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In 1936, Weyerhaeuser incorporated the Chehalis Western Railroad as a publicly regulated, common-carrier shortline to carry lumber and forest products over a 10-mile stretch of track from Chehalis, Washington to Ruth, Washington that Weyerhaeuser had purchased from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, also known as the Milwaukee Road.
Northern Pacific Railway: Chehalis and Cowlitz Railway: GN/ MILW/ NP/ UP: 1911 1916 Cowlitz, Chehalis and Cascade Railway: Chehalis Western Railroad: 1980 1992 Tacoma Eastern Railway: Chehalis Western Railroad: 1936 1975 Curtis, Milburn and Eastern Railroad: Chelatchie Prairie Railroad: CCPR 1981 1986 Lewis and Clark Railway: Chicago, Milwaukee ...
The $23,000 bridge was fully covered and completed by January 1926. Railroad companies, such as the Milwaukee Road and the Chehalis Western Railroad used the line through the bridge, often shipping timber for Weyerhaeuser Company. The bridge came under Weyerhaeuser ownership after purchasing the retired right of way in 1936.
Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. The Timeline of U.S. Railway History depends upon the definition of a railway, as follows: A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
Operations and excursions of the railroad are overseen by the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Museum (CCRM). The museum lost its liability insurance coverage in 2022 to operate the "excursion stream train" due to financial losses stemming from two collision accidents. [7] The museum reopened in 2023 and made repairs to the tracks and the train engine.
It occupies an abandoned railroad corridor that was once used by the historic Weyerhaeuser-owned Chehalis Western Railroad. The rail line was converted to a bicycle and walking trail and intersects with the 14.5-mile (23.3 km) Yelm–Rainier–Tenino Trail and the 4.7-mile (7.6 km) Karen Fraser Woodland Trail .
The railroad line may have passed through the ownership of the North Coast Power Company. Some of the track was taken over by the Cowlitz, Chehalis and Cascade Railway Company (CCCRC), a Weyerhaeuser Timber Company subsidiary, and a listing in 1931 mentions that the Twin City Railroad was owned in full by W.E. Brown, the company's president ...
In 1968, the Chehalis Western Railroad no longer operated in the Adna area and the last railroad to parallel current SR 6 was the Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad, [3] which runs from Adna to Chehalis. [4] [17] During the 1964 highway renumbering, PSH 12 was split into US 830, US 101 and SR 6.