?Current logging operations?

[Boyd]

Where are there logging operations going on right now? Any in the US? Any standard gauge?

[Boyd]

Anyone? Bueller, Bueller?

[Railway Man]

None left in the United States.  There are logs hauled by railroad, but no regular "railroad logging" operations as they were defined: logs yarded to a deck from a logging side and loaded directly onto log cars.  Weyerhaeuser and Simpson still operate private railroads that used to be logging railroads, long ago, but last I looked most of the traffic on them was roughcut lumber, plus some logs brought into a reload by truck from the logging sides. 

UP, BNSF, MRL, P&W, CORP, and others haul logs on a regular basis in the western U.S. 

RWM 

[nanaimo73]

Canfor (Canadian Forrest Products) still operates a logging railway here on Vancouver Island, north of Seattle.

http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=Vancouver;action=display;num=1081205768

[tatans]

Great photos, END OF AN ERA   hope they save some of the "stuff" for posterity !

[wgnrr]

I never really thought about it...there aren't any left. CanFor is in Canada, so that doesn't really count...

Phil

[CShaveRR]

I understand UP has been conducting quite an extensive logging operation in Oregon!

(Slip-sliding away),

[Bruce Kelly]

Not a straight-out-of-the-woods logging road, but St. Maries River Railroad hauls logs from Clarkia, ID, north to the big Potlatch mill in St. Maries, ID. Logs are trucked to the Clarkia sorting yard, forked onto cuts of log flats, and moved to St. Maries several times a week. Additional logs may be picked up en route. Some trips get up to 70 cars in length! STMA can best be described as a living museum of a former Milwaukee Road log branch, using rebuilt ex-MILW GP9s and ex-MILW friction bearing log flats. The only thing out of place is the ex-BN wide vision caboose bringing up the rear, but who could complain? And this past winter they broke out the ex-MILW spreader for the first time in many, many years to clear deep drifts.

[Pathfinder]

Canfor (Canadian Forrest Products) still operates a logging railway here on Vancouver Island, north of Seattle.

http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=Vancouver;action=display;num=1081205768

Quick update, in 2006 CanFor sold most of their coastal operations, including the railway, to Western Forest Products.  At this point in time, I have not heard any plans by WFP to close down the railway but with the extended poor lumber markets who knows what will happen.  We have lost over 10,000 forestry jobs in the last year, with over 30 mills shutdown or taking extended down-time.  The coast has been very hard hit by this.

Back on topic.  I will be in Campbell River at the end of next month, I will see if I can pop up to Woss and get some pictures on the weekend. 

[Sam I am]

I worked on the KCS out of Meridian, MS as a conductor.  There are all kinds of locals that run between Meridian and Vicksburg that have pole flats, wood racks, and pulp cars.  Here's how the cycle of business used to be.   On the Meridian speed way you would have all kinds of wood cars that went to Morton and Vicksburg to produce paper.  These locals would originate from all over Mississippi. Newton, Philadelphia, Artisa, and even Waynesboro. The loaded box cars full of paper  would go down to Gulfport to be loaded onto the empty banana ships that were headed to Brazil.  You need to understand that I worked for the KCS per Katrina.  I don't even know if the railroad in Gulfport has even been reopened up yet.  The logging industry was a huge part of the Midsouth and even the KCS business about 5 years ago.

[Murphy Siding]

Canfor (Canadian Forrest Products) still operates a logging railway here on Vancouver Island, north of Seattle.

http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=Vancouver;action=display;num=1081205768

We have units of Canfor  framing lumber stocked in our lumberyard.  I wonder if they came from Vaccouver Island?

[Pathfinder]

Canfor (Canadian Forrest Products) still operates a logging railway here on Vancouver Island, north of Seattle.

http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=Vancouver;action=display;num=1081205768

We have units of Canfor  framing lumber stocked in our lumberyard.  I wonder if they came from Vaccouver Island?

What species is it?  If not pine, then maybe but it would be rather old stock.  CanFor is still one of Canada's biggest lumber producers but most of their product comes from the interior of BC, not the coast like Vancouver Island.

[Murphy Siding]

Canfor (Canadian Forrest Products) still operates a logging railway here on Vancouver Island, north of Seattle.

http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=Vancouver;action=display;num=1081205768

We have units of Canfor  framing lumber stocked in our lumberyard.  I wonder if they came from Vaccouver Island?

What species is it?  If not pine, then maybe but it would be rather old stock.  CanFor is still one of Canada's biggest lumber producers but most of their product comes from the interior of BC, not the coast like Vancouver Island.

SPF (spruce-pine-fir) as I recall, but I thinl Canfor also mills cedar and studs.