Abandoned locomotives at Tillamook Bay

Very few of the buildings from the base still exist at Tillamook, I've been there a few times (it's not really on the way to much of anywhere). The 'abandoned' RR stuff isn't abandoned at all, it's in storage (mostly from the Port of Tillamook Bay RR). Most of the stuff in those shots are very much from the post-Navy era there. No planes are abandoned there at all, there's an airplane museum in the one surviving blimp hangar and all those are being moved to Madras. http://www.tillamookair.com/

I'm sick to death of people posting photos of museum and personal storage online and listing it all as 'abandoned' when it is rarely the case at all. Heck, I saw last week where someone posted shots of 'abandoned' locomotives... which were in fact in the storage area behind the RR museum of PA at Strasburg!

I recognized "Simpson" on the caboose as a former logging co. in the the northwest,

which is a clue that it was not part of WWII.

Ironically, Simpson's logging railroad had it's final run ever this week: http://www.trainorders.com/dis...hp?10,3765569,page=1

Nobody is talking about the future of the line and the equipment. Simpson sold the Shelton, WA mill and everything with it to another company and fans around the area are doubtful that the new owners will be running trains.

This was the last company-run logging railroad in America.

More info on the Tillamook and Simpson operations can be found here:

http://www.brian894x4.com/POTBrailroad.html

and

http://www.brian894x4.com/SimpsonTimberRailroad.html

The last logging RR in America, but there still is one in Canada.  It runs on Vancouver Island, north of Victoria (north end of the island actually.)  I'll mention you can ride a real logging train pulled by a cool steam engine--the Port Albirni RR.  It goes from the port to a preserved logging camp/mill.  If you're up around Vancouver, it's worth a visit.


Kent in SD