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Re: Oregon Excursion Friday
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýCatching up a bit. ? Someone gave me the gift of a book about Santa Cruz county (CA) railroads, which were narrow gauge lines built to serve the logging industry.? This was in the late 1800s.? Once an area got clear-cut, the railroad was abandoned, sometimes after just a few years of operation. ? Phil Burton ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Tisdale via Groups.Io
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 3:51 PM To: [email protected]; Observation Car <observationcar@...> Subject: Re: [ObservationCar] Oregon Excursion Friday ? ? Thank you for the history of the OP&E ande OC&E, Jeff. I remembered the mills closing, but not the details of why they closed.? ?So, the OC&E's demise was just the timber being exhausted in its area because it was cut so quickly.? Short term profits, but then nothing.?? ? We've also lost McCloud, the Yreka Western, Almanor, Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe (a railroad whose name was almost longer than the railroad) and Amador Central, and NWP, all former lumber carriers.? California Western barely hangs on as? a tourist line and Sierra still hauls lumber.?? ? Mike Tisdale ? ? On Sunday, March 8, 2020, 11:30:35 AM PDT, Jeff Moore <mccloudrails@...> wrote: ? ? Yup.? In the case of the OP&E it was Bohemia's decision to close the sawmill that provided that road's only traffic base.? The OC&E was a bit more complicated and stems from a decision Weyerhaeuser made in the middle 1970s to change its forest management philosophy from uneven age stand management (selective logging) to even age management (patchwork clearcuts).? This transition would require them to clear all standing timber off their lands.? The resulting substantial traffic increase is why SP and GN sold the OC&E to Weyerhaeuser in the first place, the road would need some serious upgrades in order to handle the projected amount of traffic and neither of the big roads wanted to make that kind of investment.? The solution was to sell it to Weyerhaeuser and let them spend their money.? The OC&E's end came about when Weyerhaeuser literally ran out of trees to cut in their East Side Block timberlands, and it would be decades before enough trees would grow back. ? Enjoy the railroads you have while you have them, you never know what tomorrow might bring.? ? Jeff Moore Elko, NV ? ? ? On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 2:13 PM Mike Tisdale via Groups.Io <tisdalem2001=[email protected]> wrote:
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