British Columbia Logging Railways, Lumber and Paper Industries.

CFP 98 (later renumbered 251) one-of-a-kind diesel shay! 400 hp Cummins.
Built 1951 by Tyee Machinery, Vancouver using components of steam Shay locomotive.

Three views of tiny 7 ton diesel mechanical Plymouth DL2 1662 2/1924 ex Alberni Pacific 7
Three photos Jim Booth

This style of speeder was used by various BC logging railways to transport workers to logging sites.

CANFOR Northwood 104 NRE 2GS14B gen set 058-0209 12/10
Oshkosh, WI 1/2011 Dan Braun

CANFOR 103 still painted for Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. Fraser Flats (10km S/E P.Geo.) Acq. 10/89 (ex PAL 11, Iowa 11, nee MILW 650) SW1200 EMD #20080 12/54 Prince George August 17/1998 Mark Forseille

WRIX (D) 102 sold after delivery of new gen set unit. BNSF New Westminster Yard. Aug.6/2011 Andy Cassidy

CANFOR Northwood 102 (acq. 7/81) SW1200M rebuilt EMD 23451 4/59
Originally, CRI&P 517 SW EMD 709 3/1938 Rebuilt 5/71 SW900m RI 901
Shown after sale/trade in at Clearing Yard in Chicago.

Northwood Pulp & Timber 101 44-ton GE 17877 4/43 nee US Navy 65-00407 Naval Ammo Depot, Burns City, IN
Preserved 1993 Railway & Forestry Museum, Prince George. 6/16/2008 William Rogerson

British Columbia Forest Products Ltd. 9, 650hp 80-ton Whitcomb #60634 11/44 Crofton V.I. pulp mill
Acq. 1961, Ex Naval Supply Depot 9, nee USN 65-00342 US Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California.
R.Jowers/Joseph Testagrose Collection

BCFP 9 newly painted but not yet lettered. 11/20/1979 Crofton, VI Paul J. Crozier Smith

CANFOR 2 65-ton Atlas Car & Manufacturing Co. #2344 4/1943
nee US Army 7156 Anniston Ordnance Depot
Preserved 1990 Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum 6/16/2008 William Rogerson

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (CANFOR) 300 ex 95 (acq. 10/55) GE 45 ton OCC #13166 10/41
This unique Off Centre Cab unit was powered by a 340 HP Cooper-Bessemer diesel engine.
Used on Vancouver Island at CANFOR's extensive non-common carrier (logging) railway.
Shown here at Vancouver equipment dealer. March 1960 David M. More

Built for the US Govt. as QMC 4547 later, US Army 7428. Sold to Port of Olympia 5, Washington.
Sold 2/61 Jefferson Lake Sulphur 300, Fort St. John, BC. Disposal unknown.

CANFOR 303 one of only three GMD SW1200RS units equipped with dynamic braking all built new for CANFOR. .
GMD A1715 4/59 Beaver Cove VI 7/09/1982 Clayton Langstaff

CANFOR 304 ex 4804 (acq. 8/72 ex Georgia Pacific 1203 nee Coos Bay Lbr. 1203) Dynamic Brake equipped.
Re-engined 1997 with Cat 3512 SW1200 EMD 19663 9/1954 March 10, 1999 Dave Ames

Unique style of caboose. CANFOR 4101 Woss Camp September 15, 1998 Dave Ames

Loads of logs at Woss Camp September 15, 1998 Dave Ames

Catalyst Paper Corp. 1501 (acq.1996 ex SP 2598) SW1500 1500hp EMD #4608-8 10/71
New Westminster December 22,1998 Mark Forseille
Note: Previously Norkse Canada, Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd., BC Forest Products. Crofton, VI.

Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd. 14 acq. 9/23/68 ex CP 14 DTC-2 CLC #2992 3/58
July 21, 1973 Canal Flats Bill Hooper

Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. (Comox Logging & Railway) 4097 (ex D&H 4097)
acq. 5/73 through United Railway Supply (D)
Alco RS-3 Vancouver Island 7/14/77 Matt Herson/Joseph Testagrose Collection

Comox Logging & Ry (Crown Forest Industries) 8427 acq. 9/80 ex CPR 8427 RS-3 MLW 80992 3/54
Preserved 1986 by Ladysmith Historical Society, acq. 1994 by Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Society,
lettered for Alberni Pacific at Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, VI Wayne Merlo

Former Howe Sound Pulp & Paper 950-01, (ex CN 7935) Port Mellon.
SW900 900 hp GMD A1187 11/57 New Westminster. Sept. 11, 2002 Mark Forseille
Shown at Southern Railway of British Columbia shop it became (2005) SRY 001 slug.

MacMillan Bloedel 76-11 (ex 11-76) Port Alberni, acq. 10/75 GE 45-ton #17722 11/42
Built for US Army 7089 Ozark Ordnance Plant AK, 1975 to US Navy 65-00568 Jacksonville, FL
Preserved 1987, currently at Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, VI

Western Forest Products 302 (formerly, Canadian Forest Products 302) SW1200RS GMD A830 3/56
One of only three GMD SW1200RS units equipped with dynamic braking. Re-engined 1998 with Caterpillar 3512

Western Forest Products Inc. 303 still painted for CANFOR SW1200RS with DB GMD A1715 4/59

 

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