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Oregon California & Eastern Railroad Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Track Layer |
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Weyerhaeuser was one of many logging railroads that used mechanized track layers to build and remove logging railroad spurs. Clyde Iron Works of Duluth, Minnesota, built most of the track layers used in
the industry. Track layers operated on steam provided by a locomotive, which extended the operating life of several logging steam locomotives that otherwise would have been replaced by diesels. |
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 Color shot of a Clyde track layer at work on the Weyerhaeuser railroad. Martin E. Hansen collection.  Another shot of the #6 working with the track layer. Jeff Moore collection. |
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A track layer from Weyerhaeuser's Klamath operations survives in the collection of the Collier Logging Museum near Chiloquin. Clyde built the machine as their Construction Number 6089 on 21 November 1923 for
the Phoenix Logging Company of Hoodsport, Washington, at an original cost of $4,895. Phoenix sold the track layer to Floyd Lamkin Machinery Company of Tacoma, Washington, who in April 1940 resold it to Weyerhaeuser
for use on the Klamath Falls operation.   |
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