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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.
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.
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 .
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 and Puget Sound Railway: CM&PS MILW: 12/31/1908 1/1/1913 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Chicago, Milwaukee and ...
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.
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.
The Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District was originally owned by several prominent members of the Chehalis Land & Timber Company (CL&T), including the Coffman and Donahoe families, Daniel Millett of Millett Field, Chehalis civil servant William Muir Urquhart, and William West, namesake of W. F. West High School. West, along with the ...
He also served as mayor, councilman, and postmaster of Chehalis, Washington, where he lived and worked for more than fifty years. He was a merchant, banker, railroad entrepreneur, land developer and timber company investor. He was instrumental in planning the layout the business district of Chehalis in the early days of the city. [2]