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Chehalis-Centralia RR operates over and now owns what was Weyerhaeuser's log hauling Chehalis Western RR.

I guess there are no Canadians who post here... Some distance of the Cowichan Valley Railway and a massive logging museum collection are to be found existing and operating in Duncan BC at the BC Forest Discovery Centre. It is one of the better museums out there.
http://bcforestdiscoverycentre.com/

And while Roaring Camp might not have ever been a logging railroad, they certainly have done well to capture much of the experience. Fish Camp is another place that re-created this experience nicely, as well. Something like Cass Scenic is on the rare side of the spectrum.

Do you count the Durango and Silverton as a preserved logging railroad, if they started logging this year?
https://youtu.be/zr9C0XCteyQ

Oh that reminds me... Nevada State in Carson City has the Glennbrook in operation which was a locomotive on a logging Railroad in Nevada. Such a great locomotive.

Lake Whatcom Railway has a portion of a former Northern Pacific route that was utilized by the Bloedel Donovan Co. under trackage rights from Saxon to a log dump on Lake Whatcom at Park. The siding at Mirror Lake was used by logging trains that had to double the short steep grade to get out of Wickersham. The preserved locomotive Rayonier #8 worked on this line while with its first owner.

There are several main line railroads around here that also had logging trains given trackage rights, however they are not tourist railroads - the original intent of the poster.

There's a "semi-preserved" logging railroad in Clay County, WV. Although the Buffalo Creek and Gauley was better known as a coal-hauler, the parent company, Elk River Coal & Lumber Company had a logging operation as well as a sawmill at Swandale, WV. The BC&G ceased operations in 1965, but the tracks were never pulled up. The Clay County Business Development Authority has been trying to attract tourists and has rehabilitated a portion of the line for pedal bikes and speeder rides.


http://buffalocreektrail.com/

You can add to that the former West Side Lumber Co. out of Tuolumne toward River Bridge. It was operated as a tourist railroad in the 60's-early 70's. Most of the railroad is still intact.

The Mt Rainier Raiload (formerly Mt Rainier Scenic) isn't really a "logging railroad".

They are a logging railroad museum, and have one of the premiere collections of logging locomotives and equipment in the country. The entire mission is to preserve the history of logging in the Pacific Northwest.

So why on earth would I say it's not a "logging railroad"? Well, the line they run on is the former Milwaukee Railroad line to Morton, WA. While it mainly hauled logs, and supposedly at one time Morton, WA was the railroad tie production champion, all of the track is built to branchline standards. It was also a common carrier, with passenger service. Of course the vast majority of the freight was logs and timber, but it was common carrier.

There were many logging railroads in the area. The hills are full of abandoned grades. It was the entire reason the line existed. So the logging history is very thick.

Why split hairs then? Well, because even a branch line is built to different standards than a logging railroad. Curvature, track grades, earthwork. It's all better than what you'd find on a typical logging railroad.

Whether or not it still "counts" for your purposes depends on what you're writing about.

This is an interesting one (at least for me) because Climax #3 at Roaring Camp used to do it's thing on the Lily Fork that feeds into Buffalo Creek. While the Lily Fork trackage is gone, the Avoca bridge is still there and is the location where the Lily Fork tracks cut off from the BC&G mainline and heading up the fork to the areas that were logged.

Here's a great website with lots of great photos:

http://www.buffalocreekandgauley.com/AB ... eSITE.html

Cutting to the chase we have three tourist roads on the West Coast that use preserved logging railroad track.

Chehalis-Centralia RR former Weyerhaeuser Chehalis Western track
Chelatchie Prairie RR former Harbor Plywood track blt 1948 (Yacolt to Chelatchie)
California Western RR former Union Lbr. Co./CW track

The Peninsular group in Shelton, WA are working on saving some Simpson track but that is a work in progress.