WASHINGTON STATE FORESTS - Railroad Building in the Forests:  Washington contains 11 state forests. These sites are managed by the Department of Natural Resources. A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.  In most cases this form of transport utilized narrow gauges, and were temporary in nature, and in rough and sometimes difficult to access terrain.  Three railroads in Washington State service these forests: 

- - Chehalis Western Railroad: In 1936, Weyerhaeuser incorporated the Chehalis Western Railroad as a publicly regulated, common-carrier shortline to carry lumber and forest products over a 10-mile stretch of track from Chehalis, Washington to Ruth, Washington that Weyerhaeuser had purchased from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, also known as the Milwaukee Road.  The Chehalis Western also operated on trackage rights over the Milwaukee Road from Chehalis to Western Junction, where the trains would join a Weyerhaeuser-owned logging line (known as the "Vail" line) that would go north to a log dump at South Bay, Washington. And Chehalis Western trains also operated on trackage rights over the Northern Pacific Railroad from Pe Ell, Washington to Milburn, Washington.

- - Mosquito and Coal Creek:  The Mosquito and Coal Creek logging railroad was a 10 miles (16 kilometres) long private logging railway with a gauge of 3 foot (914 mm) near Eufaula, Washington.

- - Silver Logging Company:  As late as the 1920s there were still many huge, old growth trees in the area east of Redmond and logging was dominated by the Siler Logging Company. Felled trees were taken north by means of a specially-built 25-mile railroad that ran from Ames Lake to Bromart, just south of Snohomish.

This Linen Era (19304-45) postcard is in good condition.  Puget Sound News Company. Seattle, Wash.  Germany.