From the Archives: Logging railroad photo
(Photo courtesy Washington State Digital Archives) Washington’s timber industry is a colorful part of our pioneer heritage, with logging still employing thousands of people in the woods or in mills, or delivering logs to mills or ports. In the days before trucks handled the task, logging railroads were used to move the fallen trees from forests to lumber mills and other destination points. An example is shown in the photo above, as a train engine stands by as a topper…