Carlton & Coast

Company History: The C&CRR was established in 1910 by the Carlton Consolidated Lumber Company to move logs to the the company’s sawmill. This replaced a poorly planned splashdam operation that did more to wreck adjacent farms than it did to move logs. The mill was in Carlton, Oregon (on Southern Pacific’s St. Joseph Branch) and the railroad was aimed at the port at Tillamook. However, Pacific Railway & Navigation (a cousin of the SP) was also building toward Tillamook so the C&CRR had trouble funding the whole length. They built first to Pike, then into the North Yamhill River Canyon. They stopped at Tillamook Gate where they connected with a toll road to Tillamook. However, as soon as the Prwy&N was completed to Tillamook, the toll road closed and the C&CRR was cut back to the last logging branch. In 1914 the mill at Carlton burned down and business on the railroad all but stopped. After 8 years of little or no activity, the new Flora Logging Company took over the property in 1922. A new mill was built and for a time, 50 loads of logs per day were delivered to the mill. In 1933 The Great Tillamook Burn destroyed much of the original timber stands but a recently built branch to Neverstill was largely untouched. Logging efforts were concentrated there and soon they were loading 100 log cars per day. In 1939, just as wartime demand was picking up, another Tillamook Burn raged. This one was much smaller than the 1933 burn but this one hit the Flora Logging Company head on. 26 trestles and 10 locomotives were destroyed. For a few months the C&CRR moved cut lumber from the LHL Sawmill to the SP connection but that mill burned in 1940. The C&CRR was then abandoned.

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