Mosquito and Coal Creek Logging Railroad

Route length:

16 km

Maximum slope :

50 ‰

	16	End of the main line (1904)
		End of the branch line (1904)

		Eufaula Heights

	0	Coal Creek Slough
		Columbia River to Astoria

The Mosquito and Coal Creek Logging Railroad was a 16-kilometer private narrow gauge - forest railway in Eufaula in Cowlitz County in the State of Washington of the United States .

history


At Coal Creek Slough, the tree trunks were rolled into the Columbia River and shipped as ocean-grade, cigar-shaped rafts

construction

The alignment for the route construction with a maximum gradient of 50 ‰ began on January 2, 1883. The first steel rails weighing 17.5 kg (56 lbs / yd) per meter were laid in the same year. The first train left on October 13, 1883.

business


Rattler ( Rassler ) saddle tank locomotive in the lumberjack camp and on a wooden trestle bridge

BF Brock operated his narrow-gauge forest railway in Coal Creek near Eufaula from 1883 to June 30, 1904, when it became part of the Eastern & Western Lumber Company. It led from a logging camp on Eufaula Heights downhill into the valley of the Columbia River to Coal Creek Slough , where the logs were rolled into the water and towed as ocean-grade, cigar-shaped rafts for marketing in the coastal cities of California. In 1896 the route was 5 km long, in 1901 it was already 13 km and finally in 1903 even 16 km.

takeover

The company was renamed the Eastern & Western Lumber Company on July 1, 1904. She leased the forest railway to the independent Eufaula Company. The network was expanded to 19 km by June 30, 1910 and to 24 km by 1923. In the meantime, Mosquito Creek has been renamed Harmony Creek.

Shutdown

The Eastern & Western Lumber Company was dissolved in 1926.

Rail vehicles


The steam engine Ant ( ant ) was the first to be built on the Pacific coast locomotive

The steam locomotive Ant ( Ant ) was a two-axle steam locomotive with a 0-4-0T wheel arrangement manufactured by the Fulton Iron Works in September 1871 . She had a displacement of 6 × 12 inches (150 × 300 mm) and a weight of 7 tons. She was used from February 1878 first as No. 5 on the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad and then from November 1880 as the first No. 5 on the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad . It was sold to Ordway & Weidler of Oak Point, Washington , in May 1883 , before being acquired by BF Brock for the Mosquito & Coal Creek Railroad in October 1883 for $ 2,000 . It was decommissioned in 1890 and exhibited by WH Williamson in Stella from 1993 . It was founded in 1923 by Long-Bell Lbr. Co. in Longview and bequeathed it to the Longview, Portland and Northern Railway in 1924 before coming to Longview, where it was exhibited and shown at parades. It was stolen from there and finally scrapped in 1937.

The second locomotive was a larger, three-axle, 0-6-0ST wheel arrangement steam locomotive manufactured by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1890 weighing 12.8 t (28,000 lbs).

Shay - geared locomotive with two bogies, around 1921

In 1901, the BF Brock Logging Company acquired a new Shay - geared steam locomotive with two bogies and the serial number 272 of 1901. She had a weight of t 60 and drive axles with a diameter of 740 mm (29 inches). Further locomotives were procured after the takeover.

On June 30, 1910, the Eastern & Western Lumber Company had a fleet of three geared locomotives, two conventionally coupled locomotives, 40 long timber bogies and nine flat cars.

Web links

Commons : Mosquito and Coal Creek Logging Railroad - Collection of Images

Commons : Eufaula Company - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Dennis Weber, Karen Dennis and Sue Maxey: Longview. Arcadia Publishing, 2012, p. 38. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Donald B. Robertson: Eastern & Western Lumber Company. In: Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Oregon, Washington. Caxton Press, 1986, p. 213. Retrieved on August 13, 2018.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Volume III-Oregon & Washington, quoted in Mosquito and Coal Creek logging railroad, Washington. Transpress NZ. November 1, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
↑ John Taubeneck: Quaint veteran among locomotives: "The Ant," the first locomotive built on the Pacific Coast Which was one of the first engines operated by what is now the Pacific Coast Railroad. Black Diamond History, January 28, 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2018.

46.2 -123.016667Coordinates: 46 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ N , 123 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ W.

[Weber-1] A ^b ^c Dennis Weber, Karen Dennis and Sue Maxey: Longview. Arcadia Publishing, 2012, p. 38. Retrieved August 13, 2018.

[Robertson-2] A ^b ^c ^d Donald B. Robertson: Eastern & Western Lumber Company. In: Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Oregon, Washington. Caxton Press, 1986, p. 213. Retrieved on August 13, 2018.

[Transpress_NZ-3] A ^b ^c ^d Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Volume III-Oregon & Washington, quoted in Mosquito and Coal Creek logging railroad, Washington. Transpress NZ. November 1, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2018.

[4] John Taubeneck: Quaint veteran among locomotives: "The Ant," the first locomotive built on the Pacific Coast Which was one of the first engines operated by what is now the Pacific Coast Railroad. Black Diamond History, January 28, 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2018.