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Oregon & Northwestern Railroad

By Jeff Moore; Wayne I. Monger

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781439644249, 9781467130479, 2013933773
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
34 MB (35510255 bytes)
Series
Images of Rail
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-15 02:31:36
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agency's history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine timber in the mountains north of Burns, Oregon. Among other requirements, the sale terms required the successful bidder to build and operate 80 miles of common carrier railroad through some of the most remote and undeveloped country in the state. The Fred Herrick Lumber Company and its Malheur Railroad initially won the bidding, only to lose it when a crash in the lumber market forced the company into insolvency. The Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago picked up the pieces, and from 1929 until 1984, its subsidiary Oregon & Northwestern Railroad made a living hauling logs, lumber, and occasional livestock between Burns and Seneca, Oregon.

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