Logging Railroads of Oregon

Logging Railroads.

Bridal Veil Lumber Company.
36in Gauge. Bridal Veil, Multnomah County. 1889 - 1924 (NG)

Leland Lumber Company.
36in Gauge. Operated a mill and short railroad from Leland Station on the Southern Pacific to the mill. Addtional track ran further into the woods, to a maximum length of 1.5 miles. The mill ceased operation in 1926. Leland, Josephine County. 1920 - 1926

Modoc Lumber Company.
36in Gauge. Established by J. O. Goldthwaith when he purchased a sawmill, built in 1916 by Wilbur Knapp, on the Williamson River, one mile north of Chiloquin OR. Reorganized around 1923 to become the Modoc Pine Lumber Co. After fire destroyed the mill in May 1925, the line was sold to Forest Lumber of Kansas City who rebuilt the mill and standard gauge operation. Near Chiloquin, Klamath County. Narrow gauge 1918-1925 - Standard gauge 1923 to 1939.

Yeon & Pelton Company.
42in Gauge. Organized in 1901 from the assets of the Star Logging and Lumber Company. The Yeon and Pelton logged the rugged hills south and west of Rainier, Oregon. In 1906 the company became part of the Portland Lumber Company, and later the Noyes-Holland Logging Company. Operations ceased in 1919 when the timberland was depleted. Rinearson Tract, Columbia County. 1897 - 1919