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This gallery shows photographs taken over the history of the Logan & San Miguel Railroad. More photographs will be added in the future. Also, please take a look at the following video collections of historical film segments commissioned by the railroad.
Pictures from the 1940s & 1950s
Union Pacific FEF-3 #844 brings a southbound all Pullman passenger train into Logan in her pre-excursion days in 1945. This scheduled train ran overnight from Portland to Los Angeles, running with Union Pacific locomotives, head-end cars and dining cars between Portland and Logan, where it exchanged them for Southern Pacific equipment. The Pullman cars made the entire trip.
Union
Pacific 4-8-8-4 #4006 in general freight service at Upper Belknap in
1946. For a time the L&SM tested Big Boys to see if they would be worth
the investment in the extensive new facilities that would be required
for them. (They never stayed long enough to need to be shopped during
the tests, and wyes were available at each end of the line, though they
were inconvenient) The L&SM's postwar profits never quite reached the
levels they had hoped for during the war, so Big Boys turned out to be
unnecessary.
The
first American Freedom Train rests in the Logan Yard in the early
morning hours of April 3, 1948. The train was to be exhibited in Eugene
that day, but organizers wanted the arrival to be a "big show," so the
train waited in Logan till after sunrise before continuing on from
Portland. Because it had arrived in Logan after dark the night before,
few people ever knew it was there.
Union
Pacific TR5 set #1874 helps a northbound freight up the 2% San Miguel
Loop in 1952. These locomotives were purchased by UP for helper
service, but they didn't remain in that service very long, as even the
L&SM could eventually assign enough motive power for its grades.
Union
Pacific PA's lead the northbound #7, the City of Logan at Upper
Belknap in 1955. This streamliner replaced the previous Pullman train,
and was also scheduled better. Southern Pacific through cars were
common in this train.
Union
Pacific F7A #1467 leads a southbound freight into Logan in 1958. The
L&SM would purchase #1467 from the UP in 1964.
A
set of Alcos led by UP #1623 heads through Belknap with a northbound
freight in 1959. #1623 would also become L&SM property in 1964.
An
A-B-A set of Union Pacific F3s, led by #1403, cross the San Miguel River
in 1959.
The
same group of F3s are at rest in the engine terminal of the Logan Yard
in 1959.
Pictures from the 1960s
Union
Pacific GP20 #474 leads a northbound freight toward Linn in 1964.
Union
Pacific GP7 #119 leads the local passenger train into San Miguel in
1964.
The
local makes its station stop in San Miguel.
Union
Pacific GP30s led by #731 lead a northbound freight past the stores of
downtown Logan in 1965.
Spokane Portland & Seattle RS3 #67 in Logan Siding, being passed by Union Pacific PA1 #602 in 1965.
UP
Baldwin DS 4-4-10 #1207 has just been purchased by the L&SM and has been
immediately put to work in 1966, without even being given her new number
of 51.
Union Pacific H10-44 #1303 working in
Logan Yard in 1967.
H10-44
#1303 in the Logan engine terminal taking a break from its yard
switching duties.
Union
Pacific GP9 #100 in the Logan engine terminal.
Union
Pacific RS2 #1393 in the Logan Engine Terminal in 1967. Union Pacific
GP7 #100 is on the adjacent track.
Union Pacific RS2 #1293 in the Logan
engine terminal on another day in 1967, alongside GP9 #321.
Union
Pacific GP7 #119 in the Logan engine terminal in 1967.
Union
Pacific AS-616 #1265 in the Logan engine terminal next to the roundhouse
in 1967.
Steam locomotives in the Logan roundhouse near the end of steam on the L&SM in 1967.
Union
Pacific (OWR&N) 2-8-0 #721 was on long-term loan to the Logan & San
Miguel Railroad when Union Pacific retired the rest of its steam fleet
and was forgotten, allowing it to remain in occasional operation into
the late 1960s. It is shown here in the Logan Yard and on the Logan
turntable.
UP
AS-616 #1265 after being purchased by the L&SM, already hard at work at
the end of the Logan yard lead in 1968.
UP
H10-44 #1303 moves cars in the Logan yard after being purchased by the
L&SM in 1968. The L&SM wasn't very quick at repainting locomotives in
the 1960s, despite their striking paint scheme.
UP
GP9 #321 handles local switching chores in Logan in 1969. It was common
in the late 1960s to see UP locomotives doing L&SM jobs. This, combined
with the many former UP locomotives still in UP colors, led many locals
to think that the UP had bought the L&SM.
Weyerhaeuser
Timber 0-6-0T #9 with a short log train near Belknap in 1969. While it
was common to see Weyerhaeuser log trains on the L&SM north of Linn,
usually headed up by a logging 2-6-6-2, movements south of Linn were
rare. Little #9 was usually regulated to moving log cars around the
mill at Linn, but she occasionally found herself out on the line if a
small load had to be moved, as she could make faster speeds than the
Shays and Heislers that would otherwise get the job.
A
1960s visitor to the L&SM was Southern Pacific black widow FP7 #6458,
pictured here posing in the Logan Yard. In the last picture its joined
by red & gray GP #3310.
Another
visitor to the L&SM was Cotton Belt GP #3310, pictured here in the Logan
Yard.
Cotton
Belt GP #3310 is shown with a freight train at Upper Belknap, emerging
from Tunnel #2, and behind the Logan roundhouse.
The following series of photographs shows the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's 2-Truck Shay #3 pulling log cars through San Miguel to the Logan Yard, where it is seen alongside Weyerhaeuser 0-6-0T #9.
Shay #3 crossing the San Miguel River & passing the farm with its log train.
Shay
#3 passing through San Miguel with the log train.
Shay #3 emerging from Tunnel #1 with the log train & passing through Geer Landing towards Belknap.
Shay
#3 in the Logan Yard after arriving with the log train.
Shay
#3 in the Logan Yard with 0-6-0T #9.
Shay
#3 in the Logan engine terminal.
Here
is Shay #3 in the Logan Yard with a trio of empty log cars.
More
views of the short empty log train in the Logan Yard, showing the three
short log cars and the red bobber caboose.
L&SM
Pacific #462 arriving in Logan with the daily local passenger train in
1969.
The following series of photographs shows Logan & San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific #462 pulling a passenger train through San Miguel and into Logan, terminating in the Logan Yard.
L&SM
Pacific #462 crossing the San Miguel River with the passenger train.
Pacific
#462 emerging from Tunnel #2, passing through San Miguel towards Belknap
with the passenger train.
Pacific
#462 bringing the passenger train into the Logan depot.
Pacific
#462 in the Logan Yard with the passenger cars and on the Logan
turntable.
This
pair of unpainted secondhand Alco RS3s are destined to become L&SM
locomotives.
This
Alco S2 is another secondhand locomotive destined to be painted in L&SM
colors.
This
Alco RS11 was a wreck-damaged unit that was traded back to Alco by its
original owner. It was rebuilt by Alco and sold to the L&SM.
An
A-B-A set of Great Northern F7s, led by #316A, head up a northbound
through freight through Upper Belknap in 1969. The GN would
occasionally send trains to and from the Inside Gateway connection with
the Western Pacific over the L&SM instead of taking the longer route to
Portland via the SP&S's Oregon Trunk Line.
A
southbound Union Pacific ore train at Upper Belknap, led by SD45 #3613
in 1969. Ore trains weren't common on the L&SM, but they did make
appearances.
Southern
Pacific F7A #6352 departs Logan with SP's local passenger train to
Eugene in 1969. This service ceased with Amtrak's creation in 1971.
The City of Logan lasted a few more years, but was eventually cut
as well.
Spokane,
Portland and Seattle RS3 #67 and Union Pacific GP9 #321 rest in the
Logan diesel servicing area in 1969. The SP&S ran a daily local freight
from Bend to Logan and return, as well as occasional though trains to
and from Portland.
SP&S
#67 takes a through freight north out of Logan in 1969.
The
northbound City of Logan arrives in San Miguel in 1969, led by
Union Pacific E8A #926.
A
Southern Pacific sleeper brings up the rear of the City of Logan.
SP&S
RS3 #67 is in the Logan siding with a freight train while Union Pacific
E8 #926 passes on the main line with the City of Logan.
SP&S
#67 in the Logan siding heading the other way with another train on
another day.
SP&S
wide vision caboose #901 on the end of #67's train.
Union
Pacific GP20 #474 in the Logan Yard.
Union
Pacific GP20s #486 & #474 in the siding at Upper Belknap, waiting for
another train to pass.
At
the other end of the siding, the end of the other train passes the end
of the GP20s' train. One of the cars is Great Northern boxcar #138366.
GP20s
#486 & #474 at Upper Belknap on another day with another train.
The following series of photographs show the passage of three trains through the towns of Logan and San Miguel and the surrounding vicinity in 1969.
First,
a freight train powered by Union Pacific GP35 #762 & GP9 #321 crosses
the San Miguel River.
GP35 #762 emerges from Tunnel #2 and leads the freight train through San Miguel, past the depot and into Tunnel #1. Union Pacific Caboose #25502 brings up the rear.
The freight train emerges from Tunnel #1 at Geer Landing and proceeds through the cut to Belknap.
Spokane,
Portland & Seattle RS3 #67 waits in the siding at North Logan for #762's
train to arrive and pass by.
At
the other end of the siding, the Union Pacific freight train passes SP&S
Caboose #901.
Union
Pacific GP35 #762 pulls its train past the Logan depot.
The
freight train curves around the Logan roundhouse and Hillside Lumber &
Millwork Company as it approaches the Logan Yard.
GP35
#762 and its train are in the siding at the Logan Yard, waiting for
Union Pacific E8 #926 to pass with the City of Logan.
The City of Logan passes #762's train in the Logan Yard. 10-6 Pullman Pacific Northwest brings up the end of the City of Logan.
With
the City of Logan gone, the freight train continues south, and
caboose #25502 passes McGladrey Publishing as it departs Logan.
E8A
#926 approaches the Logan depot and comes to rest for the City of
Logan's station stop.
SP&S
#67 is still waiting at North Logan, until the high-priority City of
Logan has had the chance to get ahead of it.
E8A
#926 leads the City of Logan through Belknap and Geer Landing on
its way to San Miguel.
The
City of Logan emerges from Tunnel #1 and passes the depot at San
Miguel.
The
City of Logan passes the farm at the north portal of Tunnel #2
and crosses the San Miguel River.
E8A
#926 and the City of Logan meet another freight train at Upper
Belknap.
The following series of photographs shows Logan & San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific #462 with its Vanderbilt tender, pulling a passenger train through San Miguel and into Logan, terminating in the Logan Yard.
At
Upper Belknap
Logan & San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific
#462 passes a freight train pulled by Union Pacific GP35 #762.
After
rounding the loop at
San Miguel and passing through Tunnels #2 & #1, Logan & San Miguel 4-6-2
Pacific #462 passes by Union Pacific GP35 #762, still waiting at Upper
Belknap, with its passenger train between Geer Landing and Belknap.
Logan
& San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific #462 and its train are passing the North
Logan siding, with the businesses of North Logan in the background.
Logan
& San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific #462 pulls into the Logan depot with its
passenger train.
Logan
& San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific #462 is in the Logan Yard, leaving its
passenger cars on a yard track before heading to the engine terminal.
Logan
& San Miguel 4-6-2 Pacific #462 takes a spin on the Logan turntable
before pulling into the roundhouse.
Pictures of the Logan Area
In 1969, the Logan & San Miguel commissioned a series of photographs of locations around Logan, San Miguel and the surrounding areas, for use in promoting the area to lure new businesses to the area and increase on-line rail traffic. Here are some of the
photographs from this collection.
These aerial photos show the Logan/San Miguel area.
This
aerial view of downtown Logan in 1969 shows the yard and engine terminal
with turntable and roundhouse, as well as the downtown area, depot, and
industries.
Logan Yard
Logan Engine Terminal
Industries
in Logan
Logan Depot
The Logan Depot serves as the
railroad's local base of operations. In addition to handling passengers,
local freight agents also work in the depot, using the offices upstairs.
Downtown Logan
North Logan
Belknap
Geer Landing
San Miguel
This aerial view shows the entire
town of San Miguel, which is primarily a residential community. It was
once a farming community, founded by Mexican farmers from California.
While agriculture is still prominent in the area, San Miguel has largely
become a suburb to Logan.
Pictures from the 1970s
These additional photographs show
the EC1 in the Logan Yard and at the San Miguel depot.
The following series of photographs
shows Amtrak's City of Logan passing through the towns of Logan
and San Miguel in the 1970s.
Pictures from the 1980s & 1990s
In the above pictures, Longview,
Kelso & Rainier GP38-2 #201 emerges from Tunnel #1 and passes through
San Miguel.
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The
main Logan Yard Tower is located at the opposite end of the yard from
the engine terminal. A signal bridge governs the entrance to this end of
the yard.
A
pair of Union Pacific cabooses wait on the caboose track in the
Logan Yard until they are needed.
The diesel servicing facility in the
Logan Yard. A two-stall enginehouse once stood on this spot, but was
destroyed in a fire years earlier. Before the railroad rebuilt it,
diesel locomotives began to dominate the railroad landscape, and a
modern diesel fueling facility took the enginehouse's place.
The Logan Grain Co-Operative
elevator was built in the 1960s and is now the L&SM's
biggest customer in Logan during the harvest.
The Robison Hardwood Furniture
factory is the
largest employer in Logan, other than the railroad that serves it.
Woodchips from the factory are loaded into woodchip cars to be taken to
Santiam where they will be turned into paper and the Santiam Paper mill.
This
view shows workers on the loading dock of the
Things, Inc. factory, a customer on the L&SM in Logan. Things, Inc.
is a smaller industry, but it does have its own siding.
The Hillside Lumber & Millwork
Company in Logan doesn't have a siding of its own It receives shipments
at the team track at the Logan depot.
The
McGladrey Publishing Company in Logan, publisher of the East Lane County
Herald, is another customer that doesn't have its own siding.
These
views look down Main Street in downtown
Logan from near the Logan Depot. The Logan Yard and the Logan Grain
Co-op Elevator are visible in the background.
The
Logan Police Station in Downtown Logan. The Logan Yard and the Robison
Hardwood Furniture factory are visible in the background.
Logan's
main business district, including Jessica's Salon, the Equitable Trust
Bank, Eric's & Eric's Soccer School, Sears, Amy's Book Store & Scott's
Electronics Repair in the Gemini Building, Smith Drugs and the Logan
Volunteer Fire Department.
This
view is at the north end of Logan, looking down the road with the
McGladrey Publishing Company in the background.
Logan
Oil is a Shell Oil distributor located in North Logan. It is the only
Logan & San Miguel customer with a siding in North Logan.
Belknap
is a site along the line between Logan and San Miguel where
maintenance equipment and supplies are stored. Maintenance-of-way crews
often work out of Belknap by speeder.
Geer
Landing was once a major point on the San Miguel River, as it was the
furthest point up the river that boats could navigate. Just beyond Geer
Landing is the falls at San Miguel. After the railroad was built, it
fell out of use. Geer Landing was rebuilt after World War II as a
marina, but has since closed, and was taken over by locals as a summer
swimming spot.
These
views are looking down the main road through San
Miguel from near the depot.
These
views show passengers
waiting at the ornate San Miguel depot.
The
San Miguel Schoolhouse is located next to the main line, across from the
San Miguel Depot. Children are at play in the yard behind the school.
This
farm is located near San Miguel between the North Portal of Tunnel #2
and the bridge over the San Miguel River.
Brand
new Union Pacific SD40-2 #3123, UP's first, on display in Logan with one
of UP's latest cabooses in 1972.
UP
#3123, sometime later in the year, leading a southbound freight out of
Tunnel #2 on San Miguel Loop.
UP
U30C #2913 on the point of a southbound freight in San Miguel in 1976.
Union
Pacific Track Geometry Car EC1 inspects the L&SM main line at Upper
Belknap in 1978.
The
City of Logan crossing the San Miguel River, led by E8A #278. Dome
Lounge #9354 and Observation Car #3339.
Amtrak
E8A #278 emerging from Tunnel #2 with the City of Logan and approaching
San Miguel, where Observation Car #3339 is shown.
Amtrak
E8A #278 approaching and passing the Logan Depot with the City of Logan.
Amtrak
Passenger Cars at the Logan Depot: Dome Car #9354, 10-6 Sleeping Car
#2640 Pacific View and Observation Car #3339.
Amtrak
Dome Lounge #9354 & 10-6 Sleeping Car #2640 Pacific View pass by the
Hillside Lumber & Millwork Company.
Burlington
Northern SD9 #6166 brings the local freight from Bend into the Logan
yard in 1982.
A
freight train led by Southern Pacific Kodachrome SD45T-2 #9319 passes
another freight train led by Union Pacific SD40-2 #3575 at Upper
Belknap.
More
pictures of Southern Pacific Kodachrome SD45T-2 #9319 and SD40T-2 #8526
passing UP #3575 at Upper Belknap.
Southern
Pacific Kodachrome SD45T-2 #9319 and SD40T-2 #8526 crossing the San
Miguel River at Upper Belknap.
Southern
Pacific Kodachrome SD45T-2 #9319 emerging from Tunnel #2 at San Miguel.
Southern
Pacific Kodachrome SD45T-2 #9319 and SD40T-2 #8526 in the Logan Yard.
Southern
Pacific Kodachrome SD40T-2 #8526 is now in the lead of a freight train
at Upper Belknap.
The
three major railroads that connected to the L&SM in the 1980s are
represented in the Logan Yard by Union Pacific SD40-2 #3575, Burlington
Northern SDP40 #6398 and Southern Pacific Kodachrome SD45T-2 #9313.
Burlington
Northern SDP40 #6398 posing in the Logan Yard.
General
Motors Electro-Motive Division's GP60 demonstrators 5, 6 & 7 lead a
northbound Southern Pacific through freight through Upper Belknap in
1986. The L&SM was considering buying some of these high-horsepower
locomotives, and asked SP to assign them to some of the through freights
they sent over the L&SM so they could evaluate them. Notice the SP
dynomometer car and crew sleeper in the train. The L&SM, while
impressed with the GP60s, decided the cost of the new units wasn't
justified, and later bought used locomotives.
Southern
Pacific SD40T-2 #8491 leads a southbound through freight though San
Miguel in 1988.
Union
Pacific 4-6-6-4 #3985 pulls an excursion train through Upper Belknap in
1989, shortly before being converted to oil. The big Challenger left
its extra tender in Portland for this round trip to Logan, as the L&SM
has maintained water towers along the main line for its own steam
excursions.
Union
Pacific's "Desert Victory" SD40-2 #3593 leads a southbound container
train through Logan in 1990. The L&SM had recently lowered the floors
in its tunnels to allow the double-stacked containers to pass.
Union
Pacific #844 with an excursion in Logan in 1997, after a major overhaul
in Cheyenne. Compare this photograph with the one at the top of the
page, taken 42 years earlier.
BC
Rail Rail Diesel Cars visiting the L&SM from Canada in 1999. BC Rail
has been considering retiring the RDCs and the L&SM borrowed a few to
see if they would be interested in buying some of them. The RDCs are
still in Canada though, as BC Rail has yet to retire them.
It
has been over 20 years since Amtrak has had a scheduled train on the
L&SM, but that didn't stop them from bringing P42 #9 into Logan with
some Superliner cars to display in 2000. This was a promotion to
encourage people to ride the Empire Builder and Coast
Starlight.
Here
are a pair of Southern Railway GP59s with a freight train at
Upper Belknap, led by #4610.
Here,
borrowed Longview, Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 and leased GATX
GP38-2 #8900 pull a freight across the San Miguel River toward Logan.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 emerging from Tunnel #2.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 leading its train through San Miguel
towards Logan.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 emerging from Tunnel #1 at Geer
Landing.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 passing the Logan depot.
Now
heading back the other way, Longview, Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2
#201 passes through Logan.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 and GATX GP38-2 #8900 pass Rainbow
Farm as they approach the bridge over the San Miguel River.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 and GATX GP38-2 #8900 crossing the
San Miguel River.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 and GATX GP38-2 #8900 pass through
Upper Belknap.
Longview,
Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201 and GATX GP38-2 #8900 at Upper
Belknap.
Here
are broadside views of Longview, Kelso & Rainier Railway GP38-2 #201
with GATX GP38-2 #8900 at Upper Belknap.
Here
are some pictures of GATX GP38-2 #8900 with Longview, Kelso & Rainier
Railway GP38-2 #201 at Upper Belknap.