September 13, 1991 was a perfect late summer morning in Sycan, Oregon. Weyerhaeuser was beginning the process of moving all rolling stock off the Oregon, California & Eastern prior to abandonment.... (more)
A Southern Pacific work train departs Sycan Shop on the abandoned Oregon, California & Eastern with a trainload of salvaged track material.
Locomotives from the Weyerhaeuser Woods Line and the Oregon, California & Eastern prepare to switch out stored cars. Abandonment of the railroads was pending, so all rolling stock was to be moved ... (more)
Locomotives representing Weyerhaeuser's Woods Line and Oregon, California & Eastern switch stored cars at Sycan. Before the OC&E was abandoned and dismantled, all rolling stock was moved off-line.
Before the OC&E was abandoned and dismantled, all rolling stock was moved off-line. The power and caboose used for these moves returns to Sycan Shop for another train of log cars to take to Klamat... (more)
An excursion train on OC&E sponsored by Pacific Northwest Chapter NRHS and Great Western Tours is spotted at the Sycan log reload.
Stored equipment of the Oregon, California & Eastern awaits a call to duty that will never come. The railroad began moving all rolling stock off the line shortly afterward, in preparation for aban... (more)
When the Weyerhaeuser Woods Line and the east end of the Oregon, California & Eastern were scrapped, the salvaged materials were sorted at Sycan. Dismantler A&K Railroad Materials used the old log... (more)
The westbound Bly Turn rolls along the Sprague River on a spring day in 1986.
The empty log cars are seen being hauled north out of Sycan on the "woods line" by the lines 3 Baldwin engines.