Contract Logger
Senior Member
OK Here it is. Post your pics of Weywerhaeuser logging equipment and operations from any age or location in this thread. I have hundreds, OK, maybe thousands, and as I find and scan them I'll post, so keep checking this thread for the next 5 years or so.......
Here's a starter pic: KW C500 at Longview Washington- pulling a train from Coldwater Satellite Yard to Camp Baker, about 1975. They had lots of these.
Logs were hauled by singles --or salamanders from the tower landings off the mountaintops down to these satellite/surge yards. 8 or 10 trips per truck, only 5 to 10 mile hauls. Logs were unloaded and sorted at the surge yards.
From the surge yards down the mainlines they ran these truck-trains. Hauls ranged 15 to 35 miles (one-way), but flat easy fast trucking!
At Baker, logs were re-loaded onto the Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad for the 40-mile trip to Longview.
Here's a starter pic: KW C500 at Longview Washington- pulling a train from Coldwater Satellite Yard to Camp Baker, about 1975. They had lots of these.
Logs were hauled by singles --or salamanders from the tower landings off the mountaintops down to these satellite/surge yards. 8 or 10 trips per truck, only 5 to 10 mile hauls. Logs were unloaded and sorted at the surge yards.
From the surge yards down the mainlines they ran these truck-trains. Hauls ranged 15 to 35 miles (one-way), but flat easy fast trucking!
At Baker, logs were re-loaded onto the Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad for the 40-mile trip to Longview.