Oregon & Northwestern

Company History: The O&NW was born in 1929 when the logging railroad holdings of the Edward Hines Lumber Company were divided with the 50 mile line between Hines and Seneca, Oregon split off from the Malheur Railroad (a private logging line) and declared a common carrier under the name Oregon & Northwestern. Traffic was mostly Ponderosa pine from the Bear Creek Valley. In the diesel era, the line was run with a trio of Baldwin AS616’s (setup like most Baldwin road switchers, with the long hood as the front) and a pair of Alco S3’s. Production from the mill peaked in 1962. The railroad closed in 1984 (about the time the Malheur Railroad logging line was wrecked by flooding) and in 1990 the O&NW was officially abandoned in place.

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