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Oregon California & Eastern Railroad Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Tank Cars |
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Next to log cars, tank cars are one of the most common and useful car types on logging railroads. Tank cars have many uses across eras, including mobile fuel and water supplies for locomotives and
logging equipment plus fire prevention and suppression. Weyerhaeuser had a large number of tank cars used in the Klamath operations, and then acquired two more equipped as fire cars along with the OC&E
when it bought the railroad. Weyerhaeuser tank car #213 coupled to a tool car in Sycan in 1959. Jerry Lamper photo.  Weyerhaeuser tank car #44-9 in Sycan. John Henderson photo, Jeff Moore collection.  Three Weyerhaeuser Timber Company tank cars coupled to a Baldwin switcher at the Sycan yard. Note the pump on top of #44-13. Jerry Lamper photo.  Weyerhaeuser fuel oil tank car #108, also carrying a 44-XX number, in Sycan on 23 August 1973. Jerry Lamper photo.  A former tank car body in use as a storage tank in the Sycan yards. Jerry Lamper photo.  Another former tank car body, this one resting on the ground at Sycan. Jerry Lamper photo, used with permission.  OC&E fire service tank car #2018 in Klamath Falls in 1977. Note that the "8" is missing from the number of the side of the car. Dan Haneckow photo.  A later shot of the #2018, this time in Sycan on 28 August 1984. Jerry Lamper photo.  OC&E #2020 in 1977. Jerry Lamper photo.  A 12,000 gallon capacity Weyerhaeuser tank car of uncertain number. John Henderson photo, Jeff Moore collection.  Weyerhaeuser fire service tank car #041 in Klamath Falls on 19 June 1982. Both the OC&E and Weyerhaeuser Woods trains carried fire cars during the dry season until the middle 1980s when the operations got permission from the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon state fire officials to replace them with speeders carrying water following closely behind the trains. Jerry Lamper photo.  Weyerhaeuser fire service tank car #042 in Klamath Falls. John Henderson photo, Jeff Moore collection.  Weyerhaeuser tank cars 1544 and 043 in Sycan on 28 August 1984. Jerry Lamper photo.  One of the more intriguing tank cars on the Klamath operations is this former wine service tank car semi-permanently stationed at the Sycan shops to store various lubricating oils and other fluids used in servicing locomotives and equipment. The "TPCX" reporting marks in this case note The Purdy Company, an equipment dealer from or through which Weyerhaeuser almost certainly purchased the car. This car survives at Train Mountain near Chiloquin. John Henderson photo, Jeff Moore collection. |
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