The Oregon & Northwestern was the logging railroad operated by the Edward Hinds Lumber Company. The line is gone now but here are the Baldwin AS-616's used between Burns and Seneca.
Almost anything and everything you ever wanted to know about the O&NW... http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/onw.html I have those same photos posted on one of my pages...photographer is Cliff West. Jeff Moore Elko, NV
Always loved these! Ever since I saw two of them at the Western Pacific Museum in Portola. Thanks Cliff!!
Approximately 26.6 miles of the old Burns branch remains intact and has been operated since around 1989 by the Oregon Eastern Division of the Wyoming-Colorado Railroad. They interchange with the UP in Ontario, and most of their business comes from an Eagle-Pitcher diatomaceous earth plant at Celatom, which is the end of the line west of Vale. Operations are based at Vale. Their motive power is a pair of EMD GP-7's...one of them an ex-Toledo, Peoria & Western unit and the other an ATSF rebuild that spent some time on the Grand Canyon and Southwestern railroads before coming to Oregon. I have a page on this operation on High Desert Rails as well at: http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/wyco.html Jeff Moore Elko, NV
O&NW AS-616's The four AS-616's were photographed by me in January 1974 on the mill property. Note the ice in the photo of #2. It was about 15F or so that day. The day before I had been in Prineville photographing the City Of Prineville Ry. Must say that Jeff's High Desert Rails site is excellent and has about the best information I've come across. Keep up the good work.
mg:WOW!!!mg: And to think I lived in Pendleton for 10 1/2 years (1970-Nov.1980); fished Strawberry Lake area on occasion; visited and camped just north of John Day; chased UP trains up and down I-84 (then I-80N); visited Sumpter Valley Railroad; but I had NO IDEA the O&NW even existed!! Thanks fellas for the history and pictures ... and I've learned my "lesson" too: If it even "looks" historical(?) I'm taking all the pictures I can when I see it; before it's too late and gone!! :embarassed:
Sure never hear of that OE operation. Must be a well kept secret. I'll bet that few railfans even get to their area. Boxcab E50
It pays to 'snoop' around to find out what exists beyond the front door! I wonder if any of those roads would allow one of you to make a documentary movie of their operations? It could show some of the equipment, people, and cargo, as well as buildings, and maybe even get you a cab ride or so. Pentrex buys those if pretty well done.
