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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Oregon & Northwestern Railroad

Oregon & Northwestern Railroad

Moore, Jeff
Monger, Wayne

Paperback

Series: Images of Rail

TrainsGeneral PhotographyRegional: Pacific Northwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1467130478
ISBN13: 9781467130479
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Nov 4 2013
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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