone can add some details to this.
The C-415 has been gutted from what I understand, and from what I remember that H12-44 from the end is still around.
@@ijarika7534 the FM engine is running still, I believe, at a museum that runs on former Northern Pacific rails out of Snoqualmie/North Bend to Snoqualmie Falls, WA. Mt Rainier Scenic RR near Elbe, WA I think still has a handful of the old wood beam log hauling spine cars. The C415 was gutted and the locomotive is on static display at a museum in Fife, WA. I know the C415 and caboose were hit by an empty log truck that ran the flashers at a crossing in Maytown in June 1992. It happened just a week after I rode thru the area in that very engine. It became part of the acquisition by City of Tacoma in 1995. Someone repaired the C415 and it worked the shop for awhile at Western Jct shuffling cars until it was retired. The damaged wide vision caboose was repaired and is still used by Tacoma Rail. All the log bunk cars that were originally built by the Milwaukee Road shops back in the early 1970's were cut up for scrap. Two of the GP38's went to other Weyerhauser ops in Oklahoma and Mississippi in the mid 1980's after the Curtis reload was converted to a pole production yard, making them surplus as only 42 log loads would then run out of Vail. The other 2 GP38's were sent to other operations in 1995. There are a handful of the Milwaukee Road built log cars that made it to the Simpson Logging operation in Shelton that they acquired from Weyerhauser and I believe those remaining cars have been preserved. A group of fans got together and acquired the railroad and equipment from the entity that bought the Simpson Logging RR and mills that shut the RR down in 2015. Simpson also had acquired one of the wide vision cabooses from the Chehalis Western they had bought new in 1981, identical to the one Tacoma Rail acquired, and should also be in the Simpson RR preserved collection. One thing the narrator was incorrect about - the Chehalis Western GP38's and the 3 or 5 wide vision cabooses were purchased new in 1981. Probably the only new equipment Weyerhauser ever bought. I think they had high hope for hauling logs by rail on a more permanent basis thru their network of the Milwaukee Road acquisition but it turned out to not be the great economic venture they wanted. Another note of interest. I was told the 3 digit number system Weyerhauser used on their locomotives gave the year the unit was acquired with the 1st two digits. #684, the C415, was acquired in 1968. The GP38's all had 1st 2 numbers 81 in their unit numbers - acquired in 1981.
@@stephensaasen8589 FM #1 is indeed at the Northwest Railroad Museum in Snoqualmie Washington, but sadly they never run it anymore and is instead a display piece. One of the staff members told me they don't want to risk it getting damaged in operation since it is so old or something along those lines. Makes me sad, I've been wanting to see it run for years :/
EDIT: Forgot to mention, look up fmnut's "Rare Diesels in the Northwest" video for a great clip of it in operation.
One of the Baldwin switchers that worked the Woods Line and Sycan Yard sits on display in Klamath Falls just west of where the main line crossed Washburn Way.
1:20 That is a lot of yellow paint in one place!
What’s the song?
Battlestar Galactica soundtrack.
@@fmnut ah thanks! Though what song specifically? Since that soundtrack is massive!
@@PlaneBoy2520 Do you have a specific time code in mind? There are at least 6 or 7 different tracks used in the video.
@@fmnut around 2:00
@@PlaneBoy2520 BSG Season 2 Soundtrack - Track 17 "Prelude to War"
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