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Oregon California & Eastern Railroad Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Snowplows |
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Sometime at or shortly after the Klamath operations started up Weyerhaeuser either bought or built three "snow dozer" type snowplows equipped with both front mounted plow blades and wings that
could be used to push snow away from the tracks. Weyerhaeuser originally numbered these cars #721, #722, and #723. The company sold the #721 sometime around the early to middle 1970s and renumbered
the remaining two to #031 and #032. All three of the plows survive as of this writing (2025). |
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#721  #721 in Sycan in the spring of 1959. The first windows in the carbody immediately behind the cab on this plow were located just below the cab roof, on the other two plows that window was located lower on the carbody, the #722 on the right side only and the #723 on both sides. Jerry Lamper photograph.  #721 at Horse Glade in June 1976. Jack Bowden photo.  The #721 spent a couple decades in private ownership in the Pine Grove area before being conveyed to the Friends of Collier Park, who arranged with Oregon State Parks to restore the plow and display it on the OC&E grade at Olene in 2013. Jeff Moore photo. |
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#722/#031  Plows #722 and #723 at Sycan on 23 August 1973. Note the absence of the first window behind the cab on the left side of the #722. The other major spotting difference between then is the smoke jack, on the #722 it's located on the left side of the carbody, on the #723 it's located on the right side. Jerry Lamper photo.  A nice broadside view of the #722 at Sycan. Jerry Lamper collection.  The plow after it had been renumbered 031 in Klamath Falls. John Henderson photo, Jeff Moore collection.  The #031 survives today in the Train Mountain collection near Chiloquin. James Hughes photo. |
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#723/#032  #723 at Sycan in the spring of 1959. Jerry Lamper photo.  A broadside view of the cab area of the #723 in Sycan on 23 August 1973. Note the unit clearly has windows on both side of the carbody just behind the cab. Jerry Lamper photo.  A rear view of the #723 with the #722 ahead of it at Sycan on 23 August 1973. Jerry Lamper photo.  The #032 sitting in Klamath Falls in 1984. Jimmy Bryant photo.  Another shot of the #032, this time on 6 April 1985. Jerry Lamper photo.  The #032 at Sycan. John Henderson photo, Jeff Moore collection.  One last shot of the #032, this time on 28 August 1984. Jerry Lamper photo.  The #032 essentially got abandoned at Sycan after the railroad's abandonment, and it remained on a short stretch of track in what had been the yard until moved to the Chiloquin area around 2020 or 2021 for possible eventual display at the Collier museum. The plow is seen here at Sycan in 2011. Jeff Moore photo. |
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