In the mid-1940s, Weyerhaeuser alone operated 699 miles of logging railroad in Washington. Today, only a few lines survive, writes author Gary Durr of Vancouver.

Logging and railroad historian Eric Erickson will explore the Siler operations in detail at 10:30 a.m. on March 8 at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 N.E. 80th St.

The Washington Park & Zoo Railway is the last operating United States railroad to continously offer mail service, with its own authorized railway postal cancellation.

It shows a railroad depot and logging train at Powers (undated). Contributed Photo Undated photo No. 992-8-0305 was provided by the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — For 47 years, the Camp 6 Logging Museum at Point Defiance Park has kept a window open on Western Washington’s steam-logging history. But that window soon might close.

Latest photo book provides a glimpse of that long-ago era It took considerable time and thousands of man-hours for the outside world’s railroads to reach Humboldt County in 1914. And even more ...

Barkley is the 54-year-old shop superintendent of the Cass Scenic Railroad, a state park in the Alleghenies about five hours south of Pittsburgh or west of Washington, D.C. Barkley has worked ...