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Railroad Logging

5-24-2022
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Notes

This image showing loading logs onto a logging railroad is signed “Dale Wonsyld” on the reverse. As you may recall he was the foreman at the Dee Mill, so it’s a safe bet that’s where these logs were headed. A combination of streams, flumes, and railroads brought logs to the mill.

Category: Dee
Tags: Dee, locomotive, Mt Hood Railroad, railroad, train, Wonsyld

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  1. Pattison Bill

    24th May 2022 @ 10:34 AM

    News is always important! !

  2. Barbara Parsons

    24th May 2022 @ 12:48 PM

    I'm with you, there, Bill. What would we do without reliable sources of news. I can't quite catch the connection to the locomotive and the lumber. Was the wood on its way to the paper mill?

  3. Barbara Parsons

    24th May 2022 @ 01:04 PM

    While I'm in an inquisitive mode here, how come every time I click on this blog it tells me that I visited it one day in March? I visit it every day.

  4. ArthurB

    24th May 2022 @ 02:25 PM

    That's a new one on me, Barbara! I think it is specific to your browser. The site does not record your visits, but your own web browser history will track your last visit.

  5. Cecelia

    24th May 2022 @ 02:32 PM

    Is it possible to identify the engine as belonging to the Mt. Hood RR?

    The role David Eccles played in the development of the Dee Mill, formerly Oregon Lumber Co., and the Mt. Hood RR makes one admire his business acumen and foresight. Owning timberlands at various sites in Oregon and Washington and sitting on the Union Pacific board he saw the potential for developing both enterprises simultaneously and had the Mt. Hood RR up and running by 1906.

  6. ArthurB

    24th May 2022 @ 03:05 PM

    Cecilia, I can't read a “MtHRR” on this locomotive, but the tender is #11 and seems to match other photos of Mt. Hood Railroad #11. The “Wonsyld” annotation on the back makes me more confident this is the Mt. Hood RR locomotive #11.

  7. Arlen L Sheldrake

    25th May 2022 @ 07:11 AM

    GREAT photo. I am also highly pleased that the MHRR has once again been saved by a local fellow (Scott Webster)…..the scrapper (grim reaper) was close.

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