It took considerable time and thousands of man-hours for the outside world’s railroads to reach Humboldt County in 1914. And even more money to keep that transportation system up and running. But, the ...

In the beginning, there was wood. From there came industry and the logging railroad. John Berg of Wisconsin Rapids has written a book about both in “The Lake Shore and Eastern — a Logging Railroad in ...

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 ...

Tracks Ahead is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

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 ...

Fans of railroad history won’t want to miss an event to benefit the Ferndale Museum, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Ferndale City Hall. North Coast historian Katy Tahja will discuss her new book “Logging ...

Coos County at one time or another had nearly 30 logging railroads, many following along routes cut by rivers and creeks. The longest of these was the Smith-Powers line, connecting Myrtle Point to ...

If you want to fully understand how the state of Oregon developed culturally and commercially, you need to understand the development of the state's system of railroads. That was a big part of the ...