One of the last logging railroads in North America ended a century-long run Nov. 6 as Englewood Railway ceased operations on Vancouver Island off Canada’s West Coast. “This announcement is consistent ...

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In the past few months, three new well-illustrated books about local history have hit the shelves. One tells about Kalama, which a century ago was the Cowlitz County seat and had more residents than ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three columns devoted to Ronald C. Sullivan's "If Rails Could Talk." It’s not unlikely that down through the years as many or more books have been published about ...

Visitors to Townsend now see the shops, the lodging, the restaurants and the natural beauty. Once upon a time, however, the area was the site of a thriving logging industry and a railroad built ...

As late as the 1920s there were still many huge, old growth trees in the area east of Redmond and logging was dominated by the Siler Logging Company. Felled trees were taken north by means of a ...

TOWN OF LLOYD — The Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society (TOLHPS) will bring back popular historian John Duda to talk once again about railroads. But this time, the man who recently shared ...